2018 Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wishing you heartfelt happiness today and every day!

Below you will see close ups of a few cards.




 

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Island Wedding Card

Made this wedding card for a couple who were married in the US Virgin Islands a few weeks ago.
We will be going to a reception here on the mainland. We didn't attend the wedding.

My wrinkle free distress background, reminded me of the ocean.
So I dry embossed it with the Tide embossing folder to add some "waves".

I wrote the bride and groom's names in black marker on a scalloped heart
and stamped the sentiment on an oval layer.
Cut a strip of tulle and made a bow.

Here is the inside of the card

Stamps
PSX F2278
Hero Arts Clear Design Treasure the Moments

Inks:
Distress salty ocean, scattered straw
Stampin' Up bliss blue
Versafine black onyx

Tide Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder-Waves EF0020
Fiskars border punch

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Friendship Cards on Wrinkle Free Distress Backgrounds

Here are cards made with some wrinkle free distress pieces 

from last Sunday's blog post.

I have been wanting to use my new friendship stamp called Heart of Friendship by Stampendous.

I thought a collage-y card would look nice on the background with this sentiment.

If you know me, you know how I love the collage-y look.

Here's a closer look. You can always click on the image for a larger view.

Used a "ribbon like" mesh as a stencil, sponging with mowed lawn.

Used picket fence stain on a Rays stamp from Stampers Anonymous Bitty Grunge CMS087 

in the upper left corner but this did not show up well. So, I dried it with heat tool 

and stamped over it with Frost White Color Box pigment ink.

Hard to see in the photo.

Stampendous Heart of Friendship  stamped in peacock feathers

Michael Strong's mini cloisonne heart in broken china.

Used fossiliaed amber for:

Stampin' Up's postage stamps from Travel Post

Stampin' Up's key from Antique Collectibles

Stampin' Up's ledger script from Office Ephemera.

Used distress tool on edges and sponged with broken china

Added fun fur yarn and attached to white card

in which the edges were sponged in broken china.

The distress background piece for this card was a little small

so I added a black layer underneath, trimming the border with a Fiskars border punch-Rope.

Used the "ribbon mesh" stencil sponging with mowed lawn.

Stamped Rays stamp from Stampers Anonymous Bitty Grunge CMS087

in Frost White Color Box pigment ink in center.

Stamped both the 

Stampendous Heart of Friendship

and

Michael Strong's mini cloisonne heart

in mowed lawn.

Used fossilized amber for:

Stampin' Up's cancelled postage stamp & ledger script from Office Ephemera

Stampin' Up's hotel oval from  Travel Post.

Used distress tool on edges and sponged with mowed lawn.

Added fun fur yarn and attached to green card.

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Kraft Wedding Card

Made this wedding card for a very dear couple whose wedding was Nov. 19.

I chose kraft cardstock because the wedding invitation was on kraft paper!

For stamping I used my Just Rite monogram set and a PSX sentiment stamp.

For dry embossing I used Cuttlebug Heart Blocks and Textile embossing folders.

On the inside I used a favorite Hero Arts Clear design set called 

Treasure The Moments-Cl156

Used a Fiscars border punch-Rope on each side.

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May 2 Stampfest at Lynette's

Lynette and I spent the day stamping at her house yesterday.

Here's a pic of all the cards we made.

Our inspiration for this was Katherine Schaefer's "Bee Yourself" card in the Winter 2016 Stamper's Sampler Take Ten magazine.

Stamp:  PSX Rose Topiary

Ink: Stampin' UP! night of navy

Spellbinders nestabilities labels 10 die

Martha Stewart edge punch

Book paper

Julie Davidson's Window Flip card was our inspiration here.

Stamps: SU serene silhouettes and unknown stamp

Tombow markers: red 847, brown N37

Lifestyle Crafts Zig Zag embossing folder

other embossing folder unknown.

Kraft base: 4-1/4 x 5-1/2"

White layer: 3-1/2 x 5-1/2"

the length of the Kraft and white were trimmed slightly during assembly.

Red: 11 x 3" score in half

2" circle cut out of red front as shown

1-3/4" black scallop circle

1-1/4" white circle

Our flower drapery card was inspired by Connie Babbert's Drapery Card.

Used double sided printed paper: 4 x 11-1/2"

Scored at: 3", 4", 6", 7", 9", 10"

A diagonal cut is made from the point at the 3" score line to 1-3/4" from the opposite edge.

The paper is folded at the score lines to create the drapery look. So easy and fun.

We could add a sentiment on the blank blue area...or not.

We were happy to find Jan Farring's Tea Cup Drapery Card 

and we substituted the tea cup from Lynette's SU set: Tea Shoppe .

Used double sided printed paper, 2-1/2 x 9" for drapery.

Scored at 1", 1-1/2", 2-1/2", 3", 4", 4-1/2",5-1/2", 6", 7", and 7-1/2"

Fold your paper so that it looks like the photo.

A diagonal cut is made from the corner at the 9" to 1" lower than the opposite corner.

I looked at the photo of Jan's card to lay out the folds like hers.

Then I could see where to draw the diagonal and which side would be 1" down from that corner.

This sympathy card is inspired by Leonie Schroder's card. 

Here is the pinterest pin for it: 

We embossed the just the top of our blue card. Sorry, I didn't write down the name of Lynette's embossing folder. Using SU's Serene Silhouettes, we inked the flowers in distress stormy sky and the stems and leaves in distress peeled paint (both of these markers look different than the corresponding ink pads, by the way). 

Stamped the sentiment in PSX sympathy stamp.