If you are looking for some last minute Valentine ideas, here are some from past years that you can make with stamps and paper in your older “stash” or update them with newer craft supplies.
The first one you see above is super easy if you want to make a treat for someone….or put a candle inside! Just grab a jar, a doily, and a heart! Tie some ribbon or twine around, even add a greeting if you like and you have a very cute holder for some candy, a small gift, cookies, whatever you have that will fit in your jar. You don’t even have to have a lid, but if you do, you can decorate the top of the lid.
Get a regular-size chocolate candy bar (or even the gigantic ones!) and wrap it with cardstock or designer series paper and decorate. Even if you almost have no supplies, you can cut out or draw hearts for sure! If you want, tie a ribbon around the candy bar lengthwise you they can pull it out of your decorative wrapping without tearing it open!
Use this card as an idea to make a flower out of a heart, a couple leaves, and a stem! While you’re at it, make two or three heart flowers! You can make a card similar to this one or decorate your Valentine jar with one.
This idea is an oldie but goodie paper craft….candy holders in a matchbook design! Just fold a strip of cardstock, cut or punch a slit in the bottom section that folds up and slide a chocolate square into it. Decorate the cover and you’ve got it. Click on the title to go to the blog post for all the directions.
Maybe you still have a few of these Heart Foil Tins in your stash somewhere, but if not, just decorate a small box or whatever you have. Just use hearts or doilies, stamps, whatever you have to decorate your container.
Whether you have the old Bee Mine Designer Series Paper or the newest Cute As Can Bee Designer Series Paper (which I think is almost the same designs, just different colors) you can make plenty of Valentines with any of the sheets. This card is the fun Book Fold design, with the fold at the top, which is very easy to make. Click on the title under this card for all the directions.
Hopefully these samples give you some ideas if you need to make a Valentine card or treat right away!
Valentine’s Day is coming up soon and if you have this ephemera pack, you can make this Celebrate Love Valentine Card very easily! And then you can make the same card but change the greeting and have a card for another occasion.
For this card, I used the Celebrate Love Mix & Match Ephemera Pack. These ephemera packs are so handy for just punching out some diecuts and making a card with no stamping. Of course, you can add stamping and anything else you want, but if you are looking for super quick and easy, usually any of the ephemera pack Stampin’ Up! has been offering for awhile really offer the solution. You will find this Celebrate Love Ephemera Pack in the Spring Mini (January-April 2025 Mini).
This card begins with a card base of Soft Sea Foam Cardstock with a layer of Pool Party cardstock cut at 4 1/2″ x 3 1/4″. You could make the layer 5 1/4″ x 4″ as we normally do. To the Pool Party center piece, I simply adhered the ephemera pieces using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
I began with the white crisscross piece which to me looked like it could be a flower box or a cute little fence. Before glueing it down, I placed the flower diecuts where I wanted them so they “fit” into the flower box and just applied a little bit of glue at the top of those flowers so I could be sure they were where I wanted them to be. Then I went back and added more glue to the base of the flowers on the back to hold them securely. Adding glue to the flower box requires teeny tiny dots of glue in as many places as you can put it with a very light hand.
Above the flowers I added one of the hearts in the ephemera pack. This heart could be popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals but I adhered it flat. Then I added a “Happy Valentine’s Day” banner in the Celebrate Love Ephemera Pack right across the heart. If you like you can add some gems or jewels for embellishments. I used the Heart Sequins which are unavailable right now but hopefully will be back in stock. You can use hearts any time for embellishments so even though Valentine’s Day will be past when they are available again, you can still order them if you like and use them on lots of kinds of cards and projects.
Now for an alternative card made the same way but with a different greeting. You could use this same card for a birthday, thinking of you, celebrate, congratulations, miss you, and lots more.
You can see this card is the same but I used a different greeting. I could have stamped any kind of greeting but I chose one in the Celebrate Love Ephemera Pack. This greeting is printed on one of the labels in the ephemera pack, but the size was too large for the heart. I simply cut around the words to make it smaller and it fit perfectly on the heart!
