Connie's blog: Valentine's

Valentine's

02/12/2016

A little love!

Hi Stampers! It is time to share a little love with those people who mean the most to us! I have a few Valentines that I designed for my classes - I hope you like them!

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01/19/2014

Paper Roses, Oh how real those roses seem to be!

Hi Blog Hoppers!

Welcome to the Control Freaks January Blog Hop where we are going to share our latest Valentine's Day Projects for the ones that we love! Didn't you just love what my friend Connie Babbert shared on her blog. Her creativity just amazes me!

This week I had my first class since the New Year began and I was excited to share some of the new goodies Stampin'Up! came out with in our new mini-catalog titled "Celebrate the Everyday"! One of the things that I was the most excited to play with was the new Spiral Flower Originals Die. Wow is this thing fun! I decided to start with simple flowers and the two little tips I will share with you is that having a fine tipped tweezers or a skinny dowel makes the job much easier. Just start rolling until you get to the end, then let the flower loosen up and play with it a bit to make it look pretty. The most challenging part was figuring out how to glue the little beauties. I really didn't want to have to get the glue gun out, and I found liquid glue was just too messy and took too long to dry. The perfect adhesive turned out to be glue dots. Just pop a few glue dots on the flower base, and give it a little pressure and it is magic! I used some skinny dowels for the flowers - one I inserted thru a hole I poked in the bottom of the flower, and the other I wanted the flower to face forward so I just slipped the dowel up inbetween the flower base and the flower. I added a little seam binding ribbon that I dyed with a Pear Pizzazz reinker to look like leaves and decided to add a little diamond in the center! The little jars can be found at your local craft store in the dollar bins!

I hope you also noticed the beautiful red and white fringe flower I made. This was done with our new fringe scissors! Oh my - I was so excited to know that these weren't just for making grass! I am excited to explore the many different things we can do with these awesome scissors!

As a Valentine's Day treat to my customers, I had them all make a vase of flowers and I cannot tell you how excited they were to make them. Many of the ladies said they were going to put them on their desk at work!!

I also want to share a beautiful Valentine's Day card that I made at my class! I love using our framelits for cutting things out but I sometimes forget that they are great for making a window in our cards and this new Flowerfull Heart stamp seemed like the perfect thing. We also used the cherry cobbler embossing powder to jazz it up a bit! I hope you can see the texture on the front of the card from the Scallops Textured Embossing folder. I also did a couple of rows on the inside too! This folder is really cute! I have used mine so much in the past two weeks I already broke it! Well actually - I wasn't paying very good attention and put it thru very crooked and cracked the seam. I learned my lesson! I was able to tape it back together and get thru class but I guess I will need to order another one!

That is all for now - I will share some more of my beautiful Valentine's in the next few days! Now it is time for you to hop on over to see what LeeAnn Greff has to share - I am sure it will be inspiring!

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02/14/2012

Happy Valentine's Day

Hi Stampers,
I hope everyone has a sweet Valentine's Day. I am home alone since Sarah is at school late today and my hubby is traveling for work, but he sent me the most gorgeous box of chocolate covered strawberries so I can't complain! Tonight I am going to put away all of my Valentine's Day stamping stuff and do some cleaning up in my stamp room, so I can move on to my next adventure! Here is one last Valentine I want to share, I made this card for a special friend. I have been wanting to try making these flowers for a long time - so I finally did it today. The flower is made out of dress lining, and you cut it into a bunch of circles and then heat it up with your heat gun and it shrivels - very fun and pretty! Enjoy your day and I hope you feel loved today!!

Stamping Supplies:

Stamps: You are loved
Ink: Real Red
CS: Real Red, Rose Red, Pear and White
DSP: Brights Pper Stack
Big Shot: Designer Frames and Stripes embossing folders, Circles #2 Big Shot die (for fabric flower)
Accessories: Pearls, Glimmer Brads and Ruffled Ribbon

Posted at 07:39 PM in Valentine's, You are loved | Permalink | Comments (0)

02/07/2012

A Little Birdie

Hi Stampers,

Here is another little Valentine's Day card I designed. I love this card because it could easily be used for any occasion! Enjoy!

*All stamped images are copyright of Stampin' Up! 1990-2011. These samples are original designs by Connie Tumm. They are shared for personal non-commercial use and inspiration only. If you are a Stampin'Up! demonstrator and you use my desgins for inspiration - please link back to the original design if you are posting on the internet

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02/05/2012

A Kiss and a Hug!

Hi Stampers,

After making a huge stamping mess and spending many hours of trying to get everything just right - I finally pulled together the Valentine's Day Collage and this past week I had a couple of classes so my customers could come and make one along with a couple of adorable Valentine's Day cards. One of the things I love about this collage is that the five squares with a black background make an X, and the four squares with a red background make an O - a kiss and a hug!

The card shown in the picture today was not my original idea, and I am not sure who actually came up with it, but I got the idea here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2124489?&cat=22326. I used the new designer Rosette die to make the scalloped border on the card - (love that!), and changed it up a bit to make it my own.

If anyone is interested in purchasing a Valentine's Day collage, please send me a private email. I have a few made up - and could easily put together a few more!