Chocolate Heart Valentine Holder

Valentine’s Day has long since passed, but I have quite a few love-inspired projects that I’ll be posting up over the next week or so. Hopefully, you can find a way to adapt these goods for other projects.

Today, I’m sharing a chocolate heart valentine holder. If you have kids, these would be adorable to make for your youngsters to pass amongst classmates as birthday takeaways. They would even be cute as wedding favors. To make these, I bought a pack of Reeses Peanut Butter hearts. I don’t know if these are released year-round, so feel free to substitute with Dove chocolates or the like.

First, I cut a sheet of paper into 3″ x 11″ and using my Scor-Pal, I made score lines at 3″, 3.5″, 6.5″, 7″, 10″, 10.5″.

Next, I decorated the strip with flower stamps from a set called Fifth Avenue Floral.

I folded the sheet along the score lines and decorated one edge with a scallop border punch. I also decorated and taped a small square of navy blue paper on the inside of the valentine.

Then, I punched a hole large enough to fit the chocolate heart. This is the 1 3/4″ punch from SU.

Here’s what the finished inside of the valentine looked like.

I used a small strip of double sided tape to adhere the sides together.

Here’s a side view picture so you can see what the valentine looks like assembled.

Finally, I decorated the outside with ribbon and punched paper embellishments.

Once again, the inside.

And above is a shot of several different versions of the same valentine that I gave away.

Hope you enjoyed the project! I promise, it’s much easier to put together than it looks.

Project Recipe (all supplies SU unless noted): Fifth Avenue Floral, A Happy Heart stamp sets, card stock in sahara sand, not quite navy, ink in kiwi kiss, not quite navy,  SU designer label punch, SU 1″ circle punch, SU 1 3/4″ punch, scalloped border punch, kiwi kiss ribbon, adhesive, Scor-Pal, bone folder