I’m having fun using these new ephemera packs. The first ones were in the Holiday Mini Catalog and now we have more in the Spring Mini. They make a card easy to design and still pretty! Sometimes simple cards are the best. Check out all the ephemera packs in the Spring Mini on page 13.
Each kit comes with all the supplies you need to make the project inside, except for scissors! You get an exclusive stamp set, a Stampin’ Spot 1” x 1″ ink pad, embellishments, cards and envelopes. It’s really fun to open the box and see what is inside, even if you have seen pictures online! Seeing it in person is always better.
I like to say Paper Pumpkin is the gift you give yourself each month, a treat you get in the mail, just for you….or maybe you’d like to share the fun with a family member or friend! You can always order more than one kit in your account. And if you have a busy month coming up, you can skip that month and look forward to the next month’s kit! No risk, no obligation. Cancel any time if you don’t feel Paper Pumpkin is for you. You can always come back! Stampin’ Up! guarantees all kits.
These kits are designed for everyone! New crafters, non-crafters, and experienced crafters! Sometimes it is nice to just open the box and there is a project already designed for you and everything at hand that you will need. A video is always available online if you like to watch the assembly (I do!!) and you will find alternate ideas for using the kit various places online if you feel more adventurous.
Don’t wait! Sign up for Paper Pumpkin today and try it out! It’s going to be fun, especially if you like getting something special for yourself!
Are you interested in the Super Bowl today or are you more interested in stamping? Perhaps you will be doing both! Either way, here is another Valentine idea, the Poppy Parade Heart Shaped Valentine, in case you want to make some valentines to send or give. And really, if you changed this greeting on this card, you could make it for any nice occasion.
What I did with this card was choose two complementary colors. Complementary colors are colors opposite each other on the color wheel. If you have the Stampin’ Up! Color Coach, you can do this easily. I started with Poppy Parade since it is a red color but one that I don’t use very often…although when I do, I am really happy with using the color. The color opposite Poppy Parade on the Color Coach is Shaded Spruce. So those are the two colors I used on this card along with Basic White. I think it worked out!
The card base is Poppy Parade with a layer of the Marbled Elegance Designer Series Paper. Obviously the pattern is not one of the marbled designs but “the other side”, the generic side that you can use any time. For the focal point on the card, I stamped the wreath in the Heart Shaped Stamp Set in Shaded Spruce ink on Basic White. The three flowers are stamped with the Heart Shaped Stamp Set also in Poppy Parade ink and diecut with the Heart Shaped Dies. You can get the Heart Shaped Stamp Set and the Heart Shaped Dies in the Heart Shaped Bundle, FREE during Sale-A-Bration this month with a $120 purchase. It is a Level 2 product you can earn.
The Basic White piece is diecut using one of the large circle dies in the Spotlight on Nature Dies. I love how these have a decorative border on them. The diecut circle is adhered flat on the card but you could pop it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The three Poppy Parade flowers are also glued on flat on the wreath, but you could pop up these flowers if you wanted to. I also took the tip of a Poppy Parade marker and just dotted the little berries on the wreath right over the Shaded Spruce ink. Just do very tiny dots. You barely see them but I like the look.
I didn’t have Poppy Parade ribbon so I colored my own! I used the white ribbon in the Petal Pink & White 1/4″ Diagonal Trim Combo Ribbon and colored it with the Dark Poppy Parade Stampin’ Blend Marker. I colored on both sides and even touched up the edges a little if some white was still showing. Because they are alcohol markers, the ribbon dries quickly and then you can use it on your card. It’s so great we can make our own custom colored ribbon! I tied the bow and adhered it with a couple of Glue Dots.
The greeting is in the Celebrate Love Mix & Match Ephemera Pack. It had a colored border around it but I wanted it really thin so I trimmed off the border. Then I layered it on a thin strip of Shaded Spruce.
