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Country Floral Lane Heart Punch Card

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Country Floral Lane Heart Punch Card

Is this Country Floral Lane Heart Punch Card a Valentine or an all-occasion card? I think it could be either one! Hearts aren’t just for Valentine’s Day so this could be a “Thinking of You” card…but it could be a Valentine! So make it whatever you like! Of course, you can change the greeting for your specific occasion!

I chose a Mossy Meadow card base since that is one of the coordinating colors of the designer paper. Over that, I added a layer of Basic White cardstock to set off the designer paper a little better.

The paper is the Country Floral Lane Designer Series Paper in the Spring Mini. The papers aren’t strictly for Valentine’s Day so you can use them later in the year, too! For this card, I used the pink floral pattern with a dark green background on the top half of the card and the pink little hearts paper for the bottom portion. These two patterns are actually the two sides of the same sheet of paper! The top portion measures 3 3/4″ x about 3 3/8″. The pink hearts paper is 3 3/4″ x 1 3/4″. The pink paper overlaps the top portion just a tiny bit. Be sure to wrap the ribbon around to the back at the seam to cover the two papers meeting before you glue it down to the Basic White layer. The ribbon is the Petal Pink 3/8″ Soft Polyester Ribbon which is beautiful and really soft.

For the greeting, I found this one in the Celebrating You Stamp Set. It is stamped in Mossy Meadow ink on Basic White. Then punched out with the plain heart in the Heart Punch Pack with a Petal pink scalloped layer with the scalloped heart. These two punches come together in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog in the Heart Punch Pack. If you missed out on the Country Bouquet Punch (it is due back in April!) these heart punches will be fun to use instead.

The heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and I added a small Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewel on the point of the heart. I think it is the perfect finishing touch!

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Country Floral Lane Valentine With Heart Punch Pack

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Country Floral Lane Valentine With Heart Punch Pack

With all the excitement over the Stampin’ Up! January-April 2023 Mini Catalog (the Spring Mini), we often forget about the Annual Catalog. It’s easier to look at the newest catalog and all the shiny new products. But now that it is time to make Valentines, I remembered the Heart Punch Pack in the Annual Catalog! It’s a shame the Country Bouquet Punch will not be available in time for Valentine’s Day, but maybe you have the Heart Punch Pack you can use instead (or other past heart punches and dies).

This Country Floral Lane Valentine With Heart Punch Pack card is an easy card to make. It starts with a card base of Petal Pink cardstock. I added a layer of designer paper in the Country Floral Lane Designer Series Paper, the Petal Pink with little white hearts.

The hearts are punched with the Heart Punch Pack. This is two heart punches, one with scalloped edges that can act as a layer underneath the plain heart. It’s great to have the two punches for layering and for the two designs. The scalloped heart is Petal Pink and the plain is Basic White. A greeting is stamped with Petal Pink ink from the Country Bouquet Stamp Set.

To help the heart stamp out I die cut a Basic White square from the Stylish Dies. You can use any square shape. The two hearts are adhered together, then popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

But before I adhered the hearts to the square I added some White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon back and forth behind the heart. I usually like to put down some Stampin’ Seal on the back so I can stick down the ribbon and then add Dimensionals to help hold it down as well as to pop up the piece.

Trying to keep the card simple, but wanting just a little something else to add to the card, I added a frosted Heart Pearl. In this package are three “colors” of pearls – Glossy White, Milky White, and Pearl White. I just put the heart at the bottom of the heart and then stopped myself from adding any more! It’s so much fun to add some embellishments to a card!

This is just an easy, basic Valentine. Change the colors, the paper, or even the greeting to make more cards!

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St. Pat’s Day Shamrock Heart Punch Card

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St. Pat's Day Shamrock Heart Punch Card

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, maybe you want to make card something like this St. Pat’s Day Shamrock Heart Punch Card. You’re probably not going out to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day today so you might as well STAMP! I think this card could even be one to send someone any time because hearts are good at any time whether they are making up shamrocks or just a leafy plant!

