Throwback Thursday Valentine's Day Card Ideas

Happy Throwback Thursday crafty friends!

Today I am sharing several beautiful and creative cards past PaperCraftingWorld.com designers created. They are perfect for inspiring you to send your own sweet Valentine something special! So let’s get started!

Suzanne created this super sweet Valentine card using the 

Bear w Candy Heart Digi: HERE

Set Includes Pre-Colored and Line Art Digi

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By designer Suzanne used the King of My Heart Digi Set

Set Includes Pre-Colored and Line Art Digi with 5 Sentiments

She also used the Label Layered 1013 Card Cut file set

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Designer Sandy Created this adorable card using the Bear With Truffle Digi

Digi set includes a Pre-Colored and Line Art Digi

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Designer Sandy created this gorgeous birthday card using the Single Rose Digi

Set includes Pre-colored and line art digi with 3 sentiments

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Designer Larelyn used the Bear I Lava You Digi Set to create this perfect love note!

Set includes a pre-colored and line art digi.

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Sweet little treat box by designer Larelyn. She used the 

Candy Hearts V13 Digi Stamp: HERE

Another precious card by Designer Larelyn

Bear Immeasurably Loved Digi Stamp: HERE

Set includes 4 digital stamps. With and without sentiment
and Pre-Colored as well as line art.

Designer Yolie used the BC Puppy with Heart CF and the Double Heart CF

Designer Jen created this cute, quick and sweet valentine card with the Owl Always Love you DIGI

Designer Melinda created  this colorfully cute little card with the bear n cupid cf
I used lots of inks to color in the hearts to match the colorful patterned papers.

Deliciously sweet card by Melinda featuring Mouse with Cupcake CF

I hope these projects have inspired you to head over to PaperCraftingWorld.com and check out all the super cute cutting files and digi stamps available! As always, thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your crafty time with me. Be sure to come back by tomorrow for another fun and hopefully inspiring project. Until then,

Pazzles Calendar Layout With Free Mini Calendar Printables

Hello Crafty friends,

I hope you’re week is going well. This week the Pazzles team is sharing organizational craft ideas. As I thought about this assignment, I thought about how much I want to be WAY BETTER organized this year. Part of being organized for me means keeping better track of time. So I decided to create this calendar that will hang on my bulletin board.

I started by using a standard 12 x 12 scrapbook page size. From there I laid out my concept with my software. I love being able to lay my project out on my software before I cut anything. It helps me figure out my die cut sizes as well as what pieces I will use. Once I laid it all out, I picked my papers.

I started by cutting a base of the doilie frame cut file from the library. I inked the edges of my first layer of patterned paper. I did it without being too careful. I wanted to give it a shabby chic look. I added the doile from and then added the next layer of paper and inked the edges as well. I did use foam tape under the doile frame layer to give it just a little lift.

I then cut the flourish Hardware, Royal Damask, Wire dress form and the doilie frame2 all from the library. For the dress form, I cut a couple of them out to give it more body. I used regular kraft cardstock, but wanted the weight of like a chipboard, so I layered two of them together. This is a simple trick to give your die cuts more stability of you don’t happen to have chipboard on hand.  After I layered the two layers, I went ahead and used my white daisy ink pad and my sponge and sponged some white ink onto the die cut.  For the other die cuts, I used some of my saddle ink to give them some dimension.

Here’s a closer look at the clock. I created this die cut and cut it in kraft cardstock. I also inked it. I did also cut a piece of patterned paper and inked the edges as well. I roughed up the edges of the patterned paper just a bit I also used a brad to adhere the hands together. If you look closely I did also cut out the hands in duplicate and layered them. Once again to give them a bit more body.

I then printed and cut the calendars and then hole punched them and used some jump rings from my stash for the binding. You can also see a closer look at the pretty frame die cut I used. Once again I cut this in duplicate to give it a bit more structure and then used some foam tape to give the calendar set a bit more lift and depth.

Here is a closer look at the damask die cut. You can see that I inked it to give it a bit more dimension.

Here’s a closer look to see the flat back pearl gems I used to give the border a nice decorative touch.

