Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and thought I’d share the steps in making a yummy little treat bag to give out to your favorite Valentines! 
I recently came up with this little treat bag and just loved how it turned out, so I decided to make up several like it to give out to family this Valentine’s Day.
Since I was making several, I decided to dig into some of my immense papercrafting stash and use up some beautiful papers & other crafty items I’ve had around for a while.
I started by cutting out my topper base layers:
- 3” squares of red patterned paper
- 2 1/2” squares of a coordinating patterned paper
(My patterned papers were older ones from Calambour’s Love Letter & Persia Collections)
I scored and folded them, then inked the edges of all with:
- Fired Brick Distress Ink by Tim Holtz
I then adhered the layers.
As I said, I’m making a number of these! 
I printed out my sentiments in dark red on white cardstock using:
- Pupcat font
I trimmed them, then inked them with:
- Mustard Seed Distress Ink by Tim Holtz
- Fired Brick Distress Ink by Tim Holtz
- Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink by Tim Holtz
Next, I cut the center strips:
- 2 1/2” x 1/2” textured patterned paper
I inked the edges with red, then attached 3 brads to each:
- 1/8” antique copper brads
I punched out several hearts from patterned papers of yellow and red, and inked their edges red.
- Double-heart punch by EK Success
I adhered the yellow hearts atop the red hearts (or vice versa), slightly offset.
I adhered all pieces to the toppers, using pop foam squares for the sentiment pieces.
I filled my treat bags with candies, then attached the toppers to the bags with staples at each end of the middle paper strip.
- 3” square mini poly zip bags
- Metallic orange staples
And here it is!
For special gift-giving, I cut out a heart tag from white cardstock using mini pinking scissors, punched a tiny heart in the corner, and inked the edges.
I placed the treat bags inside these cellophane Valentine bags, attached the tag with a twisty, and there we go! A fun treat for someone special on Valentine’s!
I’d love to hear if you make up any of these Valentine treat bags, so be sure to come back and leave me a note!
:: IN OTHER NEWS ::
Have you heard? I am excited that the folks over at COLOURlovers are opening a new site, Creative Market, as a marvelous new resource for “handcrafted, mousemade design.” If you join now, before launch, you get a $5 voucher to spend at the site! Join here: Creative Market
Blessings to you!
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