Happy Valentine’s Day! There’s still time to whip up a cute treat for someone special – like this fun treat topper!
This is a quick and easy way to present a sweet treat to someone. Using Stampin’ Up! food safe cello bags, simply close the bag (I just used adhesive tape) and then fold some Designer Series Paper over the top and adhere in place! In this case, I die cut a Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheet (Level 1 Sale-a-Bration choice – free with a $60 CAD product order) heart from the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits and adhered it onto a piece of Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper.
If you’re wondering about the treats – our family has enjoyed trying the different flavours of Japanese Kit Kats…though the ones in this gift bag are pretty “tame” – strawberry and matcha green tea. One of my “bucket list” trips is to go to Japan…and of course I will have to search out some different flavours to try once I get there! We’ve been trying out the Bokksu boxes as well in the meantime – a different box of a variety of Japanese snacks arrives in the mail each month. February’s did include some Kits Kats, so I was particularly happy about that! (click on the referral link for $5 off if you want to try a box!).
This is a perfect card for a Manic Monday – easy but impressive (though that’s the goal for most of my crafting any day of the week….). This Metallic Foil Birthday Card features one of the Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheets which comes paired with Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets as a Sale-a-Bration Level 1 package! You get four sheets of each, so eight sheets total for plenty of crafting opportunities!
For this Metallic Foil Birthday Card, I used the Grapefruit Grove Foil which has an iridescent sheen to it – so it’s good for a gender neutral kind of card! Here it’s embossed with the Scattered Sequins Dynamic Embossing Folder, and the sentiment is from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set. I usually like to use circles for sentiments or images if I can because they’re very forgiving – you don’t have to worry about whether the image is totally straight – and in this case, I wanted to mount the sentiment on an angle to make it a bit more interesting, so it’s easy to do if there aren’t any straight lines or corners I need to worry about! Just a few steps and this card is done. Of course, I used my thrifty trick of cutting the backing circle from the backing layer of cardstock for the foil sheet – since noone will see the hole there anyway!
Just a reminder that for each $60 CAD in product that you order, you earn a Level 1 Sale-a-Bration reward (like the foil sheet package used to make the Metallic Foil Birthday Card) – and $120 CAD product order means you can pick either a Level 2 reward or TWO Level 1 rewards! Coming on Friday, February 15 – more options! A new set of rewards to tempt you through to the end of Sale-a-Bration, March 31st. I’ll be sure to post a link to the catalogue here on the YamStamps site on Friday.
Of course, the Demonstrator Starter Kit special is still going strong – $225 worth of product of your choice for just $135 – or you could add in an exclusive Craft & Carry Tote Bag for a total kit price of $175. Provincial sales tax ONLY applies – so if you’re in a province with a blended tax, there is NO tax, and FREE shipping. You can check out this page of FAQ (shortcut is yamstamps.com/join) or contact me if you want more information about joining my “Eh” Team of stampers! I’d love to have you join our group!
Don’t know if you saw – but I edited my “Hey Cupcake” blog post – because the very resourceful Linda Snyder did some research for me! She had the smarts to track down Megan Munro (who very kindly responded) and find out that the dotted background was created using the Wood Words stamp set (you can see it here in red rubber clear mount or wood mount options).
Thank you, Linda! (and Megan!)…..and YOU for reading too 🙂
PS apparently there might be an issue with leaving comments on the blog? Could someone please test that for me by leaving a comment below?? Thanks.
Isn’t this fun? Created by Leena Girsa, it features a few love themed Stampin’ Up! products. The image is from the Occasions Catalogue Hey Love stamp set and is punched out with the Starburst Punch. The paper along the bottom of the card is from the All My Love Designer Series Paper package, and the die cut is from the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies. I love how you end up with the outline of the small hearts plus all the solid small hearts to use on projects! I also love how Leena inlaid the diecut by cutting the top edge of the Designer Series Paper as well. The sentiment strip is accented with a piece of the Black and Silver Striped Ribbon. I think this would be a great card for a young man. Hey Valentine!No frilly stuff here!
