Hey, Valentine

For the past two years, I've stamped for my daughter Valentine theme items so that she can let her two boys give out at daycare.  This year she found some kind of popcorn called Booty Popcorn, so she wanted a pirate theme, here is what is I made.

I made 26 of these for her to attach to the package.  I used SU Blends and in no time at all, had them done...you all know how I like to color!

Also made the three teacher cards too!

For the teachers cards I used: SU new Meant To Be along with the Framelits, Be Mine

For this card I also used the same two items and CASEd Amy Koenders card

The above two cards were for my daughters, one love pink. one loves purple and I used SU Bike Ride and a retired SAB set called Pedal Pusher, for the hearts in the baskets.

This last one I made for the grandsons and I used the new dog punch and Happy Tails stamp set from SU.  My daughter loves this one because the spotted dog reminded her of the dog that they loss last year due to a brain tumor.

Thanks for stopping in!  Mary

Sunshine Wishes Valentine

When I saw this card in my in box for my e-mails, I knew I would be CASE'ing this simple but pretty card that Mary Fish shared!

Here is what I used:

Stamp set: Sunshine Sayings

Card stock: Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry and Pink Pirouette

Inks: Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso, Pink Pirouette and Regal Rose-retired

Candy Dots-retired

Very simple but pretty card!  Mary

Sheltering Tree Valentine

Here is finally of the three cards for Wesley's daycare teachers.

For this card I used:

Stamp set: Sheltering Tree and Bloomin' Love

Card stock: Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Blushing Bride

Inks: Blushing Bride and Crumb Cake

DSP-retired

Heart punches-retired

Next I will show you the Valentine cards that I made to send to my daughters.

Mary

Beautiful Bouquet

Here is the second of the three Valentine cards that I made.  I believe I was inspired by a fellow demonstrator, who posted her's on the FB group I belong to for demonstrators, I searched but couldn't find her name.

For this card I used:

Stamp set: Beautiful Bouquet and Bloomin' Love

Framelits: Bouquet Bunch

Card stock: Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Real Red

Ink: Always Artichoke and Crumb Cake

DSP-retired

Varies Heart punches-retired

I really like how this one came out, I think the teacher will too!

Thanks....Mary

Bloomin' Love Valentine

My oldest daughter requested Valentine cards for Wesley's three daycare teachers.  I always try to make each card different so each teacher has her own special card!

Here is what I used:

Stamp set: Bloomin' Love and Thoughtful Banners

Punch: Duet Banner

Card stock: Thick Whisper White, Whisper White and Pink Pirouette

Ink: Pink Pirouette

Bloomin' Love Thinlit

Sweetheart Embossing folder

Basic Pearls

Wink of Stella on the flowers

Thank you for coming by....Mary

Valentine's Late

While going through my blog today I noticed that I forgot to share this Valentine card with you.  You can easily change the heart and sentiment to anything you want.  In fact, this is a CASE from the Occcasions catalog on page 4, in the lower left hand corner.

So sorry it's late.  Things have been busy around here, again.  My father was in the hospital last weekend, so I was busy tending to him.  He had the flu and is now doing much better and back in his own room again.

I used Real Red and Whisper White card stock, Gold Glimmer paper, Gold Sequins, Black Memento ink and Real Red ink and the Happy Hearts embossing folder.

I hope you all are enjoying this beautiful weather we are having!!  Mary

Love Notes and Sealed with Love Valentine

Good Monday afternoon!  Man oh man, I tried to make this post yesterday but for some reason the picture would not load to my computer!  So I updated the operating system on my iMAC, still nothing, after much Googling I found out that the photo editing program I use has "retired".  I think I found a way to still get the pictures on my computer, not I just need to remember how I did it!!

This is the last of my Valentine cards for this year, now on to birthday cards.  Here is one that, well, didn't start out the way I wanted to, but I think it turned out fine.

Here is what I used:

Card stock: Thick Whisper White

Stamp set: Sealed with Love

Ink: Real Red

Framelits: Love Notes and Stitched Circle

Red Glimmer paper

I probably should have held the card closed so that you could view the right edge better, oh well, next time, right?!

