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Posts Tagged ‘Handmade Valentine Cards’
Starting to Feel Alive Again!
Aloha, all!
Have you noticed a distinct lack of activity around Robin's Craft Room this week? So has my dog, who has been able to lie anywhere he likes in there without my tripping over him several times an hour. Yes, I was slammed to the ground by a nasty virus, and I'm wondering if it's ever going to give up!
There was a little bit of a break yesterday when I pulled out a few Stampin' Up! tools to make my weekly challenge card for Create With Connie and Mary. The break was that I looked at a piece of chocolate and actually considered eating it!
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The pieces of chocolate in question are this year's Valentine M&Ms, which are cherry flavored – and actually Cherry Cobbler and Riding Hood Red in color! How perfect is that for a Stampin' Up! Card. Well, as you can see, I never did get up the strength to pull out the Cherry Cobbler for this project. But there's plenty of Riding Hood Red, along with some Blushing Bride and Whisper White.
Of course any treat card I made this season just HAD to be made with the Hearts Framelits featured in the Stampin' Up! 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog. And then there was also that oh-so-pretty Paper Doily Large Sizzlit Die and the darling stamps from P.S. I Love You. A true Occasions Mini Treat Holder!
To make this, I first cut the doily and got all of the little pieces out of it. How, you might ask, did I manage that whilst not feeling well! Easy to sit with a pin and some paper snips to get the last bit of the pieces out when you don't have the energy to get up and do something else! Then I cut the Doily and a piece of Whisper White Card Stock using the 2nd to the largest Heart Framelit, and then the some Blushing Bride card stock using the largest of the Heart Framelits.
I mounted the white heart on the pink one, and then set about fitting a 3" x 5" Cellophane Bag with not too many M&Ms in it behind the Doily Heart. I attached the heart to the bag using Mini Glue Dots, and also use the Mini Glue Dots to hold the corners of the bag back behind it to fit the heart shape. Before I attached the heart covered bag of candy, I cut a long piece of Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, knotted it at the top to form a loop for hanging and then made a bow at the bottom. I added the greeting, and then used Sticky Strip to attach the candy to the background heart.
Now it's ready to give to a good friend on Valentine's Day! I'm hoping that I'm going to be well enough to go out and take some Valentine greetings to neighbors on Tuesday. For now, I'm going to take a rest! You'd think I'd been logging instead of Blogging!
I hope you'll have a great weekend – and send some good thoughts my way!
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Aloha, all!
Where have I been all week? All over Hawaii's Big Island! We have family visiting and my husband and I have been playing tour guide. Of course, this is play and not work. There's so much to see on our island, and I love showing it off to people who are new here, and I always learn something new myself along the way.
But also along the way, I had some time to make a card for the first weekend challenge of the Create With Connie and Mary Occasions Edition! On the other hand, I was almost late with it because, well, I haven't had much craft time! So when I got that reminder on my computer that it was due in 2 hours, was I surprised – and panicked! But it all turned out well because I had all the "stuff" from the 2012 Occasions mini out that I'd been using to make my projects for the subscription. (It's still not too late to subscribe! Everything is available to everyone who subscribes – you never miss a thing no matter when you subscribe!)
But I digress (happens to me more than most, I think).
I'm not sure which part of this card is my favorite. OK, I'll confess that I really loved cutting up the front of the Designer Cuts Card and doing something different with it. I actually did something different with the Designer Cuts Cards in my Week 1 project for the Occasions Edition, but this wasn't it. So I've been having fun with them – and not using them in any traditional manner at all!
I have to tell you that I'm loving using Riding Hood Red! Up until Christmas, I hadn't been using it much at all. Then Stampin' Up! started making it a part of some gorgeous Designer Series Paper sets, and I was hooked on the color all over again much as I had been when it first came out. This time around, I am so loving the look in the printed papers that are part of the Twitterpated Designer Series Paper set. This is actually the first time that I used the darker of the floral patterns in a project. I liked the pastels so much that I've been overlooking this print. Now I wish I had more sheets of it!
This is also the first time that I've matted the Labels Collection Framelits like this. I cut the same size for the mat as for the stamped layer, and then cut the mat in half and have it peeking out at the top and bottom of the stamped layer. With a little more effort I could have made it peek out at the sides, too. But I'd put in just about as much effort as I could for this project before I had to go play tour guide again!