You still have a few days to make your own Valentine’s Day cards – Stampers Club members will actually have the opportunity to make one on Monday – just in time for February 14th. We welcome new members at any time! If you’re local to Burlington, Ontario, why not come and join us? Check out the YamStamps Events page for more information, or contact me! Stampers Club is a great way to meet some fellow crafters and get a monthly creative fix – plus once during your 6 month membership you’ll get FREE product! Afraid of commitment? Well then, theMonthly Card Class is for you – sign up for the dates that work for you! The First Wednesday of the Month is Card Class (usually….check the Events page just in case…) and the third Monday of the Month is Stampers Club (usually…depending on stat holidays). Due to the crazy weather we’re having in Southern Ontario, we had to cancel February’s Card Class – and I noticed when I was posting on the YamStamps Facebook Page, that LAST February’s Card Class was also affected by weather! Hmmmmm…..
Anyway – hope you can join us in person at some point – or if not, there’s always the Online Club option. Hey Valentine – there’s no excuse not to get some crafty “Me” time in! Happy creating.
While I appreciate the ornate “over the top” type of cards and paper crafting, it’s not a style that I always do so well with – I’m more of a clean and simple type of paper crafter…hence this simplified heart card.
So for this simplified heart card, I used Merry Merlot ink and the striped heart from the Meant To Be stamp set, but I used a Very Vanilla Note Card as the base – so it’s slightly smaller than a half sheet card, and then I stamped the sentiment and punched it with the Classic Label Punch and snipped off the one side with my Paper Snips so I could adhere it flush to the edge of the notecard. I love the ombré effect and it makes this simple design a little more eye catching.
Stampin’ Up! note cards are great for creating something quickly, and they’re more the weight of the Thick Cardstocks, so they’re great for one layer (or no layer) cards. Plus they’re a perfect size for dropping in the mail to send a quick hello to someone.
If you want to see the process of creating this card, you can check out the Facebook Live that I did where I first shared this simplified heart card. I’m trying to do these Live videos more often because I think they’re a great visual aid – and sometimes it’s easier for me to show and talk than it is to write everything out. If there’s anything you’d like to see or learn in an upcoming Facebook Live video, please leave me a comment below, or leave a comment on the YamStamps Facebook Page! While you’re there – please be sure to “like” and “follow” the page so you’ll be notified next time I go live – and join the Paper Crafting with YamStamps group to see more ideas and participate in some creative challenges.
Happy Year of the Pig! It’s the Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) and the year of the pig, to be precise, Earth Pig. (At least that’s what it said when I looked it up online). In any case, it was enough encouragement for me to revisit a previous favourite Stampin’ Up! stamp set, This Little Piggy.
The perils of being a demonstrator – sometimes I get so distracted by the latest releases and upcoming products that some older items get a little neglected at times. This Little Piggy is available in red rubber clear mount and red rubber wood mount. I stamped the image in Staz On Jet Black ink onto watercolour paper (see the YamStamps Facebook Page post from yesterday to see how I excluded the sentiment on the image). I then did a quick colouring job with my Aquapainter and drops of ink refills. The whole idea behind this card was to get it done and not be tooooo fussy (that’s my reasoning for colouring outside the lines LOL). I used Blushing Bride for the body of the pig, with a bit of Balmy Blue for the sky and Pear Pizzazz for the grass. The flower is So Saffron, and I scribbled onto a clear block with my Neutrals Basic Gray Stampin’ Write marker before picking up the colour to add to the pig’s hooves. I die cut the image and mounted it onto a scallop square using the Layering Squares Framelits for both. Since it was a square image, I placed it on a square card, and now I’m ready to send it to someone in honour of the Year of the Pig! (Want it? Let me know!)
Part of the reason I’ve been distracted by new, shiny objects…Stampin’ Up! will be releasing a second set of Sale-a-Bration products on February 15th, so be sure to come back here to see the new options! Plus, on March 1, there will be more product available to purchase that was designed to coordinate with existing Sale-a-Bration products, so your crafting will be even easier. Demonstrators are able to preorder all these items NOW, so I have been figuring out what I “need”….