I hope you have a lovely Valentine day on Tuesday.  See you soon!  Mary

Sealed with Love

Oops, forgot to post his card for today, so better late than not.

I made this one to send to my aunt in Omaha, she likes it when I send her my cards!!

I wanted to make a pink one instead of a red card.  It turned out so soft and pretty.

Card stock: Thick Whisper White

Stamp set: Sealed with Love 

Framelits: Love Notes, Stitched Circle

Ink: Blushing Bride

Blushing Bride Glimmer paper

Silver Foil

Thick White Bakers Twine

I have one more card to share on Monday, see you than.  Mary

Baby Bear Valentine Card

Well I'm on track to get my Valentine cards done this week, then onto some birthday cards for my two aunts and one uncle.

My daughter asked for a Valentine card for a friend of her's that she became pen pals with when she was still in grade school.  Her sweet pen pal is old enough to be her Grandmother!  Their special connection is there fascination with the Titanic!  They lost touch for about 15 years but have recently been writing to each other again!

This is the card that I made for her to send.

Here is what I stamped on the inside of her card.

I hope she likes her card.

Stamp sets: Baby Bear, Teeny Tiny Wishes, and Dragonfly Dreams

Card stock: Very Vanilla

DSP: Sending Love

Ink: Real Red

Red Glimmer Paper

Border punch for the small hearts-retired

Thanks....Mary

Balloon Pop-Up Valentine

Good Monday to you, did your favorite team win the Super Bowl yesterday?  I must confess, I was busy doing other things and didn't watch!

This week will be Valentine week again, I hope.  Hubby and I have to attend a funeral this morning and I have a feeling that we won't get too much done after that.  It is for a man that we knew through a friend and church and we are sad to say good-bye to him, he was a wonderful person!

Now for the card.  This card was one that I saw on a Facebook Group for Stampin' Up! Demonstrators only and I loved how the demonstrator use the Balloon Pop-Up Thinlit in the most unusual way.  I asked if I could CASE it and she said yes.  You can see Linda's card and photo tutorial on how to make it HERE.  My one daughter loves purple, and the other one loves pink, so I'm going with the combo of Sweet Sugarplum and Rich Razzleberry.  It is so much prettier in person than what pictures can show!  Here is the outside front of the card.

Here is the inside of the card.

After I took this picture, I realized that I should have stamped a couple of the small sentiments from the Sealed with Love onto the two purple/pink hearts.  I may still try to add to those, if possible.  To see the pictures close-up, just click on it.

Update:  Here is a close up of the hearts with some stamping on them.

Card stock: Whisper White, Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry

Ink: Pink Flamingo and Rich Razzleberry

Silver Glimmer Paper

Stamp set: Sealed with Love

Thinlits: Balloon Pop-Up

Silver Washi tape-retired

Full Heart punch-retired

Happy Heart Embossing folder

Stitched Square Framelits

sponges

I hope your week if off to a wonderful start and hope to be back on Wednesday.  Mary

Yummy in My Tummy, Take #3

Good Monday to all of you, I hope you had a fabulous week-end.  I spend the day yesterday working on getting things together so next month I can have my Dad's taxes done.  I also made a couple more Valentine cards, for me to send to my daughters, too.  May make some to send to a few others, will see how that goes!

Here is the last card that I made with the cute monsters, Yummy in My Tummy for Wesley's daycare teachers!  I think they look like something a little boy would give!  I used my Watercolor pencils to color in the monster and ink pads and sponges to color the background with, Soft Sky and Pear Pizzazz.  I used the Sweetheart punch and some Blushing Bride Glimmer paper for the heart.  The baker's twine was some left-over from a past Paper Pumpkin kit.  The sentiment is also from a past Paper Pumpkin kit.  I hope the teachers like their cards this year!

I'll take a break from Valentine's for a week and show you some other cards that I made.