I started with a card base of Old Olive and a layer of Whisper White. I didn’t even know exactly what I was going to make except that it had to be green for St. Pat’s. I settled on using the Heart Punch with the scalloped edge in the Heart Punch Pack. You get two punches in this pack, a plain edge heart and a scalloped edge heart. As a bonus, you can layer the hearts! You can use hearts any time, not just for Valentine’s Day or St. Patrick’s Day! You will find them in the Occasions Mini Catalog.

For something more interesting, I looked through my designer paper until I found a “solid” green I could use. I found this green in the Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper. Don’t forget to look at the backsides of the pretty patterned papers! Often there is something very interesting on both sides of the designer paper! I punched three hearts out of this paper and just cut a little curved strip for the stem. Although the paper color is basically a solid green, you can see that there are color variations in it that make it interesting and appealing! I think this greenery can be any kind of leafy plant with heart-shaped leaves!

For pizzazz, I dug out some gold sequins and clustered them in the center of the plant rather than placing them around on the card. I liked that look. The greeting is stamped in Old Olive ink from the Heartfelt Stamp Set. This stamp set can also be used for more than Valentine’s Day so you might want to grab it during Sale-A-Bration.

You probably can’t go out to the “pubs” today to celebrate, but if you are staying home you can celebrate by stamping or creating a St. Patrick’s Day project like this St. Pat’s Day Shamrock Heart Punch Card!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Quick and Easy Valentine Card

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Quick and Easy Valentine Card

Yes, I know Valentine’s Day is over, but who knows, maybe you need one more valentine for someone today! I didn’t get around to posting this one and it’s one I like because it is a quick and easy valentine! And who doesn’t like quick and easy!

Even if you don’t need another valentine, think of the basic design of this card and think about how you could easily change it into a card for any other occasion.

This valentine has a card base of Real Red (of course!) with a layer of the From My Heart Designer Series Paper. I thought this particular pattern looked really cute on this card! For the focal point, I just have two hearts. The frilly background heart is die-cut with the Be Mine Stitched Dies in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. The heart on the front is stamped on Whisper White with a stamp in the Heartfelt Stamp Set in Real Red Ink. Then it is punched out with the scallop-edge heart punch in the Heart Punch Pack.

Just for a little something-something, before I adhered the hearts, I used a little Snail Adhesive to hold down a strip of Real Red 3/8″ Double-Stitched Satin Ribbon, just in the center. You can either pop up the hearts with Stampin’ Dimensionals or adhere the hearts flat on the card.

Now if you don’t need a valentine today, all you need to do is change out the hearts to some other focal point whether it be an image or a greeting. You can still use designer paper as a layer and you can still add a strip of ribbon behind the center image. Just keep it simple, whatever you make!

Happy Day-After Valentine’s Day!

A Recycled & Decorated Shopping Bag For Valentine’s Day

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A Recycled & Decorated Shopping Bag For Valentine's Day

Now and then good things come from cleaning and organizing like this Recycled & Decorated Shopping Bag For Valentine’s Day. As I went through my overflowing “bag of bags” the other day, I found this cute black and white striped shopping bag from Sephora. It has the printed name on the front and the back so I needed to decorate both sides. I love to do this with any decent small shopping bags that I get at a store, but you can also buy kraft or colored bags at any craft store. I think it is fun to decorate and embellish a shopping bag and turn it into a personalized gift bag!

Here is a bag I changed into a birthday gift bag with some stamping and die cuts! The possibilities are endless!

Since Valentine’s Day is coming up, you might have a gift you need a gift bag for so perhaps this will give you some ideas. You, too, can look through your stash of bags and see what you find! Remember, hearts can be for any time so you can use this idea past Valentine’s Day!

To decorate this bag, I simply used a piece of Gold Glimmer Paper for the background and die cut a Real Red heart with one of the hearts in the Stitched Be Mine Dies in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog.

The two center hearts are punched with the Heart Punch Pack. I stamped a greeting from the Heartfelt Stamp Set on Whisper White and punched with the plain-edge heart, then layered it on a Gold Glimmer scalloped-edge heart. You get both punches in the Heart Punch Pack. I usually find it’s best to use the Multipurpose Liquid Glue when adhering something to the glimmer paper.

