Yarn Hearts

With Valentines day just around the corner

I finally took down my paper snowflakes and decided

to add some Valentine's decor.

I made these cute yarn hearts and even though I used 

some natural colors, they sure will look adorable in

red and pink too!

I have some blue decor in my home too so I made

these four different colors. 

Aren't they cute!

Here they are up close,

one is all creme colored, one is creme with

speckles of mustard and black and the other is mustard colored.

The skeins of yarn I found at the Dollar Tree.

To make these hearts start with 

either cardboard or what I had on hand which 

is foam core board.  Use what you have on hand!

Hand draw a heart on your cardboard

or foam core board, cut it out.

Then using your yarn, tape it to the back of the heart.

Start by wrapping the yarn around the heart, keep

going til you have the heart completely covered.

Take the last piece of yarn to the back of the heart and

tie off by making a knot.  

Just keep going, back and forth like in 

the photo above.....

Here they are all done below,

scatter them around your tables or in bowls

or just sitting out.

I am going to try pick up some red and pink 

yarn this week to make some

Valentine ones.

I hope you give them a try!

Love

Love is in the air!

This heart wreath is made with a heart mask,

I'll show you this technique fuller down. 

The pink plastic hearts were in this month's 

Paper Pumpkin

I used three different color green inks to create

the wreath by stamping the lightest to the darkest

I cut a heart from white paper,

laid it on top of the cardstock you are going to

stamp on, stamp each color starting with the

lightest to darkest. 

Look at this photo below,

you can see how I stamped around the heart in the

first green color.... super easy. 

I used white cardstock for the background

and added the green and pink cardstock to

match the pink hearts. 

Stamp the LOVE in the center and there you go!! 

Mountain refuge

We snuck off to the mountains for a day

this weekend for a cold but beautiful hike along

the Cle Elum river.  It certainly didn't disappoint

with clear blue skies and sunshine on our faces.

It was a cold 27 degrees, but we didn't even notice it.

My youngest......

So thankful for this time away and that our girl

was with us.  Their lives are so busy now we

just don't get to do as much together as we used to.

New season to embrace for sure!

This is a cute little fish shed along the hike

Where ever we walk our eyes are always peeled

with open to find hearts, 

we were lucky this day!

Love is in the Air

Love is in the air......

Now here's a quick and easy card for you.

Using a piece of crumb cake cardstock as the base

fold it in half and add the white buffalo plaid

cardstock.  Cut out a heart,  I used the heart framelits

to make the heart and hand drew the rest.

The center "love" is stampled bu

using a embossing folder

I added some black ribbon to

side of the card and tie a bow. 

The "love" is from this month's 

Paper pumpkin called Sending Hearts,

but you can use any Valentine saying you

have on hand.  

Sending Hearts

                      

How can Valentine's day be this close?  Seems like we just were

celebrating Christmas!  Take a peek at the video above to see this

month's Paper Pumpkin.   As you know I love to change things up 

a bit.   One thing I love to do is use past Paper pumpkin stamp sets

to incorporate with the new.                            

You probably saw in the video that this

card looked just a little different.

I used the envelope with the hearts 

stamp from last year's paper pumpkin.

To make it pop out of the mailbox

I used an exacto knife to make an opening

to insert the envelope in. 

I added a little gold glitter to the hearts to 

jazz it up a bit. 

The fun thing about Paper Pumpkin is everything comes

in the kit to create everything you need to make

these cards that come in the kit.

Everything is pre made and stamped and cut out for you,

you just assemble, or in my case change things up!

If you are interested in receiving Paper Pumpkin monthly

you can click on the link 

HERE

If you are looking for something creative and fun to do

(and easy I might say!)

This is the craft for you!

Beary Comforting Valentine

Annnnnd........ he returns again!

This little bear is just so cute no matter what you

do with him!

This time I add a little sucker in his hands

and a cute little buffalo plaid bow

I used my glue gun to attach the sucker,

I tried a couple other attempts to attach it

by punching small holes where his hands are, 

but this seemed to be the easiest way to attach it.

The background is made with a heart embossing 

folder and backed with black paper. 

Are you making Valentine's this year?

Mason Jar Valentine

It's so refreshing to be making something sweet

to give those you love!

This cute card was made with our new plastic

Mason Jar shaker domes.  Super cute

and easy to use in your cardmaking.

They have adhesive already on them on the

front and the back.  And by using the hand held

mason jar punch it makes it easy to punch 

the jar out. 

Stampin Up! Mason Jar Shaker Domes 

HERE

Stampin Up Mason Jar punch

HERE

                                                           

Wooden Mini Conversation Hearts

HERE

To make this card, decide what your background paper

is going to be.  I chose a pink cardstock and ran it through

a heart embossing folder to make the heart background.

Punch out your jar from the cardstock and a piece for the back side

of the jar that you will attached it to and also stamp a saying on. 

I chose to put mini conversation hearts in my jar, but 

you could use beads confetti etc. 

Set whatever you are going to put in the jar on

top of the cardstock before you add the plastic

dome over the top of it to enclosed it. 

I added a small buffalo plaid bow to the jar

to finish it off.

So sweet!

Beary Comforting Valentines

Welcome back for some more of the Paper Pumpkin

Beary comforting alternative ideas.

See the little envelopes above?

They are in the kit for the gingerbread houses, but

I decided that they would be of great use

for a Valentine treat holder. 

Using the envelopes and the bear in the stamp set,

I stamped the bear directly onto the envelope

in Espresso ink.

Taking an exacto knife I cute away one of the hands 

of the bear so that I could attach the heart so that it looks 

like he's holding it.

The heart can be punched out of a heart punch of using the heart framelits and the big shot. 

I stamped "love ya" which also comes in the set and covered

the heart in dazzling diamonds to complete it. 

I used pink chalk to give his cheeks some color

and filled the envelope with the conversation hearts.

Take a hand held hole punch to punch the

holes in the top to close off the envelope

and add the twine. 

All done!

So cute to gift to any age!

Come on, who doesn't want to be your

Valentine!

You could also fill them with chocolate

hearts or M & M's, any type of treat. 

Valentine Bombs

I am sharing these AH-MAZING! bath bombs today,

This is a company I found on Instagram called

"Life around 2angels"

I purchased the 12 pack of bombs with all different 

scents in them.  The whole box was $26!

You will love them!

So I thought it would be fun for Valentine's day

to wrap them up for friends....

Here goes.....

Starting with the bombs, some black tissue paper

silver twine and gold washi tape we are going to wrap 

these bombs up!

Starting with the bomb, set it on top of the tissue and

twist it closed at the top.

Cut your silver twine about 3"and starting at the top

of the bomb where you twisted it, using the washi

tape start to tape and twist the washi tape around the twine

to create the "fuse" at the top of the bomb. 

Twist it a few time to create the stem and fuse.

I cut out a pink tag and stamped

Happy Valentine's day on it and hand

wrote "you're the bomb"

and added the gold heart sticker.

Here's a close up of the "fuse" so you can

see a bit better how I twisted it.

Didn't it turn out cute?

Ya'll are the bomb!