Howdy Valentine Times Two

Happy Valentine's Day!  Today I have two cards with my new favorite Valentine's Greeting:  Howdy Valentine.

My first card was also made with the Cowboy Silhouette image.  

On this next card, I painted a quick watercolor western night sky and then stamped and popped up the sentiment.  If you are interested, I watched THIS fabulous and relaxing video on how to do the night sky and just changed the landscape to western landscape (I used a thick Sharpie pen to make it quicker and easier). 

I made this card in less than 15 minutes from start to finish.  

Hugz,

Nancy

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Howdy

Hi Everyone,

I made this valentine with my sweet 9-month-old great nephew in mind, because I'm in the baby-sitting rotation now that my niece has gone back to work.  I imagine he'll look like this cute fellow in a short couple of years.  Until then he's an adorable, chubby little cherub that refuses to nap unless I hold him the whole time.  While I'm enjoying the baby snuggles, my arm is usually asleep when he wakes up ;-)

Anyway, I colored up the cute Saddle Up Cowboy and made some valentine themed patterned paper, using the Silhouette Love Heart and Small Silhouette Heart stamps.  

I attached those elements to an embossed heart background and added the Howdy Valentine sentiment, embellishing it with a fussy cut cowboy hat, from the 4 in 1 Cowboy Gear.

Here's hoping you're ready to celebrate tomorrow!  

Karin

 

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Howdy Valentine

 

Hello Crafty friends. I hope you are doing well. I wanted to share a fun western Valentine card I made using the new HOWDY VALENTINE - 300B. 

• For my card, I stamped the COWGIRL LINE DANCER - 682G image on white card stock and colored her with copics.
• Next, I used several distress oxide inks to create a night feel to the card getting darker toward the edge of the card.
• The stars were added using white gel pen.
• The card was finished with the HOWDY VALENTINE - 300B die cut with a speech bubble and popped up on dimensionals.

Are you ready for Valentine's Day? I still have a few more Valentine's Day cards to make but this new sentiment is perfect to help inspire my Valentine's Day cards. Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Love and Blessings

 Hi Everyone,

Have you finished making your Valentine's Day cards?  If not, here's a bit of hearts and flowers inspiration for you today!

I paired up the Flower Hearts (SUCH a C-U-T-E stamp!) with the sweet new Love and Blessings Valentine's Day Greeting.  The image was stamped, colored and die cut, with a bit of glitter glue added to the hearts.  It is a valentine after all :)

I made the background using the Candy Heart Background along with and embossed background of the same type, covering up the seam with some gems. (Boy do I have a lot of them in my stash!)  

For more Valentine stamps, be sure to pop on over to the DRS Designs store!

Have a happy day,

Karin

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Love and Blessings

 

Hello crafty friends. I am happy to share a card using the new LOVE AND BLESSINGS VALENTINE'S DAY GREETING - 290F.

• To start the card, I wanted to frame the LOVE AND BLESSINGS VALENTINE'S DAY GREETING - 290F with the INTERLOCKING HEARTS - 247F. I decided to mirror image stamp them using my tutorial found HERE. I hope you give this tutorial a try.
• I start by stamping the mirror image first. Once that is as dark as I would like, I then remove the mirror image stamp and stamp the INTERLOCKING HEARTS - 247F and LOVE AND BLESSINGS VALENTINE'S DAY GREETING - 290F.
• I then colored the hearts with burgundy, hot pink and purple using copics and adding some dark shadows to the hearts and finished them with a little white gel pen.
• I finished the sentiment coloring the little heart and matted on burgundy card stock.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week. Are you gearing up for Valentine's Day? This sentiment is perfect for sending to anyone for Valentine's Day.

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Valentine Card with a Little Kick

I love the new Howdy Valentine Greeting.  Today, I paired it with the boot in the 4-in-1 Cowboy Gear stamp. I stenciled the background with a chicken wire stencil and added lots of red glitter to make it look more valentine-y.  

