TWO MORE SIMPLE BUT BEAUTIFUL VALENTINE CARDS AS PROMISED

HEY BLOGGIES,

How was your weekend?  Mine was good and I loved that we actually had sunshine and blue sky.  It has been few and far between these past few winter months.

Here are two more Valentine card ideas that I sent to those who ordered from me so far this month.  Want two cards sent to YOU??  Submit an order with me and I will send them out to you. Easy Peasy!!

 These two cards again use the Heart Border Punch and the Hearts Embossing Folder.  They are almost the same except for one exception...can you find the difference??

The small heart inside the "O" is popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals on this second card.

Hope you enjoyed my Valentines I have shared with you.  I will have some more in the days to come.  I LOVE to try different colors for Valentines, so stay tuned for those!!

Thanks for stopping by.  Click my signature below to go to my store to shop.

VALENTINES USING THE HEART BORDER PUNCH

HEY BLOGGIES,

For those customers who ordered the HEART BORDER PUNCH that was on sale last week in our WEEKLY DEALS, I am sending two different cards for you to use for ideas in making cards with your punch.

Today I am showing two of my cards I designed using this Discounted HEART BORDER PUNCH,  It is actually one idea that I changed up to make two different cards.  When I have several cards to make that are the same, I like to change them up a bit.  It keeps me from getting bored while making them AND I keep my creativity fresh.

 This first one used Cherry Cobbler and Pink Pirouette.  The strip of pink is where I used the heart border punch as well as I glued on some cherry cobbler hearts I had punched out for a card just like this but with reversed colors.

Then I got to looking at the large heart and thought it would be perfect for me to use to die cut out the LOVE and then use the negative part or the whole heart on the card.  This one is real red with pink pirouette.  I just kept the LOVE intact inside my die while I put dimensionals on the heart and attached to my card.  Then I took out the little bits inside the letters one by one and glued them into the word HOLES in the heart. (like the loop inside the "L", the two spots inside the "O", etc.)  I REALLY like how this looks and I liked it so much I made the rest of my customer's cards with this design.

Tomorrow I will show you two other cards I also created for those who ordered the punch from me.

Thanks for stopping by.

For THIS WEEK'S SPECIALS, I am ALSO sending out two cards using the punches/dies that can be ordered at a discount.  All you have to do is use HOST CODE:  

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When I am notified that you have placed an order, I will mail you your two cards using the punch or the die:

PARTY PUNCH PACK

Price: $17.00 $12.75

BERRY BASKET BIGZ L DIE Price: $38.00 $28.50 Thanks for visiting.

FLOWERFULL HEART LAST PROJECT FROM CARD CLASS

HEY BLOGGIES,

Here is the last project we made from my CARD CLASSES last week.

 For the first goodie bag we used the cute heart bags kit from the OCCASIONS CATALOG called SWEETHEART TREAT BAGS.  The die cut tags and the bakers twine are included in the little kit.

These bags are a bit larger and have the fun chevrons on it.  Only the bags come in this package.  I used the FLOWERFULL HEART WOOD STAMP and my HEART THINLITS DIES to create the tag on the front of the bag.  I added a candy dot below the heart, and 1" stitched ribbon to make the fun bow.

I would LOVE to help you get the supplies to make these cards and treat bags I have shown these past few days.  If you do not have a demonstrator, please click below to order the supplies you need.

SUPPLIES:

Flowerfull Heart Wood Stamp
Hearts Thinits Dies
Candy dots
Sweetheart Treat Bags
Primrose pink classic ink pad
Whisper white card stock
Primrose pink card stock

VALENTINES AND LEADERSHIP

HEY BLOGGIES,

Tomorrow I am off to leadership to meet with my friends and fellow demos to share and learn.

In the meantime, I thought I would remind you that new Valentine's items are not in the Occasions Catalog, but rather you can find them HERE.

  
    
And also in my store are punches and framelits to use for Valentines:

  Small and Large Heart Punches

These are some of the Valentine's items available in my store. Click my name below to go to my store to shop.

I will try to blog from Leadership if I have time, but if I can't, I will show you some of my swaps once I get home on Saturday.

Keep warm, stay safe and have a GREAT WEEK.

Valentine Treat Boxes

Here is a post from last year.  I love this valentine treat box made with the scalloped square die and my BIG SHOT.  A few of you asked me to show that cute idea again so I am showing it here.

Use any designer paper you want to cover the chipboard box sides.  I chose to use the chipboard from the dsp packages because I wanted it to have a sturdiness to it.

Here is another treat from a post in the past:

 I made this treat box from the kit in the Sale-a-Bration catalog this year.  Isn't it cute?

 Made this from 2 sheets of DSP from Sycamore Street in the Sale a Bration catalog this year,

My mini milk carton die and my BIG SHOT made these cute cartons for candy conversation hearts.  I made a simple folded holder to carry the cartons.  I use this die for ALL OCCASIONS.  It is always warmly welcomed when I give it to my friends with treats!!  Got Treats stamp set was used on this one.

I *HEART* HEARTS AND A QUILT BLOCK TOO

I am having so much fun working on my Valentine's class for this week.  First thing I did was REDO my previous card with the punch art owl and the chalkboard technique.  I just didn't like it with the sparkly embossing powder over my white craft ink.  So this time I used versamark and white opaque embossing powder and NOW I LOVE IT.  Here it is redone:

 I also used my special single VALENTINE'S stamp that comes in a discounted bundle with 1 x 8 cellophane bags for only $5.95 (that is a 20% discount from what you would pay separately).  AND I also used MY LITTLE VALENTINE stamp st for the XOXO and for the inside BE MY VALENTINE stamp.  This is another special bundle where you get this stamps set of 4 stamps as well as the adorable card kit together in a bundle for 20% off as well.  See the left hand corner of the front page of this blog for all the details.

Here is a closeup of the owl on the card looking at the fun white embossing beside him, as well as the cute button.

I have also been sewing some quilt blocks.  I was so excited to cut out and sew my first block in the monthly BLOCK OF THE MONTH that has just started this month.  I was purring right along and when it was all finished and ironed, I looked and all I could do is growl and grump.  Do you notice what I did??

 This is called Monkey Puzzle or Snail's Trail.  I was so excited to have a tutorial on how to make it and was just whipping along being very careful of sizes, sewing, etc.  But I believe one important thing was missing from the tutorial.  Can you see the mistake I did?

My four patch should be reversed so that the square of black is at the other tip of the triangle so it completed the spiral.  There were no cautions or directions about where to put the first triangles as we sewed along so of course I CHOSE THE WRONG SIDE!!  GRRRRR

Well, as my hubby says, if you don't tell anyone, they won't know!  At least in my family who will be seeing the final quilt.  So there we have it.

The fabric is Stampin' Up! Christmas fabric and the black is from my stash.

Hope your squares and triangles AND HEARTS are all in the right places this day!!  

Go get creative y'all!!