You still have a little bit more time to make some Valentines, maybe like this Valentine Card Just For You. It’s really funny how cards come together sometimes. You may have an idea of exactly what you want to make and you make it  You may be copying an idea you saw and you make that. Or you make something and it’s not quite right but with a little tweaking, you get it right to your satisfaction. And sometimes maybe you don’t have an exact design in mind but you start with some paper, add some embellishments and a greeting and it turns out great.

This card started out with just wanting to use the heart patterned paper in the All My Love Designer Series Paper.  The card base is Lovely Lipstick Cardstock with a Whisper White layer and then the heart paper.  On my table, in a pile of extra die cut pieces that I didn’t end up using, I found this large heart cut out with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies out of the Lovely Lipstick Foil.  I cut it out to use on another card but couldn’t make it work.  So I tried it on this card and I like it!

For the greeting, I used the stamp in the Meant To Be set.  I die cut that with a square in the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies.  It is layered on a larger square in the same set cut out of the Lovely Lipstick Foil.  (That foil is just so gorgeous you would be amazed to see it in person!)  Then this square greeting is layered over the large heart.  I think it works!  What do you think?

For one more touch, I found the little swirly die cut piece out of Lovely Lipstick Cardstock with the die in the Be Mine Dies. It seemed to fit perfectly under the greeting.

Make a Valentine for someone. It might be too late to mail, unless the person would rather get a card late than no card! Or make one for your family or a neighbor or friend  Just have fun for Valentine’s Day making cards!

I have to admit, this So Hoppy Together Stamp Set has been a lot cuter than I would have thought when I first saw it in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure!  Frogs, okay.  But once I started stamping with it myself and seeing lots of fun samples online, I quickly came to love it! You can even use it to make a valentine like this So Hoppy Together Frog Valentine Card.

My first idea was for the frog to be holding a very big heart, but then I saw that his hands (feet?) were pretty far apart and the tip of the heart was going to come down over his face!  So I found this small heart that seemed like the right size for one hand!  I always enjoy coloring these frogs with the Stampin’ Blends markers!  If you don’t have any yet, you might want to order a few and try them out.  I find it so relaxing to color with these markers!

And then I felt like some watercoloring was in order!  Since I had used Shimmery White Cardstock, I was able to do a little watercoloring on the paper.  Regular Whisper White might not hold up as well to the water.  We do sell Watercolor Paper, which is the best, but Shimmery White works well, too.  I used my Aqua Painter to pick up just a little bit of ink from the lids of ink pads and just swiped across the card front.  Then I stamped the greeting over the watercoloring (when it was dry).  The greeting is from the Meant To Be Stamp Set.

I couldn’t resist adding a few little Gold Foil hearts die cut from the hearts die in the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies.  I love that die with the group of hearts!  You can use all the little hearts of various sizes that come out of the die cut…..OR you can use the piece with the hearts out of it.  Either way is great.

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Here is another of my frog cards!  You just can’t help but love the stamp sets that Stampin’ Up! designs!  So if you already have the So Hoppy Together Stamp Set, make a valentine with it like my So Hoppy Together Frog Valentine Card.  And after Valentine’s Day, use the frogs for other fun cards!  Just have fun with your stamping!

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This All My Love Hearts Valentine Card came about mostly from scraps on my kitchen table!  At first, I couldn’t come up with any decent design so I just walked away for a while.  Then I looked online for some inspiration and found a card with the print heart that I used on this card, which I already had cut out in the pile on my table. Suddenly it all came together, but really it’s just a simple card.

The card base is Lovely Lipstick Cardstock.  The print heart is from the All My Love Designer Serie Paper, die cut with the narrower heart from the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies.  When you use this die to cut out a heart, it cuts out the inside heart and then you can poke out the narrow border heart from the die.  I almost forget it is in there!  In this case, I just used the opposite side of the paper for the heart outline.

The gold grouping of little hearts is another die in the same Be Mine Stitched Dies. It was just on my table but didn’t quite fit across the card……so I cut it in half and the heart covers it so it doesn’t have to stretch all the way across.!  You can do that with a lot of things!

Next, the card needed a greeting somewhere, somehow.  I decided to just stamp right on the card with this greeting which fit perfectly.  I wanted to put Happy Valentine’s Day but that didn’t fit right so I stamped that on the inside of the card!  I used the Stamparatus to stamp the greeting on the front of the card so I wouldn’t mess it up since I already had the heart and gold foil adhered to the layer.

Since the inside of the card would be the Lovely Lipstick Cardstock, I added a layer of Whisper White so I could stamp a greeting, which, as I said, turned out to be “Happy Valentine’s Day.  Since there were some little heart stamps in the set, I stamped a few in the corner.  Then I took a wild and crazy chance and stamped two on the front of the card.  I think that finished it off nicely and I didn’t need to add anything else.  Know when to stop!  Sometimes I don’t!

Are you going to be busy making Valentines this weekend?  It is time to make them and send them!  You can either make one design and make several of the same card in assembly-line fashion or have fun making all different designs.  Just don’t make them too complicated or you won’t get as many finished!  Do you have any doctor or hair appointments this week?  Make some Valentine treats to take to the office staff!  They really appreciate that.

You could also stand at your Big Shot and die cut a bunch of pieces at one time out of different papers and cardstock, then go back to your craft table and see what you can come up with!  Either way, have fun making some Valentines like this All My Love Hearts Valentine Card.

