All my Love & some Chocolates too!

Hello everyone, hope you're all having a good week so far?. 

Lots of lovely new goodies have been arriving in the shop after the trade fairs so Ive been busy changing displays around & finding space for everything.

I've also brought home a few of the new craft products to play with, so hopefully I'll be posting a few projects made with those on here soon. 

Today's project is a little heart shaped hanging chocolate box I made for my little girl Daisy for Valentines Day.

She was so excited when I gave her this on Valentines Day, especially when she discovered the chocolates nestled inside!.

It was made using the Tonic Verso Affections dies we've been working with at our Workshops this February.

It was very easy to make, cutting plain hearts for the front & back then adding the decorative die cuts & sentiment to the front panel.

These were then joined together with a scored strip of red card with little notches cut all up the sides & glued into place in between the front & back panels.

I used festive berries distress ink to add a touch of red to the white areas & also some ribbon with tiny sparkly hearts printed on it for a bow & a tiny punched heart.

I used the same ribbon attached to the sides of the box & tied at the top in a bow to hang.

Here's a picture of the beautiful red roses Nick gave me on Valentines day.

Hope you enjoy the rest of the week, I'll be back soon.

Amy x 

All My Love on Valentines Day

Hello crafty friends, thank you for all you lovely comments on my last post & also for your get well wishes.

All fine in our house now but my Mum & Dad have both had the lurgy this week, so its definitely been doing the rounds.

Today as its Valentines Day I'm sharing a tunnel card I made using Verso Affections Dies from Tonic Studios.

We're using these dies for our February workshops for Out Of The Blue & as its Valentines the theme is love!. 

The card is made up of several layers of white card embossed with heart lattice design & festive berries distress ink.

The back panel is red card stamped with a small part of an Imagination Crafts stamp set heat embossed in white.

The layers are held together at the sides by concertina folded pieces of card. The layers are fixed to each fold to create depth & the 'tunnel' effect as shown in the next picture

This next card is the design my half of our crafty group made on Thursday night at the workshop.

As you can hopefully see, it has more layers than the red card.

It was inspired by a card Carole & I saw on the Tonic stand at last years Stitches trade fair at the NEC. 

We both agreed at the time it would be great to make one for our Valentines workshop.

Unfortunately I don't know who's card it was we saw to give the recognition to but I think it may have been by Ruth Hamilton.

So, thank you for your inspiration!.

All our ladies thoroughly enjoyed making their tunnel cards & there were no scissors or inky fingers in sight, just lots of die cutting & concentration going on!.

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your Valentine weekend, I was surprised with a beautiful bouquet of red roses this morning!.

I'll be back again tomorrow with another love inspired card for my second inspiration project for Imagination Crafts.

Amy x