Love you...

Another clean & simple idea when you just simply want to say Love You... 

Gold foil when you want to be more subtle.... and this would also make a great CAS wedding card without the YOU...

Red Foil when you don't! Though the Red Foil is long retired from our range... but seemed to be the right thing to pull out for Valentine's Day...

And not a stamp in sight... just a trio of dies... Sweet & Sassy Framelits for the heart aperture... Sunshine Wishes for the LOVE and Celebrate You for the YOU

Sending Ferrero Rocher Sealed with Love...

How about this for a quick & simple Valentine make... full of yummy Ferrero Rochers with a heart!

Take a White Gift Box... 

Apply strong Tear & Tape to the 3 top flaps (lid and 2 box sides) and fold down/in (Note I have only used Red Line/Sticky Strip so you can see where I mean to put the glue!)

Decorate front and side faces with four 2 3/4" Squares of Sending Love paper and a Whisper White Sunshine Wishes heart

Die cut 2 each of Whisper White Stitched Shapes circles (coming back in stock very soon btw!!) & Scalloped Layering circles. Stamp with Real Red greeting and Blushing Bride lips from the Sealed With Love stamp set

Punch two Real Red 2" circles. Assemble the 2 discs...

Wrap & adhere Whisper White ribbon round from centre front, round back and to front centre. Add the front disc. Add a bow.

Decorate the back with 2 3/4" x 5 3/4" Real Red mat plus 2 1/2" x 5 1/2" paper. Plus the other disc (this disc adds strength too)

Cut a 2 7/8" Square piece of Thick Whisper White to form an in-box shelf... mine is just stamped simply with a Real Red greeting and Blushing Bride lips...

Ink up and stamp 8 Real Red square frame images plus a greeting for the heart... cut out by hand... adhere to 8 Fererro Rocher using Glue Dots...  

Hard to spot -but note that the heart frames are also over-stamped with Blushing Bride diagonal lines...

Slip the clear sleeve onto the box from the front...great way to seal in those treats!

Thank you ( again) to Ginny Musgrove Smith for sharing this fabulous idea with these boxes. I just had to use the concept straightaway...

Sending Love & Sunshine Wishes...

Back to my Pop & Twist Valentine card for this year.... I now bring you the front... and an amend to the inside for good ol' Yorkshire folk!!!

I decided to keep the front simple in style too...

More Sending Love paper... Silver Foil and Real Red Sunshine Wishes hearts, Silver Glimmer greeting from the same set of dies...

Plus a silver Mini Clip, a bow from the Sale A Bration silver metallics ribbon and a few Real Red foil stars from the Brights Sequins (There should also  have been a white star sequin from the Metallics Sequins to the left of the Real Red heart... but those sequins were playing hide & seek! So I had to use a 3rd Real Red sequin instead)

And the Yorkshire amend!? Well not just Yorkshire in all reality.... 

See the add of the second (silver foil) "love" to the centre right below the E. So making "Love YOU Love"....   

Many Yorkshire people call each other LOVE (pronounced more like LUV!) It is a term used for someone you don't know  - or someone you do know but you can't remember their name at that very moment! Or just a general term used towards someone else!!! eg Alright Love!!!? for RU OK?? Yes I can hear some of you laughing right now!!!

And the back story - or an update as some of you have been asking ...

This card has taken me longer to produce than any other! I started to make it last Wednesday and have finished it today - so a full week in the making!

Not because it is difficult... not even because I had to make it from scratch... nor because I have made lots of other cards in the meantime... but because of the "bug" aka cough & cold & stuff that has hit me hard... though I am happy to report that I have been through the worst of it for the last 2 days... but it keeps coming back with an evil grin knocking me sideways again!!!! So I think I am on the up side!!? Maybe!? Hope so!!!

Welcome Little One Stockings

So back to my other plan for On Stage Telford swaps.... So this one is definitely not for Christmas... but great to welcome a new little one instead...

Still using Joyful Nativity & Hang Your Stockings... did I tell you the Stockings have 25% off this month!

So how did I do the reverse stocking on the left!? Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo and time is not on my side today!

So... in the meantime... I die cut a white stocking and stamped over the foot area. If you look carefully at it... the stamping carries up over the top of the foot area (as that is where the length of the stocking went as I stamped) and the heel has become the toe... but I don't think you will have noticed those until now I have  pointed it out!

Greeting from Sunshine Sayings (bundled with Sunshine Wishes dies with 10% off) Colours used Soft Sky, Sahara Sand and Whisper White...Finished off with Linen Thread...

Definitely too time consuming on the day for 50 or so swaps... but thought I should share it any case...