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Seasonal Saturday: Valentine Gift Bag, Stamping on Tissue Paper, & Video Tutorial

 

 
Happy Saturday! Hope you enjoyed the Gina K. Designs Inspiration hops and if you haven't had a chance to do so, make sure you blog hop. Not only will you be beyond inspired, but also may be eligible to win some wonderful stamps. I'm going switch gears a bit and share with you another Valentine's themed idea that can easily be altered to fit any theme.

This is what the gift bag looks like.

What I love about being able to stamp my own tissue paper is that I can customize to fit the occassion. This bag is for my nephew who has always referred to Valentine's Day as "Happy Heart Day" - yep singular, not plural. Tried to explain it to me, but he didn't like it, and so this is what him and I stick too. Still need to fill it up with his favorite goodies, but now that he can read, I'm sure he'll get a kick out of it.

You can easily turn the bag into a birthday bag, by changing the sentiment to Happy Birthday and adding a balloon or present shape holder instead of a heart. Another idea is for a baby shower you can always stamp word baby everywhere and even use the heart and perhaps change the number to the baby's name instead. Countless of different themes you can go with this one.

Here's what you'll need to get started to make a Valentine themed bag of your own:

• Happy Hearts stamp set
• Memento Lady Bug Red and Tuxedo Black Ink
• Bag (Container Store
• Tissue Paper
• Spellbinders: Hearts & Scalloped Hearts Die
• Felt
• Card Stock
• Patterned Paper
• Rhinestone sentiment (ZVA Creative)
• Trim (Maya Roads)
• Flower (Maya Roads)
• Double-sided tape

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You can access the step-by-step video tutorial below or over at YouTube. I upload my videos in HD so feel free to change it to that view.

Watch Video Below/Watch at YouTube

 

 

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Happy Heart Day Is Right Around Corner...

Happy Tuesday! Hope you had a nice weekend. My apologies for not posting the Seasonal Saturday video I had promised you...I didn't finish my project on time this weekend, but hope to work on it during the week and share it with you this coming Saturday. Today I have a basketful of hearts to share with you. Here's what I came up with using Melanie's Basket Blessings set along with Tami's Happy Hearts set.

Since I didn't send out Christmas card this past Christmas, I thought I would send some love via snail mail in February instead! Here's how the card came together.

1. Create a standard size (4-1/4" x 5-1/2") top-folding card base and add a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of black card stock to the card front.
2. Run the Swiss Dots embossing folder along with a piece of 3-3/4" x 5" piece of white card stock through the Big Shot and adhere it to  3-7/8" x 5-1/8" piece of red card stock by sewing around the edges. Adhere them to the card front.
3. Stamp the sentiment from the Happy Hearts set on a piece of patterned paper and cut it out with the pennants die. Add two stitches with some twine and adhere it to the card front.
4. Select three large hearts and two small hearts from the Happy Hearts set and stamp them with red and pink ink respectively on a piece of white card stock. Cut them out and set them aside.
5. Select the liner you'd like to use along with the basket from the Basket Blessings set. Stamp the liner on a piece of patterned paper and cut it out. Stamp the basket on a piece of white card stock, color it with Copics, and cut it out.
6. Adhere hearts behind the basket, a strip of twine around the liner, and a bow and pearl to the middle of the basket.
7. Adhere basket to card front with pop dots and with that, you are done!

Stamps: Gina K. Designs: Basket Blessings set by Melanie Muenchinger and Happy Hearts set by Tami Mayberry
Paper: Gina K. Designs: Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown, Lipstick Red, White (Gina K. Designs)
Printed Papers: Marjolaine (BasicGrey)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black Ink; ColorBox Rose Coral and Warm Red Fluid Chalk Ink (Clearsnap)
Accessories: Twine, Pearls, Nested Laccey Pennants Die; Swiss Dots Embossing Folder; Copics; Piercing Tool & Mat; Sewing Machine

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CSS Alumni Blog Hop & Seasonal Saturday Video Tutorial!

 
Happy late Friday and welcome to a fun blog hop being hosted by members of StampTV Center Stage Alumni. This time around we are digging into our Treasure Chests for fun images and sentiments we can use on treat holders for Christmas or New Year's Eve. If you arrived from Deb Felts blog, then you're at the right place! To start at the beginning, please go to StampTV and hop from there.

I decided to go witha Christmas theme and more specifically an ornament that can also be used as a treat holder or gift card holder. Here's a photo of them both.

Here's a close-up of the ornament with some treats in it.

A photo of ornament with a gift card in it.

I put video tutorial to walk you through how I put it together and if you'd like to follow along, here's what you'll need:

1. 2-3/4" x 8-1/2" piece of Felt
2. 12" of Ribbon
3. 8" of Twine
4. Embossing Floss & Needle
5. A spool
6. Brad
7. Two Buttons
8. Sentiment (from Gina K. Designs - Wishing You Joy StampTV set)
9. Tag (from Gina K. Designs - Wishing You Joy StampTV set)

You can access the step-by-step video tutorial below or over at YouTube. I upload my videos in HD so feel free to change it to that view.

Watch Video Below/Watch at YouTube

  

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Make sure you leave a comment as you hop along because on Tuesday, December 13, we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs and that person will receive a huge grab bag of fabulous Gina K. Designs Stamps!

Are you ready to continue the fun? Hop on over to the Brenda's blog who is wrapping up the hop with her fabolous treat holder!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Seasonal Saturday: Wrapped Kisses & Video Tutorial

Happy very late Saturday! Today's Seasonal Saturday is one that is easily adaptable to many holidays, so don't be too surprised if you see an updated version come Valentines. This time around I decided to keep it a bit retro, or at least what I think of retro...I say this because when I finished putting it together, it reminded of me hats from the 1920's. 

Here's a photo of the project.

The holder is the top of one of my Yoplait Yogurt with Granola containers. Every since I opened the first one I was drawn to the shape and knew that eventually I'd be able to re-purpose it into something else. I've been saving them for a while and this is what I ended up doing with it. 

I put video tutorial to walk you through how I put it together and if you'd like to follow along, here's what you'll need:

1. A 12" x 3" piece of card stock
2. Ribbon for the base (5/8")
3. Thinner ribbon for the rim (1/4")
4. Pearls
5. Bone Folder
6. Double-sided Tape (1/8" and 1/4")
7. Yoplait Granola Container
8. Treats (I used Hershey Kisses)

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You can access the step-by-step video tutorial below or over at YouTube. I upload my videos in HD so feel free to change it to that view.

Watch Video Below/Watch at YouTube

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!