LIFESTYLE NEWS - Here is the perfect idea for Valentine's Day - creating stamped chocolates for your special day together.

Requirements:
• Stamps of your choice - unused, backs removed
• Chocolates - heart shaped, if possible
• Oil

Method:
Place a little oil on a paper towel, and allow it to soak in. Dab your stamp in this oil.

Heat the surface of your chocolate with a heat embossing tool. Place the oiled rubber stamp (with no wooden backing) onto the melted chocolate. Refrigerate the chocolate with the clear stamp still in the chocolate. Complete your set of chocolates using different rubber stamp images.

Once the chocolate has solidified, take it out of the fridge, and gently remove the stamp.
Package your chocolates in a box, using a little tissue paper and ribbon.

Other ideas are to stamp a favourite image in a plain sugar cookie before baking it. Or write a special message in a chocolate bar, using this technique, for a special surprise.

Remember, keep on crafting and don't forget to let me have any exciting ideas you may have to share with us for the new year, on lushjennifer6@gmail.com.


Jenny Ter Morshuizen.

ARTICLE BY JENNY TER MORSHUIZEN