Be Mine, Valentine

Going back aways to use a Stampin Up valentines stamp that I used maybe once on a card that was published and haven't used it since. I challenged myself to use it again, and pretty much did the same thing with the card and heat embossed the stamped image. And for comparison I am posting that published card. 

Here is the one I did today using Pink and Main pp, some doodlebug enamel dots and die cut the panel using Lawn Fawn stitched die.

And here is the published card, pretty simple with rounded corners and a ribbon.

You Are The Icing

In typical fashion I'm supposed to be making birthday cards but I ordered some goodies and they arrived so you know you I just can't resist the urge to play.

This die and stamp set is from Poppystamps. Now I have to tell you normally I would pass up this set because it's too limiting for use but I have a 7 yr old grandson who loves donuts, I mean he doesn't just love them he LOVES them so you know I had to get the set. And first thing I did was make him a Valentine's Day card with it. 

I also broke out my colored pencils for some coloring and best as I tried to multi stamp some colored sprinkles on that donut it really can only take 2 stamps before it looks muddled. 

And because this is a small set I did a bunch of cardstock layering to use up some space. 

Now I am sure the boy will eyeroll at this sentiment, I mean after all he will be 8 soon and most 8 years olds don't want anything to do with the cheesy love bit, especially from Grandma.

With Love

Today's card is a little different in that I had a watercolor panel I made from an expo trip. I liked the Love diecut on Monday's heart card so I copied that but used a stack of 3 hearts glued together to give it some depth.

The hardest part of this card was finding some pp to go with the card and I finally found what I think actually worked pretty good from a paper pad that I don't used that often from Penny Black. One of those paper pads that looks better online than when you have it in your hands.

I just needed a small sentiment to go with this and black was the obvious selection since the base pp was black. I used my stamp and dieset from MFTS
Then used some epoxy hearts from doodlebug.

Now lets see if I can get back to those birthday cards.

Love You

Still on my Valentine's Day warpath for making cards; I loved the shiny red heart from last weeks card so I used that for my focal point on this card.

Looking through my stash I found the arrow background stamp from Heidi Swapp and thought that would be a fun background.

Then all I needed to do was diecut the Love sentiment also from Heidi Swapp, stamp a you onto a small rectangle square and use some foam tape to pop the heart up on the card panel.

I felt it needed a little something more so I used the epoxy hears on the arrow tio bring a little more pop of red to the card.

All You Need Is Love

I wanted to do another Love diecut card because it was just so fun and easy. This time I grabbed my Memory Box  Large Parker deluxe lowercase dies because I thought they would be fun to use and give me a marquee feel to the card.

I diect the letters and glued them on to my card panel, then stamped the all you need is sentiment from my Papertrey Ink Wonderful words stamps set and found an expoy arrow and some hearts for the final touch.

One thing that might be hard to notice is I mounted the white card panel onto a shimmery silver one which is then adhered to the main card. It reaslly gives a great overall look for a Valentine's Day card.

Love is all you need

Well I confess I am side tracked from my birthday cards by Love. So much inspiration is going around I just couldn't help myself and whipped out some Love cards.

First up is this big ol honkin LOVE diecut card. I used QK Diesel dies to cut the sentiment out. I actually aligned them then secured with tape, diecut that and used it as a template to cut out another panel. Reason I did 2 is I find paper tape sticks a little too heavily to my cardstock and it ultimately tears a thin layer off so this is how I avoid that mess.

I also diecut a heart from my Nestabilities dies from a nice shimmering red cardstock, popped it up with some foam tape then finished the card off by using my Papertrey Ink Wonderful Words mini stamp set and added a mini epoxy heart that was in my stash.

Happy Purth-day!

While working on my Thank you cards I suddenly remembered how close we are to February and I needed to jump start my birthday cards because February has a plethora of birthdays in it for me.

First up is for my oldest grand daughter she will be 4 this year and I can't think of a more fitting card for a little girl then some kittens, except maybe some kittens and a shaker card.

I used my MFTS BB Cool Cat stamps and dies to create my card. To make the shaker panel I die cut a pp panel and some foam cut slightly smaller than my pp panel which was 4 x 5.25. After I circle cut the pp panel I overlay it ontop of my foam panel so my circles will align. Then I adhere the foam to the base card, fill with shaker confetti and attach a piece of acetate on top of the foam panel then all I need to do is attach the pp panel and my cute kitty.

I did a double layer on the banner, stamped it then added another adorable kitten to complete the sentiment part. All that was left was to find some embellies to pop on the card. Super cute and I hope my dgd loves it.

Watercolor- Thank You card number 3

Another watercolored card, I was trying to go for red but again the distressed inks don't quite give it the brilliance I had hoped for so mixed in a little festive berries with the fired bricks.

I loved my polka dot pp so much on my previous card I decided to repeat it but using a smaller dot pattern,

Wastercolor - ThankYou number 2

Hope everyone had a safe and restful New Year's eve and day. I know our neighborhood was celebrating way into the 1 am hour so it sounded like they were enjoying themselves.

This is my second Thank you card, also water colored.

I wanted to try something a little out of the norm so I choose a blue color for my flowers. And while I opted for Salty Ocean from Tim Holtz's distressed inks I noticed it kind of faded when it dried and I didn't like the loss of vibrancy so I mixed in a little squeezed lemonade and combined it with the blue to get my greenish color then I think the whole thing just got out of hand, but the funny thing about watercolor is the more you play with it the better it gets. After I was done I realized it kind of looked like a blue pansy.

Funny how you envision something in your mind and when your done it takes on a different look than what you were going for. Not a bad look just something completely unexpected.

Oh and these are still the Simon Says Stamps from Monday. I did have to borrow the leaves from my Altenew stamps to help complete the look.