Valentine's Day Drink Tags

Doris Sander here today with another sweet and easy teacher's gift for Valentine's Day.  These are perfect little treats to give all those overlooked teachers and staff . . . the art teacher, the music teacher, the p.e. teacher, the librarian, the reading coach, the math coach, the guidance counselor, the secretaries . . .

Simply arrange a few leftover bits of paper on a manilla tag and garnish with a few heart themed embellishments like these from Meyer Imports.  Then hang the tags over the recipients soda of choice.  He or she will love your thoughtfulness.

Supplies:

Avery Manilla Tags

JBS for Fiskars Grandma's Doily Punch

Magpie Patterned Paper

Wren Patterned Paper

Perforated Stamp Paper

I Love You Heart

Paper Clip Heart

Heart Playing Card

More for Valentine's Day

Today we have a delightful Valentine's Day centerpiece from Waleska Neris who writes, "I'm planning a simple 'treats' party for Valentine's day and this is what the lollipop station will look like. Fun, right?! My boys sure love it!"

"We painted the chipboard hearts with JBS paint dabbers, attached to lollipop sticks, decorated and held them up with the mini wooden spools."

                                    

Supplies:

JBS paint dabbers- Cough Syrup, Weather Vane, Speckled Egg
Mini Chipboard Pieces - Hearts
Vintage Style Wooden Spools
Vintage Sew-On Buttons - White
Doily Flowers - Red
Decorative Brads - Rhinestone
Mini Bingo Cards-Valentine
Papers- Be Our Guest - Tea Towel, Red/Black Line Extension IV - Mini Pattern Sheet
Fiskars/JBS Grandma's Doily Punch


                                     

Thank you Waleska for this bright, cheery, and festive idea!

Valentine Tags by Stephanie Howell

Today we have some darling Valentine's Day tags from Stephanie Howell featuring lots of oldies but goodies.  Jenni's designs are always so classic; just like manilla tags and doillies, they never go out of style.

Some of the lovely menagerie of supplies Stephanie used include:

Pearl Flowers

Journaling Cards

Printed Tickets

Embellished Butterflies

Blue Ribbon Punch

Rub-ons

Calendar Card

Valentine Envelopes by Shimelle

I may have gotten a bit carried away dressing up some envelopes for Valentines for some friends, but there are so many pretty red embellishments from JBS that it seems a shame to hide them all away!

I stamped the envelopes with the Butterfly Stamp in white ink, then started layering up the embossed tag.  The bottom layers are netting and red ribbon, then all sorts of JBS embellishments.  A scallop circle from red floral School Dress paper, a smaller tag stamped with the Receipt Stamp, label and flag stickers, butterflies in sticker and paper + gem formats, Red Doilies and a Rhinestone button.  A Shadow Alpha Sticker monogram labels each of the envelopes too.

So obviously not the sort of envelopes that will make it anywhere in the mail, but perfect for a hand-delivered valentine, especially if it's for a crafty girl who might take it apart and add that tag to a scrapbook page!

Happy crafting!

Love and glitter,

Shimelle

A Piece of Cake for Valentine's Day and Don't Forget the Fork

Why not surprise a friend with a cake this Valentine's Day? This one was made using a variety of old jewelry boxes.

I covered the bottom of the boxes with the sweetest little paper from the Town Square Collection. The tops were covered with a very fine glitter. The boxes were stacked and each box glued to the top of the next box.

I topped my cake with a Jenni Bowlin Chipboard Heart painted with Chewing Gum paint and sprinkled with glitter. A "chocolate" vellum butterfly finishes it off.

Why not "serve" your cake on a vintage plate with a vintage fork?

Wouldn't it be sweet to fill your cake with a variety of vintage surprises? My cake is filled with vintage buttons, a vintage heart pin, old keys, and a wonderful sampling of  JBS embellishments.

Speaking of vintage forks ... I've admired the ones I've seen in shops that have been altered to create easels.  I had a few vintage forks on hand, and tried this myself.

I curled the tines with a pair of pliers.  Vintage silver forks are softer and are easier to bend than the everyday stainless steel forks.  This fork had 2 decorative holes in the top which were perfect for threading some seam binding through.  Next time, I'll protect the tines with a rag when I bend them. Because they are fairly soft, they scratch easily.  

The fork easel holds my Valentine display so beautifully!


To create the display, I used a JBS Valentine Bingo Card for my base. I covered it in tulle and added a pretty piece of mini pattern paper from the Baby of Mine collection.  A scalloped notecard is placed on top of that.  I cut out the frame center from the Homespun journaling card, fit our wedding picture underneath, and sewed that onto the notecard.

The paper foil is from a past Mercantile kit and I used a Malted Milk ink pad and the little lace flower is vintage.  

Jenni's products bring such a classic and timeless look to Valentine's Day projects.  And it is amazing how her different lines work so well together.   Keep watching the blog as more of the design team posts their creations!

betsy

Valentine's Day Paper Cones

I made these cones, also known as paper cornucopias or May Day baskets, for my kids to give to their teachers for Valentine's Day. You can tuck a little wrapped gift inside or put the gift inside wrapped with tissue paper or for a very special presentation you could wrap the gift in a vintage hankie. Another option is to use shredded paper and fill the cone with candy and treats. 

They also look so pretty to use as decorations. In the top photo I strung them on a ribbon and hung them over my mirror and in the photo above I hung them on my white feather tree.

The cones were made using 3D Scalloped Cone from Silhouette. I have a Cameo so I was able to cut them from full sheets of 12 x 12 paper for the largest cones. If you have a Silhouette SD they'll be smaller, closer in size to the diamond patterned cone I made. If you don't have electronic die cutting capabilities there are tons of cone templates online, like here and here. 

