Rod's Valentine Card

Hi Guys,

Sorry for the little absence. It has been extremely busy for me at work and hard for me to keep up with my posting and stamping.

But here is a card I made for Rod for Valentine's Day.

I stamped the mice (Penny Black) onto cardstock vellum. Turned it around and coloured it on the back using my very few copic colour markers (it's a good thing I had the right colours too!)

I then stamped "kiss" (using the Scripty Bets from TAC) onto a white cs for the background. I then layered the vellum cs onto the white cs as I did not want to take away from my image. I think this is a really neat effect. I am so glad that I bought the Scripty Bets from TAC, but as I was cutting out each individual letter, I was cussing quite a bit wondering if I actually made the right decision - I did and love the effect.

Using red brads, I secured the vellum piece onto the white piece and then adhered to a red cs.

For the white background, I ran the cs through the hearts cuttlebug horizontally, moved my cs over to where it did not emboss, line up and ran it through the cuttlebug again.

I then stamped using my real red marker to colour in "You", "&", "Me") using the Fancy Flexible Phrases (retired) and stamped each in a heart. I then mounted it onto the red cs.

I stamped Happy Valentine's Day on the inside.

Here is the recipe:

Stamps: Penny Black

Paper: Real Read, Whisper White, Vellum Cardstock

Ink: Black

Other: Heart Cuttlebug, Red Brads, SU Markers and Copic Markers, Ribbon

Have a wonderfuly weekend and hope you find some stampin time!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Pat

Quick and Easy Love Cards

After all those Christmas Cards, I got bored of making more, so I decided to do something differenet. Again, I was at the Dollar Store and I saw these rub ons. I couldn't resist buying them as they were too cute. I did add some kind stamped phrase just so that I can say I stamped it. I've posted the individual pictures below.

This one is a Wedding Card I made. I love making cards for no reason at all as it seems there is absolutely no pressure to produce something you actually like. I stamped the Denami "Wedding Day" on the Real Red cs in White Kraft ink, used a scallped template to cut out the oval scallop and then rubbed on the image.

I then punched the two outer corners using the Step Corner Punch.

This is another cute image from the rub ons. I rounded all four corners using the Round Corner Punch, as well as rounding the Real Red and WW layers.

I then stamped 'love ya bunches' from the Love Ya Bunches stamp set (retired).

I mounted the whole panel using mounting tape giving it some dimension.

This one is my favourite of the three. I punched the corners using the Ticket Corner punch and then layered the main image onto Real Red. I added the Gold Brads to each of the four corners, and then layered again onto WW cs, and last but not least, used mounting tape to adhere to Real Red cs.

I stamped a miscellaneous love phrase to the bottom in black.