Learn to Stamp and Scrap with Lynn Larson

A Special Valentine's WEEK...

I hope you all are having a fabulous Valentine's Day!  My day is certainly starting out fantastic!

My Valentine's Day actually started Tuesday night.  My daughter Stephanie came over for dinner and brought Darryl and I a "parents" Valentine's card and a plateful of assorted homemade cookies.  There were chocolate chip, M&M cookies and rolled out sugar cookies cut out in heart shapes and frosted in pink.  Unfortunately, the cookies disappeared before I could take a picture of them:))

Thursday night was my next surprise when hubby and I came home.  I walked upstairs first.  Darryl had a dozen beautiful roses in a vase on the dining room table along with not one, but TWO cards sitting there waiting for me.  I trimmed down the flowers and arranged them in the vase, but I was not "allowed" to open the cards until Valentine's Day - what a tease:))

 

If you could see the cute little grin on Darryl's face when I saw the roses and the cards on the table.  He was so proud of himself to surprise me a little early:))

 

If I wasn't already the luckiest girl on the face of the planet to be married to my wonderful hubby...get a dozen roses early and have cards already on the table ready for me for Saturday...have homemade cookies from my daughter Stephanie and her friend Christina...BUT THEN Friday night rolls around and what do you think I find? ...

More flowers....

This time, the flowers are from my son, Cody.  What a sweetie!  I am so unbelievably blessed with such a wonderful family!

Well, now that today is officially Valentine's Day I had more treats in store.  I woke up to my hubby serving me breakfast in bed.  Yes...I said breakfast in bed.  It was fabulous!  He also did the horses for me this morning - cleaning their stalls and prepping them for tonight, feeding them their grain and then putting them out in the paddock for the day with their hay.  We are also going out tonight for dinner and possibly a movie.

I should probably show you the card that I made for my honey too.

I wanted to create a card that was a little more masculine and didn't scream Valentine colors so I used mostly Kraft cardstock.  The "Happy Valentine's Day" banner on the card is a little wavy and sticks out from the card creating a 3-D look.  I also added some dimensionals behind the red square panel and behind the heart for even more depth and dimension.

 

This shot shows the texture on my cardstock that I created using my Texturz Plates and my Big Shot.  I like the extra depth that the texture creates.

 

For an added embellishment, I layered two buttons together, threaded some linen thread through them and tied a bow in the back before attaching it with a mini glue dot.

So here are the Stampin' Up! supplies that I used on the card:

Stamp Set:  A Happy Heart

Cardstock:  Kraft, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Riding Hood Red Designer Prints Paper

Ink:  Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Chip Marker

Accessories:  Texturz Plates, Big Shot, Buttons, Linen Thread, Mini Glue Dots, Dimensionals and a sponge

I sponged around the edges of the Kraft cardstock card base and banner.  I also sponged around the Riding Hood Red square panel.  Faux stitching using a Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write Marker added a little more detail to the layers. 

I stamped the heart shape on Whisper White Cardstock and cut it out using Paper Snips.  Dimensionals are attached to the back of the red square panel and also to the back of the cut out heart.

I attached the banner to create a little "wave" instead of attaching it flat against my card.  Linen thread attached to buttons finish off the card quite nicely.

I hope you enjoyed my Valentine's Day sharing.  I wish you and yours a very special Valentine's Day too!  Please leave a comment and share what you did for Valentine's Day.

Thanks for stopping by,

Lynn Larson

Happy Heart Day and Earn Some Extra Income!

I have been holding off posting this sample because it was a surprise card that I mailed out for my "Monthly Monday Mailer" card.  I have started a monthly mailing program with my downline (other Stampin' Up! demonstrators in my group) where we sign up each month to be part of this program.  We are assigned someone to send a card to and on the first Monday of each month, we pop a card in the mail to our assigned person.  Who doesn't love to receive a handmade card in the mail?  I know that it brightens my day.  I also know that I don't send cards nearly enough - even though I make them all the time and have a stash of them!

This is my February Monday Monthly Mailer card that went to Jacquie...

 

This card also happens to be one that was my Make and Take project at my workshops in January. 

