Thanks a Bunch

Hi Everyone!

Have you ever spent Valentine's Day in a preschool classroom?  Picture 18 children with 18 valentines each to deliver.  YIKES! 

We used tissue boxes to create mailboxes.  The children decorated their mailboxes with doilies, heart shaped buttons, valentine mini muffin wrappers, silk flower petals, punched out hearts, pompoms, foam heart stickers, and more.  We made them on Tuesday so they would be dry by Thursday.  (Preschoolers LOVE to use a lot of glue!)

We asked each parent to have their child sign the back of 18 valentines and put them in blank envelopes.  That way each child could deliver a valentine to each mailbox without having to read or match a name. 

Sounds easy enough and for most children it truly was an easy task.  But for others...well, they needed a little help.  Happily, one of the parents offered to help the children deliver their cards.  She stayed and helped until each and every valentine was in a mailbox. 

I gave her a hug and thanked her for the help.  When I got home I realized how truly grateful I was for her help and decided to make her a thank you card.

I used my Memento markers to color directly on a Hero Arts Newspaper Tulip wooden stamp.  Then I used a Tim Holtz mini mister to spritz the stamp.  I pressed the stamp onto some white tag.  The result as you can see is a watercolor look. 

The text was created with a Lockhart sentiment stamp. 

Have a wonderful day!
Carol

Happy Valentine's Day

Good Morning Everyone!

This is my second post for today.  Just wanted to say...

Saw this on Pinterest and had to make them for some of my co-workers.

Made from a package of Rolo candy and a Hershey's kiss!  How cute is that!

Have a Happy Valentine's Day!
Carol

Birthday cards

Hi Everyone!

I am excited.  After months of ignoring my papercrafting I am doing a much better job of finding and making the time to create each day.  For years now I have had a stash of cards, gift bags, and gift tags sitting here for me to grab whenever I needed a hostess gift, birthday gift, etc.  I have completely wiped out that stash and am trying to build it up again. 

Birthday cards.  I always need a birthday card for someone.  I grabbed a 12" x 12" piece of Momenta birthday paper and cut it into six 4" x 5.25" pieces.  First I created this card.

The paper pieced cupcake was created with a cling stamp from Hero Arts.  The frosting is adhered to the card with foam tape.  The sentiment was created with a Lockhart stamp.  There are Glossy Accents on the largest heart.

I picked up multiple packages of birthday sticker buttons at Marshalls one day and put them in my birthday theme box.  I used some of them on my cards along with some accent pieces from October Afternoon. 

 

As you can see the cards are similar in format, but I finally realized something like that doesn't matter.  It's not as if one friend is going to call another and discover they have received similar cards from me!

 

Still have 2 more cards to make with the paper I cut, but that's for another day.

 

Enjoy your day!

Carol

 



Valentine Cards 2013

Hi Everyone!

I have a couple of valentines to share with you today. 

I found the flowers and ribbon in my stash and thought they'd make a nice card.  That "love you a bunch" stamp is one of my favorites. 

 

 

I made this card for a friend of mine whose baby is celebrating her first Valentine's Day. I paper pieced the onesie and added some alphabet beads to use as buttons to spell out Amelia's name.  Inside the card I stamped a Lawn Fawn bunny along with the sentiments "Some bunny loves you" and "Happy First Valentine's Day". 

 

That's it for today.  Tomorrow I will share some birthday cards with you.

 

Have a wonderful day!

Carol

 

 



Valentines 2013

Hi Everyone!

Well, I have been achieving the goal that I set for myself.  I want to create something papercrafted each day and I have done that for the past 4 days.   Today I have more valentines to share with you.

This valentine is going to be for Marie.  I used the PaperTrey Ink friendship jar stamp to create the jar.  I fussy cut the jar and the lid.  I used foam tape to adhere the lid to the jar.  The text was created with a Lockhart stamp.  The foam hearts are stickers that were in my stash. 

I created this card for one of my friends.  The conversation hearts were created with some Hero Arts clear stamps.  I added some Glossy Accents to them. 

 

I used a mini set of clear stamps from Lawn Fawn to create this card.  I used foam tape to attach the fussy cut bee to the card. 



I hope that at least some of my cards are inspiring you to create some valentines of your own.

Have a great day!
Carol

Valentine Decor

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to create something "valentine" to hang on my wall.  Here's what I made!

I am thrilled with the way it turned out and it was so easy to make.  I used my heart paper punches to punch 9 scalloped and 9 plain hearts.  I paper pierced the scalloped hearts to make them look lacy. 

I started out with a 12" x 12" sheet of rose tag.  I made a 1/2" score along all 4 sides to help me center the 11" x 11" sheet of pink tag on top of the rose tag. 

Then I made a 1/2" score on all 4 sides of the pink tag to help me center the 10" x 10" sheet of heart patterned paper. 

Next I made a 1.5" score on all 4 sides of the heart patterned paper to help me center the 7" sheet of rose tag. 

I made another 1/2 " score on all 4 sides of the rose tag to help me center the 6" x 6" sheet of pink tag. 

Before I added the pink tag to my creation I scored it at every 2 inches going across and down.  I ran some white baby ric rac through my Xyron X machine to make it sticky and then adhered it to the scored lines I had made.  I added a scallop heart to each of the squares I had created and then adhered a plain heart on top of each scalloped heart. 

That was it.  I was done.  I love the soft colors and how easy it was to create this wall decor.  I am thinking of creating something similar for Easter this year.

Have a great day!
Carol

More Valentines 2013

Hi Everyone!

I have had such a productive papercrafting weekend. I finished 20 valentines for my family and some of my friends. I also created 18 cards for my preschoolers at school. I simply added some doilies, paper punched hearts from my stash and tiny Martha Stewart bows to some premade pink and blue A2 cards.


Meanwhile, as promised I have more valentines to share with you today.

I found puffy hearts in the dollar section of JoAnn Fabrics last year. I picked up a couple of packages of them and added them to my stash. I die cut some clouds, paper pierced them and adhered them to the layering paper. I paper punched a few red hearts to use on the kite's tail and added a strip of Washi tape to the bottom of the card. The text was created with a stamp from Savvy Stamps.

A blog post from Kristina Werner was the inspiration for this card. I used a variety of my heart paper punches to cut out the hearts. The sentiment was stamped with a Stampendous wooden stamp.

 

 

 

My sister, Jeanne, bought a new vacuum cleaner the other day. When I was organizing my stamps I came across a set from Paper Smooches that has a vacuum cleaner in it so I decided to use it on a valentine for her. You cannot tell from the picture but I paper pieced the vacuum's motor and bag and added them to the layering paper with foam tape. I am not especially comfortable with the white space between the text and the hearts that are sprinkled near the vacuum cleaner, but cannot figure out what to add to the card. Any suggestions? (Bummer. I just realized if I had one of the sofa or chair stamps that I am always admiring I could fit that into the picture!)

That's it for today!

Carol