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Merry & Bright Snowman

Inspiration: January 2024 Card Maps sketch

I was looking at the Card Maps sketches and got inspired to circle back to the Merry & Bright collection I have recently been using. I had this leftover snowman and flower bunch stickers that went very well with the sketch, so I picked patterned papers to go with those and built my card around it. 

On the sticker sheet, I found a Fa La La La sticker, which is great because it works for a French or an English card, leaving me the option to choose who I am sending it to. I wrapped some black and white buffalo plaid ribbon where the papers met and added a cute red button over the knot, tied with black embroidery floss. I added a fairy gemstone over the snowflake and little enamel dots over the snowman's buttons. 

 

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Mint Macaron (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Cardstock Stickers: Merry & Bright (Simple Stories)
Dies: Dotted Rectangle Stackables (Lawn Fawn)
Accessories: Winter Fantasy Fairy Gemstones (Memory Box); Button (Foof-A-La);
Stampin' Dimensionals, Soft Sea Foam Medium Envelope, Buffalo Plaid Ribbon (Stampin' Up!)

 

Reindeer Tag

Inspiration: Mojo Monday #231

Still going with the Merry & Bright collection from Simple Stories. The starting point for this card was the reindeer tag, from the cardstock stickers. I had seen a Mojo Monday sketch with a tag about the right size so I went back to it and designed my card around it. I also used the Joy banner cardstock sticker to add a sentiment to my card.

The middle stripe is deep green velvet ribbon I grabbed at Michaels during one of their sales, and it fit very nicely with this collection. I also did the three pearls at the bottom of the banner strip like on the sketch, picking two sizes for added interest. The top circle and scalloped circle were die-cut using my Nestabilities dies. I mounted this on a Mint Macaron card base.

I made a matching envelope using a sheet of patterned paper, to help make a faster dent in my stash. 

 

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Mint Macaron (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Cardstock Stickers: Merry & Bright (Simple Stories)
Dies: Zig-Zag Stackers (Penny Black); Circle and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders);
Deco Labels (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: Green Velvet Ribbon (Celebrate It); Moss Green Pearls (Studio Katia);
Stampin' Dimensionals, Envelope Punch Board (Stampin' Up!)

 

... And the Stocking Were Hung

Inspiration: TGIF Challenge #459 

Amongst the Bits & Pieces images I had left were four cute little stockings, and I realized that the TGIF sketch worked well to hang them from the horizontal strip. 

Since I am working with scraps and don't have a lot of full-size papers to work with anymore, I picked one of the papers I don't like to use as a base, cut it to the size of a card front and added cranberry strips of papers on each side, and a larger strip of winter icons paper in the center. I added thin gold washi tape on each side for extra pizzazz. Using my Circle Double Stitched dies, I cut three circles out of patterned papers and added them to the card. 

I cut my horizontal strip out of polka dot paper, placed the stockings over it and glued the top in place once I was happy with the placement. Then I looked through my brads to make it looks like the stockings were hanging from nails. I was initially planning to pull my mini brads, but those are silver, and since I had just added gold with the washi tape, I decided to stick to the same metallic color and I used regular gold brads instead. I then mounted the strip and the stockings on foam adhesive, but before gluing it in place, I looked through my stamps first to see which sentiment I could add to the top circle. I found one that was just the right size, so I stamped it in VersaMark and embossed it with Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. Then, I was ready to glue my stockings in place.

The bottom circle felt bare, and I didn't have any die-cuts that would have made sense there, so I just went for a couple of enamel dots and added an extra one at the top as well. I mounted the card front on a Always Artichoke card base. For the envelope, I pulled an Avocado envelope again and glued a floral die-cut in the corner to make it match the card.

 

 

 

Supplies
Stamps: Joyeux moments (Stampin' Up!)
Cardstock: Always Artichoke (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Enamel Dots, Basics Kit, Bits & Pieces: Holly Jolly (Simple Stories)
Dies: Zig-Zag Stackers (Penny Black) Circle Double Stitched (Art Impressions)
Acessories: Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Emboss Powder, Stampin' Dimensionals, Gold Brads (Stampin' Up!);
A2 Avocado Envelope (Envelopes.com); Washi Tape (Recollections)

 

A Joyous Christmas

Still stretching my Holly Jolly scraps to the limit. I had two pieces of my favorite patterns - the ornaments on the blue background and the polka dots on green - which I thought I could turn into a mini slimline card front, so I pulled out the Mini Slimline Stackables dies from Lawn Fawn and prepared my front panel. I added gold washi on each side of the center paper, and I matted the panel with cranberry paper.