After the cones were cut I glued them together and used a long reach stapler to add a little reinforcement along the back seam, probably not completely necessary but I didn't have to wait as long for the glue to dry. I cut the silhouette girls from Jenni's papers.  The older girl is from Be My Guest and the little girl is from Haven. I layered the Haven girl on a JBS oval label sticker to match the other one, as seen on the diamond patterned cone. 

I made full, loopy bows with seam binding. For a few of the cones I used two colors on each bow. I added the teachers' initials using JBS alterable alphas in the middle of the bows. I attached ric rac handles and the bows with hot glue.

They look cute on the inside too!

Supplies:

Be Our Guest - Hers

Haven - Common Objects

Red/Black Line Extension IV - Letter Chart

Red/Black Line Extension IV - Multiplication

Red/Black Line Extension IV - Pen Nibs

Alterable Alphas - Micro Dot

Haven - Betty's House

Red label stickers

Red/Black Extension IV - School Dress
Other supplies:
Gold oval doily 
Vintage seam binding and ric rac

Briana

You've Got Mail from Ranjini Malhotra

Ranjini here with some sweet Valentine decor for you today! I found this mini cardboard mailbox at my local Hobby Lobby and was pleased to find that it was very easy indeed to alter. I used warm white paint to paint the lid and rear of the box, and the bottom as well. Once these were dry. I applied JBS patterned paper (the mini 4x4 paper from the Playdate Paper Pack) and adhered it to the body of the mailbox. Then all I had to do was apply adhesive over the paint (I used Scotch Scrapbooker's Glue with two-way applicator) and sprinkled it with Martha Stewart Coarse Glitter in Crystal. I embellished it with ribbons, a vintage button and a chipboard key from my valentine stash, and tucked some JBS bingo cards inside. (You could also pop in a small chocolate bar or fill it with chocolate kisses!) Use it as a sweet little container to give as a gift and it can be used afterwards as decor or to store mini valentines!

More Love to Share

Our talented designer Ranjini found a creative way to use her Jenni Bowlin for Ranger Acrylic Paint Dabbers.  Using her stash of needlework fabric she explains her process:

" I simply cut the heart shape using pinking shears and then covered the fabric hearts with the dabber paints in Cough Syrup and Chewing Gum. Allow the paint to dry completely. If you're impatient like me, you can use your heat gun to speed drying. If the heart curls up or warps, you can iron it flat (on the side without the paint, on a low setting very quickly - don't apply too much heat and don't iron for too long. Then attach the heart to your card base. If you like, you can stamp a sentiment on the heart.  Add a few Stick Pins, Label Stickers, seam binding and vintage buttons and you're done - simple and lovely valentines."

What a sweet technique! Thanks for the inspiration Ranjini!

A Valentine's Mini

Here's another Valentine Project you're sure to *love* !  Instead of giving a card this Valentine's, wow them with a sweet little mini album!

Keisha Campbell combined a lot of different Jenni Bowlin Studio products to create this beauty.

Keisha took a Pinked Chipboard Mini Album and decorated the cover with JBS Patterned Paper, Printed Tickets, and other odds and ends.

Each page is decorated with various JBS products creating wonderful spaces for someone to add photos, thoughts or journaling.

Some of the supplies used include: JBS Calendar Cards, Vellum Embellished Butterflies,Various Apothecary and Label Stickers, Journaling Cards,  and Chipboard Buttons.

The great thing about this project is that it's fun and easy to put together, but leaves quite an impression none the less!

Love is in the Air!

As Valentine's Day approaches, we thought it would be fun to show you how Jenni's products can be used to celebrate this loveliest of holidays!

A Chipboard Heart covered in papers from Jenni's new paper line Be My Guest is striking against a calendar sheet from the Die Cut Mini Paper Pad.

Danielle Flanders describes how she created this lovely card:

I was thinking of Valentine sayings for cards when this saying popped into my head, then I immediately thought of a patchwork heart with pieces of different patterned papers! So, I found a Jenni Bowlin chipboard heart in my stash and cut it into 3 pieces, then covered it with some of her new mini papers from the new "Be Our Guest" line. The sentiment was printed onto the card base with my printer before I added the calendar die cut and heart. The little rose was made using Jenni's crepe paper and twisting it into a flower shape, then I adhered it over one of Jenni's buttons. I love the sunny colors against the clean white background! To me, it feels warm and shabby, yet clean and happy.  JBS Supplies used: Die Cut Mini Paper Pad- Calendar, Be Our Guest Mini Papers, Crepe Paper - Red, Stick Pin - Shell, Chipboard Heart, Printed Tickets - Valentine's, Vintage Sew-on Button - White, Other: white cardstock, Typewriter font, seam binding.

Another Chipboard Heart and Chipboard Scalloped Banner are decked out and hung on an empty frame in this masterpiece by Becky Novacek:

Becky describes her process:

I usually have a hard time finding something that I like to adorn our front door. If I do find something, it's usually not affordable....so many times, I end up creating something that I like and that IS affordable. I have collected vintage frames for years, so I have quite a few on hand for projects like this. I simply painted it the color I wanted and then proceeded to put together a little Valentine's garland with a chippy heart embellishment. I used the JBS chipboard pieces for so many of my home decor projects. The scalloped banners and hearts are two of my favorites. I incorporated a length of vintage trim to put the garland together. Simple, but eyecatching. I really love the way it looks on my front door!

Stay tuned for more ideas on celebrating Valentine's Day with Jenni Bowlin Studio!