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Poppy Parade Heart Shaped Valentine

Poppy Parade Heart Shaped Valentine

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.

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Pretty In Pink Sending Lots of Love Card

Pretty In Pink Sending Lots of Love Card

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%.

To embellish this card I added a white bow from the Petal Pink & White 1/4″ Diagonal Trim Combo Pack. I also added three Pretty in Pink gems in the 2024-2026 In Color Shimmer Gems for a little sparkle.

You can call this card a Valentine but as you can see it could be for other occasions because hearts can be for any time!

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Pretty In Pink Heart Shaped Card

Pretty In Pink Heart Shaped Card

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!

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Hearts For a Valentine’s Day Card

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!

You’ll find these supplies in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!

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Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card

Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card

Here’s a fun Valentine to make! I used the book fold design which is easy to do and just gives a little different look to your card. You can make this Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card with this design and decorate it for any occasion.

To make the book fold card, cut a piece of cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″. Score at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″. Basically, you are cutting a sheet of cardstock in half vertically, scoring in half at 5 1/2″ and adding an extra score line at 4 1/4″. That’s the line that makes this a book fold card. Before adhering that book fold together you can choose to wrap some ribbon around the inside to tie on the front or punch two holes in that side book fold for some ribbon and a bow.

The card base for this card is Real Red. I adhered a 1″ x 4″ strip of the Cherry Cobbler color in the Festive Glimmer Paper. Even though it is not Real Red, I think it looks fine on the card. Before glueing the book fold, I wrapped around a very long piece of Gold Twisted Thread twice and then tied a bow. After having the book fold how I wanted it I glued it together with Multipurpose Liquid Glue or you could use Stampin’ Seal.

The front of the card is decorated with a piece of the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper. It is cut at 4″ x 4″. You could make it smaller and add a layer underneath if you wanted. This designer paper has gold foil marbled designs on it which is what makes it extra-special and fancy to use on Valentines and other special cards.

To decorate the card, I diecut three hearts with pierced designs with the die in the Hearts of Elegance Dies. These hearts are Gold Foil, Real Red, and Petal Pink. Before I decided on these three hearts, I used some of the other heart dies to cut out extra hearts and the ones I didn’t use I just saved in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set case. As long as you are diecutting, go ahead and make some extras of general things, like hearts, that you can use any time!

Here’s a tip for diecutting gold foil without leaving marks on the foil from your very used cutting pad! Place the dies on the cardstock you are cutting, then place a scrap piece of computer printer paper over the whole piece of gold foil. Run it through the Cut & Emboss Machine and the paper will protect the gold foil from looking scratched up!

For the greeting I stamped the “Love You” sentiment on Basic White cardstock in Real Red ink, but I chose to cut out around the word “Love” and also trim the word “you” just into a rectangle. It’s plenty easy to trim around a word or phrase like this for a different look to your sentiment just by taking your time, cutting outside the inked lines for the word and don’t go into every nook and cranny of the stamped word! Just use Paper Snips or some other sharp small scissors that allow you to twist and turn the paper to reach the areas you want to cut.

Everything is glued down flat, but you could pop up the sentiment or one or more hearts if you wanted to. For some extra embellishment, I added three Petal Pink dots in the Low Profile Dots. These are great because they do not stick up on the card barely at all so they won’t poke holes in the envelope when you mail the card! On the inside, put a layer of Basic White, maybe trimmed with a piece of the designer paper or a stamped or diecut heart so you can stamp a message or write a personal note inside the card. Then mail your Valentine or special card to someone who will be happy to hear from you!

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Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card

Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card

With the Christmas holidays and children home for two weeks altogether, coming and going, I haven’t had time to play with my new pre-order products for the upcoming Spring Mini Catalog on January 7th! I almost don’t remember what I ordered, but I will catch up! One thing I noticed I had was this new ephemera pack so this was something great to use to make this Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card.

I got out the Celebrate Love Mix & Match Ephemera Pack and checked out what the coordinating colors were on the back of the pack. Pretty in Pink was one of the several colors so I started with that as a layer on a Basic White card base.