To each side of the greeting I added a little Heart Sequin. These are currently not available, hopefully you have them already, but if not, just use any jewel or gem that you like if you want a little sparkle or bling.
These two complementary colors aren’t too different to use on a valentine or other card, but it was fun to use my Color Coach in choosing the colors.
Stampin’ Up! released two new kits in the Kits Collection yesterday! Both of these look very interesting and pretty! I’m sure they will be fun to put together…or do your own thing with the supplies. Get one or both, and of course they count toward your Sale-A-Bration product total! Add a few more products and earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product.
No matter what someone is celebrating, congratulations are in order! A handmade card just makes it extra-special. The So Much To Celebrate Kit makes 9 cards, 3 each of 3 designs. Supplies include gold foil accents, puffy stickers, and diecut flowers.
DETAILS – Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs – 2 folded card sizes – 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″: 6 cards – 6″ x 3″: 3 cards – Sentiments printed in Dutch, English, French, and German – Colors: Balmy Blue, Old Olive, Pecan Pie, Petal Pink, Pumpkin Pie
Kit includes one of each item listed below. – Step-by-step instructions – 9 printed envelopes – Puffy stickers – Gold foil – Adhesive – A 9-7/8″ x 6-1/2″ x 2-3/4″ printed box for storage or crafting on the go
Here are the supplies you will find in the kit in the photo above.
Watch the Kit video below:
Another new kit was also released yesterday in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection!
Heirloom Arrangements Kit
The Heirloom Arrangements Kit makes 8 cards in detailed vintage designs. It comes with precut images and specialty vellum.
DETAILS – Makes 8 cards: 1 each of 8 designs – Folded card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ – Colors: Basic Black, Blueberry Bushel, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Garden Green, Old Olive, Pecan Pie, Pretty in Pink, Pretty Peacock – Also available in French
Kit includes one of each item listed below. – Heirloom Arrangements Photopolymer Stamp Set – Clear stamp block – Pecan Pie Classic Stampin’ Spot – Basic instructions – 8 printed envelopes – Precut elements – Specialty vellum – Adhesive – A 9-7/8″ x 6-1/2″ x 2-3/4″ printed box for storage or crafting on the go
The photo above shows the supplies that are included in your Kit!
Watch the Kit video below:
The Kits in the Kits Collection include predesigned projects that come in a range of project types. They are perfect for new crafters, busy crafters, or crafters who want quick and easy projects.
This Pretty in Pink Sending Lots of Love Card uses slightly non-traditional colors, but you can do that! I’d almost forgotten about the In Color 2024-2026 Petunia Pop! I tried to use the Color Coach Wheel to choose two colors for this card, but the In Colors are not on the wheel, but I think these two colors together work just fine.
This card base is Pretty in Pink cardstock. I used Petunia Pop for the center layer. It measures 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″. Since it looked a little plain as the background, I embossed it with the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder and the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine.
The diecut hearts are Pretty in Pink and Basic White. I used the Hearts of Elegance Dies. These hearts don’t necessarily layer perfectly but they are close enough. Maybe that is the new style anyway! My hearts are adhered flat on the card but of course they could be popped up on Dimensionals.
The greeting is in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set. I love the sentiments and especially the fonts used for these! So pretty! I’d like another stamp set of various greetings in this same font. This greeting is stamped in Petunia Pop ink on Basic White. Then it was diecut with a label in the Unbounded Love Dies. You can purchase the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set and Dies together in a Bundle if you’d like to have both and save 10%.
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The other day I was looking in the closet wondering if I had more Valentine decorations than I had found so far. I’m used to SO many decorations for Halloween and Christmas that one red and white plastic bag just didn’t seem like that could possibly be all I had for Valentine’s Day! It actually was pretty much true, but I did come across just a couple more things and one was this old Valentine Collage that I made some years ago! I don’t recall how many years ago! All I can say is that the famous Owl Punch was a thing as you can see in the last square and also that Pretty In Pink was a regular Stampin’ Up! color at the time!
