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Valentine's Pirate

I spent most of the day on Saturday getting my stamping groove on while listening to Barry Manilow music(don't judge!).  It's amazing how hours disappear when you are doing something you enjoy.  I want to send out cards to many people so I made multiples of several different cards.  

This pirate is from a set called, Hey Valentine.  Each image is one you color in. As you probably know by now, I love to color line images with my blendabilities so I had fun with this one.

 Here is the full recipe of the card I made:

tams# 2422

Product List

• Hey, Valentine Clear Stamp Set [138570]
• Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102482]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
• Stacked With Love Designer Series Paper Stack [137779]
• Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]
• Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Skin Tone Assortment [129370]
• Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Smoky Slate Assortment [131005]
• Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Crumb Cake Assortment [131004]
• Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Daffodil Delight Assortment [130998]
• Bermuda Bay Assortment Stampin' Blendabilities Markers [133623]
• Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Night Of Navy Assortment [131001]
• Ovals Collection Framelits Die [129381]
• Deco Labels Framelits Die [130102]
• Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

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As always, all products can be ordered on my online website here.

 

You are never too old for a cute Valentine's card in the mail.  It is sure to brighten someone's day!  This one is on it's way to my friend, Paula.  I will share the other cards I made later this week.

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Kathleen

 

Happy Valentines Day 2013!

Valentine's day is so much fun, don't you think?  I have always thought of it as a day to show love to my whole family, not just my sweetheart.  We would get heart shaped pizza and I would set the table with valentine's placemats, decorate the house for Valentine's and get everyone a gift.  This year will be a little different.  My daughter is away in her first year of college and my two sons will be at ski club.  My husband and I might be able to sneak away for a dinner for just the two of us!  I will miss the family dinner though.

I have no more kids in elementary school so the days of exchanging Valentines with classmates is over. *sigh* My youngest has a girlfriend.  It's 7th grade young love! I had fun making a few goodies for her. Here is the gift bag he will be giving to her today.

The Fancy Favor gift box is a Stampin' Up! Sizzix die.  It's my go to box when I want a little cute gift packaging.  You gotta have one of those!

Fancy Favor Gift box, item#115965, $39.95

I also made one of the cute owl pillow boxes I have been seeing everywhere!

Sam is filling both of these with chocolate and giving them to her today.

My 9th grader came home with a note from his Language arts teacher that the class wants to exchange Valentines.  Imagine my glee!   I started thinking up cute ideas.  I came up with this Bingo card idea I made in Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio software:

He thought is was a dumb idea and not Valentine's related.  I pleaded with him to at least let me make it for his teacher.  I guarantee she will love it!  He said no.  *sigh*.  Then I found this cute My Digital studio download for Valentines.  It was only $2.95!  I re-sized them and printed up 32 for his classmates.

Aren't these cute?  Nick didn't think so.  He had other ideas.  He wants to just hand out a starburst candy to everyone and call it a day. Breaks my heart. *sigh* I'm not appreciated in my own home. Teenage boys, whaddya gonna do? Well, I'm going to give these to my co-workers today.  I will have my youngest give him to his teammates at gymnastics.  Someone will appreciate them.

You can purchase this digital download and all other products on my website here.

I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's day with your loved ones!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Kathleen

A kiss for you

Don't you love punch art?  We made this clever card at my upline, Karen's meeting.  The candy kiss is made with the Blossom Petals XL punch.  We used the largest petal and cut off the frilly parts.  So easy and cute! We wrapped aluminum foil around it to make it look like the wrapping off of a Hershey's kiss. The greetings from Petite Pairs is the perfect compliment!

Blossom Petals Xl Punch - by Stampin' Up!

Item# 121808, $16.95 each.  You can order this punch and the rest of the supplies at my website here.

Recipe: Stamps: Petite Pairs,(item#122495 for wood mount and 122497 for clear mount)

Ink: Real Red

Paper: Real Red Cooerdinations cardstock, Naturals White, Chocoalte Chip

Other: Honeycomb Textured Impressions Embossing folder, Blossom Petals Xl punch, small oval punch, real red ribbon

Item#129378, $7.95 each

This card was so cute we made it at stamp club this month too.  The ladies loved it how easy it was to make with the punch!