I was wondering what to put on the card, so I went digging through my stash. I found the Gifted Holiday set, which includes dies and an embossing folder that adds details. The set includes an ornament, so I ran five different colours through the Big Shot to die-cut first and then emboss: pink for the ornament base, blue for the central strip, copper for the top, green for the leaves and red for the berries. There were a couple of hits and misses, and I ended up having to do the berries twice as my first fussy cutting job was not working out, but I ended up with something that I liked. I punched a 5/8" circle out of copper paper for the center of the ornament and I added a Prima crystal in the center.

For the sentiment, I went back to Tim Holtz's Christmastime 3 stamp set, which was still on my desk. I embossed the sentiment in fine copper embossing powder, die-cut it with a square die and added a scalloped square die-cut out of copper satin cardstock. I added a few enamel dots and the card was completed.

I repeated the embossed ornament, done in copper cardstock, on the envelope.

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Stamps: Christmastime 3 (Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous)
Card Base and Envelope: Slimline #6 (Photoplay)
Patterned Papers, Enamel Dots, Basics Kit: Holly Jolly (Simple Stories)
Dies: Mini Slimline Stackables (Lawn Fawn)
Dies and 3D Embossing Folder: Gifted Holiday (Simon Says Stamp)
Accessories: Stampin' Dimensionals, Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder (Stampin' Up!);
Gold Washi Tape (Recollections)

 

Do You Want to Build a Snowman?

I absolutely love this year's winter collection from Doodlebug, Snow Much Fun. The sweet colours, the adorable little icons... A big chunk of the collection made its way back home with me, and I finally had the chance to start creating with it. I found an older picture of my niece standing proudly next to her snowman. This picture cracks me up because we usually get boatloads of snow during winter around here, so to have a picture where we see the street and the lawn through a very fine layer of snow is making me think that this picture was probably taken very early in the season and that my sister and brother-in-law were very eager to make my niece's very first snowman with her - as illustrated by the fact that they went all out with the scarf and the carrot nose as well! 

For the background, I used a piece of 12" x 12" cardstock from my stash and layered a paper from the Petite Print paper pack. I based my design off of a Page Maps sketch and used some of the cut-aparts and some of the Odds & Ends images. I love when Doodlebug does houses, they are always adorable and I'm drawn to them, so I used the blue one along with a couple of trees and clouds. I added the falling snowflakes image underneath the larger cloud, and I topped both with velvet brads.

Instead of the two little pictures from the sketch, I thought I could do two tags, but I wanted to show the image of the little boy with his snowman and if I was placing the tag high enough to show the image, the top was too high on the page and it was throwing the balance off, so I tore the top of the tag off, and I ended up placing it underneath on the side as an embellishment instead. I added a second piece of torn blue paper at the top, and a layer of sparkly purple washi tape. I glued a mini white pompom as the snowball in the kid's hand, and added snowflake sprinkles and sequins.

I had purchased the snowman Shaker-Pop and made sure to include it at the bottom of the pager. The picture was matted with the diagonal stripe paper and I added a blue mat to divide the stripes and the gingham. On the cut-apart sheet, I found the words "Do you want to build a snowman?," which I was able to include on the layout to serve as the title. I added sewing around the page and the journaling block, and I added a snowflake wax seal I had sitting on my desk. (This is one of my favorites that I've done when I sent out my Holiday cards - i used pearlized white and aqua beads and used my silver foil marker on the snowflake.) I also made sure to include some of the puffy stickers on the layout. Doodlebug makes some of the best puffy stickers on the market - they are super adorable, have no white borders , have no wrinkles (it's a thing - unfortunately, Simple Stories puffy stickers are often wrinkly..) and the quantity is really great for the price point.

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Brocade Blue (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Odds & Ends, Puffy Stickers, Shaker-Pops, Petite Print Paper
Pack: Snow Much Fun (Doodlebug Design)
Accessories: Blue Jean Crushed Velvet Brads (Doodlebug Design); Snowflake Wax Seal and Wax Beads (Honey Bee);
Blue Ribbon, Eyelets, 1/8" Metallic Ribbon, Purple Glitter Washi Tape, Rhinestone Basic Jewels,
Stampin' Dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); Marvy Silver Foil Marker (Urchida);
Star Dust Stickles (Ranger); Sewing Machine; Large Eyelet (We R Memory Makers)

 

Aloha

This card is literally born out of me creating a cluster out of leftover pieces. I was about to throw away leftover cut-apart images from a paper pad I was done with, and then I realized they fit nicely together, and with this little toucan image I had stamped and colored but had not included on a previous card. So I created a cluster, added a hole reinforcer and a large gold eyelet, a few enamel dots and I left it aside. 