You see three precut heart images from the ephemera pack on my card, but that actually is just one in the pack. You can leave it that way or you can punch the pieces apart and use all or one or two of the hearts. There are also greetings in the pack. I loved the precut long flower image but wasn’t quite sure how to use it on my card. It took me a couple of minutes to somehow lay out the three individual hearts the way I did and then I felt like I was on my way to making a card I would like.

The long, curved flower stem was still a problem, but don’t be afraid to cut it apart as I did! That gave me two stems of flowers that were a size that fit my card better. I liked the way they looked just placed along the sides of the two hearts. I popped them up on Stampin’ Dimensionals when I was ready to adhere them to the card.

The third heart in the lower right of the card looked best placed over one of the colored hearts in the ephemera pack. These are sized just right for this purpose if you want some color underneath the white diecut heart. That heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals also.

It was easy to choose a greeting for the card and this one was in the Celebrate Love Ephemera Pack. I just adhered it flat on the card. You know I had to try out some of the new embellishments coming in the new mini catalog! I used the Pretty In Pink dots in the Party Dots package. They are fairly flat so good for mailing.

It still seemed like the card needed “something” so I used the Pretty In PInk Stampin’ Blend marker to add some very small dots on the white hearts. I was hoping this wouldn’t ruin the card, but I did like it. Not one to leave well enough alone, I wondered what some tiny little hearts scattered around in the background would look like, even if I ruined the card, I took the brush end of the Stampin’ Blend and made little hearts. If you push down a little on the brush tip and then lift up as you pull down a tiny bit you will make one side of a heart. Do it again on the other side and you’ll have a cute little heart!

That’s my Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card that I made a little more involved than I first intended! It still was easy and would certainly be easy for you to copy! You can make this card with just the ephemera pack and none of the extra things I added to this card…except, of course, maybe the Party Dots! It’s just too fun to add some dots, gems, jewels, sequins, or whatever to a card for a little bling!

Get ready because the new January-April 2025 Mini Catalog is going live on Tuesday, January 7th, along with Sale-A-Bration! Try to order at least $60 so you can get a free product from the SAB brochure!

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Citrus Blooms Best Kind of Person Card

Citrus Blooms Best Kind of Person Card

This Citrus Blooms Best Kind of Person Card is my first card using the Mediterranean Blooms Suite that I got recently. You’ll find it in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on pages 34-35. The designer paper in the Suite is what sold me, but the whole collection of products is beautiful. If you like these citrus images and tile designs, you will love this group of products!

Luckily, a Bundle Sale is coming Wednesday, June 5th, saving you an extra 10% over the Bundle price of 10% off normally for the stamp set and dies together. If you would like to purchase the Citrus Blooms Bundle June 5-30 is the time to get it! And if you don’t already own the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine or the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, these will be on sale 10% off also! Check out all the Bundles and make your shopping list!

To make this card, I started with an idea from a sample in the Annual Catalog. I did change the background paper and the greeting. When you start off with a brand new stamp set or Suite it’s often easier to copy an idea in the catalog. You’ll often start coming up with your own ideas for making it a little different as you copy the sample. That’s what the samples are there for in the catalog, to give us ideas of how to use the stamp sets!

The card base is Night of Navy. The Mediterranean Blooms Designer Series Paper has beautiful designs of fruits and tile designs. I chose a different tile design paper than the sample in the catalog and diecut it with the large outline die in the Citrus Blooms Dies. The oranges are stamped from the Citrus Blooms Stamp Set on Basic White Cardstock and then colored in with Stampin’ Blends Markers. You can use whatever colors and combinations of colors you like. You can combine two different colors, not just Light and Dark of one color. Just play and enjoy! After coloring, I diecut the oranges with the matching die. After adhering the designer paper to the card base, I adhered the oranges and leaves to the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is in the stamp set. I stamped it in Night of Navy Ink on Basic White, then diecut with the smallest rectangle die in the Nested Essentials Dies. Since I didn’t have much room on the card, I didn’t want to add a layer under the greeting, so I just used a Night of Navy Stampin’ Blend marker and ran it around the edge of the diecut greeting. I adhered a piece of Peach Pie 3/8″ Bordered Ribbon under the greeting. I ran some Stampin’ Seal Adhesive on the back of the ribbon. Then I popped up the greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals over the ribbon. For a finishing touch (and because I just wanted to use them!) I added three of the Opal Rounds in Night of Navy. These come in three colors, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, and Clear in two different sizes.

