Sending Hugs

Happy New Year everyone! I'm here with a card using Poppystamps products. This card could be used for Valentine's Day or just to send someone a paper hug.

I cut strips of scrap card stock to create a colourful background for the Grid Heart Frame and really like how it turned out!

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I'm entering this for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge here and the Wednesday Challenge here, Something New. 

Have a great weekend!

Crazy In Love

There's a new challenge starting today over at Poppystamps and this month we're Crazy In Love! We want to see your interpretation on this theme and you have all month long to play.

I decided to make my card masculine. That means no pink, glitter or lace and such.

I inked up my background with Distress Inks in Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Lucky Clover and Peacock Feathers and gave it one spritz with Perfect Pearls and a few flicks of water.

I die cut the new Shimmering Heart Border 4 times and adhered it to a white panel. Then I took all the hearts that were die cut from the background and added them back in throughout the design.

The sentiment is from the Be Mine Penguin stamp set and it was white embossed on black card stock and layered onto vellum. I finished off with one red heart.

I hope to see your projects over at Poppystamps and don't forget that the winner will receive a die from the new release!

Thanks for stopping by today!

1362 Shimmering Heart Border CL417 Be Mine Penguins clear stamp set

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Bokeh Hearts

I tried to capture the bokeh effect using hearts instead of circles for this Valentine's Day card.

I used Distress Inks to create my watercoloured background and inked up Simon Says Stamps Tons of Hearts images in a variety of coloured dye and pigments inks and white dye and pigment inks. The sentiment was gold embossed with Simon Says Stamps Essential Greetings and I added a few sequins to finish off the card.

This is a great card for a guy.  Nothing frilly, feminine or sparkly happening here.

I'm entering this in Simon Says Stamps Flickr Love Challenge #11.

And Simon Says Stamps Anything Goes Challenge.

Thanks for visiting with me today!

It's Lawn Fawn Week At A Blog Named Hero

This week at A Blog Named Hero we are collaborating with Lawn Fawn.

If you're not familiar with Lawn Fawn, they make a lot of cute stamps and very fun paper packs and embellishments.  You can check them out here.

I played around with Lawn Fawn's new Petite Paper Pack called Peace Love Joy.  It's part of Lawn Fawn's Christmas release but I wanted to show how these papers can be used all year long, not just for the holidays.

I covered my card front with the tiny heart pattern paper and made an envelope out of another one of the papers. The bird strip is from a page in the pad that has 12 borders just ready to cut out and add to a card. I clear embossed the Hero Arts Sentiment with my new Memento Luxe Gray Flannel ink and  die cut a bunch of hearts from some glitter paper.

Thanks so much for visiting during Lawn Fawn week.  Please stop by ABNH to see the fabulous projects created by the other design team members.

And there's still time to play in our current Shaped Card Challenge here.

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Washi Valentine

Washi Tape kind of scares me, somewhat like my phobia of patterned papers.  I did buy a couple roles of the stuff (there's so many fun patterns out there) and this is my second project using it.

I made this card for Simon Says Washi Tape Challenge.  I covered some cardstock with washi tape (if you can believe it, I bought this stuff at my local grocery store) and die cut a label from it.  Not very original but at least I got to use the stuff!

I die cut a felt heart to put on the label and used Lil' Inker Designs Stitched Mats Dies for my card base.  Love the finish it gives to a card.

That's all from me today and thanks for visiting!

The Long and Short

That's the name of this weeks challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays.  The card must have a long side and a short side, no A2 cards this time around.

I used some old maps to die cut the hearts and made a little window for the sentiment.  Since Moxie Fab World is having a window challenge right now I'm entering it over there as well.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Heart Wreath

Today's project is a one layer card.


My inspiration came from this card I saw on the blog Print & Pattern.

I wanted to try and make a snowflake card for Christmas but ran out of time so I thought I would adapt the design and use hearts instead.

I'm entering this card for a couple challenges that involve using or doing a "new something".  Simon Says Stamp and A Blog Named Hero both have "New Challenges".  I used a new stamp set from Wplus 9 and some new circle dies to make my masks and it's the first time I've made a heart wreath.

I'm also entering this for CAS-ual Fridays Thank You Challenge.

And on a side note, I noticed that I'm slowly making my way towards 200 followers.  Once I hit 200 I think I'll have a giveaway for all those who take the time to visit my blog and follow me.

Wishing you an inky day!

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Put Your Heart Into It

This weeks challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to use a heart on your project.


I punched some hearts out of paper that I watercoloured with pinks and reds and sewed them on my card.  I added a few pierced holes, a sentiment and mounted it onto a card base embossed with a Spellbinders folder.

Thanks for visiting!