We are getting snow and sleet here in Minnesota.  I have to go pick my son up from work and pick up some groceries for a lunch I'm providing at work tomorrow.  I'd rather stay put in my warm cozy house but that is not always an option, hmmm. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

 

Jar of Hearts

From the frozen tundras of Minnesota comes this Valentine card to warm your heart.  Seriously, it's 11 below right now!  I'm a born and bred Minnesotan but I'm never used to this kind of cold.  We're going to boil some water this morning and throw it up in the air outside.  The water will evaporate immediately.  Kind of a cool science experiment!

Back to my card.  We made this in stamp club.  Any chance I get to you use my Friendship Preserves stamp set with the coordinating Cannery Framelits diecuts you know I am going to take it!

Recipe: Stamps: Friendship Preserves(this is carried over from the Holiday 2012 catalog!)

Ink: Jetblack Stazon

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red Cooerdinations cardstock(Occasions 2013 catalog), Real red dp from Brights Designer Series pack and Pretty in Pink dp from Subtles Designer Series pack, Cannery Framelits diecuts for the Bigshot, Tasteful Trim die, Chevron embossing folder, small heart punch, Black 1/8" taffeta ribbon

Everything can be purchased through my website here.

We are going to brave the cold and go to my son's gymnastics meet tonight at the U of MN.  It's a great place to watch him compete!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

 

Valentine tickets

This is my second swap card for a WOW card swap I'm in.  I love this ticket stamp set called, "That's the Ticket".  It's in the new Occasions catalog. I have a fun way I used on another card I will show you this week.

Recipe: Stamps: That's the ticket

Ink: Melon Mamo

Paper: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight(heart), Marina Mist, Melon Mambo, Sunshine and Sprinkles designer paper

Other: Honeycomb embossing folder, Hearts Collection Framelits, 2 3/8 scallop circle punch, Fancy Flower punch, Blossom punch, Fancy Fan Folder embossing folder, stampin' dimensionals, small heart punch, ticket duo builder punch, 3/4" circle punch, dotted scallop ribbon border punch, white bakers twine, rhinestones, vintage faceted designer button

Lots of layering on this one but so worth it!

Sale-a-bration is just around the corner.  It runs Jan.22-March 22 this year.  I will post more information about that soon.

My son is doing a unit in Science on genes - recessive genes and dominant genes.  He had to interview members of our family and see how similiar we are.  Apparently he has a lot of recessive genes. Hah!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

Happy Valentine's Day!

Do you have big plans with your loved ones today?  Usually, we pick up a heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's, I layout the table with festive Valentine placemats and plates, I give them each a little gift and we have some kind of sweet Valentine treat for dessert. Unfortunately, this year we will be scattered in different directions.  My daughter, Rebecca,works(at Papa Murphy's!), Nick has soccer, and Sam has gymnastics.  There isn't even time for my husband and I to sneak away for a romantic dinner because we have to be back in time to pick the kids up.Oh well.  Life is busy!

My youngest, Sam, is in 6th grade.  This is his last year in elementary school and the teachers told them it was optional to bring Valentines.  Sam didn't really want to but I wanted one last year to make something for his classmates.  So reluctantly, he is bringing in these for his class:

You can find the bubblewands at Target.  I just made little tags to hang from their heart shaped handles.

For his teacher I made this treat holder with a punch art lady bug:

Well, I gotta run to work.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Valentines Day

Yesterday, my son Sam and I were working on his Valentine's box for his 5th grade class.  There is a contest for the most lovely, the most hearts, the most creative, and the funniest.  He was going for the most creative and the most hearts.  I had this green polka dot paper on hand and green is his favorite color so we covered the box with it.  Then he made up a character, healthy heart, and wanted to draw a picture of it to put on his box.  My crafty motors were turning and I told him we could make a punch art character out of Healthy Heart.  I started going to town on it and consulting him here and there, getting quite carried away.  Finally, I stopped myself and told him we didn't have to do a punch art of his character.  I think he was relieved and he said he wanted to draw it himself.  It is his Valentine's box after all!  So this is our combined effort of Sam's Valentine's box.

 

 
Once again, my crafty supplies came in handy for my kids' school projects! 

For Sam's Valentines for his classmates, we made these boxes with a Valentine's tag.

 
 

By the time we got to his teacher's Valentine's, Sam had lost interest and was watching Toy Story.  So I got to let my juices flow and go to town on her present.

