Valentines Day Cards

Snuggling Foxes with Svitlana

January 20, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Valentines Day Cards

Hello everyone!

Svitlana is here today sharing a cute card using stamps from the recent release Foxes and And The Fox Says.

Aren’t those foxies adorable? They’re made to snuggle with. I used a stamp with two snuggling foxes, which is a solid one. You can use it by just stamping a regular way. But I wanted to make my card kind of “watercolory”, so I did no line coloring here. A stamping and coloring was made with distress inks.

Sweet Valentine Card with Studio Katia Snuggling Foxes. Card by @s_shayevich First I stamped foxed with Rusty Hinge onto a Tim Holtz watercolor paper, using the second generation stamping. Which means I first stamped onto a scratch paper and then stamped onto a piece of watercolor one. Next I colored them using Rusty Hinge and Spiced Marmalade inks. I pressed the ink pad onto my craft mat, was picking them up with a damp brush and colored foxes.

Usually when I color with Distress inks I like using waterbrushes, as they have sturdy but flexible plastic bristles. But I never put water inside. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t like the amount of water that flows from them. I don’t even press and still get like a puddle on my paper. For some techniques it can be beneficial, but for coloring small images I prefer to pick up water from a glass. This way I have more control of it.

Sweet Valentine Card with Studio Katia Snuggling Foxes. Card by @s_shayevich

After coloring red parts of foxes the same way I colored eyes and noses using Black Soot ink.
Then I masked foxes off and stamped the tree stump using Ground Espresso. Then it was colored with Ground Espresso and Gathered Twigs. Foxes on the stump then were cut out using scissors. I also stamped, colored and cut out a tiny leaf, which then adhered to the stub.

I cut a watercolor panel and created a simple watercolor washes background, using Tumbled Glass and Broken China for the top part and Mowed Lawn for the bottom.

Sweet Valentine Card with Studio Katia Snuggling Foxes. Card by @s_shayevich

The foxes were foam mounted to the panel.
I decided that this card needs something so I stamped several tiny hearts from the same set using Carved Apple and colored them with the same ink. Then they were covered with glossy accents.

To finish off my card I stamped a sentiment from And The Fox Says set, foam mounted in onto a Peanut Fudge card base and added several sequins from Foxy sequins fusion.

Have a wonderful day!

Foxes Clear Stamp Set

And The Fox Says Clear Stamp Set

Foxy Sequins Fusion

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Love You Card – by Laurie

January 10, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Valentines Day Cards

Good morning! Laurie here stopping by this morning to share another card using one of my favorite sets Pink Winter!!! I also used a stamp set from the latest release which is so adorable, Sweet Heart Candy.

I started by stamping the flamingo in Intense Black ink from Simon Says Stamp (it’s my new favorite black ink!). I then stamped a mirror image of the flamingo by using the backside of a large clear stamp. I used my Mini Misti for this. I placed the large stamp, face down onto the door of the Misti, then stamped the image (I found I had to use Versafine Onyx Black for this) directly on top. I then closed the door and gave firm pressure. As you can see, it took me a couple of tries to get a decent image.

Before colouring the flamingos in with my Stabilo markers, I traced around both of them with a waterproof pen to darken and thicken the lines. For my second layer of color, I decided to use a Clear Wink of Stella pen to blend out the color on the wings only. Then it was time to fussy cut!!

And yes, I had to cut in between their legs…slight OCD 🙂

I used the Stitched Creative Window Die Set and cut that twice, once in white cardstock, the other in grey. I wasn’t sure which color I wanted to use. I used the white cardstock inner pieces and used a few shades of teals to do some ink blending on each.

I decided to stack the two frames together for slight dimension, placing the white on top. My cardbase started off the standard size with rounded corners and a strip of patterned paper at the bottom.

I didn’t like it, the pinks were WAY off! So I simply trimmed off a quarter of an inch on each end. The end size is 3 3/4 X 5 1/2 inches. I adhered the frame to the base with liquid glue as well as the inner die cuts. I adhered the flamingos with a combination of foam adhesive and liquid glue.

For the sentiment, I die cut the stitched heart from the Stitched Notebook Set and stamped “love you” from the Sweetheart Candy stamps. I brushed some light pink ink around the edges. I adhered that to the centre panel with foam adhesive. And lastly, it was time for some sequins!! I, of course, used the Pink Winter Sequins Fusion!! And here’s the final product!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Have a great day!!

