Mom & Me Valentine Inspiration

Hello and welcome to the second group post for the December  Papertrey Ink  Release! The new products you are seeing here will be available in the store at Papertrey Ink on December 15th at 10:00 EST!

Today I have some fun projects to share with you that would be fun to create with small children, or even medium sized children or large children. Haha! I would probably fall into the latter group and I really enjoyed making these ;)

We have two new products that I'm showcasing today, Betsy's newest Paper Dolls: Puppy Love ( which I do love because I love puppies), and Nichole's Jumping For Joy stamp set and dies, which is reminiscent of the old fashioned Jumping Jack toys that were popular years ago. 

This is a cute little Valentines bag that I made with my Gift Box Punch board, that would be so fun to fill with Valentines candy for school treats or small gifts for neighborhood kids.  You could have the bags made up ahead of time and let the kids decorate them to make things go a bit faster, although the bags are not hard to do, if you wanted to let the kids help with that part also.
I made the bag out of Pure Poppy + White patterned paper. The panel I cut out with the Noted Scalloped A2 dies, and sponged some Aqua Mist ink along the lower half. I cut a small piece of Vintage Jadeite + white paper to create a little hill. The images were colored with Copic markers, cut out and adhered with foam tape.

The little heart tag is from Valentines Pin up dies. I stamped the sentiment from Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love and tied it on with some Baker's Twine.

STAMPS: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love

DIES: Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love, Valentine Pin Ups, Noted: Scalloped A2

INK: True Black

PAPER: Pure Poppy + White paper, Vintage Jadeite + White Paper, Stamper’s Select White

OTHER: Gift Bag Punch Board, Baker’s Twine

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OH isn't this cute! These are so fun to put together and turn out just adorable! Now you really need brads for these, but I didn't have any, so I used some sequins held on with seed beads. They were sewn through with white embroidery floss. It worked perfectly! So, if you are like me and gave all of your brads away a couple of years ago thinking those thing would never be back in style, you know that you can use sequins and beads instead :) P.S. I live 100 miles from the nearest Michaels or Hobby Lobby, so that was out of the question...
Anyway, the bear is cut out of Classic Kraft card stock and I stamped his features in Classic Kraft and True Black.  

The little bear is mounted on the Jumping For Joy card base which has a slit he fits through, then I stamped the sentiment on white card stock and adhered that over top. I mounted the whole thing on a card base covered with the Pure Poppy dotted paper.

STAMPS: Jumping For Joy

DIES: Jumping For Joy, Jumping for Joy Card

INK: Classic Kraft, True Black

PAPER: Stamper’s Select white, Classic Kraft, Cocoa Bean, Pure Poppy +White 

OTHER: Beads, Sequins, thread

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  I'll be back tomorrow with my Release in Reivew post using the amazing new products coming to   Papertrey Ink   December 15th, at 10:00 EST!

For more  inspiration today visit the rest of the Papertrey Ink Design team!

Nichole Heady

Ashley Newell

Amy Sheffer

Betsy Veldman

Dawn McVey

Heather Nichols
Laurie Schmidlin

Laurie Willison

Lizzie Jones

Melissa Phillips