How To: Make Upcycled DIY Scratch-Off Cards for your Valentine - The Body Shop

The best gifts are the most thoughtful, so why not give your Valentine a gift they’ll truly love by making your own DIY Scratch-off cards?
Here’s what you’ll need:
- The Body Shop Strawberry Shower Gel (or any other flavour you love!)
- Some scrap card – we used The Body Shop Amazonian Acai Energising Radiance Mask box
- A paint brush or a foam roller brush
- Acrylic paint – this can be any colour you like
- Coloured card
- Black pen
- Clear contact paper
- Hole Punch
- Ribbon
Here’s your ‘How-to Guide’ for creating the most imaginative and thoughtful card ever!
- First of all, prepare your scratch hearts. Do this by mixing a few drops of shower gel (you only need a drop or two!) to a tablespoon of paint.
- Use sticky backed plastic contact – you’ll need about 20cm square.
- Mix your paint well - and with a roller or a paint brush, start painting the contact. The first coat will be very light and streaky! Let it dry completely before adding another layer.
- Keep building – it may take at least three or four layers to get the contact paper completely opaque.
- While that’s drying, cut your mask jar box into squares by cutting along the folds. Keep the squares that are blank on the coloured side.
- On the reverse side, stick some plain card. Here’s where you’ll write your question.
- Make a couple of love heart stencils. You’ll want one large enough to cover the card, then a couple of smaller ones for a ‘multi-choice’ answer.
- On the gold side, write your question such as: What’s for dinner? Scratch to Win! I owe you.
- Now on the coloured side of your card, write your answer! Make sure each message will fit underneath a heart. You may like to trace the heart shape first to be sure.
- now cut heart shapes from the contact paper. Use your heart stencil for this.
- Carefully peel off the backing and stick a heart over each of your answer messages on the coloured card.
- Use a hole punch to make a hole for a ribbon in the left hand corner of each card. Tie together and attach to your gift!
The best part about these cards is it comes with a double surprise – thanks to our fragrant shower gel these lovely cards are also scratch and sniff!
Like this unique DIY Valentine’s Day gift? Let us know what you’d like us to do next in the comments below!
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