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Sweet Little Boxes For Valentine’s Day

Sweet Little Boxes For Valentine's Day

Be sure to not overlook these cute boxes in the Spring Mini Catalog that I used on this Sweet Little Boxes For Valentine’s Day. These boxes are great because they are food safe and come scored and even have adhesive strips on the sides of the box! All you have to do is fold on the score lines, pull the paper strip off the adhesive (like Tear & Tape), and adhere the sides of the box. Just one end opens. Then decorate!! They store flat, of course, until you need them.

Sweet Little Boxes Flat

It would be great to keep a stash of these boxes on hand because they can be decorated for any occasion. Just add some candy treats, tea bags, small tags or cards, a small gift, whatever fits! Right now we are thinking of Valentine’s Day treats but these could be for Halloween or birthdays or Easter!

On this box, I just wrapped around a piece of designer paper, the cute Sweet Talk Designer Series Paper. First I just wrapped the paper around and creased it with my fingers on each edge of the box. Then I took it off and folded it on those creased lines making sure the paper stayed straight. You could also score it with your Paper Trimmer but I didn’t find that necessary. You just don’t want to measure first and then score without wrapping around the box or it might turn out to be too tight of a fit. My paper was cut at 3 3/8″ x 7″. That wrapped around with enough margin to place Stampin’ Seal Adhesive on the overlapping edge.

You could use any of the pretty patterns in the Sweet Talk Designer Paper. I chose this one with the lines of little hearts. I die cut the tag shape in the Sweet Hearts Dies from Basic White cardstock. I wanted it to show up a little better, so I adhered the Basic White tag onto Real Red cardstock and simply cut around with Paper Snips following the shape. It doesn’t have to be perfect!

From another sheet of the Sweet Talk paper with the candy prints, I cut out the heart-shaped lollipop and a couple of the small candies. I wouldn’t do this if I was making multiples of the box! It would be a little too tedious! But I loved the candy sheet of paper and wanted to use it as decorations on my box! I glued those flat onto the tag and then popped the tag up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I tied a small red bow with the Real Red Faux Linen Ribbon and adhered that to the top of the tag with Mini Glue Dots.

You could just add a heart and a greeting to make a simple decoration. There are so many ways to decorate these boxes and it is so easy to do! Order several packs and keep them on hand whether you are making Sweet Little Boxes For Valentine’s Day or other occasions!

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Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box For Valentine’s Day

Mini Curvy Keepsakes Candy Box For Valentine's Day

Don’t forget about the cute little boxes you can make easily for some Valentine candy, even at the last minute! Any cardstock or designer paper you have will work, but for Valentine’s Day you might want to use some fancy designer paper!

This cute little box is made with the Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Dies. You just need a piece of 6″ x 6″ paper for the box. Then you can also die-cut a little heart in the same set to tie onto the box. Just cut the paper, fold on the score lines, then assemble. Push down on the two handle pieces and fold over the two slit pieces to hold the box together. Be sure to put your treat in first!

I used the pretty Love You Always Specialty Designer Series Paper with the foil accents. The die-cut heart is Rococo Rose Cardstock. I tied it on with the Whisper White 5/8″ Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon. That’s all there is to it! You could use this little box for Valentine candy or maybe a little table decoration or party favor. You can get very creative with this Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box and make all kinds of creations.

This little Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box For Valentine’s Day matches the card I made with the Love You Always Specialty Paper here in this post! Make a matching set!

Valentine's Day Collage

Die-cut Hearts For a Valentine

Die-cut Hearts For a Valentine

It’s time for making, sending, giving Valentines like this Die-cut Hearts For a Valentine card. I am so happy about this background designer paper on this card! This year we do not have a whole package of “Valentine” paper to use so I looked to see what I could maybe use. You can use this card for other times, not just Valentine’s Day.

Other years at Stampin’ Up! we have maybe had “Valentine” paper that had assorted hearts or a lot of red and white patterns. It wouldn’t HAVE to be for Valentine’s Day but it suggested it. So I looked through my packages of current designer paper and I found this red and white plaid paper in the Sale-A-Bration Berry Delightful Designer Series Paper in the Berry Blessings Bundle! It’s on the opposite side of a beautiful, soft-colored strawberry images. I wouldn’t have even thought to tell you this was a pattern in this package of designer paper, but when I found it, was thrilled to use it on my valentine card! It’s just a different look!

