Quick Valentines - Part 3

This card is very similar to the previous ones, but I added a bit of white around the edge of the heart using a gel pen drawn along the embossing line.

Quick Valentines - Part 2

Here are another couple of quick cards using printed card bases and the same dies and techniques shown yesterday.

They're nothing spectacular, but still made nice quick cards.

Quick Valentines - Day 1

I have had so little time that I didn't get Christmas letters out last year.  When a severe winter storm cancelled activities and gave us some unexpected time at home, I decided to write our holiday letters even though they WERE late.  Christmas cards didn't really seem appropriate in February, and I didn't have much time to make cards anyway.  What to do?  I decided to use these pre-printed card bases with my Spellbinder's dies and stamps to create some quick Valentine cards.

The focal was matted with white card stock that was cut and embossed with a Fleur de Lis cutting die.  The hearts were cut and embossed with dies from Spellbinder's scalloped heart set.  Sentiments were stamped with embossing ink and heat embossed with white powder.

Catching Up

It's been a LONG time since I posted to this blog, and I apologize to my readers for that.  Life has gotten VERY busy and I've had little time for paper crafting at all, let alone blogging.  I DID manage to make a few cards over the last few months, and over the next few days, I'll show them here - and hopefully sometime soon I'll be able to get back to more regular paper crafting.

This card was put together quickly for an important 35th anniversary, made of several layers:

• Background paper was inked with red ink
• Next three layers up were cut with successive dies from the Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles - largest one from white glimmer paper with the smaller white cut from the center of it, and red glimmer paper cut with the die in-between the other two.  The smaller white piece has the edges inked with red ink.
• The focal was stamped using JustRite Antique Valentine Tags One stamps, using red ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder before being cut with the matching cutting dies. Then it was set in a red frame cut with Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two.

For the inside I used similar layers:

Starting with a background piece cut from the same background piece using the Spellbinder's Resplendent Rectangles dies.  The message was stamped on a white oval that was cut using a die from Spellbinder's Radiant Rectangles.  The frame started as a red glimmer paper cut with a die from Spellbinder's Fancy Tags Two.  It was then cut into pieces to frame the oval as you see here.