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Valentines 2025
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It was so fun to make cards for Valentine’s Day! I had purchased dies last year but didn’t use them. I can’t decide which I like the best, so leave a comment telling us of your favorite. This first one was for my grandchildren showing a little teddy bear stacking balloons on top of each other to say ‘I LOVE YOU’. The balloons are die cut from a glossy card stock but the picture didn’t pick up the shine. The die cut out all the hearts in one cut, so I used different colored papers and then glued them individually on the white layer that I embossed with a fun heart embossing folder. With 4 cards to make it was great to have different colors to mix and match.
For the inside I used our spiral die and glued one end on each side so it opened up with a flash of hearts. The children love an interactive card!
- Kokorosa Die for teddy bear and balloons
- Sunshine Wishes Dies for the layered heart on the left of the inside
- Lots of Heart Stampin’ Up! set for the “my heart smiles just thinking about you”
- Think Happy Stampin’ Up! for the little smiles inside the heart
- Spiral BigZ die
- The embossing folder is one of the mini folders from Stampin’ Up! so you run it through twice
Next, I used the same embossing folder for a layer and then die cut interconnected hearts and layered them on a piece of designer series paper.
- Kokorosa Die for interconnected hearts connected to side strips
- Stampin’ Up! Love & Happiness stamp set for the tiny Happy Valentine’s Day
- Stampin’ Up! Heartfelt Stamp Set for the “Roses Are Red…..So Lucky” and the heart in bottom corner
As many as you made, I’ll bet you had Paul’s help.
I did, Sal, which made it more efficient and certainly more fun!
Third for the day is a card with a blue background for a friend (you know who you are) who loves blue!
- Kokorosa Die for the flurry of hearts coming out of the envelope
- Stampin’ Up! envelope maker using 1/2 of smallest measurements
- Stampin’ Up! Heartfelt Stamp Set for the “Roses Are Red…..So Lucky” and the heart in bottom corner
The inside bottom heart is stamped but it looks so clear in the picture that it looks like an additional die cut. Paul used the Stampin’ Up! envelope maker to make the little white envelope.
Last but not least is another set of interconnected hearts on a sponged background for a rainbow look. For this construction, there are the hearts die cut in purple, then a layer of white die cut for placement of the purple and then a smaller layer of white card stock sponged to go behind those two layers.
- Kokorosa Die with the interconnected hearts
- Stampin’ Up! Heartfelt Stamp Set for the “Roses Are Red…..So Lucky” and the heart in bottom corner
That is a nice variety of purple, blue, pink and white bases.
Purposeful! Doing a whole set of cards just alike can be very productive, but it can get boring if you don’t have an assembly line for each step of the card.
And when have you had an assembly line? I don’t think two people count as a “line”.
Hmmmm…… maybe that is something I should do in classes. NOT!
Thank you for giving me some time today. Hopefully you have been inspired, even to just see some nice wording you can stamp on anniversary cards or birthday cards or ……
SAL, Such A Lot of Valentines
Karen
Quotation of the day:
“Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone is simply to include them.”
Bee With Heart
Let’s take a trip to a fantasy land where bees are pink! I used a digital stamp by Connie Fong called Bee With Heart! I saw this cute pink bee on a card by Gloria Shirr and just “had to have whatever stamp it was”. You all know that feeling! Little did I know it would lead me to a new world– digital stamping!
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. After printing the digital images on Basic White cardstock, I cut them out with a Stampin’ Up! ‘Deckled Rectangles Die’ and adhered to a layer of retired pink marble designer series paper. For the inside greeting I used Stampin’ Up!’s ‘Prized Peony’ stamp set. By duplicating the images and printing landscape I could print four fronts to a sheet of 8 1/2 X 11. The digital stamp set has a boy bee and a girl bee with two greetings and a flower. Here is the second greeting on a card for my mother.
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. The inside greeting is a stamp Lucille gave me before she moved far far away to New Jersey. Miss you, friend! The clear heart and pink pearls are retired Stampin’ Up! embellishments.
Well, Sal, we learned to do mirror images with regular stamps using the stamparatus and a silicon sheet, but with a digital stamp it is just a click of a button!
Recipe
- Base: Basic White 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Border Layer: Designer Series Paper (DSP), 5 3/8 X 4 1/8
- Top Layer: Basic White 5 1/2 X 4 1/4 cut with Second Largest Deckled Rectangle Die
- Inside Strip: DSP, 1/2 X 5 3/8
- Embellishments: 3 pink pearls for outside, 4 clear dots for middle of flowers and 1 clear heart on inside
- Copic Markers
- RV10 and RV23 for the bee’s body and heart
- RV09 for the Nose and Inside of the flowers
- R00 and a tiny touch of RV10 for the wings and then a coat of Wink Of Stella
I hope you enjoyed a trip to fantasy land!
Here I am adding a sympathy card made with one of the digital images from Connie Fong Art but this time in more traditional colors:
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- Copic Markers
- R27 for the heart, flowers and tiny touch on nose
- Y13 Inside flower
- C9 Black on Bee
- YR12 Yellow on Bee
- E000 Face
- R00 and a tiny touch of RV10 for the wings and then a coat of Wink Of Stella
- Deckled Rectangle Dies are used to create the frame with a piece cut out of the middle of the front used to borde the back
- Inside Greeting: Kindness & Compassion stamp set, love how it ties to the digital greeting on the front.
By combining digital with the dies and stamps I have in my stash I have a new realm of card making!
SAL, Sending A Lot of Love
Karen
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