A Recycled & Decorated Shopping Bag For Valentine's Day on Back

For the back of the bag, I just die-cut three different sized hearts using the same Stitched Be Mine Dies. I just adhered them together and then adhered them to the bag.

It’s so easy to make your own gift bags by recycling bags you probably already have in your home! Go find one and make a gift bag out of it! Make the gift extra-special by doing something creative with the bag!

Easy Valentine Hearts and Ribbon Card

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Valentine Hearts and Ribbon

Valentine’s Day is coming up at the end of this week so if you need more valentine ideas, here is an Easy Valentine Hearts and Ribbon Card you can try!

The card base is Real Red with a layer of Whisper White to help the designer paper stand out a little bit. This dotted foil layer is in the From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper. It really caught my eye when I was making this card!

The next step is to simply punch two hearts from another design of the From My Heart DSP. I chose the paper with the scattered hearts. I thought it stood out well against the foil DSP.

The center heart is punched from the sheet of foil hearts and then layered on a punched scallop heart from Flirty Flamingo Cardstock. You can get both these plain-edge heart punch and the scalloped edge heart punch in the Heart Punch Pack. And if you want the Heartfelt Stamp Set, too, you can purchase it with the heart punches and save 10% in the Heartfelt Bundle.

After those two hearts were layered together, I put more adhesive on the back with Snail Adhesive so I could stick the ribbon going back and forth behind the heart. Then it is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals® and centered on the card between the other two hearts.

Even though there is no sentiment on the front of the card, I think it is pretty enough on its own so you can just stamp a greeting inside the card on a Whisper White layer.

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From My Heart Valentine With Hearts

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From My Heart Valentine With Hearts

You can make this quick and easy From My Heart Valentine With Hearts by just punching out some hearts! And add a little stamping!

The card base is Real Red, although with these hearts you could use any colors, like Flirty Flamingo or a light pink, that go with the designs in the From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper. On a layer of Whisper White, just add a grouping of hearts punched with the Heart Punch Pack. You can even punch two hearts out of the same sheet of designer paper and use one side of one and the one side of the other design! Just check the other side of the paper to see if one side goes in a certain direction or not, if you want to use both sides. You can punch some hearts with the scalloped heart punch and some with the plain edge.

I chose one of the foil accented hearts for the focal point on my card. I punched it out with the scalloped punch, which is a perfect fit! Then I stamped a greeting from the Heartfelt Stamp Set in the center of the heart. After all the other hearts were glued down, I popped this foil heart up with Stampin’ Dimensionals® in the center of the card. Then I stamped a few hearts from the same stamp set around the paper hearts.

You could jazz up this same card a little more if you wanted to. I thought about putting a piece of ribbon behind the foil heart that went back and forth behind the heart with the loops sticking out on each side. I could have added some rhinestones or other jewels.

If you want a quick and easy card, just keep it simple and just punch out lots of hearts and see what you come up with!

From My Heart Valentine With Hearts Closeup

Easy to Make Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Treat Holders

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Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Holders

Try these Easy to Make Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Holders for Valentine’s Day or any occasion for a little gift or favor. Once you have the measurements and the piece of candy, you are ready to make a special treat!

This is basically just a strip of cardstock, scored to that it will fold over a piece of chocolate candy, like a Ghirardelli chocolate (yum!). Then you just decorate the front for whatever occasion you have.

Start with a strip of cardstock cut at 9 5/8″ x 2 3/4″. Score at 2 3/4″ and 3″; 6 1/4″ and 6 1/2″. With these measurements, you could get three strips out of one sheet of cardstock. Fold and crease on the scored lines. Open the strip back up and you will see above and below the score lines, one section is shorter than the other.  You want the longer section to be the one that folds up to the inside.

Once you have identified the longer section, use the Classic Label Punch on that flap, inserting as far as you can, centered, to punch the opening for the chocolate. Put a piece of Tear & Tape as you see in the photo so you can fold up that flap and adhere to the inside, not quite up to the score line. You will want to stand the candy holder on the table making sure the bottom is flat as you adhere that flap.

Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Holder Base

Insert the chocolate candy piece to make sure everything fits right! If you do not have the Classic Label Punch, you can cut hand cut a slit or use the retired Word Window Punch.

Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Holder Petal Pink Inside

Now you can proceed to decorating the front of the candy holder and even that little area at the bottom, where you see I put a die-cut piece.

Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Holder Petal Pink

For this candy holder, I used Petal Pink Cardstock for the base. Even though it is for Valentine’s Day, I used a piece of designer paper in the Best Dressed Designer Series Paper! It had this polka dot piece of Petal Pink designer paper so it was perfect for a little background layer. I stamped a heart with the Heartfelt Stamp Set and punched it out with the plain heart in the Heart Punch Pack. You can buy the stamp set and two punches together in a Bundle and save 10% if you wish. The plain heart is layered on a piece of Sparkle Glimmer Paper punched out with the scalloped heart punch in the punch pack. You could also use Silver Glimmer Paper. The little piece at the bottom is a die-cut from the Painted Labels Dies in the Peaceful Poppies Suite.

The hearts are popped up on Dimensionals so that I could run a piece of scrap ribbon underneath just to hold the flap closed on the candy holder.

Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Holder Heart & Doily

This Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Treat Holder is made with the Flirty Flamingo Cardstock. The heart with foil accents is punched right out of the From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper and layered on a scalloped punched Flirty Flamingo heart. Then these were layered on a Heart Doily. But the doilies come in Real Red and Flirty Flamingo…..so just turn them over and you’ll have white! The ribbon tied around this candy holder is a new one in the Occasions Mini Catalog, the Whisper White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon. One of the great things about this white ribbon is you can dye it any color you want with ink or Stampin’ Blends markers.

These Valentine Ghirardelli Candy Holders will be fun to make if you want to take some favors to the people in your office or a little treat for your family or neighbors or friends.

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From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips

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From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips

Doesn’t making valentines like this From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips just take you back to your childhood?! Maybe it’s the doily because who of us did not use that white paste and doilies to make our valentines in elementary school?

I love this new From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper in the new Occasions Mini Catalog on page 9. Some of the papers have foil accents which makes them especially pretty! You can’t really tell from my photo above, but the second and fourth strips on my card have the foil accents. As usual, it’s so pretty you hate to cut into the paper, but cut you must in order to make these pretty cards and projects!

This is how this valentine came about! I got out the paper, saw a rectangle scrap in the package and it popped into my head to use several paper strips for the background of the valentine. Often cardmaking ideas just pop into your head or come about after working on your idea and then changing it when something else sparks your creativity.

The card base is Real Red. Real Red has probably always been my favorite Stampin’ Up! color because they have captured such a perfect red. With the switching around of the colors in the Color Families, it seemed like I wasn’t using it as much and that was sad! With Valentine’s Day approaching, how can you not be using Real Red again?

Now I should have gotten out my calculator or pencil and paper and did the math to figure out what size the strips should be and the size paper they are mounted on. But I didn’t! I just made the card, trimmed things down once or twice and when I still had a bigger margin at the bottom of the Whisper White, I simply trimmed that off. The card looks fine to me. If it is not mathematically perfect on the strips and margins, it’s just a valentine….it doesn’t have to be perfect.

If you want some measurements, the Whisper White layer on which I adhered the paper strips is 3 3/4″ wide and 4 7/8″ long. The designer paper strips are each 1 1/8″ wide and 3 5/8″ long with about a 1/16″ space in between the layers. And there is about the same 1/16″ margin around the edge, but you could also not have any margins and totally cover the Whisper White piece. Please don’t go crazy trying to make everything exact and fit perfectly. Just get it as balanced as you can and it will be fine.

The greeting is stamped in Flirty Flamingo Ink with a heart in the Heartfelt Stamp Set in the Suite. Then that stamped heart and the Real Red heart on which it is layered were punched out with the two punches in the Heart Punch Pack. You can purchase the stamp set and punches together in the Heartfelt Bundle and save 10%. These two hearts are then adhered to the Flirty Flamingo doily in the Heart Doilies Package. This large heart is then popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

If you want EVERYTHING in this From My Heart Suite (as I did, because who wouldn’t?!), just put the number #153931 on your order and you will get the coordinating selection of products on pages 8-10 without having to put in all the individual numbers. This won’t all only be good for Valentine’s Day, you will be able to use hearts on lots of occasions, the punches, the stamp set, etc.