A super quick CAS valentine card with a kick. LOL.

Wishing you a wonderful week!

Hugz,

Nancy

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Love and Blessings

 Hello friends!

Today I've used this cute fat frog, Friendly Flower Frog, with the new Love and Blessings Valentine.  I used Scattered Hearts with Kitsch Flamingo Oxide for the background.

 

The heart dies are from Impression Obsession, one is cut from bright pink corrugated stock and one from a medium pink cardstock.

I popped up the frog (isn't he adorable?) and the sentiment. 

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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A Golden Heart

I totally love this new You Have a Special Place in My Heart Greeting.   I chose to literally put in/on my heart for this card. 

I made the heart by hand cutting it out of an Amazon box, painting it with some gold paint, and then adding some metallic flakes.   It was a quick and easy card and helped our recycling efforts as well.

Hope you are getting your Valentine's cards done as the special day is approaching fast.  

Hugz,

Nancy

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Howdy Valentine

 Howdy friends!

I made this cowboy Valentine with DRS stamps: Howdy Valentine, Cowboy Line Dancer, and Barn Door.  The background is an embossing folder from Sizzix that looks like tooled leather.  The trim I had, it is burlap type ribbon with a line of pearls (most likely for a western style wedding).

I inked the embossing folder to give it a letterpress look.

The cowboy has white pinstripes on his shirt made with a gel pen.

I stamped the cowboy first then masked him and stamped the doors.

If needed, I filled in any line work with a Copic black liner pen so that it would not smear when colored with Alcohol Markers.

The silver trim on his belt and hat is silver leaf pen.

Thanks for visiting today.

Robin

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You Have a Special Place

Hi Everyone,

DRS Designs has released the Special Place in My Heart Greeting for this Valentine's Day, and I decided to let this sweet sentiment shine on my card today.  I simply embossed the background and added some punched heart embellishments along with a matching ribbon, and called it done.  

This was going to be a happy new year card, but my sister-in-law has a January birthday, so I thought this would be fitting with a happy birthday stamped inside.  It's pretty self-explanatory, the only thing you can't see from the photo is the heat embossing I did on each stamped piece.

Here are the stamps I used:

Interlocking Snow Background

Best Year Cheers Greeting

Simple Pine Trees

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

Karin

 

 

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Cupig Strikes Again

Hello Crafty Friends and Happy Friday!

For my card today, I was inspired by THIS Valentine's Wreath Tutorial.  I painted my own version on this card along with a hand drawn border (I used one of my credit cards to get the rounded edges - lol). To finish off this simple wreath, I added one of my favorite DRS Designs images - Cupig.   

The minute I added him, I fell in love with this card.  He is just so fun.

I hope you are staying warm!

Hugz,

Nancy

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Special Place

Hello crafting friends!

Today I've used DRS stamps: Special Place In My Heart and Candy Heart Background

I stamped the candy all over the background piece then sponged the edges.

The heart die is from I.O., I sponged those edges and stamped the sentiment.

 

I added a strip of pink and rhinestone type dots with lace underneath.

Thanks for visiting today

Robin

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January Cards

Hi Everyone,

My first card is a copy of last week's card.  My brother-in-law has a birthday this month, and he's a huge bird fan.  I figured a penguin is a cold weather bird and I'm loving the speech bubbles as of late, so a birthday card was born.

I used the inside of the Birthday Flower Circle for the greeting along with Percy Penguin again, and I hope he likes it even though he's a guy and the card has glitter and gems ;)

Some new stamps have been released at DRS Designs and I couldn't resist pairing up the new Howdy Valentine greeting with the adorable Cowboy Snowman.  Valentine's day may be all sunshine and flowers in some places, but in my part of the world it's definitely cold and snowy!

 

I added some wraphia, simply because it seemed rustic, and added some heart embellishments to keep with the valentine theme. 

Thanks for stopping by the blog!
Karin

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Bee My Valentine

 

Many who know me know how much I love bees. The bee stamps on DRS Designs are my favorite. I love their smile, they are so very happy.

