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Bee Mine Book Fold Valentine Card

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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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Country Floral Lane Hearts Valentine Card

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Country Floral Lane Hearts Valentine Card

It’s less than a month until Valentine’s Day so I guess it is time to get busy making some cards! This Country Floral Lane Hearts Valentine Card is pretty easy to make! As usual, it turned out a little different than my original idea!

This card is made with products in the Country Floral Lane Suite. The card base is Sweet Sorbet, one of the coordinating colors in the designer papers in the Suite. The little strip of hearts on the left side of the card is a pattern in the Country Floral Lane 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. I adhered it to the Basic White cardstock but didn’t adhere it to the card base until I added the ribbon first.

For the hearts, I intended to stamp different colors of hearts but then I grabbed the Country Bouquet Punch and punched out the bottom row of hearts and leaves on the designer paper. I decided not to use the leaves that punched out from the paper, just the hearts. The top and bottom hearts are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the middle one is adhered flat on the card front.

I did do some stamping with the pair of little hearts in Sweet Sorbet ink. After attaching the White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon to the card and tying on a bow, I adhered the card front to the card base. At first, I wasn’t sure how a greeting was going to fit on this card, but I stamped the “Happy Valentine’s Day” greeting in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set on an already die-cut banner from the Stylish Shapes Dies. It just fit! I adhered it with Stampin’ Dimensionals across the middle of the card. Then, yes, I had to add three Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels for a little sparkle!

There you have it, my first Valentine card of the year! It’s time to get started!

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Country Bouquet For You Card

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Country Bouquet For You Card

Once again, the Stampin’ Up! catalog was the inspiration for this card. I noticed a sample on page 8 in the new Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini that is really a candy bar treat holder, but I made this Country Bouquet For You Card instead of a treat holder.

This card uses the two kinds of designer paper in the Country Floral Lane Suite plus the Country Bouquet Bundle. If you want it “all”, as they say, just order the Suite Collection (160390)! That saves you from entering all the product numbers!

The card base is Sweet Sorbet with a layer of the paper with tiny white hearts in the Country Floral Lane Designer Paper. Then I added a smaller layer of the Sweet Sorbet gingham pattern in the Country Gingham 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. It is 2 7/8″ x 4 1/8″. To help it stand out a bit, I adhered that gingham paper to a layer of Basic White that is 3″ x 4 1/4″.

The heart and leaves in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set are stamped with Sweet Sorbet and Mint Macaron inks then punched with the new Country Bouquet Punch. You can purchase the stamp set and the punch in a Bundle and save 10%. You can swipe some green ink on a scrap of Basic White and then cut out a stem or just cut it out of cardstock. The heart and leaves are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The stem is adhered flat on the card.

The plain Basic White heart is just punched out and then stamped with a greeting in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set. This card could be a Valentine or it could just be an all-occasion card to send a happy greeting to a friend or loved one.

You can keep this card simple as is, or add some jewel embellishments of some kind or more hearts or whatever you like!

This Country Floral Lane can definitely be for Valentine’s Day but it can easily be for any cards. Check out this card I made on the first day of the Spring Mini.

Buy the Suite and add a little more and get TWO $50 Level free products during Sale-A-Bration or choose a special $100 Level free product! You will be all set for making valentines to send! Maybe instead of making a card like this Country Bouquet For You Card try making a treat holder like the sample in the catalog!

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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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