Hello February!

 

Valentine's Day is just a week away and I wanted to show my Valentine Centerpiece with some added Valentine Target birds. Love making these centerpieces for every occasion/holiday! I am thinking the ribbons make the piece.  This is going to be a busy month taking care of our friends pups while they are travelling. Here is Penny and Ollie! The two of them get along great!

Macy arrived last night and here is a photo of her! She is so sweet and lovable! February has been very cold and snowy as has the whole winter here in the Northeast but spring is coming. Now to get those March birthday cards done! Thanks for stopping by.

Valentine Centerpiece & Birthdays

We had some friends over for dinner and I wanted to make a centerpiece for the table. I used a container that I had from a gift and painted it red and white. It needed a couple of coats of paint for both the red and white colors. The felt hearts around the rim of the container I made myself with felt and a heart steel die from sizzix. The heart shapes were from the dollar store and I decoupaged them with music sheets I had. Then I just decorated them and put them on a stick. Loved the way it came out. Here is a closer look...

My Valentine card to my husband is a book style card from Mixed up crafts. It was pretty easy just cut, score and then glue!

Graphic 45 Love notes is the paper collection that I used for this card. Happy Valentine's Day. One last birthday card I made for a friend's birthday that was just before Valentine's Day and as you can see he is a golfer!

This is an upright Z fold or double easel card. I used a stamp set from Stampin up for the golfer, ball and clubs. Then I used some dies and punches for the different shapes. Happy Birthday Tom!

February Birthdays!

Love these pop up double tier cards especially for birthdays, and I love adding a photo! I made 2 of these for a friend's husband and my brother in law who's birthday is at the end of the month. Both of them, have a love affair with their cars! Below is the picture that I made for my brother-in-law. Did I mention that he is turning 70? Happy Birthday Tom & Sandy!

My sisters and I have changed up our booth at Cole's Corner in Wells, Maine and below are some pictures. We have added some of our crafts for Valentine's day which is a week from today!

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

Welcome to 2022!

Since it is a New Year, my sisters and I went to our booth yesterday changed out Christmas items for Valentine items! This is the first thing I made for Valentine's Day. A Valentine heart made with corks! You can hang it on your front door or on your wall. If it doesn't sell, I may hang in on my wall. My daughter gives me a lot of corks from the restaurant that she works. I painted the tops of the corks pink and red with the ribbon wrapped around the entire heart. It took a few days to make because I glued the heart a little at a time to make sure they stayed in place. I used both Gorilla glue and hot glue. Loved how it came out! For our booth, I also made a couple of Valentine baskets and also with corks a cell phone holder which is pictured below.

It has a nautical theme because where we have our booth is near the ocean and nautical things sell very well. I actually kept one of the cell phone holders that I made for myself. It works great in my craftroom to watch videos.

Above is the Valentine Explosion Box that I made which was fun to do! Explosion Boxes are always fun to do! Here are some pictures of the inside of the explosion box.

I want to make another one for a friend who I know will love this. You can add pictures to this box too! Valentine's Day will be here before you know it! Thanks for stopping by!

Valentine Shutter Card

I I am starting a little early making Valentine cards. This style card was fun to make especially when it came out right! Love how the shutters open and close. The tutorial for this card was done by Ann Melvin. She did a great job explaining and it was easy to follow. I used Spellbinders heart nestabilities. I love the little cupids from Impression Obsession. The stamp I used is from Stampin up.

The back of the card has plenty of room for a sentiment. I added plenty of bows, roses and bling to the card. Can't wait to make another one! Off to the craftroom!

Happy Valentine's Day

This week has been a busy week making favors for a Valentine's Day dinner tonight at a friend's house.  I made and decorated cookies for these totes to give to the men and I made these little fabric purses for the ladies!  I will link the tutorial I saw on Pinterest for the purses but I made them a little different because I didn't have the die for the purse.  It would have been easier for sure with the die but ....  I made my own templates. 

I used hoop and loop closures for the purses and filled with Lindt chocolates. Check out the tutorial below if you are interested in making them.

                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXC8XaO-KA
Lastly, I made this card for my husband. It is a retired Stampin up set - such a beautiful set! I have been die cutting a lot lately and wanted to do some stamping. 

My Valentine!

