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Valentine’s Day Candy Treat Box

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Valentine's Day Candy Treat Box side

This Valentine’s Day Candy Treat Box is rather quick and easy to make, and the recipient will surely be happy with the chocolate treat inside! You will almost think these measurements are too small, but they turn out to be perfect for holding four Ghirardelli square chocolates! You could modify the measurements if you had different candy you wanted to gift to someone or use as a party favor. Something like this would be a nice table decoration placed at each person’s place setting at a dinner or luncheon.

I used cardstock for a little sturdiness and then decorated with designer series paper. You could probably use designer paper only. My sample is made with Real Red cardstock, cut at 8″ x 2″. Score at 3 1/2″ and 4 1/2″. When you crease and fold on those lines you can see what is the space created to hold the candy.

For the little “box” inside, it’s very easy and not really a box. Cut two pieces of cardstock at 2″ x 1″ Score at 1/2″ from each side edge. Crease and fold those little pieces and see how they will be adhered to the inside sides of the first piece you created. In other words, these two little pieces will make the sides of the treat box. It’s easy when you are seeing it and doing it.

If you want to, you can cut the top corners of the treat box off at an angle as I did, or use a corner rounder punch of some kind, or just leave it as is. Punch a hole or two holes in the top for a rib 1/8″ bon to hold it closed.

I decorated my Valentine treat box with some Valentine paper, the Made WIth Love Designer Series Paper. The heart is from the Love Notes 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper as is the greeting. I just trimmed around the heart image from the paper, placed it on a piece of Real Red and cut around that for a layer. The heart is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting was trimmed down as small as possible so it would fit at the bottom of the treat box. I used the narrow Bubble Bath 1/8″ Faux Linen Ribbon to tie my box closed. This narrow ribbon is great for small things like this!

Have fun making one of these treat boxes! It would be great for any other occasion, too! Just decorate differently!

Valentine's Day Candy Treat Box

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!

Love Notes Heart Love Card for Valentine’s Day

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Love Notes Heart Love Card

This Love Notes Heart Love Card for Valentine’s Day is fun and easy to make with the Love Notes 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is cuter and more useful than you might imagine just looking at it in the catalog or online. You can use these 48 sheets of paper, 8 sheets of each of 6 designs, to make all kinds of cards, tags, scrapbook pages, and any projects you want! The cool part is that some of the sheets have cut-apart sections that you can cut down even further if you like to make whatever you come up with.

This card has a Flirty Flamingo card base which coordinates with this Love Notes paper. I used this section with the watercolor-look background and heart. I trimmed down the white margin to fit it on my card base. For the greeting, I cut out the word “Love”, layered it on another piece of the designer paper, then layered that on a piece of Flirty Flamingo cardstock cut into a banner. The banner was cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies, some of my favorites. I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I felt that the card still needed some pizzazz, so I looked through my embellishments and found these retired little hearts and flowers – well, that’s what they are called: Adhesive-backed Hearts & Flowers. I liked the look of the little hearts scattered around the card! If you ever feel like your card needs a little something, look through all your embellishments and you will likely find something to add!

Love Notes 6_ x 6_ Designer Series Paper

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Make an Easy Love Notes Valentine

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Love Notes Love You More Card

I’m here to tell you that if you like to make easy Valentines or a lot of Valentines, this Love Notes 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper is for you! Put it on your order right away! If I didn’t already own this package of paper, but I saw this pattern with the little heart flowers, I would buy it just for this sheet of paper! This Love Notes pack of paper has 8 sheets of each of 6 double-sided designs, so that’s a lot of paper you can use making multiples. Some papers are 6″ x 6″ full sheets, but lots are cut-apart designs to be used for making Valentines, tags, scrapbook pages, cards, or whatever you are making. Just trim down the designs you want to use. You can make them smaller than the design on the paper if you like or use part of the design or fussy-cut it for something different. Once you start playing you might not be able to stop!

Love Notes 6_ x 6_ Designer Series Paper

This photo above gives you an idea of what the papers are like. You can easily cut out one of these square designs or the other larger and smaller designs to make whatever design you want on your card or project.