Overall, this From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips is fairly easy to make so give it a try with the beautiful From My Heart DSP and the Heart Punch Pack!

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From My Heart Valentine’s Day Card

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From My Heart Valentine's Day Card

You “might” be able to tell on this From My Heart Valentine’s Day Card that the designer paper has a few pink foil accents. Can you see the shine on the little pink hearts in this photo? There was something about this particular design in the package that really caught my eye!

The card base is Real Red with a layer from the From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper. Next, all you have to do is make the heart focal point!

The doily comes in the package of Heart Doilies. The doilies are Real Red and Flirty Flamingo, but if you flip them over to the back, they are white, which you can also use! So you really get three colors of doilies.

I flipped my doily over to the white side and added the “Happy Valentine’s Day” greeting. That is a stamp in the Heartfelt Stamp Set. It is punched out with one of the heart punches in the Heart Punch Pack. You can buy both the Heart Punch Pack and the Heartfelt Stamp Set in the Heartfelt Bundle and save 10%! The punched heart doesn’t really fit inside the Heart Doily but it looks okay I think.

For an added embellishment, I took a piece of Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon and just adhered it underneath the doily with a little twist at the top and the tails hanging below the doily. Then I popped up the whole thing with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I needed a layer inside the card since the Real Red is rather dark. I stamped a greeting from the same stamp set on a piece of Whisper White and added a heart in the bottom corner. Somewhere along the line, I got a tiny ink smudge on the other side of the card, so I stamped another little heart over it to cover the smudge. But to balance that out, I had to stamp a few more little hearts so you can see the hearts are maybe a bit overdone!

From My Heart Valentine's Day Card Inside

This was really an easy valentine card to make! It’s going to be fun to play with all the hearts and other products in the Suite to make all kinds of valentines! Of course, hearts aren’t just for valentines, so you can use the hearts for other occasions throughout the year!

From My Heart Valentine's Day Card Closeup

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From My Heart 2-4-6-8 Gift Box

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From My Heart 2-4-6-8 Gift Box

Here’s an easy and cute From My Heart 2-4-6-8 Gift Box you can use for a small gift or treat for someone, maybe for Valentine’s Day or maybe just any time. It’s made with the fun Specialty Designer Series Paper, From My Heart. It’s in the new Occasions Mini Catalog and you know Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, in spite of my Christmas tree not completely taken down yet!

You’ve probably made lots of these 2-4-6-8 boxes of various sizes, but I know I always need a little refresher. For this box, I started with a piece of the designer paper 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. Score at 2″, 4″, 6″ and 8″. Turn and score at 1 1/2″ (or 2″). These will be the bottom flaps so pay attention to the pattern on your paper, watching which way it is going so it doesn’t end up upside down.

Here is how my paper looked, although this was the inside of my box. You do cut off the little 1/2″ piece.

From My Heart 2-4-6-8 Box Diagram

Assemble the box, putting adhesive on that 1/2″ piece on the side. Then pay attention to where the seam is and try to have that face the back. Fold in the bottom flaps, trying to make the front of the bag look nice with a flap fold, not the edge.

Decorate the front of the gift box. In some cases you might want to decorate before you assemble. I kept this one simple, but I wanted to try out the new Heart Punch Pack and the Heartfelt Stamp Set. I stamped the greeting and the heart outline in Real Red ink and then punched out the stamped heart plus one Real Red Cardstock heart. Since I wanted to layer them, I trimmed the Whisper White heart right up to the dotted outline. That made it a tiny bit smaller so I could layer it on the Real Red heart. Then I popped up the heart on the front of the box with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

You could leave the top open or you can punch holes in the top and tie it closed with a ribbon, like this new Real Red 3/8″ Double-Stitched Satin Ribbon. Don’t forget to put your treat or gift inside before you tie it up! This would make a cute party favor bag or treat for a party.

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