Tatertots and Jello's Marble Valentine Craft

I saw this cute project,

 on Jennie Pie's blog. She got the idea from

Tatertots and Jello. It looked like a fairly

easy craft, so I thought I would run out and buy 

some frames to make my own...

I had bad luck with it. The frames I picked up at the 

Dollar Tree were horribly made.

The first frames

When I took the back off

of the first one, the cardboard was already torn

and the frames weren't what I really wanted. So I took them

back and bought some smaller, but prettier frames. 

Unfortunately, I had already finished cutting

my paper and attaching the rocks.

But I fixed it in the end...

Here are the supplies you need:

This was just paper I had that I thought looked Valentine's Day-ish.

1. 4 sheets of scrapbook paper 

(I ended up using some scraps, from

a previous project, too.)

2. Glass rocks/marbles.

3. E-6000 glue

First, I took the glass out of the picture frames

and traced around it to cut out my paper

to the right size.

 Then I used my rocks to make a pattern

on the paper. I eye-balled it instead of using 

something to trace it.

Then I put down my line of glue roughly

in the same spot that I had the rocks.

I waited a few seconds for the glue to 

get a little tacky, then I adhered the rocks.

Then, because I had changed the size of

the frames, I had to cut down the paper again.

After you have let your XOXO dry (I let mine dry

overnight just in case). Place them in front of the

glass in your frame. (This will help you keep up

with your glass so you can reuse them after

Valentine's Day.)

This is what I chose to put 2 of my XOs in:

 I'm not sure what I will do with the other two.

I couldn't find two more 5x7 frames.

Then I decided to make two small XOs.

 

I think they 

turned out pretty cute! 

Also, some of my glass rocks were not round, as you can probably tell. So they were perfect for the X's. (I accidentally bought them. lol)

Here is the finished arrangement:

I really like it. :P 

Hopefully next year we can have our own place

and I can put out this arrangement plus all

the other cute crafts I plan to make for

Valentine's Day! :)

*I hope J doesn't see that I posted that picture of him

on the beach...lol. I love it though. It's one of my 

favorite pictures of him.*