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Here are Two Easy Small Square Valentines to show you how you can use both sides of the beautiful designer paper and make some smaller, simpler Valentines that are still lovely! Often when we start cutting up our designer paper, which we hate to do in the first place (heaven forbid that we USE those beautiful 12″ x 12″ sheets of paper!), we hate that we are not using the opposite side!  We pick the side we want to show on our card or project, but then we hate that the other side is hidden because we like that side, too! So here I have made a Valentine with the side of one pattern of designer paper and another Valentine showing the other side of the same paper

Both cards are 8″ x 4″, folded in half so that the card base is 4″ x 4″.  Lots of times I make these cards 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ so choose whatever you like.  I used Whisper White Cardstock for the card base and the All My Love Designer Series Paper.

The card on the left with the flowery pattern of designer paper has the Whisper White card base, then a layer of Flirty Flamingo Cardstock since that is a coordinating color of the designer paper, and then the designer paper.  Before adhering, I added a piece of Whisper White 1/8″ Sheer Ribbon and tied a separate cheater bow which I then adhered over the ribbon. Use Mini Glue Dots or a tiny drop of Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

For the heart, I stamped a greeting from the Meant To Be Stamp Set on a piece of Flirty Flamingo and then die cut with a heart in the Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies.  With this die, the heart comes out plain but there is also a heart frame die cut with the stitching.  Just remember to poke it out of the die!  If you die cut another heart in a different color, like I did with Whisper White, you can use the other color for a frame around your heart!

On to the next Valentine with the other side of the flowery All My Love Designer Paper.  The complement of this paper is Lovely Lipstick Cardstock which I used for the layer on the Whisper White Cardstock.  This time I stamped the greeting on a piece of Whisper White, die cut the heart, then die cut the fancy heart in Lovely Lipstick. The fancy heart is then layered over the white heart. I stamped a small greeting since it is a small space in the center of that fancy heart.  For a finishing touch I added a bow in the Lovely Lipstick 1/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon at the top of the heart.

There you have two very easy Valentines to make and you got to enjoy using both sides of one sheet of designer paper! If you have a lot of valentines to make, you might like using a smaller size to save on paper and using a simple layout design.

The All My Love Designer Series Paper is not just for Valentine’s Day so be sure to order it to use all year.  The same is true with the Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies.  Hearts are for lots of things!  I always miss then when Stampin’ Up! somehow takes them out of the catalog! But these are here now so don’t miss them!  Save 10% on the Bundle containing the Meant to Be Stamp Set and the Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies.  Then have some fun making some Easy Small Square Valentines.

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Make an Easy Valentine Card With Hearts with the beautiful All My Love Designer Series Paper!  Although this designer paper looks like it is for Valentine’s Day, it really is just flowers so you can use it long after Valentine’s Day.  It’s only the hearts I added from the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies that turn it into a Valentine. And really, even the hearts don’t force it to be a Valentine, it could be a wedding or anniversary card or just a card to say “I love you!”. We just think of it being a Valentine since it is almost Valentine’s Day.

One of the coordinating colors for this package of paper is Flirty Flamingo.  I don’t think I often use that paper, but it looks perfect with this print.  I stamped one heart with Flirty Flamingo Ink with the heart in the Meant to Be Stamp Set and die cut it with the heart shape.  Then I cut a larger heart and a smaller heart to help make the white heart stand out on the printed paper. That stitching adds just a little bit of something that adds to this card.  I added the ribbon on the side before adhering the DSP layer to the card base.  I simply tied three pieces of ribbon in knots rather than fool with a bow, but you could do a bow.

For just a little something extra, I added some Heart Epoxy Droplets. These are neat little things because they can be used as is or they can be colored with Stampin’ Blends or a Sharpie.

This is an easy little card to make.  If you don’t have heart dies, just cut out some hearts with a scissors like when we were kids!  You can add some embellishments, maybe sequins rhinestones, other jewels, or every teeny hearts scattered around.  Just play and see what you come up with.  I had no idea what card I was going to make when I got out the paper!

Read this blog post HERE to see another card made with die cut hearts.

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Use the “Valentine” paper for other cards and occasions as well, like this Easy Just For You Card that could be for a birthday, thinking of you, or any kind of friendly card!  This All My Love Designer Series Paper in the Occasions Catalog has hearts on the opposite side of the flowered pattern, but on this side, the card can be for anything.  The bottom strip of neutral paper has flowers on the other side.  It’s great when we have “holiday” paper that can also be used for other occasions in case we don’t use it all up for the holiday!

The greeting comes from the Meant to Be Stamp Set which also has Valentine’s and “love” sentiments, but “Just For You” can be for non-holiday use!  Who wouldn’t like to receive a card that was meant for them?!  Remember, when you use these new sticky Cling Stamps to be careful taking them off the block.  Make sure you are under the cling label before you peel it off the block or you might rip the foam.  It is not difficult, you will get into the habit of doing it just like everything else.

For a simple embellishment behind the layered greeting, I used a piece of the  Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon.  It is just tacked down with a little adhesive and the greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.  Very simple.

Remember, sometimes the easy designs are the best!  You could embellish this card a little bit more if you wanted to, but it is just fine as it is.  I like using the two pieces of designer paper on the card. Sometimes just in mixing and matching the patterns, you can come up with other card ideas.  You could also have just one piece of designer paper and let the cardstock show. Add a greeting and maybe some ribbon or a little bling. That’s all.

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