As I was cleaning my desk today, I found a piece of watercolored paper, a piece of fold foil and a green polka dot scrap that also went nicely with the cluster, and I realized I probably had enough to turn this into a card. I was thinking of doing a white dry-embossed background, but then I also remembered my newly organized by colours scrap bin, so I pulled it out and found this watercolored heart background that was fitting nicely. I cut it to 4¾" x 4¾" and pulled out a white square card base. It was too much white, so I looked for some green to mat the paper and I found a nice green bokeh paper from a retired Stampin' Up! pack. I went to my sewing machine and added green stitching around the edge and zig-zag stitching on the watercolored paper. (That part did not turn out as I wanted, but that's all part of crafting.) 

I found two more things on my desk that worked with the design: the doily I had used while doing gel printing with acrylic paint and a piece of cork I had used to test my new tab punch on. The punched tab is supposed to be folded in half, but the cork would have cracked, so I cut it in half with my scissors, and I thought this was a nice texture to add to my summery jungle creation. I also added bright green ribbon to the eyelet, tied in place with sparkly pink ribbon. I wanted a decorative brad, and I found one with a popsicle on it from a very, very old Carta Bella pack. I also add a golden pearl left on my desk, that I added in there. I was not liking the empty tab, so I added a teal star enamel sticker to it.

I am surprised at how cohesive the final result feels considering that it came from a pile of unused extra pieces from recent projects. Very satisfying!

 

 

 

Supplies
Stamps: ?
Square Card Bases and Envelopes: Card Kit (DoCraft)
Patterned Papers: Calendar Girl (Bo Bunny); ? (Stampin' Up!); ? (Craft Smith);
Green Polka Dot (Cosmo Cricket); A6 Rich Gold Mirri Mat Stack (Hunkydory)
Specialty Paper: Cork (source unknown)
Accessories: Granny Apple Green Ribbon, Sweet Sorbet Metallic Woven Ribbon, Pearlized Doilies,
Stampin' Dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); Large Gold Eyelets (We R Memory Keepers);
Pearls (Studio Katia); Enamel Dots (Altenew); Sparkly City Enamel Stickers (Shimelle for American Crafts);
Cool Summer Decorative Brads (Carta Bella); Large Tab Punch (EK Success);
Agave Paint (Sizzix); Sewing Machine

 

Frosty Says...

Inspiration: Freshly Made Sketch #622 

Going around my paper scraps, I found this cute snowman image and got the idea of hanging a sentiment from its arms. That worked well with the Freshly Made Sketch, which as a little strip in the center, so that was my interpretation of it. I punched a piece of pink paper with my Washi Tape punch and stamped "Warm Wishes" on it in Cherry Cobbler ink. I then use a 1/16" hole punch on each corner and threaded linen thread on each side, tying both pieces in a knot. I mounted the sentiment on foam adhesive and glued the ends of the linen thread on the snowman's arms. I added small enamel dots to the sign to fill up the space a bit.

I created a scalloped border for the bottom of the image, and ended up using the leftover piece at the top to give the scene a bit more color. I mounted the scene on polka dot paper and added a thin layer of cranberry cardstock underneath.

For the background, I used green paper from the Basics kit, which I embossed with the PInewood Planks 3D embossing folder.  I inked the raised portions with Always Artichoke ink to make the details stand out more and I mounted the embossed piece on an Always Artichoke card base.

I tied green ribbon around the scene for added texture, and sprinkled two sizes of snowflakes around the scene. I used some of my remaining Bits and Pieces inside the card and on the Avocado envelope to decorate. 