Here are the Stampin' Up! supplies used to make it:

Cardstock:  Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette Designer Prints Paper, Riding Hood Red Designer Prints Paper and Whisper White

Stamp Set:  Happy Heart Day (words)

Ink:  Riding Hood Red

Accessories:  Scallop Edge Punch, Three Hearts Punch, Word Window Punch, Big Shot, Scallop Envelope Bigz Die.

We also gussied up the inside of the card a little with an added punched heart and a strip of the Riding Hood Red Designer Prints Paper.

 

I hope that Jacquie enjoys her surprise card in the mail.

NOTE:  If you would like to be part of my group where you can earn some extra income, be your own boss and take part in programs such as the Monthly Monday Mailer program, you can sign up directly by clicking here, going to "Join Now" and using the recruiter password:  lynnlarson.  You will be able to save 15% on the price of the Starter Kit AND receive a FREE stamp set from the 2009 Spring-Summer Idea Book and Catalog (up to a $47.95 value) when you sign up between February 1st and March 31st!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lynn Larson

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Happy Valentine's Day

This is the little gift set that I am leaving out for my hubby Valentine's Day morning.  We usually leave each other something the night before a holiday or an event.  That way, when we wake up and come downstairs in the morning there is a surprise on the dining room table waiting for us.  This is the card and little candy jar that I am leaving as my morning surprise.

I reworked this Happy Heart Day card from the original red version so that it would coordinate better with my candy jar.  I used Wild Wasabi cardstock and double stitched grosgrain ribbon and I actually think it makes a nice masculine Valentine card. 

I made the candy jar by applying rub-ons to the front of the jar and adding a White Taffeta ribbon to keep it simple. 

How do you think hubby will like this little set when he sees it?

Happy Heart Day Card

How would you like to receive this card for Valentine's Day?  I know that I sure would...hint, hint:))

This is a card that I have been making for my workshops over the last two weeks and it has been a pretty big hit!

This sample uses all Stampin' Up! products.  I used Real Red, Whisper White and Close to Cocoa cardstock and Close to Cocoa Prints Designer Series Paper.  I stamped the elephant image from the Happy Heart Day stamp set in Jet Black StazOn and then watercolored the image with blender pens, Bordering Blue, Real Red and Garden Green. 

I stamped the elephant a second time on Bordering Blue cardstock and cut it out.  You can see in this second picture how I added dimensionals to the back of my little cut out elephant to make him pop off the card.  I also added white gel pen on his little toe nails to add some interest.  I know, how cute is he with the white nails? 

So, do you think my honey might like this card for Valentine's Day?  I can't decide whether to give it to my hubby or to my daughter.  What do you think?  Leave a comment at the bottom of this post with your thoughts.  Thanks!

My Downline Group Meeting

Tonight was my Stamped Art from the Heart group meeting night.  I decided to make a fun treat for tonight's meeting.  Here is a picture of my Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Homemade Frosting.  I added a couple of M&Ms on the cookies and scattered them on the plate for even more interest...and, of course, chocolate:))

Here is a cute little sample card using the adorable Happy Heart Day stamp set from Stampin' Up!  I will be posting more samples using this set over the next couple of days.  It is such a fun set and just too darn cute:))

Happy Heart Day to you all...

Quarterly Downline Project Planning Get Together

Here is a fabulous card for Valentine's Day.  I had a Quarterly Project Planning Get Together for my downline on Sunday.  One of my downline, Jacquie brought this card to share at this event.  She used the Time Well Spent stamp set that Stampin' Up! sent to all their demonstrators for the holidays.  It is a Level 3 Hostess Set from the NEW Spring / Summer Collection 2008 catalog.  The colors used in this sample are River Rock, Soft Sky and Whisper White.  What a marvelous color combination!

At our get together, we were working on getting projects together to demonstrate at our events and classes over the next two months.  I was working on a calendar class and Jacquie worked on cards for her All-Occasion card class and scrapbook pages for her scrapbooking class.  We got a lot accomplished that day and definitely plan on doing this type of event more often.  I will be posting more of the samples from Sunday over the next couple of days.

If you would like to start your own stamping and scrapbooking business and attend our planning sessions and meetings, you can contact me directly by email at happy.stamper@yahoo.com or by phone at 802-380-0222.  I would love to get you on your way to owning your own business and making it work for you!