Hello friends, Elaine here today and I am sharing a Valentine’s inspired card using the new Heart Vines die along with a sentiment from Valentine Hearts stamps and dies.

To start, I took a piece of Bristol Smooth card cut to 6”x 4.5” (I will trim this down later) and ink blended a layer of Distress Oxide in Spun Sugar all over the panel.  Next, I blended on Distress Oxide in Victorian Velvet concentrating the color at the top of the panel and softly blended into the Spun Sugar to create a tone-on-tone gradient effect.  I trimmed the panel down to 5.5”x 4.25” and distressed the panel by splattering on some clean water with a small paint brush, removing any excess water with a paper towel after 20 to 30 seconds.

While the panel was drying, I cut the Heart Vines die from heavyweight white cardstock and removed all the negative pieces.  I glued the die cut vines panel on top of the ink blended panel with some liquid adhesive.  To help give the leaves some extra dimension I used copic markers in the shades R81, R83 and R85 to flick on color at the base of each leaf.  I love how this makes the leaves ‘pop’ and the R80 markers pair so nicely with the Victorian Velvet shade.

To embellish the centre of the open heart of I used the scripty stamp ‘Love’ from the Valentine Hearts stamp set and stamped it in Victorian Velvet Distress Oxide Ink on a scrap of heavyweight white card.  I used the co-ordinating die to cut it out and secured directly to the centre of the heart. I adhered the whole panel to a white side folding A2 card base.

For some final embellishment I used the left-over piece of ink blended card and die cut some hearts with the strip of heart dies that are included in the Heart Vines die set.  I secured them on to the front of the card and added glossy accents to each of them for some extra interest and shine.

I hope this card gives you some Valentine inspiration, thank you so much for stopping by!

Hello friends, Elaine here today and I am sharing a Valentine’s inspired card using the new All My Love and older Penguin Pals stamp sets to create a super cute card.

I started by stamping out my images on to copic friendly card stock and coloured all the images with some of my favourite pink and red colour combinations:

·         Reds – R59, R39, R46

·         Pink – R85, R83, R81

·         Grey – W3, W1, W00

·         Colourless blender

I cut the penguins out with the coordinating dies.  

For the front of the card, I took a pale pink piece of card stock used Layered Hearts stencil with Distress Ink in Worn Lipstick to blend on some soft layered hearts.  I cut the ink blended panel down to 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8”.  To cut out the heart shape in the middle of the panel I used the All My Love coordinating die.  The heart image was placed behind the window and secured with some liquid adhesive and a little washi tape for extra security.  I secured the whole panel to a white A2 side folding card base with more liquid adhesive. 

I applied some foam tape to the back of the penguins and the flower and secured them to the base of the heart.  I white heat embossed the You’re My Favorite sentiment from the All My Love stamp set on to some red card stock and trimmed into a thin strip, adhering directly to the card with liquid adhesive.  To add some extra interest to the card I die cut some hearts from white cardstock using the strip of hearts die in the Heart Vines cover plate die and applied them to the card popping some glossy accents on top.  Some of the new clay hearts would also be perfect for some cute dimensional embellishment!

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope this card gives you some Valentine’s inspiration! 

Elaine

Hi Friends! Welcome to Day 6 of the Pretty Pink Posh Valentine Theme Week! It’s Melody here today and I have a pretty Valentine card to share with you that is perfect for any age.

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I used a combination of stamp sets and dies to create my card, some new sets and some from previous releases. I love how the sets coordinate so well together. I started by cutting the background with the Heart Vines Die from white cardstock. This beautiful die is perfect for Valentine’s Day but I am planning to also use the die to create weddings and anniversaries cards! 

The center heart is stamped with one of the hearts in the All My Love Stamp Set and die cut with the All My Love Coordinating Dies. I stamped in Versamark Ink and then embossed with white embossing powder. Then I blended a red ink over the white embossing. I used a combination of two stamp sets and dies to create the embellishments around the heart, the Valentine Hearts Stamp Set and Dies, and the Love Stamp Set and Dies. 

The stamped images are colored with Copic Markers. The Love sentiment is part of the Valentine Hearts Stamp Set and the bottom sentiment is included in the Love Stamp Set and die cut with the Simple Strips Dies. 