 

 

 

Supplies
Stamps: Joyeux moments (Stampin' Up!)
Cardstock: Always Artichoke, Merry Merlot (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Basics Kit, Enamel Dots, Bits & Pieces: Holly Jolly (Simple Stories)
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke (Stampin' Up!)
Dies: Border (Photoplay); Dotted Rectangle Stackables (Lawn Fawn)
Accessories: PInewood Planks, Stampin' Dimensionals, Washi Tape Punch, 1/8" Ribbon.
Sponge Dauber (Stampin' Up!); A2 Avocado Envelope (Envelopes.com); 
Snowflake Sequins (Cartwright's); Snowflakes Glitter (Studio Katia)

 

O Christmas Tree

Inspiration: SheetLoad of Cards February 2024

I decided to play with the February SheetLoad of Cards sketch. I was looking at paper options and realized I could probably use up the rest of my Mad 4 Plaid paper pad (which I am glad to see I did!). I only had three full sheets left, but since the pieces are all small, I was able to cut what I needed out of leftover papers.

I picked Cherry Cobbler for my card base and Always Artichoke cardstock for the matting. For the sentiment, I found this beautiful font stamp that has the beginning of the French version of "O Christmas Tree" and it fit the circle perfectly. I embossed my sentiment with sparkly gold embossing powder and since I was not finding that the white was standing out enough, though, I added a layer of gold foil paper. Inspired by the gold, I also tied a piece of narrow gold ribbon around the horizontal strip and added two gold foil pearls to the top right corner.

This was my initial design and it looked very elegant, but the sentiment felt a little out of place, so I got the idea of pulling out the Bottle Brush Trees stamp set from Tim Holtz. I was very happy when Simon Says Stamp decided to offer matching dies for this set in December, knowing this would stretch the use of the set for me, and this was my first chance to test them out. They produce a much better result than fussy cutting would. I tested out three combinations: stamped in Always Artichoke on white cardstock, embossed in sparkly gold powder on white and embossed in sparkly gold powder on Always Artichoke cardstock. While the one on dark cardstock looks beautiful when it hits the light, the images were otherwise getting lost. The one in ink looked nice, but the gold trees gave elegance to the card, so I went with that option for the remaining cards.

I stamped the trees in green ink on white envelopes and added patterned paper to some of the flaps, but I did not have enough paper to do them all. I lined the inside of the cards with a layer of white cardstock (to facilitate writing a message) and stamped the small tree in green ink there as well.

I am loving the content creators that are preparing sketches and instructions like Alicia does for her SheetLoad monthly feature. This is helping me prepare cards for donations and also getting through my stash of paper, as I am finding that it is lasting a long time when I do individual designs. Stash busting is still very high on my list of resolutions in 2024.

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Stamps: Bottle Brush Trees (Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous); Classiques de Noël (Stampin' Up!)
Cardstock: Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke (Stampin' Up!);
A6 Rich Gold Mirri Mats (Hunkydory)
Patterned Papers: Mad 4 Plaid Christmas (Photoplay)
Ink: Always Artichoke, VersaMark (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: 1/8" Gold Ribbon, White Medium Envelopes, 2½" and 2-3/8" Circle Punches, 
Stampin' Dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); Brilliant Sparkle White Gold Embossing Powder (Cosmic Shimmer);
Gold Foil Pearls (Studio Katia); Bottle Brush Trees Dies (Simon Says Stamp)

 

Pink and Green Stitched Ornaments

I had one piece left of my favorite pattern from the Holly Jolly collection, and since it has ornaments on it, I pulled out my 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar dies from Spellbinders and die-cut the two ornaments out of the papers from the Basics Kit. I added pink stitching on the long ornament and b lue stitching on the round one. I backed the pink ornament with burgundy paper and the olive ornament with light green paper. I used copper satin cardstock for the top part, and hung the ornaments from vanilla cotton twine. I also added some Studio Katia pearls to the details.

I placed two strips of a different pattern on both ends for added interest and added zig-zag stitches with my sewing machine. I had a "celebrate the season" strip that was sitting on my desk (which I believe was cut off the snowman image I used on a previous card), so I cut the edge with decorative scissors and added it to the card with foam adhesive. I added a few enamel dots around and mounted the card on Always Artichoke cardstock.

This might be my favorite card I've done with this collection since pulling it back out again. I have to say, I'm glad I bought the Spellbinders advent calendar - I am really enjoying doing a bit of stitching on my paper projects and the dies they included in that set are really cute and make for great cards.