Laurie

Pink Winter Clear Stamp Set

Sweet Heart Candy Stamp Set

Stitched Notebook Set Creative Die

Stitched Creative Window Die

Mini Misti

Pink Winter Fusion

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Under the Quilt Snuggles by Erica

December 27, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Valentines Day Cards

Hello hello!

How is everyone doing after the Christmas festivities? Anyone else eat too much and had shrinking powdered for the washing machine instead of washing powder?? (She asks as she’s munching on chocolate truffles whilst typing… )

We have had the worst Christmas weather ever here: gale force winds, sideways rain and freezing temperatures but no snow whatsoever. The wind was so strong the whole house rattled several times over the four days the storm raged, which made us want to stay in bed under the duvet all day. Even the dogs were refusing to go outside and that’s saying something seeing as they usually love being outside…!

The whole ‘wanting to stay in bed under the duvet’ attitude was actually the inspiration behind today’s card so let’s get to it, shall we?

Using the Elongated Dotted Hexagon dies I decided to create a ‘quilt’ by piecing different coloured pieces together. As I was in a bit of a lovey-dovey mood when I made this, I went for pinks. One block colour and one gingham patterned paper was used for this and I cut out all three pieces (I try to keep my dies together unless I really have to take them apart) twice in each colour. Then it was a simple matter of taping them together in a pattern using alternating coloured pieces to create the quilted look.

For the card base I used a light pink colour card stock which I cut out in an A2/5.5″x4.25″ size. Then I puzzled the pieces together to cover the card base and there was some cutting and glueing done to make sure the corners were also covered. You will only need 4 pieces to cover the whole card, with leftovers too. To be honest, you might be able to get away with just three but I have not tried that yet. If you try it, leave me a comment here and let me know how you got on!

Once the ‘quilt’ was created, I needed a sentiment and I wanted one that said something like ‘let’s stay in and cuddle’ or along those lines. I didn’t have one BUT using a bit of masking and stamping, I created my own sentiment that works perfectly! The sentiments are all from And the Fox says and it was a simple matter of using a bit of masking tape to cover up the bits I didn’t want to go on the banner (which is from Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames) The banner itself was adhered to the card using foam tape to raise it up from the background a little bit.

I think this sort of card would work really well for a new baby card too, just use blue for a boy and light pink for a girl. With a sentiment like ‘welcome to the world/family’ it will be a really sweet card.

Well, that’s it for me for this year. See you all in 2017 for lots of new fun stuff, exciting news and announcements!!

Happy New Year and happy crafting everyone!

Erica

Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames Creative Dies

And the Fox Says… Clear Stamp Set

Elongated Dotted Hexagon Creative Dies

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Sweet Heart Candy by Laurie

December 16, 2016 / CATEGORIES - New Release, Valentines Day Cards

Happy Friday!!! Laurie here to share another creation with you. I know the Christmas season is upon us but boy, oh boy, am I Christmas carded out!!! I am still making the occasional holiday card but I’m quite honestly ready for the next occasion. That being, Valentines Day, of course!!

I used the Sweet Heart Candy stamp set for this card. I was in the mood for some simple watercoloring so that is what I did. I started by stamping the open heart image side by side in the middle of a piece of watercolour cardstock in Versamark Ink, then embossed it with white embossing powder. After those initial hearts were placed, I randomly stamped the same image over the entire panel (also heat embossing in white). I added some of the cute sayings that fit perfectly in the heart.

Now what is awesome about this stamp set is that the heart image fits perfectly with the heart die from the Stitched Notebook Die Set!! So, of course I had to use that too! I die cut two hearts out of the same watercolour cardstock, then heat embossed the tiny faces in silver embossing powder.

To add my colour, I used my Tombow markers. I chose pastel colours similar to the actual candy.

Once all the colouring was done, I used the largest die from the new Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frame Dies to get that sweet pierced detail on my panel. I adhered my two stitched hearts on top of the side by side hearts on the panel and adhered everything onto a kraft card base.

Because the front of the card is basically covered in sentiments, I did not add anything more. I did, however stamp a simple “love you” greeting on the inside of the card.