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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I noticed that vellum is coming back again and I love today’s vellum card. The stiching, sequins and little glitter hearts makes this card just priceless.
Love those charming strawberries and your vellum overlay card is gorgeous, Debby! It looks like the Simon Says Stamp Valentine goodies are fun to play with!
Cute little sack and gorgeous card. Love the vellum.
The strawberries have me longing for Spring. I love the “doily” border.
The bag and the card are fabulous. I love the strawberry tag. And stamping on the velum is gorgeous!
Ohhh how I love these, the strawberries are so cute! And I love the soft feel of the nautical card. Great inspiration!
YUMMY strwaberries and so much fun to find out that they’re made of hearts!!!
The delecate border on the vellum is absolutely stunning, what a lovely idea!!!
xx Irene
Cute strawberry tag! Great idea too. Love the vellum card.
I love the non traditional colors of the Valentine’s day card. Very cute. And the strawberries look good enough to eat.
oh, this is so cute!
Wow, those hearts-turned-into-strawberries look amazing and I absolutely love the vellum card, with its lacey border. What a great way to stretch your supplies!
Such a beautiful card…so simple to create but such an elegant result. And the tag is so adorable! Love the “seeds” on the strawberrys.
I love those strawberries, and the package looks delightful. Blessings!
Just adorable, Debbie! I’m drooling for strawberry shortcake!
Amazing creations. These strawberries almost looks real, and you almost want to taste them, so yummi.
how cute are those strawberries. I love them! Really beautiful projects.
Love the strawberries!
Terrific dimensional tag and beautiful card. :)
I love it when someone finds a new use for something like a heart die. Awesome project
I absolutely love the soft look of the blue card! :)
Debby can do anything! I adore those sweet strawberries and the vellum is absolutely beautiful.
Love these projects! Awesomemess! ~God bless!
Both projects are so awesome! I love how you created the strawberries – never would have thought of that in a million years! And in the second one, love what you did with the vellum! Fabulous inspiration – thank you!
What sweet projects! Those strawberries look good enough to eat! Yummy.
Sweet, sweet cards! Really like the border on the vellum, so nice.
That strawberry tag is just adorable, and the card with vellum is beautiful!
That bad and strawberrys make the best combination, Love both projects. Thanks for sharing.
Aww…the strawberries are sweet!
These are just darling projects! I love the little strawberry burlap sack! Adorable!
Beautiful projects Debby as always. Love the sweet little jar with the strawberries… and oh, that vellum overlay with the scallop edge… gorgeous!
Such pretty projects.
Cute projects! Especially love the strawberry tag!
Lovely!
Such delightful projects!
I use vellum all the time – I love the soft look it gives projects – glad to know it is coming back in styile!
I just adore those little hearts made strawberries! Love the Mason jar look too!!
Simple but beautiful
Both projects look great :D our little sLOVEnia is completely frozen these days and you guys made me crave strawberries – now if that’s not a crime, I don’t know what is :D
Both are adorable, but I am loving the texture on the strawberries. So cute! :)
Amazing how you made those strawberries. Who would have thought?
Wow, amazing strawberries – especially the leaves!!! Two gorgeous projects :)
I love those strawberries and the burlap bag. Nice! I also Love that scalloped edge on your card. Beautiful!
Super cute! I just love the strawberry tag, it’s really sweet :)
These were lovely…and I loved the vellum overlay!
The vellum card is really gorgeous! Great idea.
What a charming goodie bag! Love, love, love Simon Says!
So cute
I have been wanting some of these cute little bags. You make them even cuter. And this card is awesome. I got my first kit and am waiting to use it.
Absolutely beautiful! Love the scalloped edging on the vellum!
Gorgeous cards! The strawberries in the jar are adorable!