My sample card today has a card base of Garden Green cardstock. The designer paper layer on the card is exactly what the 6″ x 6″ paper looks like except that I trimmed it down for my card. It comes with that diagonal design on the left side of the heart flower garden. I trimmed it down so the side design was only 3/4″ of an inch wide, and of course trimmed down the whole sheet to 4″ x 5 1/4″ to fit on the card front. I didn’t have to add the extra diagonal piece on the side because it was already part of the paper!

The center focal point is one of the square designs on one of the cut-apart papers. It is 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4″. I layered it on a square 3″ x 3″ piece of Petal Pink cardstock and popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Now this is one of the rare cards that I did not embellish! No ribbon, no sequins, no gems, no sparkle! I wanted to show you how EASY this card was to make and yet it is still very pretty even without any extra things or work!

On the inside of the card, I added a Basic White layer for a stamped or handwritten message or greeting and I added one of the scrap strips from the heart-flowered paper to the side of the white layer for a little decoration inside the card.

Love Notes Love You More Card Inside

While a lot of this paper is Valentine-themed, you can still use a lot of it for other occasions. So if you need some paper for Valentines and wonder what you will do with the rest, I’m sure you will be able to use it beyond (or before!) Valentine’s Day.

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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.

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Made With Love Designer Series Paper 2

Made With Love Designer Series Paper

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An Oldie But Goodie Valentine Collage

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Valentine Collage

The other day I was looking in the closet wondering if I had more Valentine decorations than I had found so far. I’m used to SO many decorations for Halloween and Christmas that one red and white plastic bag just didn’t seem like that could possibly be all I had for Valentine’s Day! It actually was pretty much true, but I did come across just a couple more things and one was this old Valentine Collage that I made some years ago! I don’t recall how many years ago! All I can say is that the famous Owl Punch was a thing as you can see in the last square and also that Pretty In Pink was a regular Stampin’ Up! color at the time!

I wondered if I had a frame the Valentine Collage would fit in because obviously it had been in a frame at one time. The backing was still underneath the collage in the closet. I probably swapped it out for a Christmas collage at some point. As luck would have it, I did find a nice white frame for it. I just had to trim down the outside edges a little bit. I think it had to be fate that I found this collage in the closet AND a frame to put it in for my Valentine decorating!

Valentine Collage Framed

Even though this Valentine Collage is way past its time, it can still provide inspiration for you to make something similar yourself for your home decor or even a gift for someone. You can make twelve squares or you can double-up two squares and make a rectangle in some of the spaces. Or put four squares into one big square! Whatever you like!

You might want to choose a frame first so you know what size to make your collage. You wouldn’t want to have to cut into or too close to your design. Maybe you would prefer a square shape. Lots of possibilities!

Think about making a fun, quick collage, maybe even a smaller one, for Valentine’s Day! You have time! Here’s an example of a smaller collage from twelve years ago!!

Or jump ahead To Easter if you like to plan ahead! Just have fun with it!

Hearts For a Valentine’s Day Card

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This Hearts For a Valentine’s Day Card has to be one of the quickest and easiest cards I’ve ever made with no idea of what I was going to make! I know that sounds crazy, but yes, I didn’t know what I was going to make until I got out the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper and looked at the Hearts of Elegance Dies. Since I hadn’t tried all the dies yet, I just chose one. Then after diecutting with that, I chose another heart shape, and another one, and another one. Pretty quickly I had this card made!

The card base is Melon Mambo cardstock. There are several coordinating colors listed for these designer papers, but I mostly keep coming back to Melon Mambo….or Real Red on some cards I made. First I chose the second largest heart die, the one with the pierced border around the edge. I used a piece of the Marbled Elegance Paper, thinking at first I would use “the other side” and not the marbled size. Luckily, in my package I already had a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece cut and luckily, I centered the heart die on this paper. After I cut it out it looked like the best idea was the adhere the negative piece to the card base with the marbled side up. I thought it was so pretty with that heart opening in the center. I didn’t even use the heart I had just cut out, but I saved it for another card another time.