I wondered if I had a frame the Valentine Collage would fit in because obviously it had been in a frame at one time. The backing was still underneath the collage in the closet. I probably swapped it out for a Christmas collage at some point. As luck would have it, I did find a nice white frame for it. I just had to trim down the outside edges a little bit. I think it had to be fate that I found this collage in the closet AND a frame to put it in for my Valentine decorating!
Even though this Valentine Collage is way past its time, it can still provide inspiration for you to make something similar yourself for your home decor or even a gift for someone. You can make twelve squares or you can double-up two squares and make a rectangle in some of the spaces. Or put four squares into one big square! Whatever you like!
You might want to choose a frame first so you know what size to make your collage. You wouldn’t want to have to cut into or too close to your design. Maybe you would prefer a square shape. Lots of possibilities!
Think about making a fun, quick collage, maybe even a smaller one, for Valentine’s Day! You have time! Here’s an example of a smaller collage from twelve years ago!!
Or jump ahead To Easter if you like to plan ahead! Just have fun with it!
A very popular FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration promotion is the Heart Shaped Bundle. Sale-A-Bration is maybe Stampin’ Up!’s most popular promotion because you can earn a free product with a $60 purchase. For a larger order of $120, you can select a couple of different products, such as this Heart Shaped Bundle. This is a great Bundle to use for all-occasion cards or right now, Valentines.
This card has a Pretty In Pink card base. Pretty In Pink is one of the current In Colors, which I often forget about! The layer is Basic White stamped with Pretty In Pink ink around the edges with the trio of flowers stamp in the Heart Shaped Stamp Set. The white background seemed too bland so I decided to put at least a few flowers, some stamped off the edge, around each side.
The focal piece of the card measures 3″ x 4″ with a Pretty in Pink layer of 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″. I started off making this card horizontal and changed my mind. You can design it either way. The heart-shaped wreath is diecut with the Heart Shaped Die. Don’t get the “Heart” sets mixed up! I couldn’t find this wreath die in the package and looked all over for it. It turned out I was looking in the Hearts of Elegance Dies instead of the Heart Shaped Dies! I was so relieved that I hadn’t lost it!
The wreath is diecut out of Soft Sea Foam cardstock. If you remember, it would be useful to put an Adhesive Sheet on the back of the cardstock before you diecut it. Then you don’t have to put the tiniest dots of glue on the back of all the leaves and edges. But I admit, I never remember the Adhesive Sheets until after I diecut the piece! The flowers are diecut out of Pretty In Pink. You can make the petals curl up a little bit befor adhering to the card.
The greeting is in the Heart Shaped Stamp Set. If you stamp it right on the card front, stamp it before you glue down the wreath and flowers just in case the stamping doesn’t go well! But really, if you messed up the stamping, you could just cut out a label shape to stamp on and then adhere that over the messy stamping. There is always some way to fix mistakes! But chances are, you will stamp it just fine.
For a little embellishment, I used the Party Dots. These come in three colors – Peach Pie, Pool Party, and Pretty In Pink. I added the Peach Pie dots to the flower centers and added two extra Pretty In Pink dots next to the greeting. These are great because they are pretty flat and don’t cause a problem mailing the card.
There are new Sale-A-Bration products to earn coming on Tuesday, February 4th!
My thought was let’s make something besides “new” or Valentine for this post! I looked through my designer papers and ended up with this Mediterranean Blooms Hello Card. After making a lot of simpler cards lately, I’m inclined to call this card a “masterpiece”. And that made me think that we stampers should more often think of our creations as “masterpieces” because they really are unique and special and while stamping is simple enough that anyone can do it, each card we make is almost always pretty special!
For this card I used a sample in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog with the Mediterranean Blooms Suite for inspiration. Or to copy, you might say! As always, though, mine came out slightly different from the original sample. You can see it on page 34 of the Annual Catalog.