Thanks for dropping by!!  Mary

Yummy in My Tummy, Take #2

Today I want to share the second card that I made using the Yummy in My Tummy stamp set, that little monster is so cute and I think they both would make cute Valentine's for kids to hand out to classmates.

For this card I used a retired heart punch to have the monster holding a string of hearts.  I also colored the monster in with the new Watercolor pencils and a blender pen.  I also lightly sponged the background with Soft Sky.

The cute little stamp in his tummy is from a past Paper Pumpkin set.  The Baker's twine is from the past Holiday catalog.  Card stock is Whisper White and Real Read.  Ink is Black Memento ink.

I hope you have a nice weekend too!  Mary

Yummy in My Tummy

Happy Wednesday to all!  Well, we are finally on the mend at our house.  I hope all of you are staying well and healthy.

Today I'm going to share a Valentine shaker card that I made for one of the daycare teachers.  It is my first shaker card too.  After I had it all put together, it looks like I should have added more heart punch outs to the cute monsters' tummy, next time!

Not too bad for my first one, I'm happy with the way it turned out and I hope Wesley's teacher will like it too.

Card stock: Whisper White, Crumb Cake and Real Red

Stamp set: Yummy in My Tummy and Sealed with Love

Scalloped Circle Framelit

Window Sheet

Silver and Red Glimmer paper

Ink: Real Red, Soft Suede and Black Memento

Hey, Valentine

Good Monday morning.  Things around here have been pretty sick of late.  Both my husband and I have had colds and not just little colds, but the colds that hang around for at least two weeks sometimes three.  Hubby is off to see the doctor tomorrow as he has it worst then I.  Today I'm finally starting to feel much better.

Here is the Valentine that I was working on the last time we talked.  Now it doesn't look like a great creation, but I made this in mind of having children from infant all the way up to after school kids receiving these where my grandson goes to daycare.  I purposely didn't color in the image, as my daughter will be adding about four crayons to each package.  That way the kids can have fun coloring it in the way they want it to look.  We also added a package of Goldfish to go along with the "glad you're in my school" theme.  She is so excited to give these to the daycare kids next month!

Sorry the picture is not the best.  I think though you can see the idea we were going with.  As always, you can click on the picture to view it larger.

The stamp set is a retired one, called Hey, Valentine.  I used Whisper White card stock and Archival Black ink.  My daughter will use some ribbon that she picked up, as I didn't have any spools of red!!

Thank you for coming back to see me, so appreciate.  Mary

Sealed with Love

Brr.... is it cold in your part of the country?  It was 1 degree here this morning and we had about 2 inches of snow yesterday, so the wind chill was -10 this morning.

I've had this card made since last week but just have been to busy with "stuff" that is going on right now.

I made this card to send as a thank you card for a online order that I received from a friend and customer, so I thought I would make a card that she could use.

The items that I used are from the new Occasions catalog and they are from the Sending Love Suite.  There are a lot of cute items in this suite too.

Here is what I used:

Card stock: Thick Whisper White and Whisper White

Ink: Real Red and Black Memento

DSP: Sending Love-Occasion catalog 2017

Red Glimmer Paper

Stitched Framelits and Layering Square Framelits

Love Notes Framelits-Occasion catalog 2017

Stay warm and thank you for coming by!  Mary

That's the Ticket

Here is the last Valentine day card for the year.  I found one on Pinterest awhile ago and since I have this stamp set and punch I wanted to give it a try.  I don't know why the white background has a green tint to it, something must have gotten changed on my phone, will have to look into it.

I used the thick Whisper White for my card base, then a layer of Real Real with Pink Pirouette embossed with the Happy Heart Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. Then I punched out hearts using the heart from Itty Bitty Punch Pack in Silver, Red and Blushing Bride Glimmer paper.  I used the retired Ticket punch to punch out the sentiment and Pink Pirouette and Real Red tickets.  I had some non-SU white ribbon laying on my craft table, so I went ahead and used that.  I used Glue Dots to adhere the heart to the card stock.

This was a pretty and simple card to make and would not be hard to mass produce either.

