Before and After - Gift Box for your Valentine

Here is what I worked on this evening, what do you think about it so far?  I took a Christmas gift box that I got at Pier 1 on clearance for 38cents and with some House of 3 printable decorated it and distressed it.  I am not finished with it but couldn’t wait to share what I have done so far.  This time I decided to take step by step photos and so I will also be adding those to my blog Tuesday night.  Hope you have time to come back this week to check out the tutorial!  If you want some of this fabulous paper then hope on over to House of 3 and you can download it and print it out within 5mins!  As you may have already guessed this sweet little 4.5 x 4.5 box is going to get filled up with some sweets for my darling Valentine!

BEFORE

AFTER (but not finished)

Spreading a little House of 3 Valentine Love

Just wanted to share with you a little valentine cheer, I shopped the $1 section at Target last week and came across some cute valentine paper.  I cut them down, folded them took my Tim Holtz Tiny attacher (mini stapler) some doilies and of course some House of 3 circles and made paper Lollies.  For the lollipop holder I picked up a pink bucket at Hobby Lobby and stuffed some lollipops and another folded Lollie.  I am sure it would look better with two but at the time I hadn’t figured out what I was going to do with it.  Any who, you can get more inspiration from the House of 3 ladies Rhonna, Janet and Heidi.  And No, I’m not paid to send you their way.  I just know a good thing and these ladies are a good thing!

 

And here is the front of my mini sweetie album, yes it’s a printable from House of 3!  Super easy and Heidi has awesome instructions on how to put the album together in an accordion album fashion should you so wish to do as she did.

I’m going to get back to playing with all my valentine paper goodies, hope you have a great Sunday afternoon and if you are watching the Super Bowl hope you enjoy it and that your team of choice plays well.

Saturday Fun

Wanted to share with you what I have been up to today while I was doing laundry I might add.  It’s been super gloomy in Houston and today the sun came out! I should have been out there enjoying it but I was so motivated to work on Valentine’s.  So, I’ve been sitting in my craft studio in front of the window enjoying the sun while I played with paper and glue!  Here is what I have so far, still need to pimp up the mini album but I need to head out for my dad’s birthday dinner.  Hope you are having a great day and I will be back to share more later.  And YES, I am leaving my mess! That is the joy of having a craft studio, I can leave it all out so I can pick up where I left off.  Supplies used are from the House of 3, you know you want some so quick click here!  You won’t even have to wait to get them in the mail, as soon as you buy them you get to download the pdf’s and print them out on your printer!

  

Share the Love

Wanted to share with you a couple of projects I worked on this evening, I am preparing for a craft night with the girls this coming Wednesday. I intended on using some doilies but never made it to the store to pick them up so I will upload more photos this week to include other elements. For now let’s take a look at what I worked with.  Tonight I had not one but two machines running, I used the Cricut Expression to cut out the Pink circle and white scallop circle.  While my CE was busy cutting those two elements I used my new Silhouette SD to cut the House of 3 “Forever” and heart and cupid.  Loved running both machines I felt so efficient, LOL or should I say spoiled *wink*.  I used my House of 3 Valentine circles and simply punched them out with my 2” punch.  I also printed out and cut the adorable Dear Valentine background also from the House of 3.  If you are interested in any of those products head on over to the House of 3.  I also wanted to let you know that the incredible women who are the House of 3 are going to share their Valentine creations beginning tomorrow so be sure to visit, the House of 3 blog as Rhonna, Janet and Heidi are sure to WOW us as always!

  

Valentine Layout Sneak Peek

Just wanted to give you a sneak peek at a layout I am working on for this year’s Valentine photo.  I am loving how it is looking and can’t wait to add the photos!  I am not actually going to use a photo taken on Valentines (not sure yet if my DH will be in town or on his work week away) so I’ve come up with a cute idea for a photo shoot for us.  For now here is your sneak peek.

Credits: Silhouette SD cut images are the cupid and the Be Mine, Tim Holtz Numbers and Love Ticket, House of 3 Calendar

 

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Keeping it Simple

Wanted to share another layout that I did, this one I started and finished within 30mins. I have been saving this paper for the perfect layout and this is it. The photo that I am journaling is one taken by my talented cousin Leslie Ann! I didn’t want to take away from the photo so I simply added some black behind the photo then used some digital elements to create the Journal tag. To dress it up a bit I added a few rhinestones and the flower. What do you think? I like how it turned out, keeping it simple allows for the photo to shine!

Journal Spot reads: Wonderful, beautiful, Amazing Are just a few of the words that come to mind when I see this photo that Leslie Ann took! My beautiful cousin has a great eye! She is a wonderful photographer and I’m so proud of her! Can’t wait to see more of her work! Love you cousin! Thanksgiving 09’

First layout for 2010

Hey there! Hope you had a great weekend, we did!  This weekend my DH and I spent it with our sweet niece Alexa.  She is almost 8 and loves spending time with her uncle and aunt!  We took her out for dinner on Friday, then she and I created in my craft studio Saturday morning.  Later that day we ended up at Build a Bear and she made herself an Alvin and off to the movies the three of us went.  We saw Alvin and the chipmunks and I was dreading it but ended up loving it. Her uncle was a good sport and I think I even heard him chuckle a few times!  Today we played in the craft studio yet again and this layout is what I “ACCOMPLISHED”.  I am so proud of myself for finishing it because in the middle of doing this layout I had to leave to go drop her off.  It is so easy not to come back and finish but had to, after all “ACCOMPLISH” is my word of the year!  The only catch is that the photo isn’t a true photo and so I’ll have to run by my local photo shop tomorrow.  But, I’m still calling this as finished. LOL 

 

Here is another photo I took of our sweetie along with the actual version used on the layout.