 

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Always Artichoke (Stampin' Up!); Rose Gold Specialty Cardstock (Sizzix)
Patterned Papers, Enamel Dots, Basics Kit: Holly Jolly (Simple Stories)
Dies: 2023 12 Days of Stitchmas Advent Calendar (Spellbinders); Zig-Zag Stackers (Penny Black)
Accessories: Stampin' Dimensionals, Vanilla Cotton Twine (Stampin' Up!); A2 Avocado Envelope (Envelopes.com);
Stormcloud, Moss Green, Seafoam and Rose Pink Pearls (Studio Katia); Sewing Machine

 

Warm Cup o' Cheer

Inspiration: Try a Sketch on Tuesday #640 

The next paper collection I would like to finish using up is Holly Jolly from Simple Stories (2019). I have a hard time using this collection because the colours are muted and quite dark and I feel it does not make the finished cards as festive as I would like them to be. Some of the papers are better than others, so I split the pile apart and decided I would use up what I like and just put the rest in the recycling bin once I've used up what I like.

I had this cocoa cup image already fussy cut so I looked for a design to highlight it. The Try a Sketch on Tuesday design was perfect for it. I pulled my square card bases and I cut the Christmas icon paper to size, adding a pink mat underneath (I have the matching Basics Kit papers for this collection as well). I finally had time to go to the store to pick a few colours of sewing thread that I thought would work well for my scrapbooking projects, so I was able to use soft blue thread on my base layer. I'm getting better at not leaving such a wide gap and stitching closer to the edge, and this one turned out very even, so it looks like I'm getting the hang or it.

I die-cut a large circle with Tonic's layering circle dies out of the cute polka dot paper, and I did the horizontal strip with the candy striped paper. I added a piece of shimmery green ribbon over it for additional texture.

I got the idea to add puffy paint to the whipped cream and this time, I learned from past mistakes and put the puffy paint on the image BEFORE gluing it to my card. And I was able to puff the paint without having the paper burn and change colour. I also wanted to add a heat-embossed sentiment, so I picked a sentiment that talks about holiday warmth, which fit the image and the style of the design nicely, and I embossed it with Cherry Cobbler powder directly on my paper. 

I popped the cup image on foam adhesive and added it to the card. It looked a little bland, so I used a punched snowflake on the cup and topped it with enamel dots. I added a few more to frame the sentiment and at the end of the ribbon to keep the total number uneven.

To embellish the envelope, I used the little cup image from the Bits & Pieces, placed over a cross-stitched circle die-cut, and I added two small enamel dots on it. 

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Stamps: Souhaits en rafales (Stampin' Up!)
Card Base and Envelopes: White Square Cards (Docrafts)
Patterned Papers, Bits & Pieces, Enamel Dots: Holly Jolly (Simple Stories)
Dies: Cross-Stitched Circles Stackables (Lawn Fawn); Layering Circles (Tonic)
Accessories: Stampin' Dimensionals, Puffy Paint, Pear Pizzazz Shimmer Ribbon,
Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Emboss Powder (Stampin' Up!); Snowflake Punch (EK Success);
Sewing Machine

 

Holly Jolly Creations

While trying to use up my remaining Holly Jolly papers, two scraps jumped out at me: the first one was a cut-apart with "Joy to the World on it", and the second as a cut-apart where I had cut the top and bottom of the striped part and then fussy cut around the circle to have the sentiment hanging off the edge. Both of those elements inspired me so I set them aside to design around.

I first started with the Joy to the World image. I fussy cut the word Joy, and then I used my Sentiment Labels dies to cut "to the world" out in a nice even rectangle. I tried the word Joy over various patterned papers and it was getting lost, but I found a leftover piece one one of the 6" x 8" pages that Simple Stories design to be a full page insert - this one has a Christmas Tree made out of words on it, but since I was left with the top part, there was a lot of brown woodgrain showing and if I layered a circle over the tree part, this gave me a nice backdrop for the word to show up nicely. So if you look closely between the circle and the sentiment strip, there is a slight bit of blue showing, but I was okay with that.

I layered some cranberry red Basics paper underneath and did gingham at the bottom and the bottom and die-cut the whole thing with my Wonky Stitched Rectangles dies. I punched two snowflakes out of the blue Basics paper and added enamel dots to the middle.

I initially was planning to add something to the center of the wreath and everything I was trying out was not working out - until I remembered to look at the Bits and Pieces pack and found the cute birdie that was just the right size to add inside the wreath. I used the leftover pieces from each side of the paper to decorate the inside of the card and the Avocado envelope.

