Sending Love Shaker Card

Happy Friday everyone! Evidently the snow we're getting (again) must have clogged up yesterday's blog post - I was over at a2z Scrapbooking sharing this fun shaker card:

If you follow me on Instagram, you saw me shaking this bad boy the other night...it's fantastic! Hop on over to see the full tutorial.

Happy Crafting!

Tickets for Love Card

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I pulled together a sweet, non-traditional colors card today for my dear in-laws.

 This was so much fun to make. I pulled out one of my bazillion several 6"x6" paper pads and found some cute papers to play with.The fun part about staying within one paper pad is that the patterns & colors are guaranteed to match! I inked up the tickets from Unity Stamp Co. in Espresso Truffle (Memento) and got stamping. To finish them off I fussy-cut the little cuties out and added some glitter with my Spica pens; pink and red hearts and then some clear over the lips in the last one.

I 'pinned' them to the card with some silver heart confetti from my Pretty Pink Post horde collection, which proved to be excellent practice for my tweezer-using skills. No, really, they're getting better!

The blue floral got layered with my favorite deep chocolate card stock and placed onto the white card base. Some white mini-pom pom trim finished off the top of the card and is just CUTE. I was going to end there, but realized the bottom was waaaaaaay too plain. I dug through my stamps until I found the 'love' one as part of a Unity set. Some sequins to draw the eye and done!

Have you been playing with non-traditional colors? I'd love to hear about it in the comments!

I'm linking up today to: Simon Monday Challenge Blog: We Love Stamps! and Unity Stamp Co. Friends with Flair!

Happy Crafting!

All About Valentine Card Kits and a Printable

Happy Thursday everyone! I hope your week is going well so far, I know I woke up to a snowstorm again this morning. Maybe we'll get to go out snowshoeing yet this year!

I've been hard at work on the online store, and I'm pleased to announce that I've copied over nearly everything from the Etsy store! I've also been adding in this year's valentines and have already sold out of one of the valentine kits. Fear not, though, I have three designs left that I'd like to share with you today.

But first, what's a valentine kit you ask? It's a wonderful DIY kit for the kiddos to make their own valentines with! If you're not a 'kiddo', go ahead and use it anyway - I won't judge you, and they're really, really cute!

 Each kit comes packed with:

• 30 flat cards in ivory, red, and pink (10 of each color)
• 30 ivory envelopes
• a nice, big tube of glitter glue in pink, red, or silver
• 30 pink and red paper hearts (15 of each color)
• 60 foam stickers in the theme of the kit

Add that all up and you have the materials to make 30 valentine cards, enough for the whole class and maybe even one for Mom & Dad. ;)

While the Love Bug kits are sold out, there are still 3 designs to choose from:

Conversation Hearts Kit

Ticket to Hug Kit

Sweet Hearts Kit

If you do pick one up, I'd love to see some finished products! You can post them to our Facebook page or tag #caffpapercuts on Instagram.

I did mention a printable, didn't I? Well congratulations on making it to the end of the post, here's your reward: a lovely free printable, just in time for Valentine's Day.

Just follow this link to start the download!

Feel free to print it out for use on a scrapbook page, Project Life album, use it on a card for a friend, or just frame it for yourself! Just one thing; this is for personal use only so no putting it on items for sale or selling it as your own. Enjoy!

So have you started your Valentine crafts yet?

Won't you be my DeNami Valentine?

Yay, it's blog hop with DeNami day! This month's theme is, of course, Valentine's Day! While I miss my Christmas stamps already, I'm ready to pull out the hearts and glitter to brighten things back up around here. (Can you tell we took down the decorations? It's so drab now!)

You should have arrived here from Tina's blog. It's such a pretty place, thanks for tearing yourself away to come here. ;) In case you just stumbled in the Sunday morning by accident, here's all the lovely details:

When: The blog hop starts on January 12, 2014 at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until January 13th, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).

Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!

Prizes: We are giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to our website! We'll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then we'll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!

Got it? Good! I did a classic 'stare at your craft supplies until something clicks' card (you know you've done it, too) and finally honed in on the pack of doilies I found in the Target dollar bin ages ago. I added some pink Perfect Pearls spray to it and while that dried the rest of the card started falling into place; some burgundy natural fiber paper I had in my scrap bin, kraft paper for the base, the ever-adorable DeNami chickie in a coffee cup stamp and the finishing touch of the Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls gave me...

...a rustic Valentine with some shimmer, shine, and glitz. 

Admit it, you LOVE the photos with my fingers in them!

I used the metallic brass Distress Ink to give it those gilded edges. I have to say, I really love how it came out and will have to try these techniques again!

Hello, chickie! Colored with Distress Markers and glittered with the red Spica pen

Thanks for sharing part of your morning with me! You're now off to Greta's blog to see what Valentine treat she's cooked up for you!

Happy Crafting!