Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day! From everyone here at Scrap Shotz, we are thrilled to make your friendship and hope your day is filled with love, friendship and smiles!

If you are a last minute type of person, here are a couple of easy Valentines that can be completed in under 30 minutes! (Trust me, I did both of these in 30 minutes!)

For the first one, I placed a layered heart on top of a loop of ribbon on a matted piece of pattern paper.  My stamped sentiment was placed on the card and voila I was done!

Here I folded an origami heart, glued in on my cardstock base and stamped my sentiment! Easy peasy!

Can you share your Valentine cards with me?

Fabulous Find: Sizzix Frame-lits

Have you seen these amazing Frame-lit dies by Sizzix???

You may have seen some Christmas cards I made using the die. The centrepiece varies in shapes like squares, a full circle or even an oval. What makes the Frame-lits SO awesome is with one set of dies you create the cardstock background that is pre-scored AND then you use the remaining dies to cut the coordinating pattern paper pieces with a consistent 0.25" border. It even comes with dies to die cut the accent pieces on the swivel pieces. What used to take me hours and hours to cut, assemble and accent now literally takes me minutes to make.

What I have done here is turned the Frame-lit die on its side, using the mountain and valley folds. On the swivel pieces, I put my sentiment "I *heart* U" - below is a front view.

Here is a top view of the card - there is lots of room to write your thoughts to your special someone too.

I hope you will agree with me that the Frame-lit dies are wonderful versatile and easy to use.

Fast and Fabulous: Valentines for Everyone

Valentines Day is just 2 days away - have you made your Valentines? I completely forgot about my daughter's party so she and I whipped up 30 of the Valentines cards below.

In 30 minutes, my daughter and I grabbed my pink and red offcuts and used my wonderful Big Shot to die cut some hearts with my Spellbinders die. Then we used all the left over strips of paper to stamp "Happy Valentines." Probably her favorite part was stapling the sentiment to the heart with my Tim Holtz stapler and gluing it to the card front. Then I corner rounded the edges on one side. We are now taping a heart shaped lollipop to the card. It has been a fun project!

What do you think?

Oh, How LOVE-ly!!!

It's mid-January...blah! Are you experiencing the Winter Blues??? We have been lucky, here in Calgary, to be enjoying unseasonably warm temperatures. With the sun shining, it inspired me to make something colourful...and think of Valentine's Day.

For the readers on your list, consider these book marks which lets them leave small notes for themselves.

This project was inspired by this pinner. I hope to see your version of this very quick Valentines project.

Winner!!! Winner!!!

...I have a Winner!! Winner!! Chicken Dinner!!! I know that doesn't make sense but I have always wanted to say that :-)

Our winner for leaving a comment on the blog to my question is...

 Chantal said...

My friend Gail (dawn@intranet.ca)directed me to your blog. This year, I will endeavour to go outside my comfort zone for my layouts.

January 9, 2014 at 6:26 AM

Please email me at virginia.wong@me.com to make arrangements for the RAK. 

It's a New Year!!!

Happy New Year !!! From everyone at Scrap Shotz, we wish you all a wonderful 2014 filled with much happiness and ... scrappy time too :-)

What are you planning to work on first? Do you need some motivation and inspiration to get started? I know I do as I have taken a bit of a hiatus near the end of last year. Do you have any goals for this year?

I would love to hear from you in answer to any of the above questions...and will offer a RAK in a random drawing to one lucky commenter. If you encourage a friend to comment, I will enter your name 3 times into the drawing...so let me hear from you!!!

The commenting will close on Friday January 10, 2014 at 6 pm MST. I will draw and announce the winner on Monday January 13, 2014.

Merry Christmas!!!

From everyone at Scrap Shotz, we wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for your friendship and your business - we look forward to seeing more of you in 2014!!!