Valentine Theme Week- Day 7

Hi crafty friends! It’s Mona here, today I am sharing these cute and elegant cards featuring the beautiful Valentine Circles, All My Love and Valentine Hearts stamp sets. The star of this project is the amazing Heart Vines cover plate.

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I really love the versatility of this beautiful Valentine Circles stamp set. First of all, the coordinating dies for this set are amazing. You have a circle shape to die-cut the image as well as this cute scalloped one. It’s really versatile and not only with the circle stamps. I love it, it’s perfect for creating circle tags too. If you are like me and you like to decorate your envelopes, then don’t forget to use this set on them, it will make them super cute! But what I like the most about this set, is that you can fussy cut the image, and you get a totally unique look from one stamp set

Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I created these cute, but also elegant cards including the coloring with alcohol markers.

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I started the cardmaking with stamping the images with alcohol marker friendly black inkpad. When it was done, I made a quick heat set for my images and I continued the coloring process.

For the coloring I have used the following colors from Spectrum Noir Illustrators:

Monkeys: EB7, EB4, EB1, TN2, TN1, FS7, FS6.

Cheeks: FS8, FS6.

Envelopes, chocolate box, ears: PP5, PP4, PP3, PP1, FS8, FS6, Blender.

When the coloring was done, I continued with fussy cutting and die-cutting all the colored images. I have also created one soft pink and one gold glittery die-cut with the beautiful Heart Vines cover plate.

Before I have adhered the die-cuts and the images to its right place, I heat embossed the Love sentiment from the Valentine Hearts stamp set. Once to a pink cardstock, once to a gold glitter cardstock, which I run through my die-cut machine with its coordinating dies. Then I adhered all the parts together with liquid adhesive and 3d foam squares.

In the end I embellished my card with glittery heart die-cuts from the Heart Vines die set, and for the other one I adhered Sparkling Clear sequins as well as soft pink rhinestones from the newly released Sweetheart Rhinestones.

These monkeys and envelopes are so adorable, they just make me smile, and the cover plate is currently one of my favorites!

Thank you so much for stopping by, see you next time.

Hugs, Mona