Next I cut out another smaller heart from another piece of the marbled paper and placed it in the center of the open heart space. It needed something, so I cut out a larger heart from Gold Foil. Then for one more heart, I diecut a small gold heart with the decorative edge to place in the center. As you can see, once the hearts were all stacked on top of each other they looked so pretty!

I already had this greeting stamped and cut out in my scraps so I just adhered that flat in the corner of the card. For a moment, I thought about using the banner in the Mixed Labels Stamp Set to go across the hearts, but I liked the greeting I already had so I kept it simple and just used that. If you are trying to make a quick card, don’t overthink everything.

You could pop up some of the hearts or the negative piece on the card base. You could add some embellishments for a little sparkle. Or you can just leave it simple as is because the Marbled Elegance Designer Paper is so pretty on its own! It’s named Marbled Elegance for a reason!

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Marbled Elegance Trio of Valentines

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Marbled Elegance Trio of Valentines

If you want to make some easy Valentines, here is a design for you!! I think I could have made 100 of these! Well, maybe not, but I did make these Marbled Elegance Trio of Valentines! They were easy and fun and came to me right away! All you really have to do is get out the beautiful Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper and start cutting!

The card bases are just Basic White cardstock. If you have the Thick White cardstock it might be a good idea to use that or you could use Melon Mambo for a card base, then Basic White for a layer and the center design would just be a little bit smaller than these measurements.

The side of the designer paper could vary a little bit, but I cut mine at 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. Obviously I used one of the marbled patterns with the gold foil accent marbling. It doesn’t matter which one! I layered the designer paper on a piece of Melon Mambo cut at 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″.

Since there is plenty of space at the bottom of the card I simply stamped the greeting in that space right on the card. Now, it might be a good idea not to glue anything on the card until after you stamp the greeting in case it doesn’t come out well! But if you have everything glued down and the stamping isn’t perfect, just cut a label or banner or shape, stamp on that, then adhere over the boo-boo. On these cards I used Melon Mambo ink. All of these greetings are in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set.

I made each card a little bit different. On the first card, all I added was one gold foil die cut heart with one of the hearts in the Hearts of Elegance Dies. You can purchase the stamp set and dies together in the Hearts of Elegance Bundle and save 10%!

On the second card, I liked that middle heart cut out of the designer paper but it still needed something. I added two diecut Melon Mambo hearts on each side of the DSP heart. For a touch of embellishment, I simply tied a bow with the Gold Twisted Thread and adhered it to the center heart with a Mini Glue Dot just rolled up into a teeny tiny ball. This Gold Twisted Thread is part of the Marbled Elegance Suite or you can purchase it separately. The middle heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For the third card, I diecut the fancy heart with the pierced design in Gold Foil. I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. And for a little more pizzazz, I added three Gold Dots in the Low Profile Dots package.

With only the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper, some diecut hearts, and a greeting you can make a very pretty card….or even three!

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Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat

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Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat

Wondering what to do with the Square Pillow Boxes in the Spring Mini Catalog? You can do many things with them, including decorating one for specific holidays such as this Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat. It is a little bit differently shaped box but holds a fair amount of candy or a small gift. These are easy to put together and already come with the adhesive on the sides. All you have to do is crease on all the score lines, and then in more of a squeezing kind of way, push it into the pillow shape, and then remove the adhesive covers making sure the sides are lined up properly.

Before assembling this box, you may want to color it with ink using Blending Brushes or stamp on it, as I did on this box. You do want to make sure the ink is dry. I found that mine dried very quickly, but immediately you don’t want to smear it. I think this is applicable if your ink pad is very juicy and the layer of ink is wetter and thicker.

I used the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set to stamp various images over the front and sides of the box. I didn’t do the back side of the pillow box but you could. Also, if you wrap around a belly band, it will cover some of the stamping. I stamped the honeycomb in Daffodil Delight, the hearts in Sweet Sorbet, and the flowers in Pool Party, Petal Pink, and Fresh Freesia. You can see in the photo below how I chose to stamp so as not to stamp on the sides that would be hidden on the inside of the box or the back of the box which I did not want to stamp.

Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat Stamping

The strip of Bee Mine Designer Series Paper I chose for the belly band is 9 1/2″ long. Originally I cut the one in the photo at 2″ wide but later cut it narrower at 1 1/4″. You don’t even have to have a belly band to decorate the box.

When I watched a Facebook Live with Sara Douglass, CEO of Stampin’ Up! the other day when she made some Valentine pillow boxes, she placed her belly band around the box so that the opening was at the top of the box and not blocked by the belly band. This way the box can be opened without removing the belly band. However, you can run the belly band the other way if you feel you want the opening of the box to have that extra security to keep it closed.

For the belly band, I used this pattern with the tiny white flowers at 9 1/2″ x 1 1/4″. You can just cut the whole strip across the 12″ width of the designer paper and then shorten it after you see how much you want on your box. But 9 1/2″ seems to have plenty of overlap. Rather than scoring it ahead of time, just wrap it around the box and crease the band with your fingers at each edge. It won’t be a “perfect” fit since there are curves but it is very close.

To decorate my box and belly band, I stamped a greeting in the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set and die cut with a stitched circle in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I made the bee by using the Bee Builder Punch, punching out the bee body shape out of Daffodil Delight, and stamping the stripes and face with Memento ink. The wings were stamped on Petal Pink cardstock and with Petal Pink ink. The antennae are stamped in Memento black on Basic White. Then I used the Bee Builder Punch for the antennae (the heart shape), the wings, and some Sweet Sorbet and Petal Pink hearts.

There are lots of ways to decorate these boxes! Just play with them and see what you come up with. The boxes feel very sturdy. In my January stamping newsletter, I made a box that was embossed with the new Layered Florals 3D Embossing Folder first and then decorated with stamps and die cuts in the Painted Lavender Bundle in the Spring Mini.

Hopefully, you already own some of these Pillow Boxes so you can make some Valentine’s treat boxes, but you will have plenty of opportunities to use them in your papercrafting and gift-giving in the future if you order them now.

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Bee My Valentine Hearts Valentine Card

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Country Bouquet Hearts Valentine Card

Are you making Valentines? Here is a fun one, the Country Bouquet Hearts Valentine Card, with lots of stamped hearts! Sometimes I like to just stamp randomly all over the card. It just feels good and the simplicity is nice!

For this card, I used the solid heart in the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set in the Spring Mini Catalog. I started by stamping three Sweet Sorbet hearts. Then I just chose several other colors and mostly stamped three hearts of each color. You can use whatever color theme you like! I think I used Fresh Freesia, Balmy Blue, Highland Heather, Daffodil Delight, Soft Sea Foam, and Calypso Coral. I crammed them in there! Be sure to turn the stamp or paper so they are all going in slightly different directions. Not to be one to know when to stop, I also added some really small hearts stamped in Melon Mambo ink.

Before adhering the hearts card front, I wrapped around a piece of Silver & White 1/2″ Sheer Ribbon down the side. After adhering the front layer to the Sweet Sorbet card base, I tied a bow around that piece of ribbon. I liked this ribbon because you could still see through it to see the colored hearts.

For the greeting, I chose “With Love” in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set. I wanted to stamp it on the heart punched out of the Country Bouquet Punch but it was too long so I had to stamp each word by carefully inking up only one word at a time. It was risky but I did it! I could have done it a more careful way but I took a chance! I popped up the stamped heart over a diecut rectangle in the Timeless Arrangements Dies. Then I scattered around some Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels.

Have fun making some Valentines!

Bee Mine Z-Fold Valentine’s Day Card

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Bee Mine Z-Fold Valentine's Day Card

I already had this Petal Pink cardstock made into a Z-Fold card base in my package of paper so I started with that. I must have gotten that far one day and then changed my mind about the card! But this day, it was perfect! This Bee Mine Z-Fold Valentine’s Day Card is one of those cards that I was pleased about how it all came together!

Let’s start with the basics. A Z-Fold card starts as a regular card base, but the front of the card is scored down the middle and folded back on itself! You don’t even need to score the front of the card, just fold the right side back even with the fold on the left side of the card. If you do want to score the cardstock, score the 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ paper at 2 1/8″ and 4 1/4″. Fold in half, then fold the 2 1/8″ score line back to the fold.