Here is the printable psalm sentiment. I printed it on some cream cardstock and then inked the edges. I added a brad to the die cut at the top and then colored it with my mahogany marker. The brad was gold and I wanted more of a copper look.  It all came together pretty quickly and I will hang it in my craft room to help me keep track of the special days, like my family member birthdates, anniversaries, etc.

Pazzles Craft Room Files

Library Files

Doilie Frame

Flourish Hardware

Royal Damask

Wire Dress Form

Doilie Frame2

Products Used

Pazzles Inspiration Vue	Paper Studio Kerby Teesdale Studio Pad	Paper Studio Pearls	Saddle Ink Pad
Basics Cardstock  Cream Cardstock	Kraft Cardstock	White Cardstock	White Daisy Ink Pad
Whimsy Cardstock	Tape Runner	Foam Tape	Glue Pen

FREE PRINTABLE CALENDARS

2015 Mini Calendars

Pick them up here for a limited time to make your own calendar page.

Free for one week only!

The month is winding down! Don’t forget about the fantastic values from CTMH. Check out all of the promotions HERE

PLUS you can get this free set of SVG’s from me for placing ANY SIZE order on my CTMH site!

Well this about covers it for today. Be sure to come back by tomorrow as I share another fun and hopefully inspiring creation. Until then,

Heart Card FREEBIE And Blog Hop Winners

Happy Monday crafty friends,

Hope you are all doing well. I apologize for the delay in getting this information out. The hop coordinator and her family were sick and then I had a few issues and was unable to announce the winners earlier, So here it is. First here are the winners from the blog hop prizes. Up first.... drawn by random number generator....

Craftin Desert Diva's is giving one lucky winner an awesome stamp set!! 

Our winner is

#22 JENNIFER EARLEY

AND

Alicia with Golden Goddess Designs 

is giving one lucky winner the 

Adventure Templates from Kiwi Lane Designs

Our winner is

#34 JANET'S PLANET

Ladies be sure to contact Connie directly within the next 2 weeks to claim your prizes.

Now for my Blog Hop Candy

Rene, be sure to contact me so I can get your information to get this stamp set to you! You have two weeks to claim your prize

Now for those that didn’t win….I am so sorry, wish I could give everyone a little something…..OH WAIT!!!! I CAN!!! How about at least a free little cutting file! Scroll down to the bottom to get your freebie! Here is the card I created from this little file set

The card size is 4.25 x 5.5 a standard A2. I used some Kraft Cardstock  for the base. I then used some white cardstock for the other layers and my stamps and inks to create the backgrounds.

Here’s a closer look at the stamped hearts. I used some foam tape between the hearts and scalloped heart to give them a little extra dimension. The middle layer heart was cut out of white cardstock and then I inked the edges with my Hollyhock ink pad to give the layers a little contrast. One heart was stamped with With Cashmere ink pad and the other was stamped with my Cocoa Ink Pad.   I also used some black shimmer trim as well as some gold shimmer trim for the top embellishments.

Here’s a closer look at the stamped sentiment. It came from the  The Best Things Stamp Set and I used my Cocoa Ink Pad. The little gems are from the Brown and Tan Gem assortment set.

Here’s a shot of my background mat. I used one of the stamps from the geometric backgrounds stamp set and my Pixie Ink Pad.  I cut it an eighth of an inch smaller than the base size.

Next I cut another piece of white cardstock at 4.125 x 3.5 and used my Saddle Ink Pad and the Amour Stamp Set to stamp the background.

I wanted to soften the contrast of the darker ink with the white cardstock so I used a piece of my round sponge and dabbed some Champagne ink pad on to the piece.


I finished off the look by adding some of the black and white twill ribbon.  Came together very easily

Products Used

	Double Heart Card CF	Forever In My Heart	Amour Stamp Set
Geometric Backgrounds Stamp Set	The best things Stamp set
Cashmere Ink Pad

FREE Through 1-25-15

Formats Available: AI, DXF, EPS, KNK, MTC, SCAL, STUDIO, SVG and WPC

Last but not least, Don’t forget about the great specials CTMH is having this month. You can check them out HERE

PLUS….Place ANY SIZE order through my link and get this extra set of SVGDieCut files FREE! SVG cuts to match this month’s stamp of the month ALONG with four different card bases!

Well that about covers it for today, be sure to come back by a tomorrow as I share another fun and hopefully inspiring project! Until then,