The coordinating color is Poppy Parade so I used that cardstock as a card base with this plaid paper as a layer. I stamped the center heart with Poppy Parade Ink from the Lots of Heart Stamp Set in the Spring Mini. It is just stamped on Basic White and then die cut with one of the Many Hearts Dies. If you want both the stamp set and dies, then get the Lots of Heart Bundle and save 10%! I also die-cut the “fancy” heart from the Many Hearts Dies and layered them. Then the hearts are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting, in the same stamp set, is stamped in Poppy Parade Ink and punched with the Lovely Labels Pick A Punch. I just adhered it flat on the card so I could add an embellishment that would not stick up too high for mailing. I wanted to use the Resin Hearts Embellishments, but the colors were white (which wouldn’t show up very well) or red (which might be okay but the rest of the card is Poppy Parade). I decided to try coloring the white hearts Poppy Parade with the Poppy Parade Dark Stampin’ Blends. It worked! I went over it a couple of times and around the sides a little bit. So the next time you want something to be a different color, try coloring with Stampin’ Blends!

Overall, this was an easy card to make for Valentine’s Day because it has hearts or any time because the greeting isn’t just for Valentine’s Day! Hearts can be for any time, also! And I do love the little Resin Hearts!

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Valentine’s Day Chocolate Candy Holders

Valentine's Day Chocolate Candy Holders

These Valentine’s Day Chocolate Candy Holders have been around a long time and I probably make them every year! I’ll link to some other ones I have made a little later. Once you have the pattern and the idea, you can run wild with decorating them for any occasion! Maybe party favors, or a little favor at a dinner party (when we can have dinner parties again!), or a stocking stuffer at Christmas, or a treat in an Easter basket! Whatever you want to make!

These Valentine’s Day Chocolate Candy Holders are just a strip of cardstock wide enough to hold your candy, with a slit inside to hold the candy if that works or space to place the candy and maybe secure with a tiny bit of adhesive. The cardstock is scored so that it will fold but have space for the chocolate. Put some adhesive on the inside of the bottom of the strip with the punched slit, and adhere. Then decorate the front and tie a ribbon around to secure.

Here are the particulars, if you are interested, for these projects.

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 at the bottom of the strip 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's Day Chocolate Candy Holder Inside

The pink holder on the left is made with Blushing Bride Cardstock with a piece of the Love You Always Specialty Paper (2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″) adhered to the front of the candy holder. Then I simply layered two die-cut hearts popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals so I could tie a ribbon (the Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon) around to hold it closed. There are some other patterns more like a matchbook where you just slide the top into the little fold-up pocket at the bottom. But even then, you might like a ribbon to hold it all together.

The red candy holder on the right is made the same way. It has a piece of Basic White Cardstock on top, decorated with a stamped and die-cut heart from the Lots of Heart Stamp Set and Many Hearts Dies. (Get both in the Lots of Heart Bundle and save 10%!). The greeting is also in that stamp set and is punched out with the Classic Label Punch that you used on the inside for the slit to hold the candy. The heart is popped up on Dimensionals, again, to allow room for the ribbon to wrap around the candy holder.

If you would like more ideas, here are a couple of candy holders I made last year. These are so much fun to make, I know you will enjoy this project! They are perfect, of course, for Valentine’s Day, with a nice piece of chocolate on the inside! Try your hand at my Valentine’s Day Chocolate Candy Holders because they are quick and easy to make when the holiday is getting close!

Lots of Heart Happy Valentine’s Day Card

Lots of Heart Happy Valentine's Day Card

It’s time to make some Valentines and this Lots of Heart Happy Valentine’s Day Card is an easy, traditional one to make! I like Valentines made with other colors, but what says Happy Valentine’s Day better than Real Red?!

The card base is Real Red. I think Stampin’ Up!’s best color is Real Red. There are other “reds” out there in the world but when you compare to Real Red, which is a full, true, “real” red color, you can’t beat Stampin’ Up!

For the Basic White layer, (formerly Whisper White) before I even knew exactly what card I was going to make, I just stamped randomly with the little flowers in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set in Real Red Ink. Certainly don’t put this stamp set away after Valentine’s Day because it’s not just for Valentines! I’m already thinking what a pretty spring card I could make with this little flower stamp!