Thank you for coming to see me and all comments are welcome too!  Mary

Loads of Fun

For the cards that I made for my daughters this year, I pulled out a oldie but goodie, Loads of Fun!  I always have so much fun when I use this set and the two accessory stamps sets that go along with it.  I found this card over on Splitcoaststampers, a free online community for stampers and crafters.  I did change it up just a bit but it is very close to the one I saw.

For this card I used Loads of Fun and Valentine Define.  For card stock I used Whisper White, Basic Black and Real Red.  Ink colors are Real Red and Blushing Bride.  I used a Black Stampin' Write marker to color in the tires and the truck bed rail.  Then I used the White Stampin' Chalk Marker for the wheel hubs, windshield, tail light and headlight, I then used the Silver Chalk Marker to color in the door handle and bumpers.  I fussy cut the pile of hearts and the truck out and use a exacto knife to cut out the side window.  I also used the retired Embosslit Heart for the red heart and retired heart punch.  The smaller hearts are from the Confetti Hearts Border.

I think they will like their cards!!  Mary

Gorgeous Grunge Valentine

Well we are on the home stretch for Valentine's Day cards.  I only need to make a couple more and I'll be done.  I've already mailed out the ones I've made some the recipients should have them by now.

I found this card over on someone's Pinterest board and it looks fairly simple, so I went with it.

I used a lot of retired products on this one, washi tape, designer series paper, ribbon and Hearts A Flutter stamp set and Framelits.  I did use Teeny Tiny Wishes and Gorgeous Grunge that is current.  The ink colors are Rose Red and Blushing Bride.  Card stock is Whisper White and Blushing Bride.  

This was a pretty quick card to assemble, which is what I needed to stay on schedule!

Thank you for coming by to see my creation and I hope I've inspire you in a small way too!  Mary

Heart A Flutter

Well as you can see I've been working on some more Valentine cards.  This one will go to a lady who I use to work for.  She recently had to move into Assisted Living and we are more like family, after working for her for 18 years.  She likes for me to come and visit her and as she says, "so we can sit and gossip".  I just love her to pieces, she is a very special friend to me.  So I go see her on the day that I would have gone to her house to work.

For my friend I wanted to make a special Valentine card, so I was cruising around on Pinterest and found one that I decided to CASE.  I think she will like it, her favorite color is blue.

I used Bermuda Bay, Gumball Green (retired) and Real Red inks for my stamping.  Card stock is Bermuda Bay, Whisper White and Real Red along with Silver Glimmer Paper.  Ribbons are both retired, Crumb Cake seam binding and 1/8" Bermuda Bay ribbon.  A Tea Lace Paper Doily was placed behind it all.  The Whisper White card stock was embossed with Happy Heart embossing folder, which I turned the de-embossed area to the front.  I also used the Bitty Banners Framelits to cut out my "be mine" banner with (I used the current Occasion stamp set-Bloomin' Love) and also the retired Hearts A Flutter Framelits and stamp set.  The heart were also cut with the Framelits.

Thank you for coming by to see me,  Mary

Wood You Be Mine?

Ok, this is a Valentine that I made for my daughter to give to her husband for Valentine's Day this year.  This is a retired set from 2015 Occasions Catalog.  I didn't have a chance to use it last year, but was determine to give it a go this year!  I love how it turned out!!

I used the retired Starburst Circle Framelits to cut out the background piece of Very Vanilla.  I stamped all my images using the Black Memento ink as I wanted to use my BIC Mark-It markers to color in the images with!  I used Bermuda Bay ink for the Woodsman's shirt color.  I also use Soft Sky ink and lightly sponged some for the sky and I used Pear Pizzazz for the tree images and sponging at the bottom.  I then stamped the saw and and fussy cut it out.  I used some small hearts from the Confetti Hearts Border and applied those to each side of the saw with Tombow liquid glue.  I did use a Copic marker in Flesh color for the woodsman skin.  I used the Hardwood background stamp with Crumb Cake ink and Crumb Cake card stock.

I just think this card is just way to cute!!

Thanks for stopping by, see you soon.  Mary