Love Grows by Jean Okimoto

Love grows...on repurposed Lavender Bouquet stems in a winter garden.  A Woodgrain Heart background and bold plaid balance glittery red hearts and gold crystals.  Hi, Jean here with a Valentine design for your special guy.

Cut light kraft cardstock with Woodgrain Heart.  Cut a 1-½" x 5-½" strip of the Christmas Jolly 6x6 plaid.

Cut Lavender Bouquet from black cardstock -  trim the blossoms and about ¼" from the tops of the 4-stem piece shown on the right side here.  Trim the blossoms of the other stems.

Cut the larger heart - with the Love You Gallery Script die - from the dark red  Festive Glitter Pad 6x6.  Cut two groups of the small hearts with the die from the Heart Streamer Globe set.

Cut just the background of the "love" portion of the Sending Love Daily Script set from red cardstock.  Cut the detailed top layer from black cardstock -  save the delicate oval from the "o" and the little piece in the top section of the "e."  Pressure-embossing the background makes it easy to adhere the delicate top layer - it'll fit right into the debossed background.

Pressure-emboss the red background with the detailed die using the rubber embossing mat and plate(s) required for your machine.  Assemble the greeting - add the saved black pieces.

Attach everything to a recycled kraft A6 card (4-½" X 6-¼") - use foam tape for the greeting.  Add the slightly darker gold Autumn Fairy Crystals.  Cut an A6-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.  

Thanks for visiting...keep warm, and have a great weekend!

Supplies

 

94640 Lavender Bouquet

94558 Heart Streamer Globe

94636 Love You Gallery Script

94661 Sending Love Daily Script

94552 Woodgrain Heart

cry101

pp1019 Christmas Jolly 6x6 pack

gp1006 Festive Glitter Pad

Warm Your Heart Card by Sara Cook

Hi everyone.  I have a Valentines card using the Christmas release products and 1 heart die.  

Bird:

Die cut the Bundled Bird dies from heavy white card stock.  Ink blend the die cuts using Distress Oxide pinks and reds from light to dark.  For the hat and scarf use Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry.  Leave the ball and trim of the hat white.  Shade the trim of the ha back die cut with Lost Shadows. For the bird I used Festive Berries, Lumberjack Plaid and Aged Mahogany. For the beak use Gathered Trigs and the eye use a black gel pen,  Adhere together using the envelope as a guide.

Front Panel:

Die cut an A2 white card panel with the largest die from the Double Stitch Loving Heart Cut Out.  Stamp "you warm my heart" from the Shining Star stamp set below the heart in the center and emboss with sparkle red embossing powder.  Then stamp the heart with a snow flake from the Shining Star stamp set around the cut out using Delicate Ruby Red ink. Adhere foam tape to the back of the panel.

Assembly:

Trim a dark red and white plaid paper from the Jolly Christmas paper pad to A2 size.  A darker color with a pink and white pattern will help the bird pop and coordinate with the colors.  Adhere to a top folding A2 white card.  Adhere the front panel to the card and then adhere the Bundled Bird to base behind the lower center of the heart.   Add some red Christmas Fairy Crystals and pink Pastel Jewels.

Supplies

 

94760 Bundled Bird

cl5285 Shining Star Clear Stamp Set

94359 Double Stitch Loving Heart Cut Out

pp1019 Christmas Jolly 6x6 pack

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

cry102 Christmas Fairy Crystals

Hello Magnolia Card by Donna Sledzik

Hello everyone!  Here's another card for you today featuring new products from the Magnolia Release.

I began by die cutting one of the Curved Pinpoint Layers from patterned paper.  I glued it in the center of a white cardstock panel.  Next, I adhered it to a black cardstock mat and glued it to a white card base.

I die cut the Magnolia Blooming Bud from white cardstock, and used Distress Oxide Inks to add color to them.

I glued the die cuts together and used foam tape to adhere the flower to the card.

I hot foiled the word Hello and used foam tape to adhere it to the card.  

Next, I spattered the card with gold ink and added some fairy crystals to add a little bling.

That's it for today!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

 

Supplies

 

94716 Magnolia Blooming Bud

94646 Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers

MBF007 Posh Hello Hot Foil Plate and Die

CRY101 Autumn Fairy Crystals

PP1022 Magnolia Grove 6x6 pack

Luxe Peony For You by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  I have an all-occasion card today featuring the Luxe Peony and For You Posh Script dies from the 2023 Valentine’s collection.

