A Call For Valentines

Hello.  It's almost Valentines Day and I have been working on a few different cards these last few days which have given me quite a few scraps.  Seems to be the story of my life LOL.  As usual I turn to tags to use up my scraps and this time is no different as I turn many of these scraps into tags and embellies.  Here are some I had been working on.  Some tags for Valentine gifts but some tags I just made as pretty girlie tags.  The embellies were all used for the tags and of course I just kept making embellies until the pieces were just too tiny to use.

Then my Village News Letter came.  One of the articles was about our State Representative and a Dist. Representatives working together in our community to collect Valentines for local frontline heroes in my community.  The drop off location is actually just down the street from me across from the fire dept.  Well now........do I have any Valentine supplies that I could whip up a few cards with?  Hahahahaha.

Do I ever!!!!  So I pushed those embellies aside (they will be used for sure now) and got to work on card bases.  Now you know me.  I can't just do regular card bases.  I have to go a little fancy.  I mean they won't be overly embellished but they can at least have a fancier fold right?  And no piece was wasted.  The angled accordion card?  Well the piece cut off actually measured 4" x 3" when folded closed.  Well in my book that's still a Valentine sized card, so I went with it and made it a card too.  So I started with a few angled accordion mini slim cards.  Very simple with 4 saying Happy Valentines Day inside and 4 saying Thank you inside.  Then with the cut off pieces I made mini cards that say Happy Valentines Day inside.   Here are the beginning ones partially decorated.

I then started making another mini slim card though I have no idea what it is called.  I know I've seen them somewhere but for the life of me I can't remember where. It too is pretty simple and uses just scraps.  So then I also found that the simple triple fold (I think that's what it's called) would also work as a slim card but I had decided to glue down one of the folds so it still opens like a regular card.  Another day and another time I will go more in depth with some of these cards but for right now I just wanted to share the ideas.  Below is the first batch to be boxed up and I still have papers leftover and quite a few more embellies.  Because?  Well....more scraps....equals more embellies!!  I guarantee by the end of this project I will still have a bunch of Valentine Embellies.

I had decided to stick with the mini slimline cards because I can use Dollar Tree envelopes for them.  I just stamped a postage cancellation on all the envelopes so they didn't look so business like.  Now those short little cut off cards I had to make the envelopes for them but having the envelope punch board from WRMK makes that an easy task.

I'm going to keep making until I run out of paper from this generic paper pack I have.  There will probably still be extra tags out of these scraps too.  I'll let you know.  This is such a fun project.  I think I have really found my Mojo.  I need more local projects like this one. With still a large amount of paper left I think I'll also make some Valentines for the grandkids to give their Teachers. 

Til next time.......................................................................