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Valentine 2-4-6-8 Open Treat Box

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Valentine 2-4-6-8 Open Treat Box

If you want an easy treat box for Valentine’s Day, make this one! It’s actually a 2-4-6-8 box, which, if you have been stamping for a while, you’ve probably learned how to make or heard of. If you haven’t, just follow these directions because it is easy. You can use it for any occasion.

Cut a piece of cardstock or designer series paper at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″. I used the Made With Love Designer Series Paper. Pay attention to the pattern if you are using designer paper. I almost missed checking that! Score at 2″, 4″, 6″, and 8″ along the long side, of course. Turn the paper and score at 2″ along what will be the bottom of the box. Again, watch out for the pattern to make sure you have it going the right way. If you want to have the top edge turn down to show the opposite side of the paper, score at 3/4″. You can vary these measurements if you want your treat box to be taller or shorter. Then cut where you scored for the bottom flaps to separate them and cut off the smallest little piece. See the photo below.

Valentine 2-4-6-8 Treat Box Cutting

Crease and fold all the score lines, and fold up the box so you can see how it will go together. Then apply adhesive to the smallest side piece and fold the opposite side over flat on the table to meet it, so you don’t have to hold it in the air and line everything up.

Once you have the box assembled, decorate it however you like. I wrapped around a piece of Strawberry Slush 3/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon. I stamped a heart in the Endless Love Stamp Set on Strawberry Slush cardstock with Strawberry Slush ink and cut out. It fits perfectly on this box. I also stamped the greeting from the same stamp set and made a little Basic White banner across the heart.

Now you have a cute little treat box you can fill with chocolate hearts or whatever kind of candy or small gift you have. To make one for another occasion, such as a birthday or maybe birthday party favors, just change the designer paper and decoration. This is a fun and simple project to make!

Valentine 2-4-6-8 Open Treat Box with Candy

Made With Love Hugs & Kisses Valentine Card

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Made With Love Hugs & Kisses Valentine. Card

I was so happy with the way this Made With Love Hugs & Kisses Valentine Card turned out, even without a clear idea of what I would make and with so many choices of pretty papers and combinations of those papers! Get the Made With Love Designer Series Paper and the Endless Love Stamp Set, and you are set for making many valentines!

The Made With Love Designer Series Paper is chock-full of hearts in different sizes and colors, X’s and O’s, love arrows, and then the more generic sheets that coordinate with the Valentine sheets but will also be good to use on other kinds of cards. The beautiful colors are Bubble Bath, Flirty Flamingo, Poppy Parade, Real Red, and Strawberry Slush. You will find this paper, stamp set, and all the extras in the Made With Love Suite Collection in the Stampin’ Up! January-April 2026 Mini Catalog on pages 30-33.

If you would like a sticker sheet to coordinate with the Made With Love Paper for scrapbooking or even cards and other projects, check out the Made With Love Designer Series Paper & Sticker Sheet on page 59 of the Mini Catalog. These Sticker Sheets we have had recently at Stampin’ Up! are really fun to use and quick and easy in some cases, too!

For this card, I used Real Red cardstock for the card base. I cut the top layer of designer paper with the small hearts at the usual size 4″ x 5 1/4″, although you could make it a little shorter if you wanted to save a strip of paper, as long as the bottom paper would overlap a little bit. The bottom piece of polka dots is cut at 5 1/4″ x 1 1/2″. Adhere those two papers together before adhering to the card so you can wrap the ribbon around over the seam first. Any time I put ribbon on a card like this, I just extend the ribbon about an inch or less around to the back or the paper on each side, not all the way around. It saves a couple inches of ribbon on each card! Put a little Stampin’ Seal on the back to hold the ribbon. After you have the ribbon attached, adhere the designer paper to the card base. The ribbon I used is the Strawberry Slush 3/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon, which is in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog 2025-2026.

