A Quick Valentine's Note and Gift

Hey everyone! It's Angie from AngiesPaperPassion with a couple of quick projects for those last minute Valentine's Day gifts. The first one is a simple note card:

I cut the cardstock at 3x6 to make this into a 3x3 card and added a 3x3 piece of patterned paper to the front. The scalloped border is from my 'old faithful' cart - Plantin Schoolbook! Even with all of the newer carts around this one still is a wonderful cart with so many great images. I cut out about 10 borders in cardstock at 0.5". I also used Accent Essentials to cut out the heart in glitter paper at 2.25". After inking the edges of the scallops, I adhered them to the card by staggering the borders, added a piece of ribbon with glue dots, and the heart with small pop dots. Once finished I decided that it needed one more thing so I punched out a tag shape and stamped a Valentine's sentiment on it and adhered it to the heart with a tiny red brad. Then I was satisfied that it was finally finished!

Next is a Tag Treat Holder:

Again, I used Plantin Schoolbook. This image is on page 71 (shift/Italic). It's one of those images that I often don't pay attention to and skip over but it makes a cute little treat holder by scoring it in the middle and folding in half. It was cut at 8" with the Fit to Length feature turned on with my Expression and scored at 3.75" and again at 4.5". I added two little hearts cut with the shift/Tall Ball feature (found on the same page) at 2.5", adhered them on to the tag, and tied it together with some twine. This would be great to give to someone with a piece of chocolate inside (think Ghirardelli chocolate squares! Yum!)

I think I will put both of these little gifts into this gift bag that was made with Plantin Schoolbook (see, I told you it was still a great cart!):

Whatever you give (and receive) this Thursday, I hope that all of you have a sweet and happy Valentine's Day! Thanks for visiting and until next time, Happy Crafting!

Angela

Info and Supplies Used

Designed By: Angela Cromwell

Project Type: Gifts

Project Theme: Valentine's

Cricut Cartridges: Plantin Schoolbook, Accent Essentials

Cricut Machines: Expression

Valentine Treats Layout

Hello!  Michele here from www.michelegreen.com.  I'm happy to be posting today!  I tend to scrapbook about a year behind so today's layout is of the preparations for last year's Valentine's Day.  My daughter really wanted to create homemade valentines so we opted to make "sour cream containers" filled with candy.  (Personally, I have no idea why these are called sour cream containers.  I have never seen sour cream like this.  I HAVE however seen juice popsicles like this.  In fact, we were always served those as a treat with our hot lunch when I was in elementary school.  Sour cream...) Anyway... :)

The layout:

I had one little hiccup in this process. I can't find the printed photos!  So here's one that will be printed and put into one of those two big open white spaces:

(Yes, that's me there on the left.)

Here is the layout I have created.  This one was pretty simple to do.  It started because I had a ton of leftover strips from making the containers.  What a perfect way to remember them by including those strips in the layout! I arranged them any old way across a plain white piece of cardstock.

From there, I added my Cricut cuts which were all from the Phrase keys of the Create A Critter 2 cart.
Valentine - 3.5"
Treat - 2.5" (The s is off another phrase so the font matched)
Hearts are all from the owl cut - ranging between 3" and 11"

Here is a close up of the journaling for you:

It was a really fun evening spent with my daughter and niece getting their valentine's ready.  Happy Valentine's Day to all of you reading this!

A Chain Of Hearts~

Hi, this is Sara from www.sarawandrews.com

With Valentine's Day approaching I thought I would make a cute little heart banner.

My original plan was to cut the hearts, emboss them and then run them through the sewing machine.

Quick, simple and easy.

Of course, nothing ever goes as planned.

My banner~

The hearts cut at 3" and 2.4" high are from Cricut Craft Room Basics.

They ended up being a little bigger than I expected and the reason I changed plans.

I used several of my favorite embossing folders to add texture.

I then decided I would layer several of the hearts by stapling them together using my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher.

If you do not have a Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher RUN now to your local craft store and buy one. 
It is that wonderful!

Instead of the sewing machine I used ribbon to string my hearts, and it was around this point that I decided to add pictures to them.

Luckily I had a bunch of pictures from a family photo session that I quickly printed in a contact sheet size in Photoshop.

And if you add photos, you have to add some embellishments. Right?

Hmmm...this sounds an awful lot like a certain mouse and a cookie.

I used~
DCWV Be Mine Stack
Crate Paper Fourteen Chipboard, Celebrate It Ribbon
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher and Gem Clips
Scarlet Lime Kit Contents: Crate Paper Fourteen Accent Stickers
CCR and Cricut Craft Room Basics for the Hearts and Scalloped Hearts cut at 3" and 2.4" high
Cuttlebug Folders D'vine Swirl, Script and Wood Grain