In my last post I showed some creative ways to use a “non-Valentine” stamp for Valentine’s cards.  Here’s another example.

As you can see, this cupcake stamp from Stampin’ Up! was intended as an easy, fill-in-the-blank card stamp for young children. 

My favorite thing to do with this stamp is to use the image as a template for decorative papers, inking the top and bottom separately.  For these cards I simply inked the top and bottom of the stamp separately (omitting the words altogether) and stamped them on decorative papers and cut them out. 

I love the silly-sweet sayings on children’s Valentine’s…

I used red glitter glue for sprinkles, and fan-folded the gingham paper to look like a cupcake liner.

This one was fun, too. The red paper had a swirly print on it that I drew over with a silver gel pen.

And now that I’ve almost finished this post I see  that I forgot to color the dot over the “i” .  I always notice these little details when I see the photos on the screen!

For the bottom of this one I scored lines with a stylus and a ruler and drew over the lines with the silver gel pen again.

Valentine’s Day is only two weeks away!