For today's card:

• I stamped both the BITSY BUMBLE BEE - 1020A and BEE MY VALENTINE GREETING - 330B directly on the card base.
  
• I then stamped on burgundy card stock SCATTERED HEARTS - 978F in black. I found that this cardstock did not dry quickly so I cleaned my stamp off and stamped over the black versamark and I then heat embossed with clear emboss powder. I love the shine on the edges of the hearts so it turned out better adding the embossing over the hearts.
• I then fussy cut the SCATTERED HEARTS - 978F and popped them up on dimensionals and used copic markers to color the BITSY BUMBLE BEE - 1020A.
• The card was finished with a punched flower from my stash and I tucked a punched leaf under the flower and finished the flower with a Nuvo Drop.

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Thinking of You

Hi Everyone,

I have a card to share with you that could be used for Christmas, New Years, or as a valentine.  How's that for versatile?  

I stamped, colored and fussy cut Percy Penguin, adding a punched heart to his belly in anticipation of using the Warms My Heart Greeting, and stamping the sentiment separately let me use two die cuts for it.  I added a large die cut snowflake to balance out the little scene. 

Here is a close up of the snow mound I placed Percy on.  It was simply hand cut with some glitter added for snow.  

I have to say that I've been using these speech bubbles a lot ever since I got them out.  You'll probably see them again next week, so be prepared...lol!

Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

 

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Happy Valentine's Day!

 

Hi Everyone,

Being pressed for time this week, I wasn't able to make any new Valentines, so I thought this was the perfect chance to highlight a couple of my favorite cards from years past.  

This card's post can be found here, but here are the links to the stamps:

4 in 1 Fashion Accessories

Candy Heart Background

Every Beat of My Heart Greeting

Heartbeat

And this card's post can be found here, and the links to the stamps are below:

4 in 1 Fashion Accessories

Jungle Jim the Elephant

I'm Wild About You Greeting

Small Silhouette Heart

Here's hoping your Valentine's Day is extra sweet!

Karin

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With Every Beat of My Heart

 

Recently I started going through my scrap papers looking for ways to clear some out. I started punching out some hearts and thought oh how fun would it be to create a card full of love in blue. Blue is my favorite color so it works for me.

• I punched out several different blue hearts then layered the base layer of hearts to create a heart shape.
• Next, I added a second layer of blue hearts and put them on dimensionals.
• I added a pink flower and a couple of leaves and a blue gem.
• The hearts were finished with white gel pen.
• I used the EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART GREETING - 1056D stamped in blue.

How do you use scraps in your crafting?

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Sweet Valentine

 Hi Everyone,

I love the Flower Hearts image and wanted it to match the Have a Sweet Valentine's Greeting, so I embossed the background, and stamped the Flower Hearts, adding the fussy cut candy hearts.

I added a strip of stamped Scatterd Hearts behind the image and sentiment.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Karin

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Every Beat of My Heart

 

This EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART GREETING - 1056D is absolutely perfect for a card full of love to send to anyone. For my card today:

• I used an all over heart emboss folder for the card base.
• Next, I die cut the letters for LOVE and popped them up on dimensionals.
• I then added EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART GREETING - 1056D on a banner and popped them up on more dimensionals.
• The card was finished with a few white pearls.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week. I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

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Zentangle Valentine

Hello crafty friends.

I was in a meeting the other day doodling on my note pad when I got a strong urge to do some zentangle.  I got a piece of watercolor paper and drew a giant flower with multiple patterns.  Then I cut it into a smaller pieces and made this card with it.  lol

The sentiment is the DRS Designs Hugs Kisses Valentine Wishes Greeting.  To finish the card off, I added a few hearts, a bit of red, and some red acrylic dots.

The meeting was actually very good - I am thinking that the drawing made me more creative with ideas.  

Hope you are having a wonderful week.  

Hugz,

Nancy

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