Except for the card stock and the Little Leaves Sizzlit, everything in this card is from the Occasions Mini Catalog! It's a great mini catalog, and I'm really looking forward to using more and more of its products as the next couple of months go on! If you don't have a copy of the mini, yet, be sure to let me know and I'll get one right out to you!
We're off doing our last weekend of touring this morning – to the south side of the island, hopefully to see some green sea turtles basking on the black sand beaches of Punalu'u. I love living in Hawaii! I hope you love living where you are – and will have lots of fun with whatever you're doing this weekend!
A Bit Over the Top – and Blog Candy!
A special Aloha to all!
Today is the day that I get to be featured on the Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition blog! And that means that today is the day I get to pick names for blog candy! All you have to do is leave a comment aboutmy card for today and your name will be included in the drawing for a FREE subscription to the Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition!
But first my card – after all, you have to have something about which to comment, don't you!
As the title of my blog says, it's a little bit more "over the top" than I usually make. But, as this is a special "occasion" for me, I thought, "More is better!" And with all the fab products in the Stampin' Up! 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog, that's easy to do!
With this picture of my card, you are only beginning to see the "more." But it's still a lot fussier that I usually make my cards, don't you think? On the other hand, I had so much fun "fussing" with this, that I may just do more of that. There's that word, "more," again!
I'm sure you can see that the whole card is cut with the largest of the hearts in the Hearts Collection Sizzix Framelits now offered by Stampin' Up! I discovered in making this that the framelits will cut through two thicknesses of card stock. That's a bonus if you're trying to make a card with as many panels as this one!
From this photo of the front of the card you can see quite a few products from the Occasions Mini Catalog.
- First and foremost is the Stamp Set, "P.S. I Love You." The stamped heart in the very middle (which is actually on the back panel of the card), as well as the sentiment and the stamped frame around it, are all from the same stamp set, as are several sentiments inside the card.
- Then there are the delightful Twitterpated Designer Buttons (in Blushing Bride and Baja Breeze)
- And the Twitterpated Designer Series Paper
- And finally the Blushing Bride Pleated Satin Ribbon.
Now for the inside of the card – yes, there are FOUR panels to this card, with all of them including a stamped image or sentiment from the "P.S. I Love You" stamp set! The final panel has a bit of an addition from another Occasions Mini, images from the Stamp Set, Take It To Heart. All of the Designer Series Paper on the inside is also from the Twitterpated Designer Series Paper Set.
I had so much fun with this card that I'll be making several for really good friends (and my very own sweetheart) for Valentine's Day this year! In fact, I've been having a lot of fun with ALL my projects for the Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition, and I'd love to share them all with you! But I can only do that if you're a subscriber to the Occasions Edition. The Occasions Edition is now in Preview and there's an Early Bird Special price if you sign up this week! And of course you can always try to win a FREE subscription by commenting on this blog post today!
I'm not the only one offering blog candy this week. Keep an eye out for others who are offering it by checking the Create with Connie and Mary blog the rest of the week. Did you see that gorgeous card that Artisan Award Winner Elizabeth Price showed off yesterday? Was that not the most fabulous card?? I can hardly wait to see her projects for the Occasions Edition – or to see what the rest of the team has to offer. You don't want to miss the projects either. So leave a comment and then head over to Create with Connie and Mary!
A Valentine for my Husband
Aloha, all!
As many of you know, my husband was quite ill for most of 2010. It really made us both focus on how precious is our time together. For this Valentine's Day, I decided that a card was not enough. During the past year we had many opportunities to be together in places and times where we had our pictures taken together, more than is normal for us! So an album of some photographs of our times together in 2010 seemed to be just the thing.
This album is a simple Accordion Album, made with one piece of Stampin' Up! Card stock, and decorated with papers from the Sweet Stitches Designer Series Paper Set, featured in the Stampin' Up! 2010 Occasions Mini Catalog. The quote for the front of this album – the perfect quote for it! – is from the Level 3 Hostess Stamp Set, Occasional Quotes. I punched the flowers from the same paper set and added a Sweet Stitches Fabric Brad, also from the Occasions Mini Catalog.
Inside the album are six photos. The two on the left were taken on a March 2010 trip to the island of Maui. The middle two photographs were taken while Harry was in the hospital on the island of O'ahu, with the 4th picture taken the evening before his surgery in June. His surgery was to take place on his birthday, so we celebrated a day early – the reason he's wearing a lei! The 5th photo was taken on an October trip to visit the property in Lawrence, Kansas, where his grandparents had their dairy farm when Harry was a child. The final photograph – and a tribute to his having made it through a very difficult year – was taken in December when we visited the island of Kaua'i.
I wrote the notes on pieces of Whisper White card stock which I printed from images made with My Digital Studio. The stamp set that includes these images, Notes and Details, is also available in the Occasions Mini Catalog. These were just perfect for my hand-written journaling in this little album.
When you're thinking of making cards and gifts, don't forget that small albums such as these are oh so quick and easy to make! And they are often just the most perfect gift you can give someone. Certainly the perfect gift for my husband this Valentine's day 2011!
Have you seen the word, "Perfect," all through this blog post! It's really a tribute to a perfect husband.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Valentine with a Fun Technique!
Aloha, all!
Those of you who are on my newsletter mailing list or who attended my Valentine class last week have already seen this card. But, for those of you who haven't, this card is made using what some call (and I prefer to call) inlaid embossing. The "inlaid" part really is NOT inlaid. Those hearts in this photo just look like they're inlaid because of the way that the card front is embossed.
What I've actually done here is just to adhere some punched hearts to the top layer (a piece of Real Red Cardstock) and then just run the entire layer through the Sizzix Big Shot with one of Stampin' Up!'s embossing folders, in this case the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. Here is a summary of the process for this project, though I have prepared a one-page tutorial with more photographs.
- Punch some hearts of varying sizes with a variety of Designer Series Papers. For this project, I used some Pretty in Pink and Real Red Patterns Papers and the Heart to Heart and Full Heart Punches.
- Arrange the hearts on the Real Red Layer (which for this card is 5" wide x 3-3/4" high. Be sure to have some hanging over the edges to give the whole picture a bit of an artistic look to it.
- Once you have the hearts laid out as you'd like them, adhere them to the Real Red layer with the adhesive of your choice. For this project, I chose to use Stampin' Up!'s Anywhere Glue Stick, because I could apply the adhesive up to all the edges and points. However, my class participants used SNAIL adhesive, and their projects turned out just fine.
- Once your adhesive has dried, use your paper trimmer to even up the edges of this layer by trimming off the pieces of the overlapping hearts.
- Place the card front into the Embossing Folder of your choice. One of my class participants used the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, and that was very lovely.
- Layer up your card and trim with embellishments of your choice. For this card, I tied a piece of Pretty in Pink 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon around the embossed layer that had been adhered to a 5-1/4" x 4" Pretty in Pink Cardstock layer, before adhering the whole element to a 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" card made with Real Red Cardstock.
A quick note: Steps 4 and 5 can easily be reversed.
Here is a close up of one of those embossed hearts and the bow that I made using fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Mary Brown's, tutorial, all held in place with a Stampin' Up! Antique Brad.
And here's a shot of the ladies in my class concentrating really, really hard on getting those hearts laid out the way they wanted them!
Overall, this is a really simple technique that looks oh so pretty. Think about using other punches or images cut with Sizzix or Sizzlit dies. Flowers, butterflies – even just circles and squares! All it takes is your own taste to make a card that is uniquely yours!
Whatever you decide to use on YOUR card, have fun with it!
Gotta Get Those Valentines in the Mail!
Aloha, all!
Not much time left for me to get my valentine cards in the mail! In fact, to be assured that mine get to the east coast by Valentine's Day, I'll have to mail them today!
So today's card, a challenge by the Diva Coffee Break Design Team (of which I am one!), will be my last Valentine to be mailed out!
And is this one ever different from anything that I've shared with you in recent memory. The images are made up entirely from Rub-Ons! Yes, here sits a Stampin' Up! demonstrator who absolutely despises rub-ons. Yes, I bought some when Stampin' Up! first came out with them. But I had such a hard time with them that I decided that I could do without, thank you very much. Now two recent events have brought change to that attitude.
