TPB: Floral Valentine ♥

 Hello friends

and Happy Monday!

I'm up on the blog at The Project Bin today ~

and I've created a card for my mum ♥

When we lived in England (her hometown) and Germany,

 she would plant and nurture the most beautiful tulips! 

 I still remember propping open my window as a little girl 

and the smell of her garden would waif up to the third story of the house,

 where my bedroom was.

I didn't inherit her green thumb! 

 The only pretty flowers I can cultivate are on paper! :/

I've finished all of my Valentine's cards and am ready to move on to Spring!

Today's card was created by using two panels, both embossed.

I used an embossing folder that came with my new Cuttlebug ~

first embossing it with an A2 size cardstock,

then the same thing with smaller piece 5" x 3.75".

*hint - cut the paper to size first, then add it to the embossed folder.

I did it backwards on the first time and it 'squished' the beautiful design, LOL

The smaller oval die cut is an oval Spellbinders die.

After everything was cut out, 

I stamped/masked the tulip stamp from Spring Zen and colored it,

and used the sentiment from the very popular Really Hungry.

 My card was inspired by this one from Susan ~

I love the was she has a bright bouquet of vividly colored flowers

amidst all the white.

I did embossed as an extra step and kept the sentiment banner white :)

Here's a peek at the two stamp sets that I used from The Project Bin:

I'm still decorating the inside of my cards, too ~

just skipping that step in blogging and hiding the message already written! :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

TPB: You're greater than cupcakes!

Hi friends!

Happy Monday!

Cupcakes are great ...

Cupcakes are AWESOME!

But what's better than cupcakes?

YOU!

I've used the amazingly yummy Really Hungry stamp set 

from The Project Bin to create:

Big Girl Valentines!

 

  

I love punny cards! 

I've always loved the Valentine's the kids would bring home

in their little homemade boxes!

The super fun stamp set is so versatile

and has so many play on words :)

You can make cards so many different ways.

For today's card(s), I've made a set of 4 ~

one for each of my girls

 (3 daughters and my new granddaughter!)

I've made 4 identical cards and just switched out the colors

using the cupcake stamp in the set.

The You > Cupcakes is paper-pieced on all 4 cards

with matching paper for the cupcakes and the background.

Are you sending Valentine's Day cards this year?

This fun stamp set will get you off to a great start!

You can find it here in the shop.