Panda Bubbles (Free) printable Valentine card

Valentines Day is almost here so we are scrambling in our house to get all the Valentine cards and boxes made.  I made these Panda Valentines for Mara's first grade class.  They get so much candy every year that I wanted a candy free Valentine this year. When I spotted these sweet little bubble wands at Target I knew they would be perfect for a candy free card.  I also knew that I had to make the card super cute in order to convince Mara to go candy free, because she is a candy-holic.  Which is why we went with pandas because pandas are awesome.

How to Tea Stain Paper

Last year my son had a Zombie Apocalypse birthday party.  I wanted to have aged paper for the invites but I also wanted to save on printer ink so I decided to hand stain the paper myself. Tea is so much cheaper than printer ink or store bought scrap book paper. 
It's surprisingly easy and I bet you have all the supplies you need on hand. 

Paper Flowers

And more crafts I'm working on for our upcoming party.  I have a love, hate relationship with these flowers.  They are beautiful but very time consuming.  I don't even want to admit the amount of time I've spent on these.  My plan is to use them as a favor for guests to take home.  I also made a bunch of plain white flowers which the girls will get to paint and pretend they are "painting the roses red".  So many possibilities with these flowers.  I plan to post a tutorial for these later as well.