Valentine's Cards

Hi everyone!  I wanted to show you some super quick Valentine's Day cards that Piper and I made using some Pretty Little Studio products.  When I became a Mom, I knew I wanted to start some fun holiday traditions.  One of the traditions I really wanted to do was handmade Valentines for close family and friends.  And even though Piper is too young to notice or even participate, I decided to start this year.

I chose a super simple design for our Valentines, so I could quickly and easily replicate it.  We made cards for grandparents, aunts & uncles and her teachers at day care.

We started by tracing Piper's hand.  I knew I wanted to incorporate something cute and signature Piper in the cards, and I realized her hand would be perfect.  In full disclosure, I tried to do her hand prints with paint, but that was a TOTAL DISASTER, so I settled for tracing it :)

I had pre-cut and typed out the sentiments on the card, so I just glued down the hands, topped them with a cut-out sentiment and added a quick border.  I thought the beautiful With all my Heart collection was absolutely perfect for these cards.  Finally, I popped in a cute photo of her and we are also giving her teachers some chocolates and Starbucks gift cards.

I'm in love with how these came out...and I know I'm going to love seeing how small her hand was when I look back in a few years :)

Bella Blvd Valentines

Hello!  Happy Friday!!

All this week on the Bella Blvd blog, the design team has been sharing Valentine's Day projects - they like to force us out of comfort zone and have us create something besides layouts and cards!

For my project, I decided to create a cute little group of envelopes with twine enclosures.  They are the perfect size for holding cards and small treats.  They were so much fun to  make and decorate!

I even got to break out my old-school Crop-A-Dile!!

I kept the embellishing on the front fairly simple, but I think that ended up working out okay.

I really hope my people will enjoy getting these!

Doilies: SpiegelMom Scraps, Eyelets: Crop-A-Dile; Twine: My Mind's Eye; Paperclips: Doodlebug Design; Mist: Heidi Swapp; Everything Else: Bella Blvd

My Valentine

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!  E & I don't really celebrate Valentine's Day, but I do love to make some lovey-dovey layouts, so Valentine's themed paper products are right up my alley!  Recently, I am loving Pretty Little Studio's fun, new collection.  A lot of their new paper and embellishments are in the Clique Kits store right now, so as soon as I got my hands on the goodness, I made this layout:

A few things:

-The wood veneer "meese" are my favorite things...ever

-Love the aqua/pink/red color combo - it never fails

-The pretty heart vellum rocks

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P.S.- My Valentine is best Valentine ;-)

Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper, Stickers, Vellum, Die Cuts: Pretty Little Studio; Sequins, Wood Veneers, Hearts: Clique Kits; Clothespins: American Crafts

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!!

As I mentioned on Sunday, E & I do not really celebrate Valentine's Day, but I still think it's kind of a fun, cute holiday. And while we will not go out to a fancy dinner or buy each other gifts (we did gifts one year, but it wasn't really our thing), I still decided to make him something special. E actually really likes my scrapbooking hobby, so I decided to make a layout just for him:

I hope you all enjoy today...if you're like me, you will celberate by eating chocolate and gummy hearts...yum! :o)

Layout: Patterned paper: Crate Paper; Chipboard frames, tab: American Crafts; badge: Evalicious; Doily: Target; Tickets: Tim Holtz; Alphas: October Afternoon; Phrase sticker: Cosmo Cricket; Mist: Studio Calico; Flowers: Petaloo; Border sticker: Sassafras

Happy V-day!

Good morning, all! Happy Valentine's Day. This isn't really a day that I get into too much, but I decided to make a quick layout to celebrate the day anyways...here is a layout of my valentine and I:

Thanks for stopping by...have a wonderful candy-filled, cupcake-filled day!

Fun with paint and ribbon scraps

Hey, all! So I decided to scraplift myself again! I created this layout a few months ago, but just never got around to posting it. It is based off of an old layout...I love the chance to use up as many ribbon scraps as possible...considering that I have TONS of ribbon lying around. You can see the post about my original layout here.

(new layout - a scraplift!)

(original layout)

The new layout was all about the elements of Valentine's Day...which is why it's a little strange that I'm posting it so far after the actual holiday. Oh well :)

Thanks for looking...have a happy work week!

Making Valentines

Hello, all...I've been busy making Valentines...so much fun...holidays that encourage craftiness are always fun!

I decided to try a new technique: masking. I've seen a bunch of layouts using this technique recently, so I decided to jump on board....especially with my new found love of glimmer mist. To achieve the masking look on my valentine, I just laid down some chipboard shapes that I had lying around and then sprayed glimmer mist. Once the glimmer mist had dried, I picked the chipboard up, and wa-la. It's a fun and easy technique...and I think I'm going to use it more often!

Return of the lovebirds...

Hey, all! Some of you may remember my lovebird Christmas ornaments from a few months ago. Well, I have resurrected the lovebirds just in time for Valentine's Day. I decided to make some cute cards using them. I ransacked my scrap bin to make these cards. Everything here was made from scraps. I consider it a small victory when I can use as many scraps as possible :-)

If you need the template again, here it is:

To see my original post about the lovebirds and where the idea first came from click here.