Valentines 2

More Valentines cards today!  My best friend always orders some from me.

First up for Double D's challenge "Hearts", Sweet Stampin' "Love", Stamping Sensations "Valentines", and My Time to Craft "Hearts". 

Double D has this lovely mood board.  I was inspired by the top right image of the swans making a heart with the spray of flowers above them.

 

I stamped and heat embossed the image in platinum embossing powder, watercoloured, trimmed with a square die, and bordered with pink shimmer cs.

The Tic Tac Toe challenge has lots of options for Valentine cards.  I went with the diagonal line that says love sentiment, red and CAS design.

I layered the white hearts die over red cs and stamped and heat embossed my sentiment in white.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - unknown heart, SU sentiment
Ink - ColorBox silver
Paper - watercolour paper, pink shimmer and white cs
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - platinum embossing powder, watercolour paints, Spellbinders square dies

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Impression Obsession sentiment
Ink - ColorBox white
Paper - white and red cs
Size - A2
Accessories - white embossing powder, hearts die

A Reindeer Framed by Hearts

When I saw our new mood board at Peace on Earth, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do.  At first I wanted to do a dove on a red heart but three of my fellow Design Team members had already done that.  So then I thought of a white tree with red ornaments but I wasn't inspired.  Then I had the idea of somehow merging the reindeer in the top left image with the red hearts in the other three images and came up with this card.

I've had this heart frame die for ages but never used it (so am also entering my card at the NBUS challenge).  It fit quite well around my collage-style stamp of the reindeer.  And I have an old SU sentiment that mentions both Christmas and hearts.

I put the reindeer stamp in my MISTI and tapped it with a couple of different brown inks to get a bit of variation in the stamping.  Stamped the sentiment below, trimmed and added to a red card base, and die cut the heart frame out of the same red as the card base.

We'd love to see if our Peace on Earth mood board inspires you.  If not, feel free to link up an "anything Christmas" card.

Supplies:
Stamps - Crafty Individuals reindeer, SU sentiment
Ink - Ranger Archival Potting Soil, Memento Rich Cocoa
Paper - red and white cs
Size - 6x4.75"
Accessories - unknown heart frame die