Valentine Plaque

This was a design that I found in the Silhouette Design Store recently. It was a nice addition to my Valentine's Day decor:

Valentine Card

This is a Valentine card that I made for a friend who lost her husband 5 months ago. It was her first Valentine's Day as a widow.

The stamps I used, including for making the 3D rose, along with most of the dies, were by Heartfelt Creations.The flourish below the bird cage was cut with a Spellbinders die. The small heart at the top was from a Silhouette Design Store heart tag cutting file. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the red card stock. I used the Heartfelt Creations flower shaping mold to shape the petals of the flower.

Card from Scraps

I tend to save my paper scraps from page layouts, because they are useful for card making. When I had the card making activity recently, I made up several mini kits for cards using some of those scraps. This was a card that I made from scraps, along with a phrase from a stamp set I bought long ago but had never used:

Yes, it's simple. Hand made cards don't have to be elaborate, especially if it's a card for a guy.

Cards with Handmade Heartfelt Creations Flowers

Heartfelt Creations makes a lot of stamps that can be used to make 3D flowers. The ones I used on this card are from their Oakberry Lane line. The decorative edge on the card was made using one of their dies. The paper inside the card was from a pack of Bo Bunny paper from Tuesday Morning.

This is another example of the hand shaped Oakberry flowers. I used a Silhouette file for the background, and although it is far from obvious in the photo, the center section of white cardstock is embossed.

This card is probably the one that I will use, along with the hot air balloon box card for the intermediate card making activity. Although I have the flower shaping mold from Heartfelt Creations, I am going to teach them how to make the handmade flowers. I needed an easy and fast card to attach it to. I figure that the box card will take awhile to make, so I needed a quicker card project that still would teach them (hopefully) something new in shaping the 3D flowers.

Valentine Cards

I made a couple of Valentine cards as possible projects for the card making activity, but after making them, I remembered that one of the gals who is coming is a recent widow. She doesn't need any reminders that her sweetheart isn't around to receive a handmade Valentine.

The first one is intended to leave on someone's door. It was a combination of Silhouette Design Store files:

This next one I will give to my sweet husband:

I adapted an idea that I saw on Pinterest for this card. The rose is a stamp by Heartfelt Creations. I think the embossing folders I used were both Cuttlebug folders.

Z Cards with Heartfelt Creations Stamps

Z Cards are a type of box card. The ones I've seen have the box on the bottom of the Z Card. However, I had these cute Heartfelt Creations "Sugar Hollow" owl stamps that I wanted to use, and one of them is a swing. I put the box on top so that I could have my little owl swinging from it.

Then, of course, I had to try to make one of the more traditional Z Cards. I used Heartfelt Creations Monkeying Around stamps for this next one.

Just FYI, both the owl and monkey stamp sets were discontinued, so they are no longer available. Also, just for the record, I have no affiliation with Heartfelt Creations. They just happen to be my favorite stamp company.

The papers I used are ones I found at Tuesday Morning awhile ago.

Get Well Box Card

This is a box card was actually two different files. The original box card bed had a hippo patient. It was cute, but I wanted a teddy bear. I simply adapted the bear to take the place of the hippo. The original get well bed box card was designed by Lori Whitlock. I don't remember who designed the teddy bear.