My final touch is a little sparkle with the Pink Blush Jewels. 

Thanks for joining us this week! Hope we have given you some ideas and inspiration for your Valentines! 

Hello, Gemma here today to share a card for Valentines, using some of the new January release.

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I began with my background. On a piece of white card, I inked the edges with spun sugar, picked raspberry and abandoned coral distress oxide inks. I kept the centre free of colour to give a bright highlight area. I used my heat tool to dry the ink.

Next, I positioned the new Lattice stencil over the panel and inked through it with a clear embossing ink. I then heat embossed the stencil pattern with WOW White Pearl embossing powder. This powder looks different on the inked areas compared to the white card in the centre.

From the centre of the panel, I die cut the smaller of the heart dies from the All My Love coordinating die set. I also created a heart frame from white card, using both of the coordinating dies.

On a piece of heat resistant acetate, I stamped the heart image from the All My Love stamp set with clear embossing ink. I heat embossed the pattern with a superfine white embossing powder. I layered the acetate behind the embossed panel to show through the heart window opening.

On the reverse of the panel, I added a layer of foam tape. I had originally planned to create a shaker card, but decided instead to adhere some jewels in place behind the acetate window. This gives a look of sparkle behind the embossed patterned heart and they all stay in place.

Before adhering the jewels, I added a gel printed background to my card base. This was created using picked raspberry and spun sugar distress oxide inks. I then adhered jewels in different sizes to show through the window, using the Valentine jewel mix. I adhered the front panel onto my card base. The jewels look so pretty as they catch the light through the acetate window. It’s tricky to capture in the photos but is so pretty in real life.

For the sentiment, I embossed the large ‘Love’ stamp from the Valentine Hearts stamp set on pink card with white embossing powder. I love when word dies have coordinating dies as offers more possibilities for colours, both with the stamped word and the edge around it.

I added some blank die cuts behind the word for dimension, then adhered it on the card. I love the look of this sentiment and how it looks like handwriting on a card. It would be easy to add a smaller sentiment underneath this large word, depending on the recipient.

I finished by adding a few pink hearts from the Pink Hearts clay confetti above the sentiment.

Thanks for visiting! I hope we have given you some ideas for your Valentines! Stop back by tomorrow for more inspiration. 

Hello, friends! It’s Lindsey and I’m happy to be joining Valentine Theme Week with a project that makes me smile. All products in the Valentine’s Day category is 15% off this week!

Valentine’s Day is a pretty exciting time of year when you have little kids around, but I can distinctly remember some sad Valentine’s Days. After one of those in college, I made the decision to make it a day where I help others feel loved.  It’s been a goal of mine ever since, and now that I have children I love including them in that goal. Every year we talk and come up with a list of people who we think could use some extra love. Then we set to work creating notes, cards, and sometimes treats.  

My littlest loves lollipops (probably because Grandma sneaks them to her), so she is going to show love by giving something she loves. Pretty Pink Posh had the perfect supplies to dress them up!  We used All My Love and the coordinating dies to mass produce a giant pile of hearts in pink, raspberry, red, aqua, and turquoise – a color combo I come back to again and again this time of year. Then I heat embossed the heart from All My Love on all of the smaller heart die cuts.  After layering the hearts together, we had a big pile to attach to some lollipops.  The lollipops were flat, which made them easy to stick onto the back of the hearts with a tape runner. I folded the packaging in a bit before adding the adhesive, so you wouldn’t see it poke out the sides. 

We added a little flag, using the Stitched Labels 1 dies. The tiny heart on the flag comes from the Heart Vines dies and the sentiment is from All My Love. We’ll write her name on the back. To adhere, I simply put glue tape on the back side of the rounded edge of the flag and wrapped it around the stick.

I also wanted to show you how you could use the same supplies to make a card.  I created a slimline card and added a white double frame using the Slimline: Scallop Frames Dies. 

I ran both dies together at the same time, so the inner frame is actually the negative space between the two dies. I used three of the layered hearts for the focal point and added one of the other sentiments in All My Love. 

Thanks so much for joining me today!  Don’t forget that everything in the Valentine’s Day category is 15% off this week, so pick up some of your favorites and go spread some love.