Make Awesome Valentine Cards…Guest Post

I have a treat for you guys today.  You all know I love a good craft project and I have a few friends who dominate in some specific crafting areas.  My friend Beth from college is one such gal.  She is a phenomenal card maker and stamper.  And with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I asked Beth to share a little expertise and some fun ideas for making your own Valentines Day cards.  She’s even offering a giveaway today with some items she’s used to create these amazing Valentines, and later on she’s going to give us an even more in depth tutorial on how to make a couple of these things.  So give a happy welcome to my friend Beth, from Southern Inkerbelles:

Well, let me start off saying , “AAAHHHHH! This is my first post as a guest blogger!”  Thanks so much to my sweet KD sorority sister, Logan, for inviting me to share a little about what I do.  I am not a smooth writer like Logan, but I can do some damage with paper, stamps and ink 🙂

I am the author of a little blog called Southern Inkerbelles.  I typically speak to a more focused group of people daily than Logan does.  You guys get it all with “Life for Dessert!  We have an obsession with paper, ink and rubber stamps headed up by a company called Stampin’ Up!  I have been a demonstrator for almost 8 years and I am thrilled to be sharing what I love with you today.

Because I am talking to many different levels of crafters today, I am going to start out slow and then eventually get to the OOOOs and AAAHHHs at the end.

I’m focusing on one stamp set today.  Naturally in my line of work, we are all geared toward Valentine’s Day right now.  It’s one of the biggest days to send cards.  So, here are a few ideas for those of you who want to make something special for someone.  And, even a fun project for your kids.

Here is the stamp set that I will be using on all my projects.  It’s called Sweetheart.

Sweetheart ($15.95 for clear stamps and $21.95 for wood)

 

Here is my first project with this little ditty 🙂

This is about as basic as I can do 🙂  This is a 3×3 enclosure card.  I stamped on the white piece through an acrylic block and then used our large heart punch to get the red heart and adhered it to the middle.  The punch makes it SUPER easy, but you can always cut a heart out yourself using the standard scissors method.

Full Heart punch $16.95

There is a secret to this stamp set.  Stampin’ Up! does a really good job at thinking outside the box.  We do so much more than just paper and stamps.  Anyway, SU! came out with a product called Sweet Treat Cups and look what they can do!

Padded Envelopes 3 for $2.95

Sweet Treat Cups 12 for $2.95

Thanks to Beth for stopping by today!  I had a fit over the sweet treat cups myself and am ordering some to make those awesome lollipops for Tid Bit’s class for Valentine’s day!  Beth is going to come back later this week to show us how to make the trap door to open the sweet treat cups on cards and lollipop sticks.  And since she’s awesome, she’s going to give away 2 packages of the sweet treat cups and 1 Sweetheart Stamp Set (that was featured to make the cards) to one lucky winner!

Here’s how to enter to win (this giveaway is open to US residents only and will end at 9am this Friday, January 20th ):

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