On the inside of the card, since the Night of Navy cardstock is dark, I added a layer of Basic White Cardstock for stamping or writing a greeting or message and adhered a narrow strip of the same tile design I used on the front of the card at the bottom of the card insert. That really adds something when you stamp something or add some designer paper to the inside of the card!

I think anybody will be able to make beautiful and striking cards using even just the Mediterranean Blooms Designer Series Paper and even more using the Citrus Blooms Bundle. Remember, the Bundle will go on sale June 5th for the whole month of June!

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Bee Mine Bees Valentine Card

Bee Mine Bees Valentine Card Jan

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!

If you are looking for one last card idea for Valentine’s Day, here is a card I got from my very dear friend! She always makes beautiful cards! I called this the Bee Mine Bees Valentine Card! It is made with the Bee Mine Designer Series Paper. I didn’t think I was into bees, but as soon as I started working with this paper it was just so cute! I loved cutting out the medium-sized bees on one of the papers and using them for embellishments! And the paper is not just for Valentine’s Day. The patterns will mix and match and not all of them have hearts. But hearts are for any time so don’t be afraid to use the cute bees with hearts!

This card uses several of the products in the Bee Mine Suite Collection in the Spring Mini Catalog. If you want to use just one item number for ordering all the products in the Suite, you will get the Bundle price on the stamp set and punch. Otherwise, just order the products individually that you want and/or the Bee Mine Bundle. Remember to think in terms of spending increments of $50 so you can earn FREE Sale-A-Bration products until February 29th!

This card uses the Petal Pink honeycomb pattern for the card front and then two other papers layered on diagonals. The Sweet Sorbet paper with the squiggly bee flight lines is layered on Basic White and the paper with the little bees is layered on Basic Black. The large heart on the front has a greeting embossed in white from the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set. That’s such a cute saying I think! There is one of the cute little flower embellishments in the Suite, the Adhesive-Backed Hearts & Flowers, on the heart. Wrapped around the bee paper and under the popped-up heart is the Sweet Sorbet 1/4″ Bordered Ribbon. And of course, we have a cute Valentine bee, stamped and then cut out with the Bee Builder Punch which cuts out the bee body and the wings which could also be hearts plus a little bitty heart, which could also be little bitty wings. It’s really a more versatile punch than it looks like!

Are you doing something special for Valentine’s Day today?

Bee My Valentine Hearts Valentine Card

Country Bouquet Hearts Valentine Card

Are you making Valentines? Here is a fun one, the Country Bouquet Hearts Valentine Card, with lots of stamped hearts! Sometimes I like to just stamp randomly all over the card. It just feels good and the simplicity is nice!

For this card, I used the solid heart in the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set in the Spring Mini Catalog. I started by stamping three Sweet Sorbet hearts. Then I just chose several other colors and mostly stamped three hearts of each color. You can use whatever color theme you like! I think I used Fresh Freesia, Balmy Blue, Highland Heather, Daffodil Delight, Soft Sea Foam, and Calypso Coral. I crammed them in there! Be sure to turn the stamp or paper so they are all going in slightly different directions. Not to be one to know when to stop, I also added some really small hearts stamped in Melon Mambo ink.

Before adhering the hearts card front, I wrapped around a piece of Silver & White 1/2″ Sheer Ribbon down the side. After adhering the front layer to the Sweet Sorbet card base, I tied a bow around that piece of ribbon. I liked this ribbon because you could still see through it to see the colored hearts.

For the greeting, I chose “With Love” in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set. I wanted to stamp it on the heart punched out of the Country Bouquet Punch but it was too long so I had to stamp each word by carefully inking up only one word at a time. It was risky but I did it! I could have done it a more careful way but I took a chance! I popped up the stamped heart over a diecut rectangle in the Timeless Arrangements Dies. Then I scattered around some Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels.

Have fun making some Valentines!

