Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day

You can find the Maria's Got {ippity} Design Team Blog Hop HERE!

You can find this weeks Totally Stampalicious Challenge HERE!

I have a real quick post for you today!  This is the card I made for my daughter Emily for Valentine's Day.

I used the new Stampin Up Heart Framelits Dies for the heart and the small heart punch from Stampin Up for the white sparkly hearts on the front.  I embossed the real red background with the Hearts embossing folder.  Heart on the front has a piece of vellum behind it.  On the inside of the card is a Pretty In Pink heart that shows through the window really nicely in real life but doesn't photograph very well.  Here's a picture of the inside:

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Valentine card today!

Wishing you a Valentine's Day full of LOVE and BLESSINGS ♥♥♥

 

Julie

I'm also including this in the following challenges:
Totally Stampalicious - Texture Challenge
Paper Pretties - Texture Challenge

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Clean and Simple Valentine

This week's challenge at Totally Stampalicious is to make a Clean and Simple card.  We want you to keep your layers to just a few.  I'm super excited for this challenge because I've been working on making more CAS cards.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Monkey Love, Whimsical Words
Paper:  Kraft, Baja Breezes, In Color Designer Paper
Ink:  Memento Black, Brown & tan Copic Markers, Black Sharpie, Poppy Parade
Accessories:  Corner Rounder Punch, Small Heart Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch

I used the adorable Monkey Love stamp set from Totally Stampalicious for the image and sentiment.    I fussy cut the cute monkey out using my little Fiskars scissors.  I could use a bit more practice on the fussy cut technique but I do think it looks better against the red background this way.


For the layout, I enlisted the help of this week's CAS-ual Friday's challenge sketch.  You can find the challenge HERE or by clicking on the sketch image below.

I decided it would be fun to decorate the inside of this card too.  Here's a look at the inside......

The sentiment is from a retired Stampin Up Sale-a-Bration set.  It reads You're never more than a Thought away.

CFC37 Sketch Challenge

Monkey Love Stamp Set

I'm including this card in the following challenges:

CAS-ual Friday's CFC37 - Sketch

Paper Sundaes Challenge 105 - Valentine

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my CAS Valentine card!  I hope you get a chance to play along with our CAS challenge at Totally Stampalicious this week!  Check out the Totally Stampalicious Blog for more great CAS inspiration!

Julie 

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Sweetie's Valentine

Supplies

Paper:  Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White

Stamps:  Desiree, Kid at Heart

Accessories:  Cuttlebug Heart Blocks Embossing Folder, SU Scallop Edge Punch, 

Large Scallop Circle Punch, Large Circle Punch, SU Small Heart Punch

I made this card for my daughter for Valentines Day.  Ever since she was little she's referred to herself as my sweetie.  

The image I used for this one is Desiree.  She is available in clear rubber stamps at Totally Stampalicious HERE and in digital stamp from Bugaboo Stamps HERE.

Isn't she just adorable?

I am so happy I finally got to use my new hearts embossing folder!  I went to 4 craft stores looking for that folder and finally ordered it at JoAnn's online.  It was one of those things I just had to have...The sentiment I stamped on the inside - a little crooked so you would know it's homemade -(hee hee) is from Taylored Expressions Kid at Heart stamp set and says "You're so Sweet".



This card is for the following Challenges involving HEARTS:

Totally Stampalicious Three Hearts Challenge  
Stampin' Royalty's Hearts, Hearts, and More Hearts challenge
Crazy 4 Challenges Hearts 

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Sweetie's Valentine!!!! 

Follow Your Heart

This is going to be another busy week.  Luckily I had time this weekend to make the cards I needed for this month's Stampin' Up card swap.  They are due this Thursday so again I am waaay early - LOL.  This month's theme is Soft Subtles.  There are 9 people in our exchange.  I made 10 of these because I like even numbers.

Since this is for my Stampin' Up swap - all of the supplies are Stampin' Up.  I used the polka dot embossing folder on vellum paper for the top half of the card.  I also used a layer of vellum paper over the sentiment to create a little heart shaped window.  The stamp set is retired but I love it and it fit perfectly in my heart window.

Supplies
Stamps: SU Whimsical Words
Paper: so saffron, rose red, certainly celery, shimmery white
Ink:  chocolate chip
Accessories:  polka dot embossing folder, eyelet border punch, small heart punch, hearts set Sizzlits

I'm including this in the following challenges:

Bugaboo - Emboss it
Speedy the Cat - Embossing
Stampin B's - Old / New
Old - Eyelet Border Punch & Polka Dot Embossing Folder
New - Hearts Set Sizzlets 
IDIC (I Did it Creations) - Vellum

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my card!

Celebrating Love

Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Love Letter Seals, Music Notes Stampin Up Wheel

Ink:  Basic Black

Paper:  Kraft, Old Olive, Basic Black, Going Grey, Very Vanilla

Accessories:  Eyelet Border Punch, Black Ribbon, Coluzzle, Labels One Nesties, Brads

Happy New Year's Eve!  Today's project is this Celebrating Love card.  I made it for this week's Stampin B's Challenge - #91 Make a Celebration Card.  For the color combo I used this week's Colour Q combo CQC#65.  The layout is from this week's Sweet Stop Sketch SSS88.  Today's Free 4 All Challenge (F4A45) at SCS is to celebrate those resolutions.  I can't really think of a better resolution than to Celebrate Love in 2011.

The stamp set I used is from Whimsy Stamps (Love Letter Seals).  I won this set from their blog hop earlier this month and was so excited to get a chance to use it.  The middle of the seal says 

"And now these three remain:

faith, hope, and love

but the greatest of these is LOVE."

Special Thanks to Whimsy for this great stamp set! 

 

Wishing you and yours a Very Blessed & Happy New Year!