Fun Ideas for Valentines – and special savings!

On the heels of yesterday’s Valentine Treat Bag tutorial, I thought I’d share a few fabulous goodies from Lettering Delights for other Valentine projects! I just can’t get over how many adorable items they have! I also want to be sure you know about the special they are running: save 20% on $20 purchase with code: InLove!

I just love good old-fashioned “conversation hearts” candies, so these items really caught my eye! So much yumminess!

And then these cuter than cute “Love Bites” sets! If I had little ones at home still, I  would just have to send some of these to school with them! And the one that says “It’s not a CROC, I love you” – can’t you just see attaching that to a fun pair of CROCS for your favorite valentine??

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Blessings to you!

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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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Prepping Valentines + a Lettering Delights Sale

These little Valentine treat bags are one of my favorite projects that I came up with last year, and I am busily making a whole batch of them to give to various family members, especially nieces and nephews! As I was working on this batch, I decided to take some photos of the various steps, and I will be back here in a few days with a fun tutorial on making them!

Meanwhile, I want to be sure you all know that Lettering Delights has decided to extend their wonderful Dollar Days sale an extra day, through Friday night at midnight MST. They have over 3,000 items priced from $1 - $4 each—saving you 50-80% on fonts, alphabets, graphics, clipart, papers, cut its and SVGs. And there are *so* many adorable products, too! Just look at these adorable Mahalo products I came across (search: Mahalo or Hawaii):

And here are a few more adorable ideas (search: “bottle”):

And I found these by searching “valentine” from the search box! Too cute!

Ooooh, just so much adorableness at Lettering Delights – I can never get too much of them!

Have a wonderful weekend, and oh yes, *enjoy* this Friday the 13th! woohoo!

Blessings to you!

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