Category: cardmaking

Penny Black Classroom Valentines

Today, I’m sharing a project combining the adorable elephant from Penny Black’s  jumbo love  [#30-209] stamp set with classroom Valentine cards I created on my computer.

GrayElephantValentine

For my first classroom Valentine, I stamped and fussy cut the elephant on gray cardstock. The cards measure 3″ wide by 4″ tall – I designed the cards to fit into a Project Life page.

PinkElephantValentineI thought it would be fun to try the elephant in pink as well!

If you’re interested, I created a pdf download with the classroom Valentines (four to the page, two in each color). All you have to do is stamp the elephant! (Click on the link and select “download.” For some reason, the preview does not accurately depict the download and it will appear wonky. I don’t know why, but I’ve tested the download and it’s correct. 🙂 )

Happy Monday!

Mama Elephant Photo Challenge

I couldn’t resist entering the Mama Elephant Challenge this month. The photo inspiration is yummy with pinks, silver, white and jewels.

ME-Challenge

MEPhotoInspiration

I paired the adorable monkey from “Up and Away” with die cuts from “Party Kit.” I covered the white clouds, cut with “Landscape Trio,” with vellum to soften their look. I stamped the monkey, sentiment, and heart with Versamark and heat-embossed using silver powder.

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Stenciled: Butterflies

I’m still playing with stencils (and color!). The idea for this card comes from one of Julie Ebersole’s shown in the Online Card Classes Stenciled Class.

ButterflyStencilI dry-embossed the linen cardstock with the Heidi Swapp stencil before coloring it with the Distress Inks (leaving the stencil in place while applying the inks). The stencil includes an additional butterfly, which I cut off for a traditionally-sized card. I didn’t need to move the stencil at all for the design of the butterflies, which I liked, as I struggle to do something “artsy” when positioning items on my cards. 🙂

Supplies: Heidi Swapp Butterfly stencil

Gray and Pink Valentines

Ever since the beginning of the year, I’ve been thinking a lot about color. I really like gray and pink together. I like gray and red together as well, but while playing with some Paper Smooches stamps and die cuts for Valentine’s Day cards, I preferred the pink to the red.

For my first card, I stamped the Geo-Graphic border with white pigment ink on the charcoal card base and added the frame (the die cuts both a frame and an interior piece) to showcase the stamped heart. The vellum helps accentuate the heart.

FramedLove

For the second card, I used the “hello” from the Quote tag die cut set – really like the font of this sentiment die, as well as the “love” in the stamped heart above. The Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder leaves a wide border for a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card (and the hearts aren’t oriented to do a top-folding card) so I trimmed the embossed panel and adhered it to a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card base.

HelloValentine

There’s a challenge over at the Papers Smooches Sparks site – this week’s theme is “Anything Goes.” I’m entering the second card in the challenge.

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Love Struck

Sharing a “just because” Valentine’s Day card today, using some of the recently released Paper Smooches products.

LoveStruck

I stamped and colored the “Love Struck” arrows and cut them out with the companion die set. I colored them with Copics using a blue/pink/red color scheme. Honestly, deciding how to color arrows was the most complicated aspect of making this card!

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