Valentine messages for candy boxes and cards in lavender.
"True as strong and strong as true
Is my earnest love for you."
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| Our 18 inch doll's "parents" have been working over-time making doll sized, candy filled Valentine containers. Our Chavonne doll holds the pink candy box and our Zoe doll holds a purple version. |
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| Valentine hearts made from fabric and notions. If you would like to print my images of these to make paper versions instead of fabric, you may download them here for personal crafts only. "Tis the day the love birds mate; Smile on me, and bless my fate." "Here's my heart as good as gold Bringing to you love untold." |
Although this craft is not difficult, it is time consuming to create. You can either make your Valentine shaped candy box using decorative fabrics or paper. What makes this Valentine craft truly unique are the tiny hand-made clay candies glued inside!
Supply List:
- cardboard
- masking tape
- tacky white glue
- hot glue and hot glue gun
- notions, trims, beads, lace (if you intend to make the fabric versions)
- fabrics
- Sculpey or paper clay
- acrylic paints: chocolate browns
- puff paints: white, pink, red
- recycle an old heart shaped container (optional)
- a variety of Valentine cupcake liners
- matching tissue paper
Step-by-Step Directions:
- If you do not have a recycled heart shaped box, you can make one similar to my own by hand. You will need to cut two hearts from cardboard. One of those hearts will need to be slightly smaller than the other, approximately 1/8 to 1/4 inch smaller. The larger heart will become the lid and the smaller one the bottom.
- Both hearts will need to have 1/2" to 3/4" side walls in order to comfortably hold your doll's miniature clay candy creations. Cut these strips from cardboard and attach them along the edges of your cardboard hearts using hot glue. Ask a parent for help when using hot glue.
- Decorate both the top and bottom of your box. You may even wish to cover the sides of your box with ribbon or lace. Make sure the box lid fits neatly over the bottom before proceeding with the craft.
- I also lined the interior of my two boxes with tissue paper.
- Shape, or cut with a miniature cookie cutter or use tiny candy molds to make the doll candy from the clay of your choice. I used oven bake Sculpey for our doll's Valentine candy creations.
- After baking the clay candy in the oven at 275 degrees, I let them cool completely before painting with brown acrylic paints.
- I also covered a few candies with tacky white glue and aluminum foil paper.
- Next, you may squeeze a bit of puff paint onto the top of your faux chocolates to identify what is supposedly inside each sweet treat; just as you would find on actual chocolate candies!
- Let the candies dry and then cut long, narrow strips from a few cupcake liners to glue around the candy edges. Now you can choose to glue the faux candies inside your Valentine boxes or keep them loose. I chose to glue ours inside the bottom half of each box so that these would not be lost over time.
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| Left, Valentine clay candy cut with a miniature cookie cutter. Center, miniature Valentine clay candy shaped by hand. Right, miniature clay Valentine candy shaped inside a tiny mold. "When Cupid's dart Shall strike your heart, Oh, may his arrow be This Valentine from me!" |
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| Any doll would be pleased as punch to receive a box of chocolates like the two shown above and below. Above is our purple version. The box top is decorated with satin, rick rack and a tiny wire butterfly. Here's a message, just a line, Will you be my valentine? |
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| Above you can see our buff pink version of this Valentine candy box craft. This candy box is trimmed with pink silk embroidered flowers and green petals made from shaped ribbon. "I send to you this heart of mine, For I'm your own true Valentine. |
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