Be Mine?

Hello!

Once again sorry for the delay, I was travelling during the weekend and since then I've just been a bit lazy.
Today will be the last of the valentine cards the next post will likely be a birthday card as I have a few birthdays coming up.

Here is the card:

Materials:

• Black, pink and white card
• Silver embossing powder and embossing ink
• Heart border punch
• Alphabet stamps and a heart on stems stamp
• Silver and pink gems
• Water colour pencils and a paint brush
• Silver gel pen

Directions:

1. Make the card base from the black card.  Punch the heart border along the bottom of the front of the card.  Cut the pink card about 2cm thick and adhere on the inside of the card to show through the punched design.  Cut the white card to fit on the front allowing room for a small border of black to show around the sides and top.
2. Stamp the hearts on stems and spell out 'be mine' with the alphabet stamp.  Cover in embossing powder and heat set.  Using a purple and two different shades of pink water colour pencils, gently add colour to the white card slightly overlapping the colours.  Using the paint brush and a small amount of water, brush over the pencil to create a smooth colour wash and to partially blend the colours together.  Let it dry fully.  Create a border with the silver gel pen and adhere several gems to appear to float away from the top of the hearts.  Adhere the panel to the card base with dimensional foam.

It took a bit of time and effort for me to make this card but I am pleased with how it turned out.  I love the pop of pink through the punched border and the gems floating away in the breeze.

Til next time

Stacey

Tutti Frutti Valentine

Hello!

Sorry for the delay this week!  Today I have a confession for you...... I did in fact make a card ready for posting on Saturday, however I thought it wasn't good enough and to top it off I stuck the main panel on to the card base wrong so that instead of opening on the right it opens on the left!  After that I gave up and took some time to reflect.  I've been trying far too hard to create lovely valentine cards that I just ended up getting myself in to a right state.  It took 3 hours on Saturday to make a card that I wasn't even happy with!  So I took a couple of days and waited for inspiration to strike, and it did! I stayed away from the pink and frilly and only used hearts as an accent rather than the main feature to make this card:

I love this card!
Materials needed:

• White card and orange patterned paper
• Embossing ink, black, red and yellow ink
• Clear embossing powder
• An orange stamp, a heart stamp and letter stamps
• Colouring pencils
• Orange glitter glue

To make this card:

1. Create card base from white card.  Cut orange patterned paper to leave a 0.5cm border of white.  Cut a piece of white card to leave a 0.5cm border of orange.
2. Using the orange stamp, first ink with the embossing ink and then the black directly on top.  This is because we want the embossing ink to end up on top for the powder to stick to when it is stamped.  Stamp several of the orange images on to the paper using the embossing ink with black ink combo.  Cover in clear embossing powder and heat set.
3. Using the pencils, colour in the oranges.  I made a couple of them to look like lemons in order to break up the orange.
4. Using the red and yellow inks with the letter stamps, carefully stamp 'tutti frutti valentine' around three of the orange images.  Using the same inks, stamp the small heart in the gaps around the oranges (I actually only did this step because I accidentally created a couple of smudge marks with ink that was on my fingers and I wanted to cover them up!).
5. Adhere the white panel on to the orange paper with dimensional foam and then the orange paper to the card base with regular adhesive.
6. Add glitter glue to the inside segments of each orange and try not to knock the card on to its front until its dry (like I did, oops!).

And there you go, while I had enough troubles making this card, I didn't get nearly as flustered as the previous ones because I had a goal in mind for the end result.  Which is surprising given that it is particularly hot here today, so excuse me while I go melt.......

Till next time.

Stacey