Tuesday, February 14, 2017

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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8 comments:

  1. Wow! You made a lot of personal cards for this Valentine's Day! The one you made for your daughter is my absolute fave, but the dog one is cute, too!

    Carrie
    curlycraftymom.com

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  2. Wonderful Valentine cards, the puppy card is such a cute idea, what a great way to use several sizes of a heart die set! I agree it's so hard to use those flowers, I have a full drawer of them and barely ever touch them although they are so pretty. Love how you were able to use some tulle to create a little baggie for it.

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    1. Thanks Elli! Those flowers drive me nuts! For awhile they were so popular too.

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  3. I like the roses on that first card. Very cool!

    www.ohtobeamuse.com

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  4. These are so very special. How clever to make a tulle bag for the dimensional card. I wondered about an envelope. It is truly a work of art. What is snow flocking? It added the perfect bit of frost and sparkle to the roses but I am not familiar with it. I bet I could use it in scrapbooking for my winter pages.

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    1. Thanks Leslie. Snow flocking or flocking is a fluffy material that you sprinkle on items for texture. It comes in all kinds of color. You apply glue, and just sprinkle it on.

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