Good morning peeps, looks like it's getting to be about Valentine's Day. I love making little gift holders or just something little to put little candies in. Just recently I picked up the matchbox steel rule die at a LSS (as local as it gets around here anyway, which is 50 miles down the road in Ft. Collins, CO). Anyway, I was dying to give it a try so I grabbed a piece of cardstock that was just laying on my craftroom table, it happened to be red, and I die cut the matchbox and assembled it. So dang cute.
I had also been cutting out some hearts for some cards and so I had the movers and shapers hearts laying out. Inside the matchbox die is a little square magnetic piece that can be removed so I took it out and added the smallest heart and cut another one with pink this time. OMG, did it turn out so dang cute.
I also found in my stash a piece of like mauve vellum so I covered the heart from the inside with that and it made the cutest little box. See what you think........
I added a little bow and a small sticky heart and I am going to fill them with pink M & M's. I'll pick some up at the store next time I'm there. Aren't they adorable???
I also made a card too.....
I started with a black base and found some cream/black paisley cardstock
in my stash so I put that down next after inking the edges, of course.
Then I cut out some pink hearts and inked them with black on the
outside edges too. I wrapped a dark pink ribbon around the paisley
cardstock before I glued it down. Then I added the big heart first and
then the smaller heart with a pop dot to give it some dimension. I had
some different ribbon that had words on it so I cut out one and glued it
to the dark pink ribbon. Then I made a little bow out of some sheer
pink ribbon and added it to the small heart.
On the inside I glued a black heart that had been embossed with pink words (from a project a few years back) to a pink heart that I had traced around the scalloped heart spellbinders die and just cut it straight instead of cutting the scallops. Then I die cut the 'hugs & kisses' from one of Tim's decorative strip dies and inked the edges black as well. I found some pink bling in my stash as well so I added that to the bottom. Not sure I liked that but by that time it was stuck, lol. I then used a small pink heart with which to sign my name.
Well I have a few more cards to make so better get started. I am pretty on top of it this year so I may come up with some others before it's over. Hope you all have a great day and thanks for checking me out.
Hugs,
~Jody
