Valentine’s Day is less than a week away! Need help getting ready? Here is a free download of two darling, printable boxes. You could fill it with your valentine’s favorite treat. Sweets for your sweetie. What could be better?
P.S. If you want to make a matching card/tag to go with your box, check out the Scrapbook Trends blog. Later today, we will have a free download of 8 coordinating papers that match these boxes perfectly:
Head over to the ST blog for a V-Day paper freebie! (As promised, still workin’ on another one…)
Uh, it so not 9am… pardon me! But here is the random winner, #11, DebJ:
Deb, send your mailing address to me at tammym at northridgemedia.net.
I read through your comments and I just want to give everyone a binder! But I’m not Oprah and I don’t have any more. I thought at least I could work on some Valentine’s freebies, though. My question is — what would you like to see? Printables or some kind of a pattern? Do you want some printable Valentines, or would something more craft-related be in order? Say, a cupcake topper or ____. You fill in the blank. We’ll come up with something. I can’t wait to hear your ideas.
Thanks for all the entries! You ladies are lovely.
So I’ve had my eye on these Kaisercraft A-5 Binders for awhile — they look really cool, they’re sturdy, and they’ve got tons of room to store stickers, ribbon cards, and other semi-flat embellishments. Kaisercraft sent this baby over to us, along with zippered storage sheets stuffed with cute products from their new Made with Love line, and today… right in time for Valentine’s Day crafting… you can win it. It’s all yours if you’re the lucky random commenter! Winner to be announced Monday morning, 9am MST.
You’re going to feel so organized. That little lever lifts up to open the rings, pretty nifty.
Rub ons (b&w, color), die cuts, letter stickers, felt shapes, ribbon… nice.
(And now you’ve seen my early 90’s wallpaper and know that I have a wallpaper-removal project in my future.)
Thanks to Kaisercraft for the lovely giveaway! Find Kaisercraft retailers here.
Adoring these little felt brooches by Peppy Wanders that I just spotted on Delaney Gates’ blog:
And although they would be perfect for a little Valentine’s Day loving, they’re fun for showing some true love all year round!
Ok, and one more thing — wouldn’t this be great to do with a child’s name and put in their room? Delaney finds such awesome things!
I don’t know about you, but I can never find a grocery store valentine card that I actually like. I usually end up designing a sheet of my own (at the last second of course) and printing them off. But look, I’m totally ahead of the game this year. And really, you’re the winner here because you can download them totally free! Best of all, you can print and use as many or as few as you need with no extras or waste (how’s that for going green?).
So here are two sheets — the first is girly, sweet and my kindergarten-aged daughter was kind enough to dictate the color scheme.
Which of course prompted my son to feel all left out and demand cards of a more macho, blood-thirsty nature. So here’s his sheet of valentines as well.
To download, simply click here for Sweet Girl Valentines or here for Pirate Valentines. Print them at home or e-mail to your local copy store. Trim and let your children fill them out. They’re also the perfect size for gift tags. Enjoy and Happy Valentine’s Day!
With one month till Valentines Day, it’s almost time to break out the pink and red paper, the scissors and the shoe boxes. We have some lovely ideas for Valentine’s Day Cards and Valentine’s Day Décor in the Feb/Mar issue of Simply Handmade — in fact, over 20 projects with hearts! You will love designer Holly Hanks’ dressed-up Valentine’s Day treats in our 123 article. View it all online right now or ask for it at your local scrapbook store!
A peek at some of the gorgeous ideas inside:
I love this handmade clip idea spotted on Rachel Simonsen’s blog (fab designer at me and my BIG ideas) and immediately started thinking about all of the pretty bits and baubles that would lend themselves so well to this project. (Confession: I totally borrowed the title of this post from Rachel. Isn’t that just a wonderful phrase?)
Fire Mountain Gems & Beads has enough amazing offerings that you could spend an entire day looking for the perfect complement to your bobbies. Although I really love the single finish look shown in the inspiration photo (gold on gold, brass on brass), I think some Cloisonné beads would be gorgeous too!
I also love everything Vintaj has to offer. Any of their brass filigrees, pendants, and/or charms would lend an extra posh touch to your upcycle.
You can visit Rachel’s blog to see her end result and get inspired to start planning your own hair embellishments!
Heidi Swapp has an excellent goal planning activity on her blog with a really cute FREE download over at house of three right now. I love her thoughts about planning with the end in mind — because isn’t that really what it’s all about?
Do large calendars overwhelm you? Do you have so many things tacked to your fridge that you couldn’t possibly fit a calendar? Well, besides their calming benefits and their uncanny ability to fit on a cramped fridge, these mini calendars from Elle’s Studio also make for some gorgeous tags for projects and layouts. I love the vintage look and the variety. There are three pages of options (yeah, a lot!) but here are a couple of my favorites. A perfect way to start off a new year too…
