Love Is Sweet
Hi there, readers! I hope you are enjoying your weekend! We’re back with more amazing inspiration from the magnificent Debby Hughes! She’s back with 2 new projects that are both so fun!
Enjoy!
Hello! Debby here and I’m delighted to be indulging in some new creative uses for my Simon dies and stamps today :) To get the ball rolling I turned my attention to the recent delicious Valentine’s release; oh my those mouthwatering hearts! With the food references front and center in my mind I took the Heart Trio and the Large Holiday Shapes dies and created a trio of strawberries to pop in a little jar tag using the Filled With Love stamps and dies.
To create the strawberries I die cut the hearts from Simon’s Lipstick Red card and ran them through the Berry Box from My Favorite Things to give a seed texture, then brought in some Barn Door Distress Ink around the edges for dimension. For the leaves, I cut stars with the Large Holiday Shapes dies from Green Leaf card, scrumpled them between my fingers and then added a little Forest Moss Distress Ink. I popped the berries into the jar with different thicknesses of foam tape then tied it all up with a little twine and a tag cut and stamped using the Filled With Love stamps and dies again :)
Next I wanted to play with the February Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp – such a beautiful kit full of florals and watercolours which I haven’t been able to put down! However, the stamp set I wanted to pull into this card was a nautical one; given a twist the wave border from Nautical Borders, stamped and heat embossed on vellum, became a subtle lace border.
The vellum overlays one of the gorgeous Basic Grey papers from the kit and also one of the ‘snippets’ from Elle’s Studio became the first part of the sentiment. It doesn’t show very well in the photos but it looks lovely in real life – ‘Happiness Found’ and then completed by ‘with you’ Basic Grey letter stickers stitched through.
The final touches were some Kelly Purky sequins in gray and satin white and a few glitter hearts cut using the Heart Wreath die.
Thank you for joining me today in another look at stretching your supplies and really getting the most out of your craft dollars!
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Beautiful. I love how embossing looks on vellum.
Love those strawberries and the layered vellum. Great work.
Well Debbie had me fooled! I thought the strawberries were berries! Can’t believe she used a heart! And I never would have thought to use the items from the monthly card kit in the way she did. So pretty!!
Fabulous cards! Love that bag with the jar of strawberries and the vellum and sequins on the other. I love the February Kit so much had to join the kit club and can’t wait for my first kit to arrive.
Wonderful projects!! Love the vellum overlay with the soft details and sprinkling of embellishments, and *love* the clever use of the hearts dies to create strawberries! Debby is a genius!!
OMGoones what a fab project with the strawberries and the card with the vellam is beautiful;!
WOW Debby!! AMAZING as usual!! LOVING your sweet little strawberry tag they look good enough to eat!! ;) your second is supper BEAUTIFUL with that FUN embossed and scalloped border and the hearts!! THANKS so much for sharing and have a Fabulous Week!! ;)
Love it….no strawberries here, everything is covered with snow
The bag and card are both adorable. I got my first kit this month. Well my husband got it for me for Valentine’s Day and I can’t wait to unwrap it and make something. I have almost got it several times and unwrapped it. It is killing me to have to wait. Haha!
Love the “happiness found with you” card. So subtle.
I love the jar with the cute little strawberries! Too sweet!
What a “sweet” bag tag and the vellum on the card just adds that special touch.
Bot cards are awesome! great strawberries—look yummy! Love the embossed vellum!
Both are fabulous! Thanks for the inspiration.
Your tag is adorable. I love the idea for the leaves. Your card is so beautiful. I really love the waves at the bottom. Hugs, Robin
stunning cards from Debby & adore the little burlap bag ♥
Great project! Love the look of the vellum :)
Sweet card! I love the little mason jar strawberry tag. Super sweet!
Love love the strawberries!! The second card, gorgeous,,
Love the strawberries you made for the jar tag and very pretty use of vellum on the card.
great jar tag on the burlap bag and that card is just lovely with all the vellum.
stamping sue
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Very creative ways to use the stamps and dies! Love those sweet berries and the lace trim made with a stamp is fabulous! Beautiful cards!
That card kit is still calling my name.
Oh my…everything Debby creates is magical, and these are no exception. LOVE the strawberries and the vellum-covered, lacy card is beautiful! Wow!
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Those strawberries are gorgeous! I love how they started out as hearts.
The embossed vellum is so dainty. It looks like lace, and it’s beautiful. :)
Debby, you are so clever and creative! Love how you turned the hearts into strawberries, and that card is so soft and pretty with the vellum overlay!
Oh my gosh those strawberries look amazing! So much texture! And the vellum layered sentiment on the second card is so very soft and sweet.
Lovely projects! Those strawberries and the layered vellum! TFS ;-)
So clever to turn hearts into strawberries! That card with the vellum overlay is so pretty. Great projects!
Stunning project, so creative and clever, love the card with vellum, soft and pretty!!!
The vellum with a lace border looks absolutely FAB!!
Love the berries. Look good enough to eat.
Who would thought that hearts and stars make cute strawberries!
Very pretty cards, love those strawberries!!!
Both are great! but I Love love the strawberries!!
Thanks for the inspiration.
CU hellerlittle
The burlap bag and tag are adorable!
The strawberry bag is adorable and the vellum card is so elegant! How beautiful!
Loving Debby’s creativity here today…but when don’t I? :) Those strawberries are just so clever and sweet! Love the embossed vellum too!
Two super cute projects!
Awesome, love the embossing on the vellum! Cute treat bag.
Debbie: Love those strawberries. Ready to attempt reproducing them! Serenity is what the second card inspires. Just beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
beautiful projects!
What a creative use of the hearts die. It looks great as strawberries. Also love the stitched vellum on the front of the card. Thank you for sharing.
Wow great projects love the strawberries and that embossing on vellum looks also great.
LOVE Debby’s projects! The jar of strawberries looks yummy, and the card is beautiful! Love the look of vellum!
Great project and card, Debby! I love how you gave the hearts a different look by turning them into strawberries! Ingenious! Thank you for inspiring us.
Those strawberries looks delious! :)
Gorgeous card and tag, those strawberries look good enough to eat! x
Love the strawberries – fab card too
i LOVE the strawberries!!!!!