It was a busy weekend around my house. In typical style, I was working last minute on Valentine’s Day treats for my boys’ classes and their teachers. Not sure why but this always seems to be something I put off. I started out with the treats for the kids by pulling out an old set called Mini Messages. This is one that I bought early in my stamping life and never knew quite what to do with it. Inspiration hit and off I went!
I stamped the “my friend” script in Soft Suede on Very Vanilla and punched it out with a Large Tag punch. I then stamped the heart in Cherry Cobbler and cut it out. Yes, it would have been loads easier if I had used any of our large variety of heart punches but sadly, none live at my house (this WILL be fixed!!). The Extra-Large Tag Punch was used on Cherry Cobbler paper and I just had to assemble. I put some chocolate into Medium Cellophane Bags, punched a hole in the tags with a 1/16″ Circle Punch and tied them closed with Vanilla 1/8″ Taffeta Ribbon. Easy and done!
Being a demonstrator has so many cool advantages and one was that we received a sample of the Love Impressions Rub-Ons as a free gift from Stampin’ Up! Before I went to work on cards for the teachers, I wanted to make two Valentine’s for my sweet sons. The front card is one of those. It uses the FTL127 layout which seemed perfect for this. There is absolutely no stamping on either of these cards. It is all rub-ons (even on the inside of the card)! I put the heart balloons on Whisper White card stock and cut them out so that I could pop them up on Dimensionals. The heart paper is from the Play Date DSP set. When I saw Stampin’ Celebration’s inspiration piece this week, I knew I’d use the XOXO balloon for it! Don’t forget to take a look at all the cool Valentine’s Day goodies they created!
Both of the cards here were used for my sons’ teachers (of course some treats were included for them too). All of these cards qualify for one of my favorite challenges, Stampin’ Royalty. Their SR#58 is Hearts, Hearts and More Hearts and that sums up my crafting this weekend!
Thanks for stopping by to see my crazy Valentine-a-pa-looza weekend results. I hope your day is a happy one!
Cards:
Stamps: None; Paper: Whisper White, Basic Gray, Real Red, Play Date DSP; Ink: None; Accessories: Love Impressions Rub-ons (Occasions Mini), Dimensionals, Brights Buttons, Thread (non-SU)
All products are Stampin’ Up unless otherwise indicated!
12 Comments
What cute treats! And great cards! I’m sure that everyone loved them!
Fantastic! Love all the rubons! Your little treat bags is perfect!
Such cute treats and cards! I love how you used the rub-ons and then popped them up! Thanks for playing along with us at Stampin Celebration!
What fabulous treat bags and cards! I totally forgot about those free rubons until I read this!
What a fabulous collection of goodies! Hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day! Thanks for playing at SCIC!
Love your simple cards. Thanks for joining us at Stampin’ Royalty this week.
I just love the whimsical feel of those rub ons. Super cute cards. Thanks for joining us at Stampin’ Royalty this week.
I love how clean your cards are and the colors you used!
I love them all–great idea to stamp over the friends saying with the heart!
Super cute! Your heart balloon cards came out great!
I love all the fun Valentine goodies and seeing how you used the rub-ons. Thanks so much for joining us at Stampin’ Celebration!
Jen, I love the treats and the cards are just too adorable! Great way to showcase the rub-ons!