Valentine Stamping and Watercoloring

Country Bouquet Watercolored Valentine

I seem to be getting a lot of watercoloring accounts popping up on my social media and some of them look so fun and simple! I don’t own a set of watercolor paints, but I knew I could use our Stampin’ Up! ink and the Stampin’ Up! Water Painters. I saw a card design a little bit like this card but made with cardstock hearts in kind of an ombre effect. I got the idea to use the Country Bouquet Stamp Set in the Annual Catalog for stamping hearts and then I watercolored them!

This Valentine only uses Real Red ink! The card base is Real Red. The hearts are stamped with Stazon black ink on Stampin’ Up! watercolor paper, Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper (149612). You need to use Stazon ink since it is waterproof. You don’t want any ink to smear when you apply the watercolor. Basic White cardstock doesn’t stand up well to water so watercolor paper is a lot better. If you still have some Shimmery White cardstock that unfortunately is retired now, it works fairly well with water.

To make this card, stamp hearts on the watercolor paper. If you already have some ink in the lid of the Real Red ink pad, you can start with that. Squeeze water out of the Water Painter to make a very light color with the ink. I had a scrap piece of watercolor paper that I tested my colors on. When you feel you have the shade you want, color in the top three hearts. Then add a little bit more reinker to the lid (don’t let all the water get onto your ink pad!), stir it up with the Water Painter, perhaps adding more water. When you get a medium shade with the ink and water, fill in the next row of hearts. For the last row of hearts, add more reinker and see what shade you have or add more water if it is way too dark. You want three different shades of colored hearts just using Real Red reinkers and water. See my photo below of what I was using.

Valentine Watercoloring

Either let the watercolor paper dry or hit it with your Heat Tool for a short time. It doesn’t take very long at all to dry with the Heat Tool. Then you can adhere it to the card base of Real Red. I used a LOT of Stampin’ Seal+ since the watercolor paper is heavier and possibly warped a little bit. I wanted to be sure it was going to hold on the card.

I tried to figure out what to do for a greeting and in the end stamped “For You” randomly in the empty spaces on the card. Not one to leave well enough alone, I also added some Pastel Adhesive-Backed Sequins in Petal Pink scattered on the front of the card.

On the inside of the card, I added a Basic White layer and stamped both greetings “Just wanted to say” and “Happy Valentine’s Day in Real Red ink.

IMPORTANT: Before you just close up that ink pad, take a paper towel and dab out all that water. You don’t want that all soaking into your ink pad and it would probably make a mess anyway just closing the lid!

This was a fun way to do something a little different but still use Stampin’ Up! products. Sometimes we may forget how versatile many of our products are, the reinkers being one of them. Try a little watercoloring with your reinkers and Water Painters or whatever small brush you have. If you don’t have the Stazon ink, I’d suggest just paint the hearts and omit the stamping. Make all the hearts different colors if you like. Just play!

February is here so this is the last month for Sale-A-Bration. It’s a good time to pick up a few things at Stampin’ Up!, thinking of reaching that $50 level or $100 level or more to choose a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure and the newly released products on this flyer.

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Bee Mine Book Fold Valentine Card

Bee Mine Book Fold Valentine Card

February is coming soon so it’s time to get those Valentines ready to send and give! This is one of those fun book fold cards but the fold is at the top instead of on the side. Try this Bee Mine Book Fold Valentine Card for a fun card Valentine to send to someone!

This book fold card starts with a card base of Sweet Sorbet. The card base is cut at 11″ x 4 1/4″, then scored at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″. The 5 1/2″ score line is the center fold of the card. The 4 1/4″ score line makes the “binding” on the top of the card. Glue that area to the card base so that only the 4 1/4″ portion of the card opens. Once you have the book fold card base made, you can decorate the card for Valentine’s Day or for any occasion you need.

I used the Bee Mine Designer Series Paper in the Spring Mini Catalog. It is part of a big collection of products, the Bee Mine Suite Collection. You can purchase all of it or just some of it. The Bee Mine DSP is cute and is not exclusively for Valentine’s Day but you can use it for Valentine’s Day! Even if you exclude the obvious hearts papers, there are still plenty of patterns you can use for any occasion!

