Christmas Wrap = Kraft & Red Valentines

Happy Tuesday! I'm back with a set of Valentine cards I made. My co-worker brought me in some red & kraft gingham patterned Christmas wrapping paper she spared from the recycle bin and wanted to know if I could use it with my crafting projects. I was happy to take the paper!

As a thank you, I made her a set of Valentine note cards. I made two each of three designs. The card layouts are essentially the same, I just swapped out different doily dies cuts and switched up the focal images and outside sentiments.

Here is a picture of the boxed set. You probably recognize the box--it's a recycled PTI stamp box that I embellished with new patterned paper and a handmade label:

Here is a close up of one of the cards:

The white scallop with the heart punch-out is an embellishment I made. I saw a Martha Stewart punch in the same style at my local stamp store and passed it up. As I was at home regretting not getting the punch, I decided to scour my punch collection for an alternative and was delighted to find that I had three separate punches that when combined, could give me the identical look to the Martha punch! I punched a heart in the middle of some white paper, then took a small scalloped circle punch , centered it around the heart and punched it out. Finally, I took a teeny, tiny hole punch and punched out the middle section of each of the small scallops. I then layered my scallop punch-out over a red circle punch out, and my embellishment was complete. It took a bit of time, but it was great to use my existing supplies rather than buy yet another new tool!

Here is the second card in the set:



And finally, here is the third card:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please come visit me tomorrow when I share my PTI blog hop projects!


Card Set Details:
Doily Details die collection, kraft paper, Tag-Its #11 stamp set, Mat Stack #2 die, Just For You stamp set, button twine and clear box from PTI; heart buttons from my stash; Marvy and EK Success punches; Memento Rich Cocoa ink; Versamagic Red Magic chalk ink; Amuse red note cards; red and kraft wrapping paper courtesy of Meaghan.