layers of lace and love

My fave stamp company + a really unique / fun challenge = puffy heart love!! Which is fitting since that's the challenge theme ;)

Today I'm bringing you a little card that brings two things I really love together...DeNami is the sponsor of the latest 10 minute Craft Dash over on the Pretty Pink Posh blog.

Do you know what I love most about Valentines Day cards? it gives me an excuse to use the prettiest color palettes! Red + pink together = happy happy happy...sigh (wait, I'm starting to think that there is WAY too much "math" going on for one post, haha). And for Valentines I can use as much as I want!! (hehehe)

Talk about a quick card to put together...it doesn't get much easier and faster than this little cutie! It took a grand total of 7.56 minutes, and that included doing all the stamping, coloring, glitter and edge punching!! (sorry, no pictures of my desk this time, I started cleaning up then realized I forgot to take the pictures...uggg!) I had my cardstock, punch, stamps, ink, markers and glitter laid out. I started off with a red card base then using magenta, pink & white cardstocks, cut the panels and punched the edges. I stamped my white panel with some yummy new DeNami stamps (cupid chickie & whimsical valentine set) and a beautiful older sentiment as center stage. I colored the chickie then adhered it to the card and finished it up by adding a little glitter. Isn't that cupid chickie the most adorable thing ever?? I'm TOTALLY smitten with him!

 

That's it for me today, I'll see you right back here on Sunday for the DeNami blog hop. You aren't going to want to miss this one...Adorable Animals!! To follow the hop simply go to the DeNami blog Sunday morning for the list of participants. Don't forget to leave your comments along the way to be entered for the DeNami gift certificate give away. Thanks for stopping by!

heart treat box

Last Friday the uber talented and DeNami DT member, Dana, showed us an adorable little heart treat box she whiped up. Her tutorial was great and really made me want to play with that cute little heart shaped box. DeNami is offering it up the template FREE...can't go wrong there, can we ladies?

 

 

I downloaded it and printed it out on cardstock....that's where I ran into trouble. I cut out my pieces and just stared at them. I had such a hard time deciding what to do with them! In the end, I treated them like a blank card front and just stamped a little scene and added embellishments. I started by distressing the hearts with a little light pink ink and the base & handle with grey ink. I punched the holes and added little green brads to 3 side panels and pink to the front panel.

 

For the front I stamped the teeny heart background then added grey, pink & green washi, a green heart and layered a grey and white scalloped circle with the ohh so adorable new Cupid Chickie. And you know me, Icouldn't NOT add ribbon, lol!

For the other 3 sides I stamped the heart flower trio and the new grass border along with the teeny heart randomly "sprinkled" on.

After glueing it all together I added wire and curled the ends for a finished look. As you can see, I didn't fill mine with candy. I added some pretty DeNami multi colored iridescent shreds then piled in some other wonderful DeNami products...Washi Tape, buttons & twine. I wouldn't mind not getting chocolates and flowers with those kind of goodies in MY treat box ;)

Thanks for stopping by!