For Your Raleigh Valentine: Vend Raleigh Etsy Shop Owners Bring DIY to Valentine’s Day Gifts
You Hold The Key To My Heart
Karen Campbell of Cool Mama Crafts 
To make this Valentine’s Keepsake, begin with any substrate of your choice. A canvas or canvas panel works well but wood, cardboard or even plastic would work. Use copious amounts of Mod Podge Matte to glue ripped up pages from books, wrapping paper, scrapbooking paper or even journal pages onto your substrate.
While this is drying, cut out a heart shape from a card board box and paint red. When both red heart and canvas papers have mostly dried you can use Distress Stain by Ranger in Vintage Photo to distress the outer edges of each. After that dries, follow by wiping black ink on the same areas to really give it an aged look!
Use a glue gun to attach the heart to the canvas and then a keyhole from Jim Holt’s Idea-ology line (available at craft stores). Using letter stamps, stamp “You hold the key to my” in your desired position and attach a burlap strap for hanging and you are done!
Chocolate Strawberry Kid-tinis
Alicia Frazee of the teal magnolia
You'll need:
1 c. chocolate chips
clear cocktail cups
chocolate flakes or sprinkles
marshmallows
strawberries
cocktail straws or stirrers
strawberry milk
Melt the chocolate chips in a wide, shallow bowl that will fit the top of your cups. Drizzle some chocolate inside the cups – I used a zip-lock bag with the corner cut off as a piping bag, but you can use a spoon. {side note: I tried this with chocolate syrup, and it dissolved when I put in the strawberry milk – this way keeps the design}. Let the cups set up in the refrigerator. After they set, dip the edges of the cups in the chocolate(you might have to warm it up again) and dip it into chocolate flakes, like you’d salt a margarita glass. Since I had chocolate left, I dipped the tops of some marshmallows in it. Once the chocolate is set up, skewer a strawberry onto a cocktail straw and top with one of the dipped marshmallows. Fill the cups with strawberry milk, and garnish with the straws. You can prep the cups and marshmallows a day or two ahead. For a more grown-up version, you can switch out the strawberry milk for khalua and cream, a white russian or Irish coffee.
Valentine Heart Hot & Cold Pads
Sharyn Arai of K’s Closet Custom Boutique
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