24 valentine paper crafts ideas

LOVE YOU QUILT

handmade Valentine quilt card from Paper Seedlings .. strips of pattered paper form a quilt block … Hey, it’s time for another Valentine! And, guess what! For a change, I made a paper quilted card! Yeah, I know. I never do that, do I? Anyway, I thought a loving Valentine quilt would be cute and cozy. Not a really tough design, but I do like how it turned out. I used the Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper Stack on page 17 of the Occasions Catalog for my quilt strips. The strips are 1/4″ wide. And the center square is made with the 3/4″ Square Punch. The finished card doesn’t have a whole lot of dimension. Mainly just in the little heart that I popped up with a Stampin’ Dimensional and the Basic Rhinestone in the center of the heart. That’s it for dimension. The rest of the card is utterfly FLAT. Just a little close-up of the “quilted” portion of the card: I first of all finished up the quilt piece, then layered it onto a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock, and topped it onto a Blushing Bride cardstock base. For a few days, the card — in that state — just sort of took it leisurely on my work table. Because I wasn’t sure where to go from there. Obviously, I knew I wanted it to be a Valentine. But I had such a narrow space on the bottom of the card to finish off, and nothing was clicking. I tried planting a few Paper Seedlings, but nothing was taking root. A few days later, I came down to my Creation Station and took another look at the unfinished Valentine. As I was searching through my Framelits for something that would work, I came upon my “Hello You” Thinlits set. I liked the idea of planting the “you” on the bottom of the card. But that didn’t seem to be enough — by a long shot. Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm. My gaze landed on a newer set I had acquired: Bloomin’ Love, found on page 17 of the Occasions Catalog. By using a Rose Red Stampin’ Write Marker, it was easy to magically change the LOVE YOU stamp into simply “LOVE”. And that worked great with the diecut “you”. Still too bare though. I decided to use another stamp from this set since it coordinates with the DSP I used in my quilting. Thus, the little Rose Red heart/flower was born. It STILL needed something. Finally, finally, I hit upon the little dotted line from a Paper Pumpkin kit of a few months ago. It was absolutely PERFECT! Yay! And, another little thing I really like about my final decision. The bottom is quite whimsical and asymetrical, while the quilted portion is completely linear, totally in order. To me, a nice contrast! Do you ever get stuck on a project like I did? How do you handle this? Do you keep on pushing until the card is done — maybe not to your liking, but done anyway? Or, like me, do you let it rest for awhile, maybe even a few days, and try again? Do you ever just give up in frustration and toss the “failure” in the round file? Let us inside your creative head! Love YOU Smiles.