Welcome February!

I have been busy working on this sampler for my grand-niece who turns 1 on February 6th.  Her birthday party is tomorrow so I wanted to finish it.  I used the "Bundle of Joy" Echo Park baby collection for this sampler and her card.  I printed off so many pictures of her smiling that it was hard to pick which ones to use.  She is always smiling!!  I used some stickers from the paper collection and dies from Marianne Designs, Spellbinders and from Tim Holtz.  She is so adorable!!  Her birthday card is below.  The inside of the card I made a little pocket for a gift certificate.

Happy 1st Birthday Tatum!

Inside card

After I finished the above project, I have been working on Valentine favors for friends that are coming next week for a "Craft Day".  They are fun and really easy to make.  I will provide the link below for this favor.  It measures 3 1/4 x 5 and has a little box inside for candy.  I have made this type of project before but bigger.

Valentine Candy inside

Made 8 in all! 

The link to make this is  https://chicnscratch.com/2019/01/hey-love-candy-box.html   Angie does a great job of explaining how to make this cute little project.    I have 6 people coming for Craft Day and this will be perfect for them. 

I'm also working on luminaries for the spring so I will post pictures shortly.  Thanks for stopping by!  Happy Valentine's Day!  I will also have to post pictures of my Craft Day with friends next week!!!

Happy Valentine's Day

 Yesterday my sister, Connie and I decorated cookies!  I made some for Valentine's Day for the little girls next door and another little girl who is a granddaughter to a friend of mine.  Still need to do some more practicing but I think I am getting the flooding technique down pat.  I still need a steady hand for the decorating part of it.  The cookies fit in the little pizza boxes from Stampin Up. The box holds 2 cookies perfectly.  I decorated the boxes inside and out with dies from Spellbinders and Impression Obsession.  The paper is from Michael's that I picked up the last minute just for this project.

Heart cookies inside!

Packaged and ready to go!

Close up!

Hubby's Valentine Card

Here is the card that I made for my husband this year!  The stamp set is from Stampin Up and I love it.  I have made a birthday card from this set too.   I needed to make one real quick and this was perfect.  Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

January Birthday Cards

Last month I purchase from Stampin up the Coffee Cafe bundle and this is the second card I have made.  This one is for my husband who is a coffee drinker and I love all the sayings that you can use for cards. This style card is a Z-fold which worked out perfect for my husband's card.  Inside the card - "Coffee! Coffee! It's our drink, if we don't get it we can't think!"  and I also used "No matter what historians claimed, BC really stand for "Before Coffee"!  Love this set and they give you everything you need, from small cups to the little coffee beans and ice cubes for lattes!!  They even had paper to go with the set but I didn't get it yet (you never know) but it is so cute!!  The paper I used is from Stampin Up - they do have beautiful paper collections!

For the Coffee Addict!

Birthday Girl

The second card I made for a January birthday is another bundle I purchased from Stampin up called Balloon Adventures.  I purchased it a while ago and just realized that it has been retired which is too bad because it is a great set.  You can do so much with it.  I have seen on Pinterest that you can made luminaries with it.  This pop up card is perfect and I used the balloon punch with it.

The ice cream cone was a die that I just got from Spellbinders and it worked great with this card.  Who doesn't like an ice cream cone?  Happy Birthday Betti!

My sisters and I are still working on decorating cookies and our craft day last week was again making cookies.  Below are some pictures of Valentine's Day cookies.  Practice, practice, practice!!

Packaged and ready for friends

Love Spellbinders heart die!

Working on my lips!

My Valentine!

I have started making my Valentine's Day cards because it will be here before you know it.  This one is for my husband.  It is the twist and pop card, using Mon Amour from Graphic 45.  The paper is beautiful!  I am glad I don't have to mail this because the embellishments I used inside and out make the card a little thick.  When I make this card again, I think I will put a gusset in it.

L O V E

The paper from Graphic 45 makes this card so special.  The cupids are dies from Die-namics and the lace heart die is from Cheery Lynn Designs.  It is kind of hard to see but the letters L O V E are glittered letters from Michael's.  They fit perfectly in the hearts from Spellbinders/Nestabilities.  Still need to make a couple more Valentine's Day cards.  Thanks for checking this card out!