Papercraft Project: Valentine Treat Bag

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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Hi-Ho Trigger!

Today I am trying something new. I’m playing along with the Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World’s blog! I really enjoyed the challenge of creating a card based simply on the inspiration of this week’s Trigger, which looks like this:

Here is how I was inspired by the original compared to how I applied the concept in my version:

yellow : yellow

doily : doily

color block : ribbon

vase with flowers : flowerpot with topiary

one-word sentiment : one-word sentiment (with lightened sentiment added)

sunshine : flower

Now for the supplies, breakout photos and simplified instructions …

Bloom Card

Supplies: White cardstock; Patterned paper from Remake Earth Browns Mat Pad by K & Company; Antique Linen Distress Ink from Tim Holtz by Ranger; White doilie; Stickers from Marjolein Bastin’s Nature’s Sketchbook by Stickeroni (Hallmark); Green twill ribbon; Cream flower from Boutique Fleur by Recollections

Make card from white cardstock; ink edges.

Cut patterned paper; ink & distress edges. Adhere.

Trim & ink doily; adhere.

Attach ribbon & flower.

Mat stickers with patterned paper. Distress & adhere.

And here is a lovely card ready to share:

:: IN OTHER NEWS ::

I totally have to give a shout out to the Lily Pad blog today -– if for no other reason, I must simply because I love frogs, and they have a marvelous little froggy fellow on their blog, Frederick DuPonde! lol! But, I also want to send you all over there to enter in their drawing for a fantastic package of stamps! I became a Member of Lily Pad Cards today! Go become a member for a chance to win a collection of Hero Arts stamps. Contest closes at 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, July 15!

Blessings to you!

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create.inspire :: patriot birthday card

My love of papercrafting is life-long, and recently I’ve been re-bitten by the glue and scissors bug. No doubt my Scrapbox has had a little something to do with it – being able to have my entire stash of supplies all tidy and organized has made it so much more enjoyable to create! This {masculine} patriot birthday card was something I created this week for one of my brothers who served in the Marines before becoming a doctor, and today I’m sharing the steps needed to make it - with photos, too! I hope to bring you these step-by-step projects on a regular basis, and will be listing them under “create.inspire” here on my blog! Since I am a notorious horder of craft supplies, some of my stash includes retired or discontinued products, but you can always substitute a little of what you have in your own stash!

:: CRAFTINESS :: create.inspire ::

Supplies

Cardstock: brown; Patterned Paper: Uncle Sam's Britches & Firecracker Banner by Rusty Pickle; Specialty Paper: Vellum; Ribbon: 1/4" Steel Twill by Jo-Ann Craft Essentials; Dye Ink: Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Tim Holtz from Ranger; Fasteners: Copper mini circle brads by Recollections; Rubber Stamps: Harley Davidson Alphabet by EK Success; Punch: Folk Star by Paper Shapers from EK Success; Other: adhesive, emery board, Zip Dry glue, deckle shears, vellum tape, dauber, pop dots, hole punch

Make card from cardstock.

Cut blue patterned paper, 5 1/2" x 4 1/2".

Cut pennant paper, 5 1/2" x 3 1/8".

Cut two 5 1/2" pieces of ribbon.

Punch 3 stars.

Ink & distress papers & stars. Set stars aside.

Adhere papers to card. {Notice the distress inks under my nails? lol!}

Attach brads.

Stamp sentiment on vellum and cut out with deckle shears; ink edges. Rub & lightly smudge ink with a soft tissue.

Mat sentiment with vellum. Ink & distress edges; adhere with vellum tape.

Attach stars with pop dots.

Ink edges of ribbon and card. Ink around sentiment.

Voila! A lovely, patriotic birthday card suitable for even your most masculine recipients!

Blessings to you!

`·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· Cari `·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.·