PaperArtsy: Valentine treat boxes with KC {by Martine Dubé}

Monday, 9 February 2026

Valentine treat boxes with KC {by Martine Dubé}

Valentines Day is around the corner and I always like to make treat boxes with little cards to offer to friends and loved ones. I made some using Kate Crane's mini stamps, infusions and Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics.

The supplies use to make this project are Kate Crane mini stamps (KCM008, KCM021, KCM022, KCM023) along with some Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic in Snowflake, Cerise, Smoked Paprika and Pumice, I also use some infusions in the color You Are Cerise. The cardstock I use is the Smoothy white stamping card 240gms (SCA4) and watercolor paper.

I started with a light base of infusions in Are You Cerise so that by background is not too white and to start creating layers. To do that you need to apply the infusion and with a water bottle add a lot of water and dry with a heat gun. I did this step in both paper (smoothy card SCA4) and watercolor paper to see the difference in color and how the smooth card would react with a lot of water.

Make sure this first layer is dry before making the next one. You can see here that the color is brighter on the smoothy card and that it took water very well. I also iron my cardstock so it's flat when I start to make my print...yes I iron my cardstock!!!

Using the same color of infusions you make your background print - here I made hearts using a round paint brush but you can make the print you want - you could also use a stencil.

To add texture to my print I splattered the left over infusion, again here it's better if your print is dry that way the print and the splatters don't mix together.

For more texture I use water down fresco paint (Snowflake) to do more splatter.

Finish with doodle on the hearts with a paint pen.

Here are my finish background ready to be die cut.

Time to create my tags to put on the boxes. First I stamped the images that I wanted KCM008, KCM022, KCM023. I also used KCM021 to add texture to my tags.

I use freso paint (Cerise, Smoked Paprika, Pumice) to color my images and watercolor pencils to add shadows.

I cut my tags out of watercolor paper and did the same watered down infusion background, you could add some infusions splatters here but I forgot...OOPS!!! Then stamped some hearts in matching colors and some texts for textures.

I've fussy cut my images in order to put some dimension on my tags.

For dimension I use some foam tape on the back of my images and added some stripe washi tape to ground them on my tags.

I colored some seam binding in pink and orange to match.

The tags are ready to put on my treat boxes, and I used a piece of double sided adhesive to do so.

Die cut the boxes and glued them with liquid glue.

I always have fun making these littles boxes, I love giving them to my family and to my co-workers. I always try to put an image that match their personality.