For this card, I used the very cute Bee Mine Designer Series Paper. I wasn’t so much into bees when the Spring Mini Catalog came out, but the paper has won me over! It just makes me happy to work with it! For the front Z-Fold panel, I used this super-cute red pattern with little white flowers. On the inside, I used the pattern with the Daffodil Delight plaid lines.

The greeting is in the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set and is stamped in Memento Black ink on Basic White. It is diecut with a rectangular shape in the Nested Essentials Dies and then layered on a larger Daffodil Delight layer. When you adhere the greeting to that Z-Fold make sure you are only putting glue on the correct half and not the whole area so that the card will still open!

Since I put designer paper on the inside of the card (or if you have a dark-colored cardstock, you may need a lighter piece to stamp or write a greeting on the inside of the card. I die-cut a piece of Basic White to match the Daffodil Delight diecut piece and made sure it was placed directly behind the greeting on the front of the card. Put the card face down, and lay the inside diecut piece face down along the backside of that greeting. Apply glue, then fold the back of the card over so that it adheres exactly in the right place. When the card is closed, you don’t want the inside greeting itself or the diecut piece showing from the front if possible.

To embellish the card, I cut out bees from the designer series paper and adhered those to the front and inside of the card. I also used the Bee Builder Punch to punch out some Sweet Sorbet hearts to use, also.

Try this Z-fold card if you haven’t already. Here’s another example of a fun Z-Fold card. I think it is an easy way to make a card seem extra special!

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Bee Mine Z-Fold Valentine's Day Card Inside

Rain Or Shine Valentine Candy Bars

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Rain Or Shine Valentine Candy Bars

Last week I made a couple of other decorated candy bars for Valentine’s Day and now today I have these Rain Or Shine Valentine Candy Bars to show you! It is so fun and so easy to make these little treats! Of course, they don’t always have to be for Valentine’s Day. Wouldn’t these be cute for birthday party favors if you just changed the greeting?

These Valentine candy bars were decorated with two of the characters in the Rain Or Shine Suite in the Spring Mini Catalog. You can stamp these characters or you can cut them out of the Rain or Shine Specialty Designer Series Paper. Not only is this paper cute with the charming characters and umbrellas and raindrops, but parts of the images have a glossy coating on them making them a little bit shiny and adding some unique texture. You can cut out these images yourself or there are some dies that line up with the paper.

You can use almost any kind and size of a candy bar for this project. You will just have to modify your design accordingly. I used the regular size of chocolate bar and wrapped a piece of cardstock around it. I didn’t prescore the cardstock because the candy bar is not perfectly flat. I found it better just tightly to press the cardstock around the candy bar and when you have it how you want it, press the creases with a Bone Folder or at least your fingers on the edges of the candy bar to give it a good crease. If you want, you can score it on those lines, but it could still be off a little bit. It’s just as easy to do it by hand. Use a strong adhesive like Tear & Tape to hold the cardstock closed around the candy bar. Try not to get adhesive of any kind on the candy bar.

On the turtle candy bar I used Granny Apple Green cardstock to wrap around the candy bar and then a layer of green striped paper in the Dandy Designs Designer Series Paper. You will find this paper in the Sale-A-Bration 2023 brochure on page 14. It’s actually FREE with a $100 purchase. Remember, Sale-A-Bration comes to an end this month! And it’s the only one for the year. In this paper pack, you get 48 sheets, 4 each of 12 designs. It’s a LOT of paper and certainly the kinds of patterns lend themselves to almost any project, as well as being great for scrapbooking. The turtle is cut out of the Rain Or Shine Designer Paper, as I mentioned and layered on a stitched circle die in the Stylish Shapes Dies. This is a great set of dies that you can use all the time! The greeting is in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set and stamped on just a strip of Basic White with the ends flagged. I also punched a red heart with the Country Bouquet Punch for the turtle to hold.

