Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day, my friends! A couple quick ones to share. I used dies to make them both. I did this one first, and then used the left-overs to make the second one. I'm really trying to use up my parts and to NOT make more! :-) I used a Darice embossing folder on this first one. I believe the "friend" die is from Gina K.

Along with left-over parts, I die-cut the pink "friend" and I used a stitched rectangle die for the image panel.

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Valentine's Day in August

I got these stickers in January with my $5 voucher from Michael's. Time to put them on cards. I used my small Cuttlebug folders to emboss a frame for each of them - four hearts and five squares. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado. The stickers already had a lot of dimension.

And, all nine of them.

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Two More Valentines

Once again, for some reason Michael's sent me a $5 voucher. It's really the only time that I shop there - to use the voucher! I bought a small pad of valentine paper and some valentine stickers and it cost me a total of $1.01. Can't beat that! The patterned paper and the glitter paper were in the pad of papers. The die cut frame was in my card parts and the cat was left over from the grandkids' valentines. I stamped the sentiment and cut it out with a die. I popped the cat and the sentiment up on foam squares. I made two of these cards.

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Valentines for the Grandkids

Finally, I got to make some cards! I've actually been working on my calendars for  2026 and 2027. And, this first one was made with a leftover from a calendar page. I cut the background pieces with a Gina K die. Then I used one to stencil the backgrounds on my February 2027 pages. I figured - why throw it out after using it as a stencil when I can use it on another card so I made sure it had ink all over it. All of the images and sentiments are from the same Gina K set. I made two of the last one.

I hope I have more time to make more cards. I have a decent amount of new stuff and I even ordered more from Gina K that will arrive on Wednesday. 😀

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Valentine's Day in July

I'm continuing to use items from the little kit that I recently received from SCT. The top panel was just black and white and then I colored the hearts with three different colors of Copic markers. I simply matted it with black. The sentiment had been sitting on my table. I got the stamp from somewhere and had tried it out and let it sit out. I matted that, also, and popped it up on foam squares.

I am very seriously thinking about stopping blogging. My cards are all so simple and it seems like I'm always just trying to "use up something." The thing about blogging, though, is that it keeps me in touch with a few people that I worry I would lose contact with. Life is so busy, especially in the summer with golf and pickleball and now biking. And of course family and friends. I will probably keep sharing, but maybe not EVERYTHING like I do now. We'll see. :-)

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A Valentine ... in June

Not really the right time for a valentine, but here is one anyway. :-) I watched some of Gina K and Jennifer using white and ivory pigment inks, and it inspired me to do a couple things. For this one, I used a Gina K stencil set. I first used pink ink and then I used white ink for the second layer. I used dies to cut the matting and the image panel. The sentiment is an old wood-mounted one from Judi-Kins that I got from someone, and is popped up on foam squares.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day, Friends!! I hope you all have someone special to share your day with. Here is a valentine I made for a friend. I used a die for the line of hearts across the bottom and also the main focal point. I used glitter paper for that and also under the row of hearts. I stamped the sentiment, from a Recollections set, and then embossed with a Darice folder. I added "nail heads" to the circles on the die-cut. The whole main panel is mounted on foam squares.

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Grandkids' Valentines

I got out all of my valentines things to make some cards, and then I ended up making one sort of special and four extremely basic and the same! Oh well. The grandkids will be fine with them. I did do a little bit more die-cutting so maybe I'll make some anniversary cards out of those pieces.

This first card is for our one granddaughter. The heart was done with a Spellbinders die, backed with glitter paper. That panel is raised on foam squares. The embossing was done with a Darice folder. I added some sparkly enamel dots. The sentiment is from the same Recollections set as I used on the second card.

This one was done with two embossing folders and a stamp from a Recollections set from several years ago. I added three tiny "nailheads." I made four of these for the grandsons.

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Another Valentine?

This stickers have been in my stamping room for a long time. (Ever heard that before?? LOL!) I added them to a white panel and then also added some thin metallic stickers on each side of the panel. I will need to add a sentiment, once I'm sure what it will be used for.

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Valentines for the Grandkids

Here are the valentines I made for our grandkids. They are all very simple and self-explanatory. I printed the sentiments for each of them on my computer. I used glitter cardstock and dies for all of them. On this first one, I used a Gina K stencil for the background and thin, metallic stickers on the white panel.

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A Valentine - the First

One valentine for now. The rest will be posted on Valentine's Day. For this one, I used Gina K stencils and an old sentiment stamp - perhaps from Inkadinkado. I also added a few Nuvo drops.

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More Stickers

Three more stickers used up - one per card. For this first card, I used an embossing folder for the background and added a white panel inside of the square. I added the sticker to this white panel. I stamped the "thanks' and called it done.

For the embossing around this sticker, I used a die. Added the sentiment and again called it done.