Coordinating with the Lots of Heart Stamp Set are the Many Hearts Dies. You can purchase both these items in the Lots of Heart Bundle. I just love this scalloped heart die-cut! I cut that out of Real Red and layered with a plain white die-cut heart. I thought about different ideas, but in the end, I just wanted to stamp “Happy Valentine’s Day” on the heart. I found that greeting in my Meant To Be Stamp Set in the Annual Catalog on page 69. You may already have this stamp set! (There are dies to go with this stamp set, too, which you may already have!)

The scalloped heart is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. For a little bit of bling, I decided to see if the Resin Hearts Embellishments would work. They are very small and I thought that was perfect for this card! Just a little something without being too much around the greeting. I doubt they would show up very well on the background.

So there you have a basic, traditional, easy-to-make Valentine card! We better get busy if we want to have Valentines to mail soon! Have fun making something like this Lots of Heart Happy Valentine’s Day Card.

True Love Many Hearts Valentines and Cards

True Love Many Hearts Valentines and Cards

These True Love Many Hearts Valentines and Cards were really going to be two identical cards. I often have suggested while you are making one card, make two, three or four of the same card while you have decided on the design and have all your supplies out. So after I cut my cardstock in half to make a card, I thought why not go ahead and use the other half right now to make two cards. And I was going to make both cards the same!

After looking through the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog for ideas, I took my inspiration from the small square card on page 10 with the polka dot paper. Our Stampin’ Up! catalogs are great places for ideas, by the way! My two cards don’t resemble the actual sample in the catalog, but the sample gave me the idea of how I wanted to proceed.

The card base is Blushing Bride and the polka dot paper is in the black and white True Love Designer Series Paper. (As I write this, this paper has been backordered but should be back in stock this week.) This True Love paper has really been interesting because you can use it as is or color it like a coloring book (maybe not the whole 12″ x 12″ page!), or just add shades of color to some of the images without really staying in the lines. Here is another card I made with a stripe pattern in this package.

I used the Many Hearts Dies for these cards to die cut the large scalloped heart out of Blushing Bride cardstock and a plain heart out of white cardstock. I wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to do the greeting or what I was going to do with the white heart, but what I really wanted to do for sure was use the silver Heart Charms. I was thinking in terms of having one dangling on the card from the top of the heart.

I decided to stamp a greeting on the heart and then also stamp the little flower in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set. With one swipe of my finger across the greeting moments later, I smeared the ink so for sure I had to go to Plan B. I stamped the greeting on a strip of Blushing Bride and adhered it over the smeary greeting!

The ribbon at the top of the heart is the Blushing Bride 3/8″ Metallic Ribbon. (As I write this, this ribbon is backordered until March!) It doesn’t photograph too well but it has one sparkling side and one satin side. I tried slipping the heart charm onto the ribbon while I was tying it but I couldn’t get it how I wanted it and I didn’t want to take a lot of time to figure it out! I just adhered the bow to the top of the heart with Mini Glue Dots and adhered the heart charm separately.

When adhering the Heart Charms you can roll up a Mini Glue Dot very small to fit on the very narrow backside of the charm and even then work with it to make it fit. I put them on two places on this heart charm. The scalloped heart is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

As I said, I started off planning to make the two cards identical, but on the second one, I changed it up! My white heart was already die cut but I took a chance and stamped it with Blushing Bride using the Lots of Heart Stamp Set. I got it a little off, that’s why you see a white edge, especially on the left side, but that just proves it is handmade! You can get this stamp set and the Many Hearts Dies together in the Lots of Heart Bundle and save 10% (plus be on your way to spending $50 and earning a FREE Sale-A-Bration product!) (And, it’s not backordered as I write this!!)

I turned the card to a vertical position and put a greeting at the bottom. This time I tied a little piece of white twine around the heart charm and placed it around the Silver 3/8″ Metallic Edge Ribbon already tied in a bow and adhered both to the top of the heart with Mini Glue Dots. I like the way it just hangs, not even perfectly.

I really liked the black and white polka dot paper with the pink of the Blushing Bride Cardstock. While it is now February and you might want to make cards like these for Valentine’s Day, I think you could send both of these cards with the exact same design any time during the year. They don’t “scream” Valentine! They could be for a birthday, a thank you, a thinking of you-type of card. Use the catalogs for inspiration and if your creativity takes you elsewhere after you get started, like it did me with these True Love Many Hearts Valentines and Cards, just go with it!

From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips

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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