Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope you have a great day tomorrow!

cuttlehearts 3

And this is the third card I made. The die is not symetrical, something I had not noticed before making a stack of them. It meant that certain patterns I had meant to put together could not work, so I stopped at three cards.

Cuttle hearts 2

I wanted to make a valentine card with non-traditional colors. The pink is actually a more muted pink than the camera shows, and the brown just a bit "browner." As simple as it is, I could not get satisfied with it for days!

Cuttle hearts

I had fun using my cuttlebug heart die & embossing folders. I made several cards using the same basic idea.

Valentine

I absolutely love these toad images from Biblical Impressions!

rose hearts

This is a card from last year that was damaged, and needed some surgery. I'm really trying to use card parts from my huge stash of unfinished/slightly damaged work, so this was good. The text (Stampin Up) looks a bit overwhelming in the scan, but it really isn't. Hearts are from Biblical Impressions.

Toad-ally adorable stamp!

So far, every card I have made for Valentine's day has involved using something from my drawers of previously stamped pieces that I had not found use for, or were duplicates that were not finished, etc. This time, I took a colored image from Biblical Impressions' "atti-toads", that had never made it onto a card.

Faux Batik hearts

I have two plastic drawers filled with backgrounds and other stamped images that I never used. The background of this card is one of those, from Valentine's Day last year. The hearts were clear embossed, then markered in. I put the panel between paper towels, and ironed off the embossing (faux batik). I embossed in white on vellum, scroll hearts that are a larger version of the ones in my previous Valentine post. I almost gave up on using it, I just could not get the look I wanted. I finally had a design I was satisfied with, glued down the panel onto the card, then realized I was using it in a landscape style, so the hearts were sideways! With the panel already glued to the card, I could not use a corner punch, which would have helped the design a bit. At least I realized the mistake before I glued the embossed hearts over it, lol!

textured hearts

I bought the wave cardstock used in this card a couple of years ago, but haven't used it since last year. It's kind of funny that the only time I seem to be using this earth tone, "rugged" looking cardstock is for Valentine's Day! But, I like to have some cards for the guys as well! The twine was an afterthought; I like the simplicity of the hearts, but the card was a little too plain. I decided a bow was too girly, so I did the basic knot. But when I added one to the second heart, it looked funny. So, I made a bow, and put that on the other heart to see if I should do that instead. But, as you can see, when I saw the two together, the knotted piece suddenly became a bow tie, and I now instead of just hearts, I had sweethearts! :-)

Valentine

I was able to make 6 hearts from the panel I used for the last card, and was going to just make a duplicate of it. But, instead I made this variation. Text is from Biblical Impressions.

Valentine's Day

It was hard to break from Christmas card making; I had a few stamps I did not get to use this year that I was really looking forward to working with!

But it is fun to work on a new holiday. This card was done with alcohol inks and gold embossing powder. The hearts came from Biblical Impressions, the text from Stampin Up.