Happy Anniversary

Hi Everyone,

My best friend has her 30th anniversary coming up this month, and since I've been making a card for many of those years, I think I've used most of my anniversary themed stamps for them already.  I was trying to think outside the box when I came across some Valentine stamps that I still had out on my stamping table.  How messy am I, it's April!?! Yikes.  Anyway, I thought if I used spring colors with these stamps that I would normally use pink or red for, they could make a cute anniversary card.  

Here are the stamps I used:

Tiny Happy Anniversary

Silhouette Love Heart

Flower Hearts

Happy Spring!
Karin

 

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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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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 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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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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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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Follow Your Heart

I have a couple of cards for you today. Both use the same sentiment and are graduation cards. I am trying to get my graduation cards ready with the season quickly approaching. 

For my first card

• I used my Cricut to cut out a graduate stencil and once the stencil was cut I placed it on my card base.
• I then sponged red around the stencil leaving the graduate uncolored.
• Next, I stamped the GO WITH THE FLOW FOLLOW YOUR HEART GREETING - 1049E in red in the center of the graduate and finished with a few scattered hearts.

For my second card:

• I used a graduation cap stencil and stenciled that just along the left side of the card base.
• Next, I stamped the GO WITH THE FLOW FOLLOW YOUR HEART GREETING - 1049E in red and layered that on a red card stock.
• This card was finished with some scattered clear sequins.

Two different cards with the same sentiment. I hope this inspires you to create a few graduation cards with this perfect sentiment for a new graduate.

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

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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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Bee My Valentine!

 Hello crafty friends!

Today I have a cute and easy Valentine for you!  This is about as CAS as I can get....I'm such a clutternut I have a hard time with empty or simi-empty space!

I used 3 stamps today from DRS and 1 Sizzix embossing folder.  The Bitsy Bumble Bee, Bee My Valentine and Scattered Hearts. 

The heart embossing folder is 3D, I mist the back of the paper with water then ran it through my Big Shot 3 or 4 times.

I fussy cut the hearts then used a 1/8" "Magic Matter" (used with a pencil it will draw a border around anything with an edge). Then I fussy cut the red border.

The hearts are popped up and the bee is double popped.  I used blue rhinestones to make a 

flight trail for the bee.

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Love Bug Hug

 Hi Everyone,

I had a bunch of red and pink papers floating around my crafting table after making this card here, so I thought I'd continue with the Valentine theme for today's card.  

I started out by stamping the Silhouette Branch and then gluing a bunch of punched hearts to make a little valentine shrub.  I die cut and added a mat and attached it to a die cut banner.  

Trying to decide on a sentiment, I really liked the little hearts that are part of the Love Bug Hug Greeting, but the words didn't match the shrub.  I fixed it by stamping and fussy cutting the Love Bug 

After assembling the card, I added two pink gems to finish it off. 

Stamping hugs from me to you!

Karin

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Lucky in Love

 

I needed a quick anniversary card and the FLOWERING BIRD BRANCH - 616L is just perfect for showing love with those cute little birds.

• I stamped the FLOWERING BIRD BRANCH - 616L on the card base and colored with copics.
• Next, I die cut the heart aperture out of the card stock and used dimensionals over the image.
• The LUCKY IN LOVE - 992F is a great sentiment for an anniversary card so I used that and stamped it in red.
• I finished with a couple of punched flowers that I shaped with a stylist and added a bit of pink Nuvo Drops to the centers.

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

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March Birthday

 Hi Everyone,

I'm still working on making March birthday cards for friends and family, so here is my next offering.  It's super simple and flat, which means it's easy to mail.  I just needed my circle dies, markers, glitter glue and a couple of stamps.

Did you know DRS Designs has a birthday stamp for every month?  You can see them all here, and you can grab the Flower Hearts stamp while you're there too!

Keeping my fingers crossed the spring weather arrives soon!

Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

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Bee Mine

 Good morning!

Here is a fun card to do.  I glued the pink and yellow layers together then ran them through my Big Shot with an embossing folder featuring the word candy hearts just like the stamp 

Candy Heart Background I used on the background of the largest heart die cut.  I sponged the outer edge with yellow then mounted it to the matching scalloped heart die cut from red.

I stamped the Bee My Valentine on white then stamped the 

Small Hanging Hearts under the words.  I die cut the sentiment with hearts with the smaller heart die, sponged the edges yellow then mounted it on the scalloped red die cut heart to match.