 

I used the Fancy Favor Sizzix box, cut a hole in the front panel with my 1 3/4" circle punch, taped a window sheet over the hole and filled it with chocolate.  I love seeing the treat through the window!  I gathered the wide striped pink ribbon at the top by putting sticky strip around the perimeter and gathering it as I went.  The tag is from the Eat Chocolate stamp set.  I just changed the greeting by stamping it and punching it out with the word window punch and popping it up.

I hope you have a great Valentine's day!

Kathleen

Occasions mini swaps

As promised I am sharing with you some of the swaps I received in the Occasions mini swap I was in.

This first one is by Carrie Greskoviak

 

The front left panel is the "Heart Pressed" Letterpress plate.  Such a cute and subtle background.  the heart in the quote bubble is made from the heart to heart punch and the new glitter paper in the mini.  So cute!

Next up is a card by Tina Taves. 

 

Tina used the new glitter paper and the heart punch and the Love Impressions Designer paper. Such a pretty color combo!

The last card for today is by Sandy Hoefakker.

 
Sandy used the heart punch to make a row of punches across her card.  I love the pleated ribbon too.

All three ladies used the Valentine Defined stamp set in the Occasions mini each with a different but, oh so cute, look!

It's bitter cold today in Minnesota.  I think it's been a rough winter, weather wise around the country by the sounds of it.  Tonight we have my son's first band concert.  It's beginner band so it will probably be painful.  Oh, the things we do for our munchkins!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Slacking

I've been really long in between posts lately.  Mostly due to the holidays, starting a new full-time job, getting a new camera, learning new camera, not liking new camera, new camera not taking good pictures, etc. Our long faithful friend, the Canon Powershot gave up it's life after 7 great years together.  We bought an Olympus and never did get it to work the way we wanted.  My husband returned it today and bought an updated version of the Canon.  Yeah!  I think we will be much happier together! ;) I'm hoping to get some better quality photos to post too.  Maybe even, dare I say, video?  I wouldn't hold my breath on that one but we'll see what we can do.

I have a card to share with you from January's stamp club.  It's using the adorable owl punch.  This one was really putzy and may have had some of my club members cursing at me under their breaths.  But it was fun to create!

 
 

Recipe: Short and Sweet(greeting)

Ink: Early Espresso, Blushing Bride

Paper: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Whisper White, Early Espresso, Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Red glimmer paper from the Occasions mini catalog, Blushing Bride dp from Level 1 hostess paper pack

Other: Tasteful Trim Sizzix die, owl punch, Tulips frame embossing folder(from Occasions mini), Top Note Sizzix die, large oval punch, scallop oval punch, bird punch(wings), heart to heart punch

Whaddya think? 

We were at my son, Sam's first gymnastics competition today.  He's been taking gymastics for 1 1/2 years and we finally got to see him compete.  He's 10 so he's a little late to start gymnastics(sad, huh?) but he enjoyed it and that's what counts.  They awarded ribbons and medals for the top 4 gymnasts in his age group.  He got two 3rd places, and two 4th places.  That was out of 8 kids in his age group so that was pretty good!  His goal going into the competition was to get at least one 3rd place.  He surpassed that. He was thrilled!  Here's a picture of him with one of his coaches.

 

Thanks for letting me brag a little bit!

Have a great day!

Kathleen

 

Happy Valentine's Day

I had a busy stamping day yesterday.  My daughter made her Confirmation last night.  I almost bought a card.  *gasp*.  That would have been the first time in 5 years I bought a card.  I decided to make do with what I had.  I have a cross stamp that I picked up from somewhere.  I made a very simple card for my daughter.

A combination of dry embossing and traditional embossing did the trick.

Next up I completed the Valentines for my two boys' classes.  They gave the boys in the class the robot boxes from Stampin' Up!'s mini catalog.  Couldn't be more simple.  Just fold on the score lines and assemble. 

 For the girls in the class I made the mini milk carton dies.  The handle idea came from Jan Tink.  Thanks Jan!

And for my son's male teacher we made an origami box filled with chocolate.

I'm still working on a tutorial for the origami box.  I shot a video but it's long - 15 minutes.  My daughter thought it might still load on Youtube but I'm not sure.  I'm also struggling with getting words on it so that I can give measurements for the project but don't know how.  I may have to go without. As soon as I have this all figured out I will share it with you.

My daughter wanted some Valentines for her friends.  So I made up these boxes filled with some cinnamon candy.

  I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's day!