Easy Valentine's Decor with Stand Up Letters

Hi all, hope your week is going well.  I told you I would be back with some more Valentine's Day decor goodies.  So today I have a super simple decor piece if you have a Silhouette.  This would be easy to replicate with a Cricut, but I have the source to the Silhouette file here.  

So do you see the word LOVE on my mantel.  This was a super easy project that I found on Pinterest.  Here is a close up of my version:

This was done with two pieces of Silhouette cardstock for sturdiness.  I covered one piece with white cardstock for the contrast piece and them used some glitter valentines cardstock for the letters.  The best thing about this is that someone else made the letters for this.  Here is the pin with the Silhouette cut file that I used.    She used the letters for gift wrapping, but I thing they look great as an addition to my mantel.
Hope you get to use this super easy cut file.  I am off to design some Valentines for my kids class parties.  Have a great day.  

Okay I know Valentine's Day is Over

Good evening all.  As the title says I know Valentine's Day is over but I do have a few more related crafts to show you.  I mentioned in my last post that I would show how I used the treat toppers and so here they are.

I made 12 of these great Red Velvet Whoopie Pies for the kids goody bags.  I got the baking inspiration off of Pinterest.  The actual recipe site is here.  I changed up her filling recipe a bit.  Her cream cheese filling was absolutely delicious on its own but I thought that for a whoopie pie it needed to be less dense.  So I made some whipped cream and folded it into the cream cheese filling,  This made the whole desert have a lighter feel to it.  They were great and I may make them every year.
Here is a pic of my girls showing off their Valentine's from mommy.

And on a final note I wanted to post the Valentine's Card I made for my 2yo class party.

I had to make 13 of these cards so I kept them pretty simple, but I do love the handwritten sentiment. 
Card Recipe:

   * 3" x 3" red card base
   * Heart from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 2.5"
   * Bee from Create-a-critter cut at 2"
   * Ribbon from Jo-ann's
   * Frosted Lace Stickles
   * Embossing from Simply charmed Companion set

Hope you enjoy.  I also wanted to mention a great score I found at Tuesday Mornings.  I walked in there the other day just to see what they had in their crafting section and I saw a Zutter Bind-it-all V2.  The set came with the wire and some chipboard for a price of ..... $25.10!!!!  I could not pass this up.  I already have a project lined up to use it with.  Hope you have a wonderful evening.

Valentines Treat Toppers - MPS Blog Hop Challenge

Good afternoon all, I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.  I found some time this weekend to work on some treat toppers for my girls class Valentine's party.  I am making Red Velvet Whoppie pies for her class and wanted some cute packaging for them.  I also did the My Pink Stamper Blog hop and wanted to use the challenge guidelines as the basis for the treat toppers.  The challenge was to make a project with a circle, the color red, pink ribbon and two stamped sentiments.  Here is what I came up with.

Craft Recipe:

• Red card stock cut at 5" x 7", then scored at 2.5" on the 5" side so it can be folded in half
• Scalloped hearts from Craft Room Exclusives - this is a free digital cartridge for everyone
• Ribbon with pink and red hearts from Michaels
• Sentiments on outer hearts both from My Pink Stamper Sweetest Cupcakes
• XO just an alphabet stamp set from Michaels
• Polka - dot Cuttlebug folder

So I think I did pretty good with the challenge rules.  If you haven't found my circle it's the embossing on the red card stock.  Pretty clever huh.  I will try to post a picture with the whoopie pies inside the bags.  Hope you enjoy and your week gets off to a great start.

Valentine's Love

Good evening all.  It has been a crazy week here but for good reason.  We have one extra toddler in the house, my brother's daughter.  We are taking care of her while my sister-in-law goes to meet my brother who just came back from Afghanistan.  We are so glad he is back safe and sound for good and are really grateful for his service.  A house with three children 4 and under does make for a little chaos but alot of fun.
The project I have for you tonight is the boxes I made for my 4 year old's class valentines.  I decided to make little match boxes to hold candy for the kids.  She loves them and very proudly wrote her name on the back of each box.

Craft Recipe:

   * Matchbox cut at 4" from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More
   * Heart cut from Create-a-Critter cut at 1.5"
   * Sentiment from My Pink Stamper Love-alicious
   * Swiss Dot cuttlebug folder
   * Xmas Red Stickles
   * Ribbon from stash

I just used a standard tape runner for the adhesive as I figured they would get torn apart while the kids were trying to get the candy.  I am entering this in the weekly challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut, which was to use a heart on your project.  Hope you all enjoy and have a great end to your week. 

Valentine's Card for Kids

Good evening.  I have been working on Valentine's cards for my kiddos this week.  It is only right around the corner!!!  This is one of my favorite holidays because it is all about expressing your love.  I decided to use a dimensional gate fold card that I haven't done before.  I think the cards came out great and the kids are really going to love them.  I also made a video showing how I created the cards.  Here they are.

Here are some pics of the other card I made as well.

Card Recipe and Supplies:
 Owl Card:
   * Start with a 5" x 12" piece of card stock - K & Company
   * Start at one side and score at 2" 4" 8"  and 10"
   * Should have an inside card dimension of 5" x 4" with two 2" folded flaps
   * Elegant Edges Hearts1 oblong feature cut at 4" - then cut in half
   * Plantin Schoolbook heart cut at about 1"
   * Create-a-Critter Owl cut at 3"
   * Ribbon from Jo-anns
   * Crop-a-dile used for the eye-lets
   * Cotton Candy Stickles

Love Bug Card:
* Start with a 5" x 12" piece of card stock - K & Company
* Start at one side and score at 2" 4" 8"  and 10"
* Should have an inside card dimension of 5" x 4" with two 2" folded flaps
* Elegant Edges Hearts 2 oblong feature cut at 4" - then cut in half
* Simply Charmed Love Bug 2 cut at 2.75"
* Simply Charmed Love Bug Sentiment cut at 1"
* Ribbon from Jo-anns
* Crop-a-dile used for eye-lets
* Cotton Candy Stickles

I have also entered this card into the Anything Goes challenge over at My Craft Spot.

Have a great weekend!!!

Chic Valentines Card

Good Evening All.  Just crafting away while my hubby is out of town and decided to work on a card for him for Valentines Day.  It is only right around the corner.  I wanted to make something adult and sophisticated so I decided to go with a black and white card with a touch of red.  I based the card on black and white but knew that I wanted to use a small scrap of deep red velvet paper that I had.  After scouring through my scrap box I finally found it and sized the card based on how big a heart I could cut out of the scrap.  Here it is:

Card Recipe:

• Base card is 5" x 5" in black
• Background paper is 4.5" x 4.5" from DCWV Bella Armoire stack
• Heart is 3" cut from Gypsy Wanderings
• The tag is 2.5" x 2.5" from Cricut Ultimate Creative Series Sampler image #27 Bonus 1
• Sentiment is from My Pink Stamper Love-alicious with red embossing powder
• I used the crop-a-dial to do the eyelets with red twine from Michaels

 The tag is really decorative but kinda hard to see in the photo.  I really matches the swirls on the paper.  I am entering this in challenge #95 over at the Fantabulous Cricut blog.  The challenge is to use a tag other than a circle.  Hope you enjoy and inspires a little love in all of you.  Have a great evening.