Hello............Guess what? I'm not making a Valentine! LOL I know...I've made quite a few lately. But this time its A Gift in a Card. Not to be confused with a gift card. 2 different things. The other day I was on You tube....I know right? I need to stay off but I don't. Anyway I came across a Valentine card by Mixed up Craft. SEEN HERE. Super cute but I didn't want another Valentine and I didn't want to do a herringbone design. So I changed it up a bit and made it into a birthday card. I really needed one for a friend so I was eager to jump in. I had this paper pad from Paper Wishes called Peony by Crafters Companion.
I was feeling "Springy" even though our Woodstock Willie said 6 more weeks of winter, so I chose Pink and yellow and green for the colors. Now I decided to put a bottle of wine in it and for some reason I thought it had to be one of those airline size bottles. Enough for just a shot. Well they don't make wine that tiny and I soon found out that the box was bigger than I imagined so I headed out to pick up a little 4 pack of single serve bottles. Fits beautifully. I'm thinking of resizing the card to hold one of those airline size bottles of maybe whiskey for a guy card. The size of the wine card would be way too big.
Anyway here's my card. I like to give my friends special cards with their gifts. They are always so impressed.
So this is one of those cards that I absolutely LOVE! I would love to get something like this and I am so excited to see how my friend likes it. Wonder if she'd mind if I ask for it back? LOL Nooooo...I'll let her keep it but I'm going to make another one right away. I found little bubble baths that are in small champagne type bottles so I'm going to make them as "Just Because" cards. I'll share those soon. If I figure out the small size for airline liquor bottles I'll share that too.
Until later........................
HAPPY CARDING
Well one thing we can count on is Valentines day is just around the corner. Unlike Spring. There are mixed reviews on whether or not he saw his shadow. Most of the country rely on the prediction of Punxsutawney Phil who claims we will have an early spring. But here where I live we have Woodstock Willie. You see I am not to far from Woodstock where they filmed Bill Murray's famous Groundhog Day Movie in 1993. I have even eaten at the old restaurant and walked the Square where most of the movie was filmed. Un-lucky for us our Groundhog predicted 6 more weeks of winter due to our final arrival of the sun that had gone missing from here for well over a week. So will spring be early, will it be late, who knows. But as I said we can definitely count on Valentines day to be arriving right on time.
So I have another treat holder. This time it perfectly holds one of those oh so delicious Ghiradelli Chocolate squares. I chose to put the Dark Chocolate with the raspberry filling in mine because they always reminded me of Valentines day.
You need 1 piece double sided card stock measuring 2.75" by 9 5/8" scored at 2.75, 3, 6.25, 6.5
With your word punch, insert the bottom end all the way in and place slightly to the left and punch. With paper still in punch, slide paper a bit to the right and punch again. This will give you a bit larger slot for the candy.
Now just slip your candy into the slot and glue the paper on the inside. Not even really necessary but I did glue it.
Pull the top piece down like your closing a match book and tie a ribbon. That's what holds it all together. In fact the recipient doesn't even have to untie they can just slip the top out from the ribbon. I scallop rounded the top corners and like I said I also glued the inside flap down above the chocolate. I happen to like to glue lol.
Add a few embellies and your done. Perfect little gift for a co-worker. I originally saw this on Stamping with Karen here. She actually stamped the cardstock where I just took the easy route and used double sided stuff. LOL
Enjoy and until next time...........
HAPPY CARDING
So if you read my early January post on my Challenge this year you know the story behind the 1 stamp 12 times. For those just tuning in I basically choose 1 stamp to work with once a month for the year. The stamp chosen will be posted on the monthly card by the 2nd of each month. Don't worry my regular readers I will not repeat this story every month just the card. lol
So I am super giddy about this months card. Again using my cutie Raccoons I decided to do a Fancy Fold double Z fold and make it a Valentine card. Of course I would. lol How can I describe this card?????? ADORABLE!
This card folds flat but does not open flat. That is on purpose. It is so you have this free standing card that you can set on a table or desk for display. Pretty cute huh?
So next month???? Hmmmmmmm....not sure what direction I will be heading. All I know is I have to use those raccoons in their trash can.
So until then...........
HAPPY CARDING!
Need a little treat for a Co worker? Or maybe a few friends just to say your glad to be friends? Then this cute little box is just right. Originally posted by Sam Hammond on her blog Pootles She is such an inspiration for little boxes. These she made to display the new spring line of papers and I turned them into Valentines.