The peony was die cut three times from white cardstock.  Using a finger brush, ink blended Victorian Velvet distress ink to each piece before layering / gluing them together.  For some sparkle, spritz them with a shimmer spray.  The leaves were die cut from alcohol marker friendly cardstock then colored with Copic Sketch markers YG61, YG63 and YG61.

The sentiment was die cut once from gold mirror paper and twice from thick white paper, then stacked onto its white shadow piece.  On a white A2 size panel, splattered with diluted black gouache paint for a bit of texture.  Assembled the card onto a white card base, popping up the middle peony with foam squares.  Added a few clear Fairy Drops to finish  

That’s it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful week.

Supplies

 

94714 Luxe Peony

94709 For You Posh Script

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

DRP101 Fairy Drops

Luxe Peony With Love by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with my last Valentine's Day card before the big day!  Here's a closer look at my card:

My background paper is dark gray and white polka dot and on top of that I have put the following die cuts:  

1)  Pinpoint Burst Heart die cut from white card, inked with like pink ink in the center

2)  Lux Peony cut from several shades of gray from the Earth Tones paper pad and the Delicate Pastel Glitter paper pad

Here's a close up look at both of the die cuts:

The sentiment is from Big and Little Words stamp set stamped and heat embossed on the same dotted paper.

Lastly I added a few jewels to the sentiment from the Christmas Jewels pack.  Here's a last look.

I hope you like my card for today and I hope you've had time and fun creating Valentine's Day card for 2023!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies

 

94639 Pinpoint Burst heart

94714 94714 Luxe Peony

GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

SP1009 Earth Neutral

Valentine's Day Candy Bar Wrapper by Donna Sledzik

Hello everyone!  Today I have a Valentine's Day treat for you.  A candy bar wrapper to give to your favorite Valentine.

To create the wrap, I cut a piece of white cardstock a little taller than the candy bar that I'm using, and wide enough to wrap around the candy bar.

Next, I die cut the Heart Ring Stack 5 times from pink cardstock and glued them to the white cardstock wrapper.

I wrapped this around the candy bar and added glue to the bottom edge and side of the paper to hold it in place. 

Next, I cut a thin strip of pink cardstock and glued it around the top edge of the wrapper.

I cut banners from red and white cardstock and glued them to the wrapper.  On the thin white strip I stamped "xoxo" in red ink and adhered it to the wrap.

I used pink cardstock to die cut the Luxe Peony and green cardstock for the leaves.  I used distress inks to add some shading to the flower and leaves.

I forgot to include the leaves in the picture, I used Rustic Wilderness to add color to them.

Next, I glued the flower together.  I only used 4 pieces from the die cuts because I liked the size of the flower with only 4 petals.

I used foam tape to adhere the flower to the candy wrapper and then glued the leaves in place behind the flower.

That's it for today!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

94714 94714 Luxe Peony

94662 Heart Ring Stack

CL5252 Big and Little Valentines clear stamp set

Forest Path Valentine by Jean Okimoto

Designs from our holiday release are great for Valentines too!  Forest Path creates a natural setting for a Poppystamps Whittle Forest Reindeer.  Add a garland of bright red hearts and a glittery mountain stream.  Hi, Jean Okimoto here with a simple design for your favorite guy(s).  

Cut Forest Path from light Kraft cardstock.  Use Post-It notes to mask the areas at the base of the trees.  Sponge or brush brown ink onto the trees.

Cut the curvy stream section from a white 6x6 in the Delicate Pastels Glitter Pad.  

Cut two streamers from the Heart Streamer Globe set.

Cut the deer from the Poppystamps Whittle Forest Reindeer Kit from dark Kraft cardstock.  Cut the antlers from a scrap of brown cardstock.  Ink the deer with Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate.  

Stamp the greeting - from the Poppystamps set -on natural cardstock with Tulip Red VersaFine Clair.  Quickly heat-emboss it with detail clear powder.  

Attach the diecuts to a natural top-folded A2 card.

Hope you've enjoyed seeing our Valentine designs as much as we've enjoyed sharing our ideas with you. Thanks for stopping by.

 

Supplies

 

94702 Forest Path

94558 Heart Streamer Globe

gp1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

 

 

 

Supplies

 

KT003 Whittle Forest Reindeer Kit craft die

Heartfelt Garden Greetings by Jean Okimoto

Plant a row of hearts with the Cattail Border and Heart Ring Stack for a Valentine or friendship card.  Add delicate Pastel Jewels and a glittered heart for sparkle.  Happy weekend everyone,  Jean Okimoto here with a garden-themed slimline in soft shades of pink and gray.