For the second card, I glued my sentiment piece over the hanging ornament patterned paper (my favorite of the collection) and die-cut to size with the same rectangle dies. I created some ornaments out of the Basics papers using the Ornamental Birds dies from Tim Holtz. I die-cut the little dots from the patterned paper and used a leftover strip of the brown woodgrain paper to back it up so that the dots showed up better. I added enamel dots to the center of the ornaments and popped them up on foam adhesive. I found some ornament images on one of the paper scraps, so I fussy cut them and added them to an Avocado envelope as well.

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Certainly Celery (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Basics Kit, Enamel Dots: Holly Jolly (Simple Stories)
Dies: Ornamental Birds (Tim Holtz for Sizzix); Wonky Stitched Rectangle STAX (My Favorite Things);
Sentiment Labels (Simon Says Stamp); Cross-Stitched Circle Stackables (Lawn Fawn)
Accessories: Stampin' Dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); A2 Avocado Envelope (Envelopes.com);
Snowflake Punch (EK Success)

 

Merry & Bright Foursquare

This is one more Merry & Bright creation. I had noticed that I had four similarly sized chipboard images that I thought I could pair with Lawn Fawn's Foursquare Backdrop Portrait dies. I was initially planning to do four different patterns in the squares, but once I turned my pieces around, I was liking having all polka dots, so I decided to go with the "no leftovers" concept and just use everything I had from my one die-cut pass. 

I popped the chipboard images on foam adhesive and I added red velvet ribbon underneath. I also picked a sentiment from the chipboard stickers - Ho Ho Ho - which can make for either an English or French card. I added gems from a Prima Marketing pack and I called this card one.

I went for an envelope made out of patterned paper again. This is my favorite so farm the flowers against the light wood background looks gorgeous as an envelope. I die-cut an address block out of a paper scrap, but it was not showing up very well on the envelope, so I matted it with the larger size die and some Candy Red cardstock. I added a little mug sticker to go with the card.

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Thick Very Vanilla (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Chipboard Stickers, Cardstock Stickers: Merry & Bright (Simple Stories)
Dies: Foursquare Backdrop Portrait (Lawn Fawn)
Accessories: Red Velvet Ribbon (Celebrate It); My Sweet Say It With Crystals (Prima Marketing);
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, Envelope Punch Board (Stampin' Up!)

 

Three Hearts

Inspiration: Sunday Stamps #328 + Simon Says Stamp Monday (Have a Heart)

When I saw the three circles on the sketch, I thought it would be a good opportunity to change them for hearts, to fit with SSS's Monday challenge. I also have this Love Letter shaker kit from Queen & Co that was perfect for that.

I picked the oldie but goodie 6" x 6" paper pad Life in Color from Simple Stories (2016) and I picked my card background. Then, I die cut the heart three times from different patterned papers. I was not liking the scale, so I pulled some other heart dies and make the top one a little smaller to help. I picked the floral heart as my shaker and I die-cut the top part out of pink paper. I added ombre pearls inside the heart and I stamped the "sending you hugs and kisses!" sentiment from the shaker kit on grid paper and die-cut it to size using the Everyday Sentiment Banners dies, then popped it up with foam adhesive on the shaker heart.

I tied red satin ribbon around the background paper and then I went to my sewing machine to add a little bit of interest. I threaded the machine with black thread and did my best at outlining the hearts. I'm pretty new at this so I didn't know how it would come out. There's room for improvement but it could have been worse, considering I realized it was not as easy as I might have thought once I started going. I also added a bit of messy zig-zag stitching on top of the ribbon, not only to keep it flat, but to make it more interesting. 

The little pink plus I have on the bottom heart is just a leftover piece of chipboard I have in a container on my desktop. I'm trying to use it all up and the colour and scale was fitting so I added it. I also added gems to the other two hearts as well. I did a pink card base, and I repeated some of the hearts on a pink envelope as well (using one more chipboard piece there as well).

 

 

 

Supplies
Shaker Kit (Including Stamps): Love Letter (Queen & Co)
Cardstock: Pink Pirouette (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers: Life in Color (Simple Stories)
Ink: Real Red (Stampin' Up!)
Dies: Wonky Stitched Rectangles (My Favorite Things); Sassy & Sweet (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: Real Red Satin Ribbon, Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (Stampin' Up!);
Sewing Machine; A2 Metallic Rose Quartz Envelope (Envelopes.com); 
Chipboard Stickers (Crate Paper); Magnolia Rouge Say It in Crystals (Prima Marketing);
Ombre Pearls (Queen & Co)