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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.”