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Love You Still

Posted on February 6, 2017 6:57 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Clean & Simple Challenge (CAS415) asks us to remake an old love/heart/Valentine card of our own. As one of the Featured Stamper Hostesses where it’s our gig to CASE a another stamper’s card, I don’t have any problem picking someone else’s work, but it’s super hard for me to CASE myself. Go figure! But I finally picked THIS one I made back in 2014. (The post on my blog for the old card is HERE.) And while we’re on the subject of CASEing oneself…Jiminy Cricket! My gallery is HUGE! How did that happen?!? I almost got lost in the “oh, I forgot about that one.”
So anyway, I die cut the big LOVE just like I did on the earlier card. And I used the same greeting, just a different stamp of it. There was a piece of heavy foil covered c/s sitting around & I thought it looked kinda neat behind the cut out so I put it there. And it already had the petal thingie cut out behind the heart & I liked that, too. I left off the dp & just added a red die cut frame & a line of die cut hearts, embossed the frame directly on the card front & called it done.

Here’s a look at the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Loved You Yesterday

Paper: white, red

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Gina Marie In/Out rectangle dies, IO Heart Strip die, Spellbinders Font One uppercase dies, ODBD Ornate Heart dies, Memory Box Sweet Heart die, Sizziz Postcard embossing folder, rhinestones

Loved You Yesterday 906G	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Gina Marie Up/Down In/Out rectangles
Ornate Hearts dies CBD53	Font One Upper Case S6-009	IO Floral Heart Strip DIE127K	Memory Box Sweet Heart 98794	Rhinestones
Sizzix Flourish & Postcard set 657666

Amazing Love

Posted on February 3, 2017 10:32 AM by Julie Comment

Today’s Free For All (F4A363) Challenge asks us to make a Valentine. My Valentine greeting & Love Maze images are wonderful all by themselves…but I couldn’t resist putting a pink pig into the mix. Especially when it’s Cupig! I colored him a little more pinky so his colors wouldn’t clash w/ the very pinky reds I’d already used to color the other images. I’ll admit…there was a lot of fussy cutting going on here, but I really liked having a black bg & it was the only way to have the lighter images show up.
After I die cut the black panel, I added all the fussy cut images. It’s a toss up which was harder..the teeny tiny arrow or the teeny tiny hearts. The inside of the O was tough, too. Inside curves are always hard but a little trick I figured out. If you’re going to attach it to black, just use a black marker around the inside (& outside edges) to cover any white that’s showing & it will disguise any imperfections in the cutting. By the way..there is a way thru the Love maze. I found it pretty easily but when I drew it w/ a red pen, it wasn’t very visible so I colored everything below the line. There may even be more than one way, but this is mine.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Amazing Love Puzzle, Amazing Valentine’s Day, Small Hanging Hearts, Cupig, (inside: Valentines’ Full of Love, Sm. Silhouette Heart )

Paper: white, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black (inside: Memento angel pink)

Accessories: Copic markers, Misti, Gina Marie In/Out rectangle dies, MFT stitched arch dies

Amazing Love Puzzle 1130L	Small Hanging Hearts 905A	Amazing Valentine’s Day 002D	Cupig 607G
Valentine’s Full of Love 273F	Sm Silhouette Heart 666A	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Recollections Cardstock	Gina Marie Up/Down In/Out rectangles	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	MFT Stitched Arch dies

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Monster Love

Posted on February 1, 2017 6:53 PM by Julie 2 Comments

I made this really bright, neon pink & blue Valentine for a couple of Splitcoast challenges…the Sketch (SC630) & the Clean & Simple (CAS414). The CAS challenge theme was Peek a Boo & that’s why my little monster is coming thru the heart opening. I started to try & work in the Color Challenge, too, but I already had this cutie colored & die cut & no way was he even close to right colors.

I already knew I wanted this to be a Valentine so I used the Monster Love greeting & had the smiley monster coming out of a heart shaped opening in a much larger heart. To have the greeting & stripe hearts show up on the blue, I heat embossed them using a bright magenta powder.

Behind the lg neon pink heart, I attached a heart cut out of thin foam to elevate it a bit. I also added a piece of white behind the monster so he wouldn’t fade into the blue of the bg.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: North Coast Creations – Little Monsters, Warm My Heart

Paper: X-Press It white, Staples 110# white, neon pink, bright blue

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Colorbox rosebud pigment (inside -Memento Danube blue & rosebud)

Accessories: NCC Monster dies, ODBD Double Stitched Rectangles, Double Stitched Squares, Ornate Hearts, Mini Stitched Hearts dies, Copic markers, Misti, Spellbinders A2 matting basics B, magenta embossing powder (Ranger), fun foam

Little Monsters NCS7-275	You Warm My Heart NCC80	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Double Stitched Squares dies CBD141L	Ornate Hearts dies CBD53
Mini Stitched Hearts dies CBD170	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Memento Inks
Colorbox Pigment Ink	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	Ranger Embossing Powder