To decorate the card, I adhered a strip of 1″ x 4″ to the top book fold area. I chose the pattern with the little bees flying around. For the larger front of the card, I adhered a tiny heart pattern cut at 4″ x 4″. The three little white circles are die-cut from the Deckled Circles Dies. I cut out the larger bees with hearts on one pattern of paper and adhered each to one of the white circles. I glued them flat to the card but you could pop up the circle and bee or just the bee. For the greeting, I stamped one from the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set in Sweet Sorbet ink. There wasn’t one good place to put a greeting so I just made three and placed them around on the card.

I really like the Sweet Sorbet Ribbon that comes in the Suite, but to go with the black on the bees and for something different, I added a bow at the top with the Black & White 1/4″ Gingham Ribbon.

On the inside of the card, I added a 4″ x 4″ piece of Basic White and cut out another bee to put in the corner.

Here is another card I made in the book fold style with the fold on the side of the card and also using the Bee Mine Designer Series Paper.

Remember that Sale-A-Bration is still going on and will continue through January. With every $50 purchase, you may choose one FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. There are some great choices from stamp sets, to paper, to embellishments. And what’s better than getting stamping products FREE?!

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Bee Mine Z-Fold Valentine’s Day Card

Bee Mine Z-Fold Valentine's Day Card

I already had this Petal Pink cardstock made into a Z-Fold card base in my package of paper so I started with that. I must have gotten that far one day and then changed my mind about the card! But this day, it was perfect! This Bee Mine Z-Fold Valentine’s Day Card is one of those cards that I was pleased about how it all came together!

Let’s start with the basics. A Z-Fold card starts as a regular card base, but the front of the card is scored down the middle and folded back on itself! You don’t even need to score the front of the card, just fold the right side back even with the fold on the left side of the card. If you do want to score the cardstock, score the 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ paper at 2 1/8″ and 4 1/4″. Fold in half, then fold the 2 1/8″ score line back to the fold.

For this card, I used the very cute Bee Mine Designer Series Paper. I wasn’t so much into bees when the Spring Mini Catalog came out, but the paper has won me over! It just makes me happy to work with it! For the front Z-Fold panel, I used this super-cute red pattern with little white flowers. On the inside, I used the pattern with the Daffodil Delight plaid lines.

The greeting is in the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set and is stamped in Memento Black ink on Basic White. It is diecut with a rectangular shape in the Nested Essentials Dies and then layered on a larger Daffodil Delight layer. When you adhere the greeting to that Z-Fold make sure you are only putting glue on the correct half and not the whole area so that the card will still open!

Since I put designer paper on the inside of the card (or if you have a dark-colored cardstock, you may need a lighter piece to stamp or write a greeting on the inside of the card. I die-cut a piece of Basic White to match the Daffodil Delight diecut piece and made sure it was placed directly behind the greeting on the front of the card. Put the card face down, and lay the inside diecut piece face down along the backside of that greeting. Apply glue, then fold the back of the card over so that it adheres exactly in the right place. When the card is closed, you don’t want the inside greeting itself or the diecut piece showing from the front if possible.

To embellish the card, I cut out bees from the designer series paper and adhered those to the front and inside of the card. I also used the Bee Builder Punch to punch out some Sweet Sorbet hearts to use, also.

Try this Z-fold card if you haven’t already. Here’s another example of a fun Z-Fold card. I think it is an easy way to make a card seem extra special!

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Bee Mine Z-Fold Valentine's Day Card Inside

Layered Stripes Wonderful Card

Layered Stripes Wonderful Card

Like my card from yesterday, I will ask if this Layered Stripes Wonderful Card is a Valentine or just a “regular” card. What do you think? I think it could be either one! It’s Real Red so it certainly could be for Valentine’s Day! The greeting could be for Valentine’s Day OR just a nice greeting to send to someone any day!

This card is stamped with the large background stamp in the Spring Mini Catalog called Layered Stripes. You’ll find it on page 28. I forget what compelled me to buy this stamp because I think I would normally skip over it. And now I finally got around to playing with it! I used my Stamparatus to stamp it to get a solid image. If I needed to stamp it more than once, I could do that since the Stamparatus holds it in exactly the same place. The stamp is actually larger than a layer you would use on a card. You could have the background stamp stamp-side up, apply ink, and then lay the piece you want stamped on top of it carefully. Or you can stamp the image on a larger piece of paper and then trim it down to the size you want it.