The card base is Night of Navy cardstock. I think the sample may have used a piece of cardstock stamped with the small images in the stamp set randomly for a background. I used a piece of the Mediterranean Blooms Designer Series Paper for the background. On top of that designer paper I adhered a diecut leafy frame piece. This piece was cut out of Basic White cardstock using two dies in the Citrus Blooms Dies set. One die is the leafy design but there is also a frame with decorative corners to be placed around it so that the edge is diecut in a decorative way. You can place these two dies together on the paper and run through the Stampin’ Up! Cut & Emboss Machine or you can cut out the leafy frame leaving a border around the edge and then run that through separately with the frame.
In the center I have a piece of Boho Blue cardstock, cut at 1″ x 4″. It is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I used some Lemon Lolly twine from the Baker’s Twine Three Color Pack to wrap around this Boho Blue piece and around the designer paper that will layer on the cardstock. This was done before anything was adhered to the card base. In the sample, the different thread went under the center piece and around the entire card, meaning the thread would show on the inside of the card, which is fine, I’m just describing the placement. I also tied a separate bow and adhered it with a single glue dot underneath.
To embellish the card design, I diecut a bunch of leaves out of Soft Sea Foam cardstock. It would have been good to use Adhesive Sheets underneath before diecutting since the leaves are so narrow, but I just put tiny dots of glue on the backs of the leaves. I have a special bottle that does put out tiny drops of glue, but otherwise I would probably make a puddle of the Multipurpose Liquid Glue on a scrap piece of cardstock and use a toothpick to apply it to the small pieces. I just stuck these leaves randomly under the center piece, so you don’t want a solid piece of adhesive foam underneath the Boho Blue piece because you want to be able to find space for the leaves to go underneath.
Now if you like the Soft Sea Foam green but want a little bit more color in it, you can take a Soft Sea Foam Stampin’ Blend, in both Light and Dark, to just “slightly” add color to the leaves for a little shading. If you forget, you can still do it after they are adhered on the card, just don’t get the ink on the white leafy frame.
The greeting on the card is stamped with two stamps in the Citrus Blooms Stamp Set. The white circle is diecut with one of the small circles in the Stylish Shapes Dies. “Hello” is stamped in Night of Navy ink. The second greeting is just stamped on a strip of Lemon Lolly cardstock, also in Night of Navy ink. The circle is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The word strip is adhered flat over the circle with a Stampin’ Dimensiona or two to hold up the end.
There are die cut flowers out of Daffodil Delight with dies in the Citrus Blooms Dies. I tried to poke the center of some of these to make the petals stick up a little bit. These are just glued down randomly. Finally, I used some Opal Rounds gems in Clear and one Daffodil Delight in the center of the one large flower above the greeting. You could use many other gems, sequins, or jewels to embellish this card.
I know sometimes we forget about the Annual Catalog products which we only use exclusively for a couple of months until the Holiday Mini comes out, followed by the Spring Mini catalog. Don’t forget to look back at your older products and see what you’d like to use!
Additional Sale-A-Bration choices are coming on Tuesday, February 4th if you want to see what those products will be. Remember, with every $60 purchase, you earn a FREE product from the Sale-A-Bration brochure, available through the end of February. This is a promotion Stampin’ Up! offers every year which we all love because we love free Stampin’ Up! products any time!
Remember the Book Treat Boxes that were in the Holiday Mini Catalog last fall? I decided to make one into a Valentine Book Treat Box! You can still find these boxes in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and they are handy to have on hand any time for a small gift or treat. Then just decorate for whatever occasion!
First step is to assemble the box. These Book Treat Boxes come ten in the package and are easy to assemble. They look like books! There are two pieces to each box. One is the box itself that fits inside the cover. They are all scored and even have adhesive strips to adhere everything together. You will easily see how to do it. The boxes are 3″ x 4″ with a 1″ side spine. You can decorate as little or as much of all the sides as you like. On this box, I decorated the front, the back, the spine, inside the front cover and inside the box. All you would have to do is decorate the front.