The foxy candy bar uses Crumb Cake cardstock to wrap around the chocolate bar with another pattern from the Dandy Designs Paper, the Mango Melody with stars to cover the Crumb Cake cardstock. I cut off the umbrella the fox was holding on the designer paper because this isn’t a rainy day theme. Instead I gave him a red heart to hold just like the turtle has and layered him on a stitched square, also in the Stylish Shapes Dies. On this candy bar I did the greeting a little differently. After stamping it on a strip of Basic White cardstock, I cut the words apart and separated them. I think that is a fun look to do for the rare times I think of it!

As for the candy bars themselves, I used the Real Red & Burlap Ribbon Combo Pack to tie a ribbon around the length of the candy bar so the recipient can just pull it out of the wrapping around the bar. On the fox candy bar, I used the Real Red ribbon and tied it at the top with a piece of twine. For the turtle, I used the Burlap ribbon and tied it with the Real Red Ribbon to hold the ribbon in place.

If you want to see the other Valentine candy bars I made, just click HERE. Those used the paper, stamps, and punch in the Country Floral Lane Suite. But it doesn’t matter which suite, it only matters if the candy is chocolate!

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Country Floral Lane Punched Red Hearts Valentine

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Country Floral Lane Punched Red Hearts Valentine

This Country Floral Lane Punched Red Hearts Valentine uses a little bit of several things for this card in the Country Floral Lane Suite in the Spring Mini Catalog 2023. (As I write this, this Suite is back-ordered until mid-April because the Country Bouquet Punch unfortunately is unavailable until then, as well as the Bundle. The ribbon combo will be available in about three weeks. But other items are available individually.)

This card has a Sweet Sorbet card base with a Basic White layer. Just add some designer paper and a little stamping and you have a Valentine! Each side of the Basic White layer has a 1/2″ x 5 1/4″ strip of the Country Gingham 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper.

In the middle of the card, I punched five hearts from the cute print with little white hearts in the Country Floral Lane Designer Series Paper. Since these modern hearts have a slight curve to them, if you want some hearts to curve in the opposite direction, just punch from the other side of the paper! With this paper, pay attention to the pattern so you don’t get the hearts upside down! Just play around with how you like the hearts placed.

Next, I did a little stamping. The center white heart is punched out and then stamped (or you can do it the opposite way!) with a greeting in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set. You can punch out the heart itself first or stamp the heart outline and even the greeting inside it and then punch it out. I wish there was a larger heart for layering, but there isn’t so I just punched out a Sweet Sorbet cardstock heart and let it peek out over the top of the white heart. It adds a little something but nobody would notice the entire heart isn’t layered underneath. The white heart is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For some risky stamping (could have messed up the whole card!), I stamped the little outlines of two hearts around in some of the empty spaces on the card using Sweet Sorbet ink. Fortunately, it all worked out! No messes! For a little bling, I added some Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

I forgot to take a photo, but on the inside of the card, I stamped “Happy Valentine’s Day” on a layer of Basic White and then punched out two hearts – one with the gingham like on the side of the front of the card and one with the tiny white hearts like the hearts on the front of the card and just layered them side by side on the lower right-hand corner. That makes the inside very cute!

Time to make Valentines! February is almost here! Not everything has to be red, white, or pink so use your creativity!

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Sweet Talk 2-4-6-8 Valentine Gift Bag

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Sweet Talk 2-4-6-8 Gift Bag

If you want a quick and easy little Valentine treat or gift bag, this Sweet Talk 2-4-6-8 Valentine Gift Bag is perfect and easy to make! It’s a great way to keep using that cute Sweet Talk Designer Series Paper for Valentine’s Day and even afterward for other occasions and projects.

Once you hear about and learn about stamping and papercrafting, you probably will pretty quickly learn how to make a 2-4-6-8 bag! It’s a basic thing that’s been around as long as I have been stamping! There are variations if you would like a different size so you can always change it up.

Cut a piece of designer paper or cardstock 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ for this sample. Score at 2″, 4″, 6″, and 8″. Then turn the paper lengthwise and score at 1 1/2″ to make the bottom flaps. If your paper has a pattern and direction to it, be sure you are scoring it so the images will not be upside down!

