Valentine Cards

 Happy Valentine's Day everyone!  What a wonderful coincidence that Valentine's Day landed on a Tuesday this year.  I post my craft creations on Tuesdays, so today I can post the Valentine cards I made.

Every year I send Valentine's cards and a box of treats to my children.  The card below I gave to my daughter and her husband.

This card is so different than my usual clean and simple style.  It is loaded with trim and silk flowers. I added some snow flocking to the flowers to blend them into the colors of the card a bit.  The pink is a lot softer in real life.

I used wedding designer paper for the heart and background.  The grey paper is a metallic silver.  I also added some heart brads and punch a small heart through the paper as well.  The heart shapes were cut out with Spellbinders Nestabilities.

The problem with making cards like these is that they don't fit in a mail envelope nor can you mail them the traditional way.  That is why I normally don't make cards like this.  As pretty as they are, they are not practical.  But since my card was going into a box of goodies, it didn't matter that it was too bulky to fit in an envelope.

So instead of putting my card into a traditional envelope, I made a little tulle pouch using tulle left over from my daughter's wedding.  I also put some Valentine's Lip Balm in this bag.

To make the pouch, I simply folded a piece of tulle in half after it was cut down to size.  Then I sewed up the sides and hemmed the top.  I ran a piece of off-white ribbon through the hem to tie the pouch shut.

My next card I made for my son.  I cased the design from Pinterest  The lady I cased it from cased her card from a YouTube video.  You can the tutorial for both from THIS PAGE.

I thought this card was just too cute, and it was so simple and easy to make.  I love that I didn't have to spend hours coloring.  

The entire card was made using different sizes of heart dies...the same die set I used to make my other  Valentine cards.

This is the inside of the card.

And this is the back side of the card.

I glued on a red bow for an added touch of cuteness.  The eyes were made with a white gel pen and a little black dot of black card stock punched out with a hole puncher.  The whiskers were hand drawn or 'dotted' on.

The ears and nose were embossed with the "Swiss Dots" embossing folder.

And finally, here is the card I made for my husband.  It's the same card sketch as the one I used for Ashley and Jason's card, but minus all the lace, ribbon and flowers.

I kept the design clean and simple since it was for my husband.

The sentiment is from MFT and the paper is from Cosmo Cricket.

Have a Great Day and Enjoy Your Valentine's Day!  Amy

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Sweetheart Cards

I made these sweetheart cards for all the sweeties in my life:  my husband, my daughter and son-in-law, and my son.  I gave them these cards for Valentine's Day.

This card I gave to my husband.  The "Sweethearts" is a background stamp by Inkadinkado.  I simply stamped the image twice:  once on the white card base, and once more on a piece of scrap card stock. I then colored all the hearts in with Copic Markers.  I cut out some extra hearts from the scrap card stock and mounted them up on dimensionals.

The sentiment is from MFT.  I cut it out using a Spellbinder's Nestability.  I mounted the sentiment card stock up on dimensionals and put a Soft Saffron grosgrain ribbon behind it.

Other card stock colors used as bases are brown, light blue and white.  So Saffron is the card base.

My next Sweetheart card I made for my daughter and son-in-law.  This time I stamped the background stamp onto white card stock and then cut it out with a Spelbinder's Nestability heart die. I then cut another heart out using pink paper and adhered them both to a white card base.  The Sweetheart shape is mounted up on dimensionals.

The sentiment and little hearts were cut with Taylored Expression Dies.

My final card I gave to my son.  I stamped the little baggies onto vellum using a retired Stampin' Up! set "All Wrapped Up".  I then stamped the Sweethearts onto white card stock and hand cut all the little hearts out.  I very carefully placed them on a white card stock base, but I did not glue them down.  I then cut my vellum baggies out and glued only the edges onto the white card stock over the Sweethearts.  The Sweethearts jiggle free inside the bags.

Using a corner rounder, I rounded the corners of the white card stock base and adhered it to Lovely Lilac card base.

Little yellow bows were added for embellishment.  The sentiment is from an old, unknown cooking stamp set.

Have a Great Day!  Amy

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