I guess this could be a valentine. I found a piece of purple cardstock to place the sticker on and wondered what else I should do with it. I remembered some small embossing folders that I had, so I used one of them, then sanded it down a bit. I matted this panel with black.

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Last Two Valentines

Two more valentines, and then I should be done until next February!! They are not like Christmas cards - that keep coming all year long. The first one came about because I had some of this pink patterned paper on my table after making next year's February calendar page. I thought these pieces would work well on a mini-slim line card. I placed them on a piece of black matting. The hearts and the sentiment were stamped and die-cut. I added the hearts on the hearts with an old stamp from Stampin' Up! The hearts and sentiment are mounted on foam squares. The "love" has a layer of black under it, also.

The cupcake on this one was on the patterned paper that I used on each of these cards. I fussy cut it and added it to a piece of cardstock (which I then fussy cut, also) and added foam squares. I also added some tiny hearts that I had cut from scraps of red glitter cardstock. The sentiment is from Darcie's. The patterned paper that I stamped it on is matted with red.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Two more valentines. I used a Papertrey Ink die to cut out the three squares on a thin piece of paper, then used that as a stencil to add the very pale pink. I used three Fiskars heart stamps to fill the squares. The sentiment was from the same set. I've had this set for many, many years and this may be the first time I've ever used it!

Just like the first one, except with pink hearts and another matting layer. I had stamped this one first, but the ink had not stamped well - it had pooled on the stamps and not stamped well at all, even though I tried stamping it about three times, using my MISTI, of course. I just set it aside to use the back of it for something else. Well, lo and behold - when I came back to it a few days later, it looked great! I know that Gina always talks about her inks having a "smoothing agent" and I guess it works! So, I added the sentiment (this time over the light pink squares) and added the layering.

Happy Valentine's Day, Everyone!!

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An "Extra" Valentine

And one more valentine - this one for no one in particular. The patterned papers are from a quite old matstack from Recollections. The bug and sentiment stamps are from a Fiskars set. I die-cut the panels using my new Waffle Flower rectangle dies. I really do love them! The image and sentiment die-cut shapes are mounted on foam squares. I added some shimmer with Wink of Stella to the bug's wings and also to the little die-cut hearts on the sentiment panel.

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Valentine for Two Grandsons

Here is the valentine that our two youngest grandsons will be getting. I die-cut the hearts and added red glitter paper behind. I stamped the sentiment with the stamp from the Recollections set that I used for yesterday's cards.

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Valentine for Our Granddaughter and for One Grandson

Here are my first two valentines. I used a Recollections set that I've had for a while, but I'm not sure if I'd used it or not. It consists of two embossing folders and three stamps. This first one is for our granddaughter. I used purple mirror cardstock for the matting on each panel. One of the embossing folders with the set embossed the background on the second card, and the other folder embossed the panels I used for the sentiments. The stamps were all from the set - the two sentiments and the hearts behind the stamping. The sentiment panels are mounted on foam squares. The background on this first card was done with a Darice folder.

I added tiny little die-cut red sparkly hearts on the corners of this sentiment panel.

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More Online Card Class Cards

I really want to try to make cards like most of the cards in the Online Card class that I took. So, here are two more. These are made by sort of "pleating" cardstock - doing an accordion-fold. On this first one, the folded cardstock is behind the open area of a die-cut peice. I also matted with the same color cardstock. The sentiment is from Gina K and is stamped in a dark gray.  I brushed just a hint of color around the edge of the sentiment panel.

This second one uses the same method, but is trimmed into a heart. To the bottom of the heart, I added a white bow that has been sitting around my craft table for a few years! The background is embossed with a Darice folder and has ink brushed around the edges. This sentiment is also from Gina K and is also stamped in dark gray.

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More Valentines

Two more valentines, and more to come tomorrow. Not sure what I'll do with all of them. I won't be seeing my friend who works at the thrift store, so I can't donate them. They are too "pink and feminine" to give to my grandsons. Maybe they'll keep til next year when I can donate them. Or maybe I'll figure out someone to send them to. At any rate, I'll be sharing them here. The die-cuts (the main image and the bow) were die-cut when I did so many the week before last. The background panel on this card was done many, many years ago while cleaning off my brayer! The sentiment is from Inkadinkado.

Same thing - different background. The paper on this one is from a Recollections paper pad.

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Valentines

A friend was purging some of her supplies, and VERY generously sent me lots of stuff for my granddaughter - or for me, if I chose to keep some. And I think I just might! :) This heart wreath was in the treasure trove, as well as the love stamp and die. For this first card, I used a Darice embossing folder to emboss the white center panel. I cut the wreath out of glitter paper. I mounted the sentiment on foam squares. I also used Wink of Stella on the sentiment.

For this second one, I used my Scor-Pal to emboss the design - three scored lines across the top and bottom, and diagonal lines crossing each other in the middle section.

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