I used the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper, cutting the paper at 3″ x 4″ for the front and back of the cover, also inside the cover. The spine measures 1″ x 4″. The measurement for inside the box is just a tad smaller that 3″ x 4″. You can measure yours with a ruler after you assemble it to see the exact size.
For the hearts on the front, I used the Hearts of Elegance Dies to cut out a large Gold Foil heart and the same size heart in Melon Mambo. Then I layered on a Petal Pink pierced heart on top of the Melon Mambo and a small Gold Foil heart on top. The background gold heart is adhered flat on the box, while the other three hearts are first glued together then popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The side tab that could be adhered to the top of the box is 1″ wide and I covered it with designer paper, then trimmed around the curved end. Since I wanted to be able to slip it underneath the hearts rather than adhere it, I popped up the hearts but didn’t put Dimensionals where I wanted that tab to go underneath.
The greeting is in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set. I stamped it in Melon Mambo ink on Basic White cardstock. To make it fit better on the box without taking away from the hearts, I decided to cut out around the word “Love”. I completely left off the “You” but it probably would have fit okay. This is a great way to save space with a greeting or you can cut the words apart and do your own spacing according to your project. You can decorate or not decorate the inside of the box before you add your treat! I did a little bit.
I think these boxes are great to have on hand so be sure to add them to your next order for a little different gift wrap or treat box idea. Or create a little scene inside as I did at Christmas on a project for my 12 Weeks of Christmas email.
There are lots of fun things you can make with these Book Treat Boxes! Try one!
It was a rainy Sunday afternoon yesterday so the perfect time to get out my January 2025 Paper Pumpkin Kit, Hearts For You. If you aren’t already a Paper Pumpkin subscriber and you didn’t get this kit in the mail maybe a week ago and you’ve GOT to have it, I can help you out a little bit on that! Stay tuned!
The weekend always seems like a good time to work on a Paper Pumpkin Kit. It certainly was a good time to work on this kit and get a bunch of Valentines made instead of at the last minute! If you aren’t familiar with Paper Pumpkin, it is a monthly subscription program for creative success! Paper Pumpkin subscription kits are designed for anyone who wants to quickly and easily achieve beautiful, handcrafted projects—anytime and anywhere! You’ll get a new project every month—one that’s great for all types of crafters. Inside the box and the pretty tissue paper, you’ll find a pre-designed, pre-cut paper crafting project. Everything is ready to stamp and assemble. The only thing you might need is a scissors. The kit even comes with adhesives! And anyone can make these projects, whatever they are!
In the photo above, you see I have opened up my box and the packages inside with all the supplies, have the directions out, and the exclusive stamp set. Your first kit will come with an acrylic block for mounting the stamps. Every kit also comes with one ink spot. I usually hoard mine and use my regular ink pad but the 1″ ink spots don’t take up hardly any space! There is always a video of the assembly of the project that you can watch, and I do like to watch it, but the pictorial directions in the box are easy to follow. It tells you exactly where to put the adhesive and how long the string or ribbon should be, etc.
Of course, you can always “go rogue” and make your own creations with the supplies you are given in the kit. There are always alternate designs you can find online using the kit.
Here are the three designs of the finished cards! You also get matching envelopes and in this kit, foil hearts to seal the envelope flap!
It was funny, when I made my first card (which is the second card in the top row), I stamped the hearts and greeting, tied on the twine, glued that piece to the marbled card base and I thought “Well, this card is okay but it lacks some pizzazz!” Then I realized I hadn’t added all the “things” yet!! There was the champagne foil outline of a heart, a smaller champagne foil heart, and the large Flirty Flamingo diecut heart with the foil accents. I added those things and then discovered there were also tiny little heart gem embellishments!! Once I actually completed the card with all the intended supplies, I thought it was beautiful for a valentine!
The second card I made was the bottom one in the photo. That card had a really creative background – lines of attached small white hearts! All I had to do, thought, was put the dimensionals on the back of each row, punch them out and adhere to the very faint guidelines shown on each card base. It went perfectly smoothly adhering all those rows of hearts! Then it was just a matter of adhering the two diecut hearts one layered on another, adding the foil word “Love” and stamping the little banner to put below the word Love. To complete it, I just added a twine bow.