Next, I stamped Happy Bee on white and fussy cut him then glued him to the sentiment heart.

My next card uses a variety of stamps starting with the 2 sentiments (sort of shopped up), Love You More and Cheap Chocolate's Eve.  I then stamped the Dogwood Branch behind the words with a light rose color.

On a separate strip of white I stamped the Heartbeat.

I cut a layer of white cardstock 4 X 5 1/4" then ran it through the Big Shot with another heart embossing folder.  Then mounted it on red, wrapped a thin red ribbon around it vertically then attached it to a folded card.  

I glued the sentiments and the heartbeat to another red layer. Made some pennants from a die then mounted the pennants and sentiment layers onto the card with the ribbon attached.

Lastly, I glued the red hearts to the pennants and attached a red ribbon multi-loop bow.

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Cupig and Heartbeats

One last Valentine's Day card!  

I could't resist playing with Cupig.  He is one of my favorite DRS stamps. I paired him up with the new Heartbeat and With Every Beat of My Heart.  Once I had Cupig stamped, colored and cut, the rest of the card was some quick sponging and stenciling (snow stencil on the base and Stamperia pipes stencil on the little panel - not sure why - lol).

I love when Lisa goes all out on the pink so I did today too. 

Hope you are ready for Valentine's Day.

Hugz,

Nancy

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Valentine Fun with Stencils

Happy Saturday!  

Today, I have a Valentine's Day card that was inspired by my friend Ardyth who was the Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers last week.  I was inspired by multiple cards and techniques that she uses.  If you want to check out her fun style click HERE.  She loves to play with stencils so I used the double stencil technique where you double up your stencils before applying your ink with a brush.  After I was done, I highlighted some of the cool patterns with gold Stickles for added interest.  This made a fun background for this new DRS Designs' Cheap Chocoate Eve Greeting. 

After I was done, I highlighted some of the cool patterns with gold Stickles for added interest.  This made a fun background for this new DRS Designs' Cheap Chocoate Eve Greeting. 

Since my circle stencil was already out, and I had leftover ink on my brush, I made another card.  This one features the new Heartbeat and the Every Beat of My Heart Greeting. 

Hope you have a great weekend (stay warm). 

Hugz,

Nancy

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Chocolate

Hi Everyone,

This card was inspired by some fancy chocolate I saw on the Web and a layout from my card here.  I figured if it worked for one card, it could work for me again. 

I used a square punch to make the candies, rounding off the corners before stamping and heat embossing the little chocolates with some gold powder. I layered them onto a stamped heart background, adding a die cut row of hearts.

The Cheap Chocolate Eve Greeting was chosen for the sentiment, and it was die cut and added to the card. 

The background stamps I used are as follows and you can find many more Valentine stamps over at the DRS Designs store!

Scattered Hearts

Splatter Background

Interlocking Circle Background

Happy Stamping!
Karin

 

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Valentine's Day

 Good morning!

Fun Valentine's Day card today and very easy.

I used the new Candy Hearts Background and Double Line Happy Valentine

I also used a heart embossing folder for the white layer and used a dark red ribbon 

to complete my card. 

I really love these candy hearts don't you! 

So fun, they remind me of my childhood!!

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Heartbeat

Hi Everyone,

I hope your holidays last year were great and that you're ready for the next great card making holiday, which is Valentine's Day!

DRS Designs has some fun new stamps, and a couple of my favorites are on the card below.  Heartbeat and Every Beat of My Heart Greeting are a total match, so I took inspiration from one of the cards I made last year, here.

I decided to make my die cut hearts into "people", by drawing hands and feet, and used the bow image from the 4 in 1 Fashion Accessories stamp for the girl and boy. To finish the card, I added a little fussy cut conversation heart that had the xoxo on it from the new Candy Heart Background.

This card is all about the love of my life...Chocolate!  I mean, my husband first, but then definitely chocolate.

I decided to make the stamped Chocolate Chips white chocolate, so that they would stand out on the red heart and embossed them to make them shine.  I paired the heart up with the new Love You More Chocolate Greeting 

Again, having leftover hearts from the first card, I fussy cut some as embellishments and added them to complete the card. 

Hope your valentine stamping is off to a great start!


Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

 

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