Valentine Sweets - Easy to Resist

Hi - Jean Okimoto here today.  Valentine's Day is less than a month away - thank goodness the extra pounds from the holiday sweets are gone.  Right?  

I like to divide holidays into 2 groups - candy holidays and non-candy holidays.  It's time to make some quick cards for the upcoming candy holiday - and Candy Store Design Adhesives make it easy.  A pack of 4 design strips will make 12 unique Valentines with bright backgrounds of Coral, Pinkolicious and Red Devil Archival Dye Inks.

Embossing the designs will allow them to resist the inks - except for a very light tint - while creating colorful backgrounds.

Clearsnap Products - view the great new 2013 Catalog* here

• Candy Store Design Adhesives (*Page 50)
• ColorBox Archival Dye Inkpads - Coral, Red Devil, Pinkolicious, Khaki Green (*Page 24)
• ColorBox Limited Edition Inkpad - Espresso (*Page 10)

Stamps

• Memory Box - Love + Hearts Combo, Filled with Love Combo
• Impress Rubber Stamps - Love Makes the World Go Round

Other Supplies

• Kraft Cardstock
• Glossy White Cardstock
• Memory Box Sugar Plum and Peony Cardstock
• Woodware Orange Cardstock
• Dark Brown Cardstock
• Grand Calibur and Plates
• Memory Box Ribbon Candy Border Die
• Fiskars Micro-Tip Scissors
• Detail White Embossing Powder
• Detail Clear Embossing Powder
• Heat-Tool
• Heart Punch or Die
• Paper Towels
• Foam Dots

Directions

• Cut the Candy Store Design Adhesives strip into 3 sections
• Before removing the liners, place the pieces on a smooth hard surface - with the clear liner on the bottom - and burnish them with your fingers
• Cut the glossy white cardstock into 3 strips about and inch wider and longer than the pieces
• Burnish the adhesive patterns onto the glossy white cardstock
• Heat-emboss the patterns with detail white embossing powder and allow them to cool completely
• Use paper towels to ink the lollipops with Pinkolicious, Red Devil or Coral
• Ink the remaining sections of the design with the three colors - and ink a scrap of glossy white cardstock to be punched or diecut into a heart for the greeting
• Briefly heat-set the inked designs - then ink the edges with Khaki Green
• Stamp the 3 greetings and the hearts (attached to the sides of the combo stamps) on the orange cardstock with Espresso and emboss them with detail clear powder
• Trim the strips and ink the edges with Khaki Green
• Cut mats of dark brown, Peony and Sugar Plum Cardstock
• Diecut Ribbon Candy Border twice from dark brown cardstock and once from Peony Cardstock
• Cut, score and fold 3 kraft cards - 5" square, 4.25" x 5.5", and 6.25" x 3.5"
• Assemble the cards - use foam dots to attach the greetings

Send the cards to everyone who loves candy!

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