Here's how.
Score your 6x6 as above. At the 3/4" score cut
You need double sided papers for these since you turn down the one score line to make the little boxes look more complicated but they're not. I found grabbing some of the 6x6 paper pads give you a large number of choices but you can also use a 12 x 12 sheet as I did below and just reverse the bottoms.
Pinch the tops together and tie a ribbon around them to keep them closed. Then embellish with little tags. I love layers so I just kept layering on a label that I punched out of really heavy card stock. The punch I used was the large Paper studio label punch from Hobby Lobby. I used glue to adhere it to the box. Inside the box is just big enough for a Ghirardelli chocolate square. YUM!
I'm meeting up with a couple of friends for dinner next month so I think I'll give them a little treat.
So cruising through Pinterest I saw this card. Super cute and I know I've seen it before but I can't remember where.
I was hoping the person who Pinned the above card would have instructions. Here is what I found. CLICK Unfortunately the blog is in German so I hit the translate button. Skimmed through her post and NOPE no instructions. I tried a Pinterest search but I have not found this card. Maybe I'd have better luck if I knew what the fold was called.
So through looking at her pictures I came up with a finished card size 3 x 6.
Lets start...........your base will need a piece of solid card stock 6 x 9" to which you will make the following score marks. On long side score at 3" then on short side score at 3". At top left corner score diagonally to 6" down on right side. Then from top middle score line make another scoreline to 3" down on right side. Photo shows where all your score marks should be.
Next fold all your scorelines. Fiddle with closing so that it looks like this:
That top point I actually folded inward and glued it down but it can be left unglued which is what the original poster did.
Now for your layers you will need 4 squares measuring 2.75 x 2.75". You will then cut each square in half diagonally. You will also need 1 piece 2.75 x 5.75 for inside left part of card and then 2 2.75 x 5.75" for right inside and out side part. These 2 pieces need to be trimmed to fit.
You also need a piece of card stock 1" x 7" to be used as a belly band. A piece of patterned paper left over from what you had used for the card measuring 3/4th x 2.75" for the band layer is also needed. No the original card did not have one but I found that the card does not stay closed. If that is no big deal to you, it can be omitted.
Card on the left shows it closed with the belly band on and on the right the card shows how it doesn't stay closed. The belly band for that one is in the front. I think these turned out pretty cute and I may try playing with the size but you need to work in thirds so if I was to make this bigger than a 3" x 6" The paper would probably have to be 8x12 which would I think make a 4 x 8 card which is kind of awkward.
Another great advantage of this card is that it also fits in those Dollar Tree security envelopes!
I hope you enjoyed this fold and until next time..................
HAPPY CARDING
Yep it's another..............VALENTINE! This time for you non fancy fold lovers I have a regular folded card. Once again papers are from my stash but I did pull out a mason jar die I have had for about 2 years and never used it. Its a "no name die" that I probably got off of Amazon. I know I have another mason jar die that came with a stamp set of flowers but I'm not sure where that went. Also in my drawer of wooden stamps I had this old "Conversation Hearts" stamp. I must have used it in the past because it was ink stained but I have no recollection of when or for what type of card. This card base is 4.25" x 12" scored at 6".
The "You are Loved" is washi tape that I bought at Joanns. I also jazzed up the canning jar by adding a little scallop skirt to the top. It was just a scallop circle cut to fit. The pink hearts are from an old hand punch. Like I said super simple.
Hope you are all finding some sort of inspiration from these past few post on Valentines.
Til next time...................
HAPPY CARDING!
I'm really hooked on Valentine cards lately. I'm not even sure what I'm going to do with the ones I have since I don't usually give out Valentines to anyone other than my Grandkids or my hubby. But here I am making more. Maybe it's the cute papers I keep finding in my stash. I first saw this card by Connie Stewart HERE . Super cute and as Connie says super easy.
I only changed up a little from hers. I added the solid cream piece inside for a signature. Do you need it? No but because of the color that I used for the base I decided it needed something not so dark to sign. Also on the front I had decided instead of stamping the right side I decided to just make a little homemade embellie instead. If you want to make this card be sure to check out Connie's blog. Her video is super simple to follow.
A few more Valentines are in my head so Til next time.....................
HAPPY CARDING!
