Musical Valentine!

Hello Everyone:  If you are like me you are wondering how the time went so fast and we are already thinking of sending Valentines!  Creative Impressions has some wonderful Stamps and Embellishments to make Valentine cards easy to make!  Here is a musical one I think is fun!  Might make one for my hubby too (shhh!)

I saw this piano card on Pinterest and decided I could cut the same curve and piano keys for my folded card.  I made myself a template for the curve and laid it on top of the front of a folded white card.  Then I did the same on a piece of black card stock that I set aside.  I decided how long I wanted to make my piano keys and cut strips of white  card stock, rounding the one end by hand or with the use of a corner rounder.  I adhered them to the card front and then cut some thinner and shorter black strips, again rounding one edge to create some black keys.

I used Creative Impressions Velvet Red Shimmer Ribbon (70970) to go over the top of my piano keys, wrapping the edges around the black panel.  Then I added the Felt Word "Love" (63130 Heart) above the ribbon and then a Music Note from (63200 Music Notes) above that with a Red Medium Heart Paper Fastener (90103) in the center.  Now it was time to adhere the black panel to the card front.

Now to finish the card, I placed a red panel onto the inside card back.  It shows nicely on the front of the card behind the image of the piano.

Now to hide a beautiful sentiment behind the piano front - (Y226 Love Cards Innies and Outies) .                            Don't you think this goes perfectly with the card theme?  It just needed a black music note (63200) next to it and the card was done!

Simple and elegant!  Hope you make one for your special someone!

Susan

Be Mine

💖 Be Mine 💖

Combine fabric and lace to create a vintage valentine vibe.

Here I've used a panel of tea stained muslin, stamped it with hearts and outlined the hearts with a black marker.  The cupid is stamped, cut out, and popped out with spacers.

The banner is a strip of distressed gray dove fabric, layered with a bit of vintage lace.  I stamped "be mine" on a bit of cotton ribbon, attached to the fabric panel with french knots, and added a pop of red with a Creative Impressions heart brad.

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Creative Impressions products used for this card:

Creative Impressions MSE stamp set:

Be Mine Sentiments Y546

Top Painted Paper Fasteners Red Heart 90303

 

Snowflake Celebration!Snowflake Combo

Hello Everyone!  It's Winter in most parts of the country and today we are celebrating snowflakes!  Snowflakes really are magnificent works of art!  Cheryl posted a beautiful card last week and we are continuing the theme with two of Chari's creations:

First off is this darling snowman card!  Chari used our Snowman ,  stamping him in black ink.  She then stamped  E207 Snowmen Fall... on a piece of scrap card stock, punching the corners and layering onto a piece of blue card stock.  Setting this piece aside, she then layered the snowman onto a larger blue panel and added some Lg Felt Snowflakes (63010) with a  Winter Glimmer Round Paper Fastener (90904) Finally this piece was layered onto a larger patterned paper piece and another blue layer.  Chari added the Snowman  stamp back on tot he composition and finally adhered all to a white card.

The second snowflake card shows you just how easy it is to make a special card.  She stamped Q252 Each Snowflake Innie and Outie onto a scrap piece of white card stock and layered it onto a  dark blue panel.  before setting this aside she adhered a Blue Paper Fastener from our Winter Snowflake Combo (90651) Paper Fasteners.

Chari cut a larger blue panel, then a white panel and wrapped our 3/8th inch Printed Ribbon Snowflakes (80117) around the panel.  Two more Winter Snowflakes from the Winter Snowflake Combo snowflake Paper Fasteners were also added to the panel before adhering all to a blue card.  Easy Peasy!

Hope you enjoyed these two cards and will create some of  your own snowflake cards.  Stay warm and enjoy Winter's snowflakes!

Susan

Think SNOW!

I'm thinking snow, especially since its snowing at my house right now.  My sweet husband just came in from clearing our driveway.  

I've said many times one of my favorite things about card making is that my friend who's birthday is in January gets a custom January-birthday card.  This one uses Creative Impressions Felt Snowflakes, Metal Snowflakes & brads, and My Sentiments Exactly Snow Fun clear stamp set, all available from Creative Impressions.  I added a little glitter and Diamond Stickles to the snowflake brads and the center snowflake on the label.

I am using this cutie a LOT this season.  I use it for my Winter Mini Art Journal and I've used it for this card, too.  I took the little border stamp at the bottom and cut it, using the middle snowflake because that's the one that made me smile.

I added some tiny die cut white snowflakes and the snipped-away clear stamp with blue ink.  It just added to the card background with some laciness and the falling, floating, snowflake feel.

Who would love to get a January card from you?

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Creative Impressions products used for this card:

Felt Snowflakes Medium Winter 63000

Felt Snowflakes Large Winter 63010

Shimmer Snowflakes Medium Winter 63020

Shimmer Snowflakes Large Winter 63021

Pewter Snowflake Combo 95006

Winter Snowflake Combo 90651

Creative Impressions Clearly Stamp MSE M129 Snow Fun