First, Stampin' Up! must have known that there are those of us who hesitate to buy and use rub-ons. So they sent each and every demonstrator who placed on order in January a FREE sheet of the Love Impressions Rub-Ons from the 2011 Occasions Mini Catalog. Um, let's see, that would have been back on January 4th when I placed my first Occasions Mini Catalog order. And the pack of rub-ons has been sitting there on my craft table, being moved from one place to the next, ever since.
Then on my online Stampin' Up! group, SUDSOL, a fellow demonstrator said that her secret was heating up her paper before she applied the rub-on. OK, so I was game. But I kept moving that sheet of rub-ons around to keep it out of the way, but still in sight.
Until today, when I saw that the color challenge from the Divas included the colors that are in this very set of rub-ons, and the game was "on." Wow! Was that easy! I just got out my heat tool (the one I used for embossing), warmed up my paper just before applying the rub-on, and there was magic! Woo-hoo!! This card was not perfect by all means as I had not practiced on a scrap at all. But I think it's quite good enough to show off both here and at the Diva Website.
Just having the rub-ons, even with a few layers to make the card more interesting, didn't seem enough for me. First I added some bling in the form of Stampin' Up! Basic Rhinestones, and then I added a bow, tied together with a Clear Rhinestone Brad. Those are some other Stampin' Up! goodies you haven't seen me use in awhile, either! So this is a Red Letter Day (and Pink Pirouette and Basic Gray Day, too) in Robin's Craft Room.
If you haven't used the rub-ons, give them a try. The little set in the Occasions Mini Catalog is probably too much in the way of a Valentine Design for ordering now. But there are other rub-ons featured in the Stampin' Up! 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog on page 184 – I just may have to buy some of those Play Date Rub-ons for myself on my next order!
Whether you use rub-ons or just stamp away, have fun with some paper crafting this week!
Not a Christmas Card!
Aloha, all!
You might think that making a greeting card with the Designer Series Paper set, Jolly Holiday, would mean that I'd be making a Christmas Card. NOT! Nope, as I've mentioned before, there is absolutely nothing about this holiday paper set that screams, "Christmas," as would a snowflake or a Christmas tree. Not only that, this paper set is in the "Big Book," Stampin' Up!'s 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog, so it's just as current as any other product in the catalog.
So why not make good use of the supply that I still have lying around (from Christmas time, of course) to make a Valentine Card? Why not, indeed, and here is the first Valentine Card I've made using this paper set. I dare say that I'll be making a few more over the next week or so, and I'll certainly share them here.
The Stamp for this card is the a la carte Stamp, Be My Valentine, featured in Stampin' Up!'s 2011 Occasions Mini Catalog. That means it's just one stamp – you don't have to buy a full set of stamps, and you may not want to buy too many Valentine stamps this late in the season. On the other hand, stamp sets in the Occasions Mini Catalog are liable not to be around past the end of the catalog, so now WOULD be the time to purchase the great sets in this year's mini.
The colors that I used for this card are Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, and Crumb Cake (formerly known as "Kraft"). You may have noticed that over the past few months, I've been using a white background for photographing my cards. But today was such a beautiful day here in East Hawaii that I just had to show off some of our palms and flowers in the background. I really do have a great view from my Craft Room!
The layout for this card is pretty straight forward. But I just looked through my 2010 Card Layout eBook (see above right for information about it and ordering your very own copy) and didn't find one that was just like this one. I knew from the start that I wanted that lovely heart to be the center of a square and I just worked from there. So here's the layout that I used.
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As I said, it's a pretty simple layout and it would be so easy for you to use! I hope that you'll take some time to be creative and use this if you'd like. But, whatever you do creatively, have fun with it!
A Fun CASE for Valentine’s Day
Aloha, all!
You'll recall the word CASE – I define it as "Copy And Share with Everyone." Well, today's card is definitely a CASE! Fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator, Tina Taves, featured this online this morning and I fell in love with the design!
