Valentine's Day Club Scrap Blog Hop

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!!

I hope you're all having a wonderful day and

 thanks for joining me for a bit of Valentine's Day fun!  

Today is Club Scraps Valentine's Day Blog Hop and I wanted to share a couple projects I made today using papers from the Picnic collection from June of 2014.  The delightful colors and designs work perfectly for Valentine's Day as you will see.

And here is what I created....  Yes!  Gnomie and his girlfriend are back!  Today he's presenting a little shimmery heart to her because he's "Sweet on you!".

The stamped sentiment "Sweet!" is also from the Picnic collection but works perfectly for Valentine's day.  I hand wrote the "on you" portion.  Both Gnomie and his girlfriend were colored using Inktense watercolor pencils.  The little shimmery heart sequins was something I've had in my stash forever.  I think it was from Doodlebug (when sequins were originally in style).

I also made a little take out box filled with paper fortune cookies!  

And here's how I created them...  I started off by trimming down a piece of the plain pink cardstock to fit in my printer then printed the template directly onto the cardstock.  The template has grey score lines printed on it which I darkened up a bit so it would show up in the photos.  You could of course print these at a lesser value so it doesn't show up in your finished project.  

As far as the template goes I just googled Take Out Box and choose one I liked.  This one is from polkadotmaker.com.  

Once printed I cut it out and scored it in the appropriate places.

I then printed a second template on copy weight paper, cut out the sides to use as a rough guide for cutting out the decorative panels.

I stamped the dark pink panels with the swirl stamp from the Reunion Art Nouveau set of stamps and Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink.  I also used the same ink to edge each panel.

After I mounted the panels to the sides of the box I set about assembling it using double stick tape.

I formed a handle from a piece of red wire I had in my stash and this fun little box is ready to be filled....

What better to fill it with than fortune cookies!  So I punched out several 2" circles from the same papers from the Picnic kit and inked the edges with the Rhubarb Stalk. 

I then printed out lots of fun little "fortunes" using what else....Shanghai font.  They were trimmed down to size.

Here's how you assemble each little cookie...  Place a fortune in the center of the circle and bring the sides up together as shown.  You now have a nice half circle...

Push in the center bottom of the half circle and bend it closed.  I used a piece of a glue dot to hold it in position because it's thick cardstock and wants to come unfurled.  Thinner weight paper may be o.k. on it's own.

I repeated the above steps and made the rest of the "cookies".  I'm thinkin I'll fill it with some candy and sprinkle in the fortune cookies...will make a fun treat for someone on my "Loved" list :)

Thanks so much for stopping by ~

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Your next stop on the hop is - 

Tricia - The Efficient Crafter

if you get lost along the way you can find the complete list at

Club Scrap Blog

Supplies Used: 

Club Scrap Picnic Collection (papers & stamp); Reunion Swirl Stamp; Gnomie & Gnomie's Girlfriend;   

IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko Memento Rhubarb Stalk & Tuxedo Black ink

Misc - Heart Sequins - Doodlebug Designs; Red Wire; Computer Generated "Fortunes"; adhesive; Scor-Pal; Circle Punch