One Last Valentine's Day Gift

Just popping in for a quick post to share Brandy's Valentine's creations.  She made these cute gift bags for co-workers on Friday.  Whipped them up in no time flat Thursday evening.  The red glitter paper was cut using her Spellbinders Heart Circles die and the heart cut out of silver glitter paper using a simple heart die.

These are the mini-kraft bags found at craft stores like Hobby Lobby.  The tissue bought at Hobby Lobby as well.  Simple candy to fill and she had a lovely small gift for her co-workers.

Simple, right?

Happy Valentine's Day!

I had responsibilities last night to bring a snack to my Bible study group.  I decided that making a few of these simple, tiny treats would be a nice, seasonally appropriate snack.  These little matchbox type packages worked out well.













Here's the details:

• I cut strips 3 in. x 9 in. and scored at 3 in., 4 in. and 7 in.  Folding those around you create the matchbox shape with the 2 in. flap facing front.  
• The frame was cut using my Lacy Ovals die and edged in Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  
• The sentiment was printed using a free clip art.  I cut the ovals with my ancient Creative Memories oval cutter and inked with a combination of Worn Lipstick and Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  
• The flowers were cut with coordinating patterned paper and pink vellum paper.  I can't decide which I like better?  I used both my Posy dies and my Vintage Floret dies.  I used the smallest two dies in both cases.  After shaping, I used a paper center for the posy flowers and a pearl accent for the floret.  

•  On the inside was a packet of pink, white and red M & Ms.  I used my tried and true wax paper packet technique I picked up from Jordan at Oh Happy Day.  The second link provides the instructions for making the wax paper bags. I stapled these to the 3 x 3 flap so that they would seal and be hidden by the frame.

• I glued the frame to the 2 x 3 in. flap using my ATG and then did the same to the inside of the flap to hold the tiny package together. 

I'm really pleased with how they turned out.  Just a little Valentine's fun.

I couldn't forget the kids and Dan, though.  As a sort of last minute thrown together card, I made a series of these Doctor Who themed valentines.  I followed a link over at notMartha (one of my favorite blogs!) to this Etsy store and quickly purchased and downloaded the card fronts.  A little editing and I could make these simple cards for the kids.  Tim, my son, got the weeping angel, daughter Katie is cool and husband Dan received this Tardis card.  I really would travel through space and time for him!!

On the inside, I used some of my leftover sentiments.  The kids received money to go out to dinner together tonight as Dan and I will be going out for a casual date night.  Dan has suggested a family ice cream for dessert when we get home (it won't be a late one with both of us putting in a full week at work!  Old foogies, yes?!). 

Happy Valentine's Day to you all!

Valentine's Day Craftiness

So, I got a bug in my backside the week before Valentine's.  I'm looking at my huge Scrapbox filled with crafting supplies and I said to myself, "Self, you could make a whole Valentine'sy thing without spending a dime".  I had seen a similar design while trolling through the internet.  I didn't even put a pin in it (I've tried Pinterest, have you?) or bookmark the page, so I can't give credit where it is due.

Neither which way, I first went shopping in my Scrapbox, coming out with a pile of red and pink cardstock and three matching patterned papers.  First I made rectangular boxes using the instructions I've found here.  I ended up, after a few tries, making my box out of a piece of paper that is approximately 5 x 7.  You can play with the sizes of the score lines and make your box size unique to you.  The folded back edge around my box is approximately 1/4 in.  The surrounding "box" is just a 3 1/2 in. x 9 in strip of paper.  I scored the paper at the correct intervals to give my treat box room to slide easily.  The far side overlaps approximately 1/2 down and was adhered with Glue Lines.

 

The Happy Valentine's Day is a free clip art piece that I printed on white cardstock and cut using my paper trimmer.













The flag detail was cut using Accent Essentials on my Cricut.  I nudged together two rectangles that I resized as indicated in the picture to the left.   I selected Weld to make the two rectangles cut as one piece, thus creating my flag.  The Flag was stamped using some flourishes from a Recollections set and my Coffee Archival Ink.  The white, glitter brad comes from a Queen and Co. set so old it really needs to be used up.
 

Finally, the hearts were cut using my Cricut and the Lovestruck cart.  I cut all kinds of hearts out of the patterned paper and the solid cardstock scraps at 3/4, 1, and 1 1/4 inches.  I then simply sewed them together to make these lovely 3D effect pieces for the top of my mailbox.

I created nine of these bad boys for my co-workers, filled them with chocolate and left them as a holiday message on their desks.  I truly meant to get these up to the blog sooner, but said job is consuming and time is valuable.  I'm currently designing my Easter cards (I'm going to give it a try this year) and am finding my creative juices flowing a little slowly.  I've my idea, but translating that to a piece of paper is taking some trial and error- read: Time.  Hopefully, I'll have something else crafty to share with you before then.

Andie

Valentine's Day Treats

I am much delayed in posting my Valentine's Day wishes.  Maybe in part because my hubby's Valentine, though homemade, was scrap-lifted from the recent issue of Paper Crafts magazine.  The look and sentiment was just right.

The wordsearch was made with an online tool.  I added other words- my name, our kids names (Tim and Katie), joy, happiness, etc.  It just worked out that Dan's name was featured in the bottom corner.  Perfect place to add the simple swirl as a highlight.  I thought that the card was sufficiently 'manly' but still with a touch of Andie craftiness thrown in. Dan said he liked it.  I think he meant it.












So as not to leave anyone out, I made these Valentine's treats for the folks at work.

The idea came from a link posted on notmartha.   The adorable homemade flowers demonstrated by Jordan at Oh Happy Day were too cute/easy to pass up.  The link provides the instructions for making the flowers and the wax paper bags.  The wax paper envelopes went together in a snap, the sentiment was printed from the computer on white cardstock.  A couple of trims of paper, slide a paper flower pin in it and we're done.  Everyone was particularly festive at work this Valentine's Day.  Maybe the extra chocolate had something to do with it.  I hope you enjoyed your Valentine's Day (belated though this wish is).

Andie

Happy Valentine's Day

Brandy made this adorable little treat for her co-workers for Valentine's Day.

We both wish you a very Happy Valentine's Day!

Brandy and Andie