Hugs and Kisses

 Hello Everyone!  Today we are sending you "hugs and kisses" from Creative Impressions with this new Valentine card:

This wonderful stamp set is from CI #M163 Love Grows.  I began by Stamping the garden of hearts with dark green ink on a piece of cream cardstock.  I then colored the hearts with a dark pink marker and heat embossed them with a sparkly clear embossing powder that I added by using a two-way glue pen first.  I then stamped "Happy Valentine's Day" underneath the heart flowers.  

To ground the "heart" flowers, I used a piece of our Mini Rick Rack in Dark Green #70754, adhering the ends around the back of the piece.  I placed a piece of paper cut with an edge punch lower than the Valentine stamped piece and then placed a  piece of our Ribbon Expressions Hugs and Kisses #80359.  To finish I added a Black Mini Round #90102 on each end of the ribbon piece.  Here is a close up of the piece.

The entire cardstock piece was adhered to a piece of patterned paper previously adhered to a dark pink mat and finally to a cream card.

Hope you will try and make this card yourself.  It is so perfect for sending to just about anyone!

Enjoy!

Susan

Over the Hill?

 Hello Everyone! We hope you have been having a good January.  My husband's birthday is today and so I have decided to share a fun card with you.  I'm sorry to say I don't know who created this card.  If it's you, please let me know!

Here is the card opened:

I think my hubby would get a kick out of this card!  The card was folded and set aside.  On a separate piece of white cardstock, the sentiment (#S113) was stamped in black with the card in a diamond orientation.   It was then adhered to a piece of patterned paper and then to the diamond folded part of the card,

The bottom of this particular card has another diamond oriented square.  Another piece of white cardstock scrap was cut to fit the top of the "diamond" and "Happy Birthday to You" from #M128 Birthday Circles.  This was matted to a slightly larger "triangle" and adhered to the diamond oriented square.  For the second half of the diamond, another piece of patterned paper was cut to fit and this piece was adhered to the bottom half.  To finish this part of the card, a piece of our Over The Hill Ribbon Expression #80365              ribbon was adhered to the center of the square  and knotted at each end slightly over the edges of the card.

Now there are 4 triangles in the center of the card.    Patterned paper was cut to fit each one and then birthday hats were stamped in each one.  The birthday hat is from the same Birthday Circles set.  

I'm sure I could find a similar pattern for this card on the internet.  However,  these sentiments and images would be darling on any card you make.  Give it a try!  Oh, and Happy Birthday to my hubby!

Enjoy!

Susan               .  

A Masculine Birthday Card

 Hello Everyone!  I imagine you all are looking ahead to Valentine's Day and getting your cards made, however, there are lots of people also celebrating birthdays!  My hubby has one coming up in a week!  So...in honor of all those men having birthdays, I have created this card:

 

You may have noticed that this card is very similar to the 'O Christmas Tree Bridge card that I did for the Holidays.  Indeed it is!  I just loved the pattern and couldn't stop coming up with ideas!  I will have a few more to share with you as well at a later date.

I used white cardstock to create the base of the card.  Once the bridge card was folded according to the instructions, I cut striped paper to fit the sides and back and tan paper to fit the front.  Before adhering the striped paper for the sides of the card, I adhered a Black Antique round #Antique Rounds 84454 to the top of the each strip using a Copper Mini Round from #95557 Antique Assorted Mini Rounds.  I then added a length of 1/4" Single Stitch Grosgrain #70924 Black with Cream Stitching from the bottom of the card to the Antique Round.  I folded back the grosgrain and attached it to itself with another copper mini round.

Then I adhered the paper strips to the sides of the card.

To the bottom strip of the card I added a piece of our Twill Expressions ##80484 Tire Tracks.  I stamped the vintage car from Creative Impressions Stamp Set #YCC227 Classic Car Silhouette onto a piece of white cardstock, using a stamp positioner.  I inked up the stamp multiple times with black ink to get such a wonderful clear impression.  The car was cut out and adhered to the bottom of the card over the tire tracks.  Here is the set I used.

To finish the card, I stamped "You're not old, You're a Classic" from the same stamp set onto a piece of white scrap.  I cut a black mat slightly larger, adhered it to the sentiment piece and finished by adding a copper mini round to each of the four corners of the sentiment.  This piece was then adhered to the back of the card using foam tape.

This is a simple card to make, doesn't take much time and is looks impressive.  This stamp set is so versatile as it works for birthdays and Father's Day.  

Enjoy making your own!

Susan

Love Songs!

Happy New Year Everyone!  We hope you have had a lovely holiday and that you are ready now to get back into crafting!  Here is a card I featured 2 years ago that should get you going on Valentine cards:

I looked up different piano style cards on the internet and came up with this.  It really wasn't hard, just curving the top of the card and making "keys" that are curved at the ends.  To cover the raw edges, I used a piece of our Red 3/8th inch Velvet Shimmer Ribbon #70970 across the card.  I then adhered our Felt "Love" from our Hearts Collection #63130 above the keys and then a music note from our Shimmer Shapes Collection #63200 with a Red Medium heart brad # 90313 in the center,.

To finish the card, I used Creative Impressions Polymer stamp set #Y226 Love Cards Innies and Outies and stamped the lovely sentiment on the inside of the card:

I added one more music note from our Shimmer Shapes Music Notes Collection and the card was done.

I think this card would be great for a wedding card as well.  Don't you?

Hope you like this card and will make one yourselves!

Enjoy

Susan