Valentine #2

Isn't it cute? that's Papertrey's Simple Valentine paper layered on Pure Poppy. I did the white dots with the white Signo pen. The alphabet stamps are from Art Warehouse, then colored in with a glue pen and glitter applied. I hand drew the little box, did red dots with a Copic glitter pen, and added some bling and a glittery heart. The ribbon is a piece of Pure Poppy, of course.

I am just so loving the MS punches, and any brand that goes around the corner! Takes some skill to get the dimensions right, lol, as you can seein the upper left hand corner. The Love You stamp is from an old SU set named Big on Spring. I paper pieced the letters with more Simple Valentine paper, then made a Pure Poppy heart and covered it with glitter. More little red glitter dots tie it all together.

Waiting for the snow, here, 2 more feet expected. Gonna have to do something about the roof one of these days... I mean, get the 4 feet of snow off of it... not sure how you do that without killing yourself as you pull the snow off!

Valentine #1

Bear with me, I am working just on the laptop, with the whatever photo editor that is in here... and it's awful, lol... so this week's Valentines might not have the photo quality I am used to. Will go back to the Microsoft editor!

I just love these two stamps by A Muse. My all time favorite Valentine stamps!

Background paper by Carolee's Creations, layered on an unknown card (still working on using up all of the premade cards I have!). The little Piggy is colored with Copics.

That's a MS punch along the edges, with the matching A Muse sentiment stamp Fun!!

A Very Pretty Valentine

I know you are all thinking I should be generating tons of Baby Buttons cards, right? Well, me too! Why have I not made a bajillion sweet baby cards with the sweetest baby card set ever? A thread over on the Papertrey forum discussing how you 'work' to create a card made me realize that a new set sits on the desk for weeks before I use it the first time. I need to think about why that is, and what is going on in my brain!

So I am making Valentine's instead, lol! This one uses alcohol inks (Copic refills to be exact!) on a felt 'pouncer', then swirled on Chromekote paper. I wish I'd left a bit more white, but I'm still pleased with this piece of paper. The heart is a rub on made for glass, don't forget to visit the glass decorating section of your craft store- they have lots of rub-ons there!



The heart rub-on is actually very sparkly, but you can't see that here. The pink base card is Papertrey's Hibiscus Burst. The black and gold paper is from my local paper store, All About Paper in North Hampton, NH. Sentiment from Heart Prints Sentiments is stamped with Archival Ink (Black); I find it slips less on the Chromekote paper, and dries well on the alcohol ink.

Tuesday's Valentine

I wish I had some more of this black velvet paper! what you see is what I had left. OTOH, don't you just love the feeling of using up a last scrap? Makes you want to go out and buy 2 more, right??

This card was created with a Dreamweaver brass stencil and red gooey paste that is sold to use with the stencils. This paste is bright red, and dries a bit shiny. Good stuff! I am wondering if everyone knows how to do this, or if you would like a tutorial? Let me know!

Same black and cream Japanese paper as I used earlier this week. I only have one 8.5 x 11 sheet, and it is lasting forever! The little silver Love charm is from Michael's wedding section, it may have been by Wilton. I think there were 20 or 25 in the package for maybe $1.99. This one is glued on with Tombow Multi. I edged with a silver Pilot pen, and the red organdy is from SU~ sadly, retired. That wide organdy was a million yards on a roll for notalotta money.

Ta Ta for now!

CPS & Papertrey

I've never played with the CPS sketches; indeed, I just figured out what CPS was fairly recently. What fun, then, to be encouraged today to use a CPS sketch to enter a PTI give-away!

I gave myself one hour to complete a card, so there are some things here I would do differently if I had more time. The lace is sticky tape from K & Co- while it looks good, it was awful to work with and I may just throw it away. Many of the little holes are not completely punched out and need work with tweezers, and the sticky isn't sticky enough, so you have to glue it with something else. This is the second time I have used it, and both times the glue I used can be seen through the little holes. Yuck.

the red is Papertrey's Pure Poppy. The paper is from their black & white 8 x 8 pad. the hearts and sentiment are from heart prints. The little hearts are punched with an EK Success punch. The white ink on the harts is SU's Whisper White craft.

Hope it inspires you a little!