The very first card in the photo was probably the easiest except for adding the dimensionals to the back of the foil heart so they wouldn’t show! But the directions showed how to cut one of the dimensionals in half to make them smaller. It worked fine.
All three cards for Valentine’s Day are very pretty and were fun to make! If you would like to get this kit, this is how you can do it. First of all, you must subscribe to Paper Pumpkin to purchase any extra full kits that are available or the refill kits. In this case, it looks like there is a Hearts For You Paper Pumpkin Refill that is available. With the refill kit, you will not get the ink spot and you will not get the exclusive stamp set. But if you have any stamps in your stash, you probably have an assortment of heart stamps and greetings that you could use on these cards, and if not, you can draw your own hearts with a red marker or red pencil or cut some out of red paper. You can write your own Valentine message on the banners with a marker or pen if you don’t have appropriate stamps. Just be creative! Actually, the only stamping you would need to do would be the card with all the hearts and on the greetings. And even if you omitted the greeting, the cards would still look pretty on their own!
If you are interested, subscribe to Paper Pumpkin and then order the Refill right away so it doesn’t sell out. It will count toward your Sale-A-Bration total as well! Once you subscribe, if Paper Pumpkin is not for you, then simply go into your account and cancel, or skip a month. It’s easy and no risk or obligation.
If you are already a subscriber and you’d like another kit or two to make more valentines, just order this Hearts For You Refill Kit right away!
This Hearts For a Valentine’s Day Card has to be one of the quickest and easiest cards I’ve ever made with no idea of what I was going to make! I know that sounds crazy, but yes, I didn’t know what I was going to make until I got out the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper and looked at the Hearts of Elegance Dies. Since I hadn’t tried all the dies yet, I just chose one. Then after diecutting with that, I chose another heart shape, and another one, and another one. Pretty quickly I had this card made!
The card base is Melon Mambo cardstock. There are several coordinating colors listed for these designer papers, but I mostly keep coming back to Melon Mambo….or Real Red on some cards I made. First I chose the second largest heart die, the one with the pierced border around the edge. I used a piece of the Marbled Elegance Paper, thinking at first I would use “the other side” and not the marbled size. Luckily, in my package I already had a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece cut and luckily, I centered the heart die on this paper. After I cut it out it looked like the best idea was the adhere the negative piece to the card base with the marbled side up. I thought it was so pretty with that heart opening in the center. I didn’t even use the heart I had just cut out, but I saved it for another card another time.
Next I cut out another smaller heart from another piece of the marbled paper and placed it in the center of the open heart space. It needed something, so I cut out a larger heart from Gold Foil. Then for one more heart, I diecut a small gold heart with the decorative edge to place in the center. As you can see, once the hearts were all stacked on top of each other they looked so pretty!
I already had this greeting stamped and cut out in my scraps so I just adhered that flat in the corner of the card. For a moment, I thought about using the banner in the Mixed Labels Stamp Set to go across the hearts, but I liked the greeting I already had so I kept it simple and just used that. If you are trying to make a quick card, don’t overthink everything.
You could pop up some of the hearts or the negative piece on the card base. You could add some embellishments for a little sparkle. Or you can just leave it simple as is because the Marbled Elegance Designer Paper is so pretty on its own! It’s named Marbled Elegance for a reason!
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Sometimes you don’t even know how or where you came up with an idea for a card, and this To the Point Punch Berry Burst Card is one of those! I just had the idea of using this new punch in this design so I just started stamping and punching. And it worked out!
The card base is Berry Burst, one of the colors in the Brights Family. I don’t use this color a lot, but it is what I chose glancing at my cardstock. The Basic White layer on top of the Berry Burst is stamped with the little flowers in the Bright Borders Stamp Set. They are just randomly stamped around on the cardstock because the background needed something.