This card uses the Stamp Set, Valentine Defined, from the Stampin' Up! 2011 Occasions Mini Catalog. I had no idea that the Full Heart Punch punched out those flamingos so perfectly! And now I do thanks to Tina. My only big change to this was to add a layer of Red Glimmer Paper (also in the Occasions Mini Catalog) to the central square element, and also as the Scalloped Oval Mat for the "Love" greeting. Another feature of this card is that it uses two of the designs from the Love Patterns Designer Series Paper Set for $9.95, which is only available until February 14, 2011. This is the same paper as in the Patterns Paper Stacks featured in the Stampin' Up! 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog, but you get a lot more Pretty in Pink and Real Red paper in it without having to purchase the other colors in the paper stacks (you'd have to buy both the Brights and the Subtles paper stacks at $19.95 EACH to get both of these colors).
The layout for this card is very close to the layout for a similar card that I made almost exactly one year ago! On February 7, 2010, I showed a card with the main square element starting with a 3-1/4" square as the bottom mat, and this one starts with a 2-3/4" square as the bottom mat. How do I know this? Because it's in my Robin's Craft Room 2010 Greeting Card Layout eBook! That eBook is now for sale, and I'd love for you to have a copy! For more information, click on the link at the top of the column to the right. I even have a sample of the eBook available so that you can see what it's like before you buy.
Of course I would love for you to order any of the Stampin' Up! products that I used to make this card. All you have to do is go to my Stampin' Up! website to order online any time 24/7/365! Or call (808.965.1391) or e-mail me if you have any questions!
And if you decide to make any kind of a Valentine's Day Card this week, I hope you have LOTS of fun with it!
A Pretty Sketch from the Divas!
Aloha, all!
What a fun sketch the Diva Coffee Break Design Team has for you today! I wasn't at all sidetracked by the four-petal "flowers" in this week's sketch. It's February, and everything for me right now is Valentine's Day related (well, there's a birthday or two, and I'll be sharing those with you, too – but later). So those "flowers" turned into hearts in my mind, and on my card share for today!
Today I thought I'd share the actual sketch with you so that you can see how I interpreted it for my own card.
The sketch:
And my take on the sketch:
What's fun about a sketch is that it's meant to inspire you, not something that you copy element for element. You can still see that this has the same layout ideas as the sketch, but it's definitely not an exact copy.
The Designer Paper that I used on the top part of the card is one of the sheets from the Ice Cream Parlor Paper and Quick Accents pack in the 2011 Sale-A-Bration Catalog. That means that you can get this paper and die cut set FOR FREE! with just a $50 purchase of Stampin' Up! products – from any current catalog, including the Occasions Mini and the Decor Elements catalog. Nice! And that's how I got this set, too.
The Melon Mambo sheet has one edge with a scallop border print, and that punches up perfectly with Stampin' Up!'s Scallop Edge Border Punch. To firm up that thin element across the middle of the sketch, I added a strip of Old Olive Card stock – also punched with the Scallop Edge Border Punch. Then I placed the greeting (from the Stamp Set Teeny Tiny Wishes) in the lower right corner of the card and added two Old Olive brads to it which somewhat approximates the challenge for three brads down there.
The hearts were fun to make! I punched all three hearts with the Stampin' Up! Exclusive Sizzix Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslit, and then matted the middle heart with the Heart Element from the Punch Windows Set that goes with the Movers and Shapers Sizzix Die. The lighter color throughout this card is Pretty in Pink.
Fun card to make! Why don't you head on over to the Diva Coffee Break Design Team Challenge page and upload one of your own cards using this sketch. I just know you'll have fun with it!
The Occasion is Valentine’s Day!
Aloha, all!
And welcome to the SUDSOL Blog Tour! SUDSOL is an online group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators to which I belong and it's one of the best groups for Stampin' Up! demonstrators on the web right now. I don't have an active upline for my demonstratorship, and SUDSOL has become my 24/7 upline (one of their tag lines, and it's well deserved!)
Today's Blog Tour features many, many members of SUDSOL, all of whom are showing off projects that we've made with products from Stampin' Up!'s 2011 Occasions Mini Catalog, which runs through April 30th of this year, or the Sale-A-Bration catalog, which runs through the end of March. I really wish I could show off ALL of the products in these catalog because they're some of the best ever minis! But instead, I'm going to focus on one of the "occasions" featured in the Occasions mini, and that's Valentine's Day. In particular, I'm going to show off the Specialty Designer Series Paper set, Love Impressions, along with a few other items from the mini.
