2018 Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wishing you heartfelt happiness today and every day!

Below you will see close ups of a few cards.




 

Thanks for visiting!

2016 Winter Challenge Card

This is my card for the 2016 Winter Challenge at the Michael Strong Yahoo Group.

Mike shared the tree sketch on his blog.

The assignment was to incorporate his tree image into our design.

After saving the image, I opened it in photoshop elements.

I duplicated the tree and made 2 more smaller ones.

I printed the trees with my laser printer, 

using printer paper because my cardstock would not run through this printer.

I would have tried my inkjet printer, but I had trouble connecting my laptop to that!

Using home made "hill" templates, I sponged wild honey for my hills.

Punched a circle in a post it. Used the negative punch and sponged scattered straw for the sun.

Placed the circle post it over the sun, I sponged the sky with tumbled glass.

The sentiment, from Stampscapes, was stamped in Versafine black onyx.

Used Victoria Cuttlebug embossing folder for the top layer of my card.

Used a black frame around my layers, and burlap underneath the sentiment.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Horologium and Chicago Theater on Watercolor

My friend, Lynette, gave me this cool collage stamp. 

It's a wood mounted stamp made by Club Scrap.

The image has the words "Horologium Pendulum".

Had to look up "horologium"...it's an ancient clock, like a sundial or hourglass.

It's also a constellation in the sky.

I guess that's why there are lots of little stars on this stamp.

My "watercolor" background was made from left-over distress reinker and water 

that was setting on my craft sheet, previously described here.

Distress reinkers used:  peeled paint and dried marigold

Inks used: Versafine black onyx,

distress rusty hinge-on the word "Art" and also for the sponging.

The small square of burlap was attached with

Craft & photo tape by Scrapbook Adhesives

Stamps: Club Scrap, Hampton Arts, Printworks

Made this card from a watercolor test scrap

using a "new" set of watercolors that Lynette found for me at a garage sale.

Not sure of the brand because the label was missing.

This is much better than the watery Koh-I-Noor set I had.

As I have mentioned before, I am not impressed with the Koh-I-Noor watercolors.

Stamps: Chicago Theater by Putting on the Ritz

sentiment by Stampabilities

Versafine black onyx ink

Yellow Burlap Valentines

Made some yellow Valentines with using

burlap, tulle, ribbon, twine and a doily.

Punched a hole with my Making Memories hole punch tool, 

a hammer and the self healing mat.

Threaded my strip of tulle from back to front

wrapping the loop around the card and tying my bow.

Makes a nice flat bow.

 Instead of a bow, I just knotted the tulle.

Stamps by Hero Arts

Inks: Stampin' Up! So Saffron and Versafine onyx black

Anniversary Card

Here's an anniversary card I made for our neighbors.

Stamps:

Hero Arts Four Hearts #CG426 cling rubber stamp

Stampabilities: Happy Anniversary wood stamp

 

Inks:

 Distress Scattered Straw and Versafine Onyx Black

Cuttlebug Heart Blocks embossing folder

 

Martha Stewart Daisy Edge Punch

Burlap Bows

Continuing with "variations on a theme"...

made a bow with the burlap and added a brad

dry embossed the printed paper with Sizzix Postal

frayed edges with rotary distress tool

inked edges with bundled sage

punched  2 scalloped circles

(2" and 1-1/2")

cut a "paper ribbon" and inked with bundled sage

sentiment stamped with Stampin' Up! old olive ink 

weathered wood ink used on edges

lace strip added

burlap bow was tied

sentiment stamped with weathered wood

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Brown Burlap Card

Variation on a theme...used brown burlap this time.

Brown cardstock base

Dry embossed printed paper, rotary distress tool to fray edges, then walnut inked

Old music paper-pumice stone inked edges

and a  Happy Birthday "ticket" layer-frayed burlap inked edges

Materials Used:

Old music paper, burlap

Inks: 

Distress- walnut, pumice stone, frayed burlap

Stampin' Up! Chocolate Chip

  Sizzix French Script embossing folder

Grey and Yellow

I'm on a grey and yellow "kick" having fun working with 

doilies, dry embossing, tulle and burlap.

 

Materials Used:

Old music paper, doily, burlap, tulle, square brad

Inks: Distress Scattered Straw, Stampin' Up! Going Grey, and Versafine inks

 Floral Fantasy Cuttlebug embossing folder

Daisy edge punch by Martha Stewart

Anniversary Card

This anniversary card was made with the matte board square that Lynette gave me. 

I stamped one of SU's old Ornamentals stamps using Lumiere paint.

Having fun with the cream burlap.

Here is the inside view.

Materials used:

Printworks, Stampabilities, Stampin' Up! Stamps

Versafine Onxy Black Ink

Jacquard Lumiere Metallic Silver paint

Floral Fantasy Cuttlebug embossing folder
Heart punch by Family Treasures

Burlap on Z-Fold Card

For my third Z-fold card, I'm using some creamy white burlap along with torn music paper.

I stamped Michael Strong's mini flower with soft rose Memories ink, then fussy cut it.

Added some punched sprigs for leaves and a strip for the birthday sentiment. 

Used distress pumice stone and Memories soft stone on the paper edges as shown.

Click on images for a larger view.

Here's a side view.

...and a close up of the front.

More info on the card dimensions here. My inspiration is Hetty's card on her Craft Chaos blog.

Stamps: Michael Strong and Stampabilities

Inks: Memories, Versafine and Tim Holtz Distress

Cuttlebug Victoria Embossing folder

McGill Designer Pine punch