I stamped the outline image on Basic White with Berry Burst ink. I chose one of the greetings from the Bright Borders Stamp Set to stamp in the center. For the other two side border pieces I stamped the flower from the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set. I punched those out, but after placing them on the card, I decided they needed a Berry Burst layer behind them. I trimmed down each white stamped piece with Paper Snips, then punched three Berry Burst pieces with the To the Point Label Punch. I adhered the stamped pieces on the punched pieces and then they could show up better on the card.
The center border image is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but first I applied Stampin’ Seal to the back so I could wind the Gold Twisted Thread back and forth on the back so some loops would stick out from the sides. For a little more embellishment, I added two gold dots from the Low Profile Dots.
That’s all there is to this card. It is monochromatic but you could add other colors instead of making your card monchromatic.
This Storybook Moments Village Gate Fold Card is made with the pretty Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper. You will find this paper and entire Suite in the Spring Mini Catalog. I had the idea of putting the patterned paper with little cottages on it on the inside of this card. When I looked at the diecut sheets and saw these two characters, I thought they looked like the lady and lord of the manor on the inside of the card!
This is called a gate fold card because the two sides of the card fold in and meet in the middle. There is nothing complicated about it! To make this card base, cut the Old Olive cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ as always. Then score at 2 1/8″ from each horizontal end so that those two ends fold and meet in the middle. The inside panel will measure 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. When you fold in the two side panels to the center they should meet up perfectly. If they overlap a tiny bit which prevents them from laying flat, just trim as slightly as you can with your Paper Trimmer to help them fit next to each other.
On the inside center panel, I adhered the paper on the Storybook Moments DSP that has images of lots of little cottages. It looks like a little scene when you open the card. That paper would be 4″ x 5 1/4″. On the outside folded side panels, the DSP is cut at 1 7/8″ x 5 1/4″. This designer paper is “the other side” of the paper that has all sorts of different frames and designs in rectangles that can be cut apart to use on cards or scrapbook pages. As you can imagine, it was very difficult to cut into that paper to use the other side and ruin some of the images on the “main” side. But I really liked this leafy side so I gritted my teeth and cut into the paper! Sometimes you have to do hard things!
The center panel is a piece of Old Olive cardstock cut at 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. You can vary the size for your card if you want it smaller or a different shape. The layer on top is Flirty Flamingo 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″. It happens to be an embossed piece of scrap cardstock in the package, embossed with a retired folder called Scripty. I decided to use it because I liked the little bit of texture it provided in the background, even though it is retired.
The two sheep characters on the square panel are images you will find on the pages of diecuts that coordinate with this Storybook Moments Designer Paper. That is why it is called “Specialty” paper because it has these extra two sheets of all kinds of diecut images, ready to go! These two “lords of the manor” are just glued flat to the card although you could pop them up on Dimensionals. They fit just right on that square.
The greeting is stamped from the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set which I haven’t used for awhile and almost forgot about. You will find it in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. I stamped it on a narrow strip of Basic White cardstock and flagged both ends. To help it work just a little better with the card, I sponged the edges very lightly with Old Olive ink and an old piece of sponge I had that Stampin’ Up! used to sell. You could use Sponge Daubers or one of the Blending Brushes. We used to do this all the time when I started stamping and I rarely do it nowadays, but I think it is the perfect touch sometimes.
When you adhere this center panel to the card, you will adhere it to the left front panel. Only put glue on the left side of the square so that it doesn’t also stick to the right side panel. Sometimes it’s hard to remember not to put the glue everywhere! Don’t ask me how I know!
On the inside of the card, if the cardstock you used for the card base is rather dark, you might want to put plain cardstock on the inside of those side panels. I used Basic Beige which looks good with the cottage paper in the center. You can stamp a greeting or write a personal message on those plain inner panels. Or you could cut or diecut a plain piece for a greeting adhered to the inside center panel, even though it covers some of the cottages.
Any gate fold card similar to this one is easy to make so I hope you will try one!