Sweet Talk Gift Bag Unassembled

Once the paper is scored, cut the bottom flaps apart with scissors. I like to angle my cut just a tiny bit, not cutting directly on the score line. Sometimes this helps the flaps fold together a little better without that extra paper. That last little 1 1/2″ x 1/2″ piece is cut off, as you can see in the photo above.

Here is a good diagram with all the lines marked.

Diagram 2-4-6-8 Box

Crease all the folds and see how the bag will go together. The adhesive will go on that 1/2″ area on the end. You can use Tear & Tape or Multipurpose Liquid Glue. The glue gives you a little maneuvering time if you need it! Just fold the opposite side over to the narrow flap where the adhesive goes and make sure you have everything straight. You can do this with the paper flat on the table. Then fold the flaps in at the bottom, using a little bit of adhesive where the paper flaps meet. I like to stick my Bone Folder (the rounded end, not the point) down inside the bag and press it around to make sure they are all adhered well.

After everything adheres well and your bag is assembled, pinch in the sides to bring the top together. Often I punch holes in the top through which to run my ribbon to hold it closed, but this time, I just wrapped some Real Red 3/8″ Mini Ruffled Ribbon tightly around the top. You can add a Mini Glue Dot to hold the ribbon in place if you need to. I tied a bow.

To decorate, I die cut a tag from the Sweet Hearts Dies and tied it onto the red ribbon with a bit of Linen Thread. I added a pink die cut heart to the tag and stamped a greeting on a narrow strip of Basic White cardstock. The greeting is from the Banner Year Stamp Set.

Once you know how to make a 2-4-6-8 bag (or box) you are ready to go! You can make them for any occasion, out of cardstock, stamped or unstamped, or designer paper. Decorate as you choose for the person or the occasion. Here is another Valentine 2-4-6-8 gift bag I made two years ago! You can search for other 2-4-6-8 bags on my blog. There are many!

You can even leave the top open and have it be like a box or make a little lid for it. So many choices. I hope this Sweet Talk 2-4-6-8 Valentine Gift Bag will give you ideas for what you can make yourself!

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Nuts & Bolts Valentine For a Girl

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If you envisioned the Nuts & Bolts Stamp Set to be only for making cards for boys, I decided to be “woke” enough (LOL!) to think why not a Nuts & Bolts Valentine For a Girl! I certainly know girls and women work in the field of robotics and science, so why not use this stamp set and card designs for everyone?!

I got the idea for this card from one I saw online when I was looking for ideas. This Demonstrator, Angie Pyjas, made her card into a shadow box so at first, I passed it up, but then I realized I could just use her card for inspiration for a card front. I even simplified her design a little bit, but it was the striped purple paper and the punched hearts that caught my eye!

That striped paper is in the Sweet Talk Designer Series Paper that I love so much! As you can see, once Valentine’s Day is over, use the “other side” of the themed side of the papers which are more generic. You can use these stripes for anything! To go with the striped paper, I used Highland Heather for a card base with a layer of Basic White. The sample I was “copying” used a robot that was cut out and the hearts lower down. I thought I was going to copy that, but I found a scrap of this robot already stamped on a Layering Circle Die. I decided why not use that and see how everything fits?

The robot is colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers. I always get the gray colors mixed up so I don’t remember which ones I used, maybe all of them, plus some Basic Black. I wanted this robot to have a little “feminine” color to it, so instead of light pink, I used Flirty Flamingo that I thought might show up better. I just scribbled on some Flirty Flamingo here and there and blended it with one of the grays, maybe Light Smoky Slate. This robot initially had solid Flirty Flamingo “shoes” or feet but I blended those, too. The gear flower is colored with Highland Heather.

The greeting is stamped on Basic White and punched with one of the punches in the Heart Punch Pack and layered on a Highland Heather scalloped heart in the same punch pack.

I just played around with the placement of everything on the card front and decided the stamped circle would fit and look fine without cutting out the robot! Then I placed the hearts in the upper left of the circle. I added a tiny bow with the White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon. I also added some In Color 2021-23 Jewels for some bling. I think I need one more jewel on there so I have an odd number!

As you can see, this Nuts & Bolts Stamp Set is fun for everyone! I liked using this striped paper for a Valentine, but it could have been a birthday card instead of a valentine.

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