My card base is Real Red and I added a layer of Basic White to help the stamped stripes stand out a little bit more against the white instead of the red card base. The greeting is from the Celebrating You Stamp Set and then diecut with one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies. I also cut out the next larger rectangle in Real Red so have a layer. I still had to play around with it on the card to see how the greeting was going to look the best because obviously the background of the card is pretty bold.

Finally I settled on using the Real Red layer behind the greeting but I adhered it over a piece of White 3/4″ Frayed Ribbon. (You can choose this ribbon (2 spools!) FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase of Stampin’ Up! products.) The greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also added a small bow of Real Red Ribbon in the Real Red & Burlap Ribbon Combo Pack. And for a little sparkle, I added three small Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels. I love these things! They go with just about anything and always add a nice touch to your project.

I think there are other fun techniques to use on a stamp like this Layered Stripes background stamp, like applying different colors to the stripes for one. It will be fun to experiment with I’m sure!

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Country Floral Lane Heart Punch Card

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 Candy Bars

Country Floral Lane Valentine Candy Bars

These Country Floral Lane Valentine Candy Bars are a very old project I have been making all of my stamping years! It is so easy and so fun! You can use any size of candy bars and decorate for any occasion, as simple or as fancy as you like!

I got these “regulation size” chocolate bars in a 6-pack at the grocery store. You could use the very small snack-size bars or you could use the giant-size candy bars. The brand, size, and type doesn’t matter either with a project like this. You only need to be able to wrap some paper around the candy bar or even a bag of candy.

My measurements don’t really matter to you because it all depends on the size of YOUR candy bars. But if you want a starting measurement, for my candy bars I wrapped around a 5 1/2″ x 6″ piece of cardstock, then a piece of designer paper, about 4 1/4″ x 6″ on one and 3 1/2″ x 6″ on the other. Six inches provides a fairly wide overlap for the back so you could make that a little shorter if you needed to save paper.

On the pink candy bar, I first stamped some flowers in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set using Versamark ink on the Petal Pink cardstock just for a little interest on the top and bottom. Then I wrapped around a piece of the Country Floral Lane Designer Paper. I suggest just lightly wrapping it around and not scoring it according to any measurements. Each candy bar and wrapper may be different, there is some thickness to it, and you don’t want the wrap to be too tight that you can’t pull out the candy bar or too loose. After I wrapped the cardstock around the candy bar, I held it in place as tightly as I wanted it and actually ran my Bone Folder along the sides which gave a pretty nice crease.

To decorate the pink candy bar, I used the Country Bouquet Punch to punch out the two hearts and leaves directly from the Country Lane Floral Designer Paper. As I write this, this punch is not available and will not be until April. If you want to use that design on the paper, just cut out the hearts and leaves by hand. I used the Real Red & Burlap Ribbon Combo Pack to wrap around the length of the candy bar with the Burlap Ribbon, then tied at the top with the Real Red Ribbon. This gives the recipient a “handle” to pull out the candy bar.

The Sweet Sorbet candy bar is wrapped with Sweet Sorbet cardstock and then a layer of the Country Gingham 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is cute and so versatile to use on many projects. At this moment it says, “Low Inventory” so if you want it, order it right away!

To decorate this candy bar, I stamped three hearts with the Country Bouquet Stamp Set and punched out with the Country Bouquet Punch, Again, if you don’t have it, just cut out the hearts by hand. I also added two greetings from the same stamp set plus the little hearts stamped inside one of the hearts. That center heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I used the Black & White Gingham Ribbon to wrap around and pull out the candy bar.

As I said, this is a fun project! Even children can do it! If you want to see the small, Snack Size candy bars decorated, here is a Halloween example.

If you need any supplies for any projects, remember Sale-A-Bration is still going on during February and just the other day Stampin’ Up! added more choices of products that you can earn with a $50 or more purchase. Check out all the choices HERE.

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