Cut textured gray cardstock with the 2-¼" x 7-¼" Slim Basic Rectangle Layers die.  It creates a crisp extended bottom edge for the Cattail Border.  Tops of the border will be cut off, but they'll be covered with hearts anyway.  Cut the rectangle with Cattail Border.  Handcut the "ground" at the base - wonky, to resemble a garden surface.

Cut Heart Ring Stack from the gray cardstock to outline the hearts - it'll be easy to adhere later if you place two ¼" wide strips of lined doublestick tape horizontally behind the cardstock before diecutting.    Cut Heart Ring Stack again from a pink 6x6 in the Berry Red Collection.  Leave the hearts and little pieces in the die.  Trim the heart on the right from both pink and gray diecuts.  

Place the Heart Ring Stack die over the border to check if any of the cattails will still be visible and trim them if necessary.  Trim the second stem on the left so it'll be short enough to attach a jewel later.  Attach just the base of the border to a white slimline card (3-½" x 8-½").   Several of the stems will be adjusted next.

Attach the gray Heart Ring Stack outline - adjust the stems to align with the hearts when necessary.  Cut the 5th heart from a pink 6x6 in the Graceful Garden Glitter Pad.  Attach the hearts and pieces to the card.

Attach the yellow, peach and pink Pastel Fairy Jewels to most of the stems.

Attach two scraps of white cardstock with doublestick tape and cut a double layer of the For You Post Script background.  Pressure-emboss it with the detailed top layer of the greeting to create a debossed area to easily attach the pink layer.  Cut the top layer from the pink cardstock used for the hearts.  Assemble the greeting and attach it to the card.

Cut a slimline-sized piece of cardstock to protect jewels and card front for mailing.  

Create this design in red and brown if you need a few more Valentines.  Or red with black stems on a Kraft card.  Heart Ring Stack is another very versatile design that's perfect throughout the year.

Thanks for visiting - enjoy the weekend, see you next week!

  

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94709 94709 For You Posh Script

94625 Tall Cattails

94662 Heart Ring Stack

94556 Slim Basic Rectangle Layers

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

sp1001 Berry Red

gp1002 Graceful Garden Glitter Pad

For You by Donna Sledzik

Good morning everyone!  Today I have a bright, all occasion card for you.

To make the card, I started with a white cardstock panel that I masked off with removable tape.  I used a blending brush to add Distress Ink to the masked off rectangle.

I removed the tape from the cardstock and dry embossed the panel using the Ringadings 3D Embossing folder.  To add some glimmer to the inked area of the embossed background, I used a brayer to apply gold ink to it.

Next, I adhered the background to a gold metallic mat and glued it to a white card base.

I die cut the Verdant Leaf from Vellum, and rubbed over it with gold metallic ink.  

The words "For You" were die cut from gold metallic cardstock and the shadow from white cardstock.  I glued the gold words to the shadow die cut and adhered it to the center of the card.  Next I tucked in the die cut leaf behind the words.

To finish the card, I added some gold Fairy Crystals and that's it.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Supplies

 

94376 Verdant Leaf

FP1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

CRY101 Autumn Fairy Crystals

 

94709 For You Posh Script

Glitter Card, Hot Foil and Watercolor Cards by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with two Valentine's Day cards made with dies, watercolor card, glitter paper and a little hot foiling.  Here's a closer look at card number 1:



I took a watercolored panel and the "Blissful Heart" hot foil plate (MBF014) and foiled it directly onto the watercolor panel.  Next I cut the heart out of it to use on my 2nd card.  For this first card I used another section of the watercolored panel for my card background, then added a white glitter card stock heart, cut with the "Double Stitch Loving Heart Cut Out" (94359) and added "Sending Love Daily Script" sentiment die (94661) cut from light purple glitter paper from Delicate Pastel Glitter pad and white card stock.  I arranged the heart and sentiment at an angle on the watercolored panel.  Then added it all to a white card base and added a light purple heart cut with a smaller die from the same heart set.

 

Okay, on to card number 2.  I used the left over piece of white glitter paper (love those double stitch heart lines) and inserted the foiled heart.  I love the way the heart looks when foiled with gold foil with my Gemini Foil Press machine on watercolor card. Here's a closer look at the heart:

 

The sentiment was cut from light purple glitter paper and white glitter paper.

 

Here's another look:

 

And here's one last look at my 2nd card:



I hope you like my sparkly cards for today.  I think foiling and glitter paper go well together, what do you think?  I also hope I have inspired you to create some sparkly Valentine's Day card.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

 

Supplies

 

MBF014 MBF014 Blissful Heart Hot Foil Plate

94661 Sending Love Daily Script

94359 Double Stitch Loving Heart Cut Out

GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad