American Crafts | Love Notes

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These treat bags are fun and simple to make!  Fill them with love notes and special 

treats for your friends and loved ones!

Supplies: XOXO (373457) - 6X6 Paper Pad, Valentines (373455) - 6X6 Paper Pad, Whittles (373482) - Glitter And Foil Clothespins, Valentines Cards (373721) - Cards and Envelopes Kraft W/ Gold Foil, Valentines Collection (373478) - Washi Tape, Valentines Collection (373468) - Washi Tape,Valentines Collection (373474) - Washi Tape, Valentine (373502) - Rub - On Transfer Sheet, Maggie Holmes Confetti Party Kit (683715) - Crocheted Doily Garland Kit

How To: Use a paper punch to punch several hearts out of 6x6 paper pads.  Write love notes on the back of punched hearts.  Fill glassine bags with punched hearts, filler and treats.  Use a mini stapler to staple shut.  Cut four doilies in half.  Adhere half a doily to the top of each glassine bag.  Apply rub-ons to scrap pieces of white cardstock, trim around each word.  Adhere cardstock rub on pieces to top of each glassine bag.  Embellish with washi tape, and buttons.  Use a sewing machine to sew pieces down.  Finish each glassine treat bag by adhering clothespins to the top of each bag.  Trim Valentine card and adhere to the front of clip on frame.  Finish set upby hanging crocheted doily from frame using clothespins.

American Crafts | Hosting A Valentine's Day Party

This is a personal blog.  All editorial content and projects are intellectual property of http://americancrafts.typepad.com/.  I do receive financial compensation and material product from American Crafts to develop my craft posts, but all ideas and opinions are my own.

This new Valentines collection from American Crafts might be my favorite Valentine's collection that I have seen so far!  All the pieces go effortlessly together, and make hosting Valentine's Day party a snap!

supplies: Valentines Collection (373478) - Washi Tape, Valentines Collection (373468) - Washi Tape,Valentines Collection (373471) - Washi Tape,Valentines Collection (373474) - Washi Tape, Valentine (373455) - 6x6 Paper Pad, XOXO (373457) - 6x6 Paper Pad, Valentine (373502) - Rub - On Transfer Sheet, Valentine (373462) - Banner Kit, Valentine (373463) - Banner Kit, Sticky Thumb (340275) - 0.5 IN Sticky Dots, Other: Craft Supply: Wooden Dowels, Felt, bamboo sticks

How To: Use banner kits to create "XO" banner and Valentine banner kit, set aside. Trim arrows from various pattern papers to create cupid arrows.  Trim pieces of felt into hearts and attach to the front of wooden dowel pieces. Handcut chevron arrow pieces and attach to the end of each dowel as handmade arrows.  Use patterned papers from the 6x6 Valentine Paper Pad, and XOXO Paper Pad to create banner pieces.  Attach handcut banner pieces to wooden bamboo sticks to crate small donut flags.  Adhere rub-ons to a couple of the banner pieces, set aside. Arrange party pieces and enjoy!

Arrange banner flags, felt arrows, and banners to create table centerpiece.

American Crafts Valentines Blog Hop

Hello!!
and welcome to the American Crafts Valentine's Day Blog Hop!

For the blog hop each Design team member was asked to create a layout focusing on Love.
Here is the "Love layout" that I created for the hop:

Love You by Gina Lideros

I cut this large heart with scallops using my Silhouette cameo and then added lots of fun embellishments from the Dear Lizzy Daydreamer collection.

Supplies:

Red Rover (366744) - Cardstock, Sky (AM710-67) - Cardstock, This To That (AM617-13) - Adhesive, lemon drop glitter foam stickers (366768) - Thickers, Dear Lizzy Daydreamer (366731) - Dies, Veneer Set (366781) - Icons, Phrases, Adhesive Badges (366795) - Flair, Dimensional Embellishments (366786) - Dear Lizzy, Matte Puffy Stickers (366777) - Dear Lizzy, Printed Chipboard Shapes (366789) - Bits, 

Here is the full hop list:

Paige Evans

Meghann Andrew

Katie Ehmann

Patricia Roebuck

Lilith Eeckels
Becki Adams

Ashley Horton

Heather Leopard

Elizabeth Gardner

Gina Lideros**
Diana Waite

Janna Werner

Jill Cornell

Erin Stewart

Angie Gutshall

Madeline Fox

Allison Waken

American Crafts

Next on the list is Diana Waite

Leave a comment below for your chance to win this prize pack.   I'll randomly select one winner and announce them here on the blog next Friday, February 21st, 2014.

Thanks for stopping by!

Finished a new Punky Sprouts book today...

just in time for my Valentine to come home, so that I can share it with him. The book is called 'True Love travels on a gravel road'
and it features new and old photos of us over the years (12 years to be exact). Wow, I can't believe it has been that long. Where does the time go?

I used the Bella Blvd. Lovey Dovey collection by Stephanie Hunt and Punky Sprouts album (rebel sprout). I have long been a punky sprouts fan, but this was my first time ever using this particular album. The book comes with jump rings and gives you the freedom to put it together yourself. It was so cool being able to decide where the pages go! Another feature that was so fun about this book is that I used several shape studio and button studio tools from Epiphany crafts to customize my pages. (Click on each picture for an upclose view of each page.)

front cover

I had a lot of fun with the front cover. I made the heart out of pink felt.

pages 1 & 2

I got creative on this page by making my own custom epoxies with the new 1 inch shape studio tools. I also had fun painting a circular metal grid that I found in the garage to add flair to my canvas page.

upclose picture of a flower I created using cupcake wrappers and an epiphany crafts epoxy



pages 3 & 4

I had fun making a cute little pocket for my picture using Hambly screenprints paper. I topped it off with a flower I made with Tim Holtz paper rosette die and a custom Epiphany epoxy heart.

pages 5 & 6

The corrugated strip at the bottom is a Starbucks coffee sleeve that I recycled and punched with an EK Success border punch. So fun!

pages 7 & 8


pages 9 & 10

Journaling reads"12 years 2 deployments 2 houses 2 kids 2 dogs 2 many good memories to name Here is to the next 12 years+"
I had fun making the banner (on the last page) out of chipboard and Epiphany crafts 1/2 inch epoxies.

view of the whole book and all the fun embellies I used to make it.


I absolutely loved making this album and I am going to enjoy even more, sharing it with my honey tonight as we snuggle up and reminisce about the years past. Happy Valentines Day!