Two of the projects I'm featuring today are mini photo albums, that can also be decorated and sent out in standard A2 size envelopes as Valentine Cards for someone special. The patterns for both of these albums are available on the SUDSOL website, which is available only for SUDSOL members (or those who choose to sign up for a Two-Week FREE trial membership!). The third project is unabashedly a greeting card, and I had a lot of fun figuring out the design for it.
Fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator, Ann Clemmer, demonstrated the first project as a presenter at a Stampin' Up! regional seminar. It is a mini book that is so easy and so economical to make! The inside of the book uses just one piece of card stock or designer paper, and you can decorate it with scraps from other projects – just as I did!
I decorated the front of this little book with one of the designs from the Love Impressions Designer Paper Set, and layered on a stamped definition of Valentine that's found in the brand new stamp set, Valentine Defined (who would have figured that?!) To give the front just a bit of pizzazz, I added Whisper White Brads, that are part of the Neutrals Brad set in the annual Stampin' Up! catalog. The cover of the book is a piece of Textured Real Red Card Stock that was a scrap from an earlier project. I NEVER throw any kind of leftovers away! The book is tied closed with a piece of Real Red 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon. I like how the white edge of this ribbon "ties" in with the rest of the decor.
Inside there are enough pages to hold 6 photos and 6 pages of journaling – journaling is SO important in any kind of a memory book, no matter how small!
The second project I'm sharing with you is also a photo album or greeting card, but it's a bit more labor intensive. Nonetheless, it calls for only one piece of 12" square card stock and one piece of 12" square Designer Series Paper (guess which Designer Series Paper I used!)
Now I know it doesn't look much different on the front from the first album, except for the decorations. But it's just slightly larger (this is a 4" square album, and the mini book is a 3" square album). What's really different is what's inside.
But let's just take a quick look at the front before we look inside. The heart in the center of the front is punched with Stampin' Up!'s Full Heart Punch, using the brand new Red Glimmer Paper from the Occasions Mini. I matted it with a piece of Whisper White card stock cut with the Stampin' Up! exclusive Sizzix Embosslit, Scalloped Heart of Hearts. What's really fun about this album front is the full border using the Scallop Trim Border and Scallop Trim Corner punches. To find the right measurement to make the corner and border punches work perfectly together, I just headed for the SUDSOL files and there it was! Oh, and that paper with the embossed hearts? It's one of the "Specialty" papers in the designer series paper set! Just gorgeous paper! And everything's tied together with some Whisper White 5/8" Satin Ribbon.
OK, now let's look at the inside of this album.
Look at all those folds! And you wouldn't believe how simple it is to make. I know because I wrote my own version of the instructions for this album and then followed them and it took no time to get the basic album put together. Now figuring out just the right paper for each page, and the right stamps for my journaling blocks – I did pray over that a bit. But it was fun (I try not to do things that aren't fun!). The stamps are also from the Valentine Defined Stamp Set, so you can see I've been making good use of that set! And about that set of instructions – here it is!
And finally here's a greeting card using the other one of the "Specialty" sheets from the Love Impressions Specialty Designer Series Paper set. The letters of the alphabet cover this sheet of paper, with the letters L, O, V, and E, highlighted in Whisper White on one side. Unfortunately, you can't just cut that section out and put it on a 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" greeting card (portrait OR landscape). But I really did want to use them on a card. So I cut them out individually! Here I punched them with the Small Tag Punch, matted them with some Pretty in Pink Card Stock, some of it punched with the Pinking Hearts Border Punch. I "tied" the tags on with some Pretty in Pink 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon onto the other paper from the Love Impressions set, and tied the whole card front together with Pretty in Pink 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon. The final touch was the "U" cut out of the designer paper.
These were all SOOO much fun to make. And I still have a big stack of paper left over from the Designer Series Paper Set! More fun for February! If you don't have some of this fun paper, you can just order it online right now – and then go have some fun with it yourself!
You can find these projects and many, many, many more in my very own gallery on the SUDSOL Website! Just click here for a two-week FREE TRIAL!
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