Three Valentine cards today (my best friend always asks me to make some for her each year which gets my fund raiser started well before my Christmas card sale in November!).
We Love Stamping wants hearts and Sweet Stampin' wants love - both require stamped images so this card is for them. It's also for NBUS as it's a stamp I've had for a while and never used.
I stamped it, coloured the hearts with a red alcohol marker, trimmed the panel, bordered it with black, and added it to my card base. A great "back to basics" kind of card!
Color Hues wants red and pink, and Try It On Tuesday wants love. Time Out wants at least two of sparkle, heart, red, pink, aperture, and twine (I have heart, red, and pink). It's also going off to Snippets as I used some leftover bits of red cs, a bit of a pink smooshed background, and a couple of strips of white cs for the sentiment and the embossed strip.
And one more that is less CAS, more mixed media. It's for Allsorts "Create Your Own Background".
I made a background by first stamping some randomly inked text with
Vintage Photo ink. I then laid a heart stencil over the text stamping and used translucent
embossing paste through it. It looked kind of bland so I lightly
sponged over the panel with the Vintage Photo and that gave more
definition to the stencilled hearts.
The large heart is stamped with Versamark on burgundy cs and then gold
Pearl Ex was brushed over it (and sealed it with a fixative). I fussy
cut the heart, put fun foam on the back, and added it to the background
panel.
Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Unity heart branch, Impression Obsession sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and black cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - red alcohol marker, Spellbinders square dies
Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Impression Obsession sentiment
Ink - Memento Rosebud
Paper - white and red cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - various heart dies, SU narrow strip heart embossing folder
Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - unknown heart stamp, Wendy Vecchi text stamp
Ink - Versamark, Distress Vintage Photo
Paper - white and burgundy cs
Size - A2
Accessories - heart stencil, embossing paste, gold Pearl Ex, fixative, fun foam
Three fab Valentines, love the simplicity of the middle one in the Color Hues colours. Thanks for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteAll three of your valentines are lovely! My fave is the middle one--CAS perfection--lovely pink smooshed heart and white on white texture. Thanks for sharing with us at Color Hues!
ReplyDeleteA trio of beautiful and romantic cards, the image on the first for We Love Stamping is perfect for our theme and a perfect textural background on the third for Allsorts, many thanks for joining us at both.
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Really lovely set of cards, love the stamp used in the first one. Thank you for joining We Love Stamping. Anesha
ReplyDeleteYou're rocking the challenges, Susan! And the great Valentines! I love them all, especially that tree of hearts! Thank you for inspiring everyone to use their NBUS! Hugs, Darnell
ReplyDeleteTwo equally beautiful makes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing along with us at We Love Stamping.
PInky
What a super background and beautiful heart. Thank you for sharing at Allsorts. Sarah
ReplyDeleteLovely mixed media background for this beautiful heart! Thanks for playing with us at Allsorts challenge and using our theme.
ReplyDeleteA lovely trio of Valentine’s Day cards.
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground with the second card. See you up in the treehouse shortly. xxx
Three wonderful valentines, my friend! I love the heart tree and the stacked hearts! The vintage look and mixed media heart at the end is awesome! Happy Valentine's Day and thanks for sharing with us at Color Hues!
ReplyDeleteA fabulous selection of Valentine's cards, super designs too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing at Try it on Tuesday. Avril
Hi there Susan, that's a wonderful selection of Valentines cards! Thanks for joining in with us at Sweet Stampin' - Sarah, DT
ReplyDeleteThree super cards Susan! My fave is the snippets one - possibly as I have the goodies to CASE it for next year - also it's so fresh!
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Di xx
Fantastic Valentines cards Susan, your little heart tree is so cute and I love the distressed effect on the last one.
ReplyDeleteA lovely trio of such pretty Valentine designs Susan!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful collection of cards Susan! Thanks for joining us at Time Out Challenge:)
ReplyDeleteYour cards are all beautiful Susan! All so very different but equally special! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Time Out Challenges. :)
ReplyDeleteThree wonderful heart filled cards Susan. I love the first with the tree covered in hanging hearts and perfect in black with just the bright red filling the hearts. The second is so pretty with the layered red and pink and the smooshing on the pink heart looks great, and lastly the terrific mixed media look with the textural stencilled hearts and script and the Vintage Photo blended ink over it tones in so well with the beautiful gold embossed stamping on the burgundy card for the central heart. x
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