To decorate this card I used three hearts. Two are stamped with the Endless Love Stamp Set. The striped heart is stamped in Strawberry Slush ink (although it looks close to Real Red!) and the open heart is stamped in Real Red, both on Basic White cardstock. I just fussy-cut these by hand. We’ve all cut out hundreds of hearts by hand since childhood, haven’t we??! The Strawberry Slush cardstock heart is just punched out with a heart punch (retired) that I have. I believe it’s the one that came with a scalloped-edge heart punch in the set. I found this heart punch was practically the same size as the stamped hearts so I thought it worked fine. However, there are the Endless Love Dies you can purchase along with the stamp set in a Bundle if you would like dies. Hearts, whether dies or punches, are always useful for your stash! I played around with the placement of the three hearts before settling on this design. The white heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I used the words in the Endless Love Stamp Set in Strawberry Slush ink on Basic White for the greeting on the card. After stamping them first, I cut them into narrow strips with one end flagged like a banner. The top one is popped up on Dimensionals. The bottom one is adhered with a little Stampin’ Seal on the white heart with a Dimensional under the banner end to be even with the white heart.

Finally, I tied a bow and adhered it to the ribbon on the front of the card with MIni Glue Dots. I thought about adding some gems or jewels, but it was late and I couldn’t even think which ones would go with the card! And, actually, I thought the card looked fine without any bling. There already is a lot going on with the busy hearts paper, the three paper hearts, and ribbon!

Start making some Valentines now so you won’t be rushed when the calendar turns to February, especially if you are going to be mailing some cards!

And on the inside, on a piece of Basic White cardstock, I used the three stamps in the Endless Love Stamp Set, “Happy”, “Valentine’s” and “Day” to stamp the greeting in Strawberry Slush ink. You could also add a scrap strip of one of the designer papers to the bottom. Then you are set to write a little Valentine message or simply sign your card!

Let’s Make a Valentine!

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Made With Love Valentine's Day Card

I know some people are not ready to see Valentine’s cards, but we are crafters, and we have to get a head start! I saw a funny post on Instagram before Christmas by a dad who posts jokes , who said he was shopping too late, his family was going to get Valentine gifts for Christmas! I haven’t been out in the stores yet since Christmas, but I imagine it’s all Valentine’s now! So here is my first Made With Love Valentine’s Day Card.

You’ll find this Made With Love Designer Series Paper in the upcoming January-April Mini Catalog 2026, going live on Tuesday, January 6th. It is part of the Made WIth Love Suite Collection which also includes the Endless Love Stamp Set that I used for the greeting. There are also the Endless Love Dies, which you can buy in a Bundle along with the stamp set. Those weren’t used on this card.

The card base is Poppy Parade, a color I haven’t used very much recently. For some contrast, and to try out the new papers, I chose two different papers for this card. I first cut a piece with all the hearts at 4″ x 5 1/4″, but later I cut it down to 2 1/2″ x 5 1/4″. I was trying to get a mixture of lighter and darker hearts, an ombre effect on the paper, so I trimmed some off the top and some off the bottom to get the middle. I saved those two 3/4″ x 5 1/4″ strips and added those top and bottom on to the Basic White layer I put inside the card so it would be ready for a stamped or written message. I think the first card I made with this paper had more of a distinction of the colors of the hearts. Whatever you end up with is fine, though! All the hearts are pretty! Then at the top and bottom I adhered 1″ x 5 1/4″ of the tiny hearts paper to the card, and then the big hearts panel right in the center.

The greeting is stamped in Flirty Flamingo ink on Basic White and then diecut with one of the labels in the Traditional Labels Dies. These are on the Last Chance list and discounted a tiny bit right now. I hate to see these dies go. I have used them a lot.

For some embellishments, I used Strawberry Slush 3/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon behind the sentiment. I like to apply some Stampin’ Seal Adhesive to the back and get the ribbon placed how I like it with the help of that adhesive. Then I also used Stampin’ Dimensionals to help hold down the ribbon and also pop up the greeting. I also tried out the new Pearlized Faceted Circles. They have several different shades in the package so they will go with a lot of colors. You will find these in the Spring Mini in the Lovely & Beautiful Suite Collection. But they will also go well with any Valentine projects and lots of other things.

View the papers in the Made With Love Designer Series Paper.

Made With Love Designer Series Paper 2

Made With Love Designer Series Paper

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