Keepin' the love coming

I know, I know.  Valentine's Day is over.  I don't care.  I love this card and had to share it.  I've found a new challenge blog (Hand Stamped Sentiments) and the challenge for this week is love, love, love!  So here's my card.

Speaking of love, I LOVE the fun flowers die.  I use it time and time again for embellishments on cards, journals, bookmarks, gift bags/boxes.  It's just a great die all around.  I love how all of the layers give this card a vintage feel.  I'm not in love with the vanilla shade of the Victoria trim, so I would swap out something white next time, or maybe forego it all together.  Either way though, I still think this is a decadent card.  I foresee this layout making several colour combo appearances.

I saw a card similar to this one a while back, but I can't find it again, so if you were my inspiration - thank you!  Leave me a comment so I can give you credit for ir.

For My Love

One my my club members used to be a demo years back, so you can imagine the size of her collection.  She's just a hobby stamper now, and needs to clear out some room for new goodies.  This weekend I spent some time with her going through the piles of stamps she no longer wanted, pricing them for sale.  We came across this set and I remarked that it was still a current set.  She's had it since 2004 though, and is "so sick" of it.  I piped up that I would like to buy it, but she insisted that I have it as a thank you for helping her pare down her collection.  Sounds good to me!  I've wanted this set for a while, but haven't gotten around to buying it yet.  Now I don't have to!

I needed a nice Valentine's Day card for my husband and this was the perfect set!  I used Night of Navy and silver cardstock for the base, and then some Valentine's Day paper from last year.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  I'm sure he'll love it.

A La Card Monkey #95

One of my husband's friends texted me yesterday asking if he could get me to make a Valentine's Day card for him.  Pretty sweet.  So this morning I was playing around with a few different styles when I found this cute Card Monkey sketch.  I loved the layout and though it was perfect for using the new Hearts Framelits.  It's a really simple card, but really sweet as well.

This card has nothing to do with the Card Monkey sketch, but I had the frame from the previous card and I wanted to use it somehow.  I also have 800 of these tiny little hearts left over, so I figured this was a good way to use some up.

I Heart Hearts + Pals Paper Arts 128

This evening I've got a workshop booked with 16 ladies!  I usually plan my workshops for about 8, so when my hostess told me there would be 16 stampers coming to play, I knew I had to change my game plan.

The first card was a quick fix - I'm just going to make 2 samples using 2 different sets.  I'll post the pics of these tomorrow sometime.  My second card is a Valentine's day card.  Here's what I had planned on doing.

However lovely this set is, it's not a card to do with such a large group of ladies.  I did it with my stamper's club last month and even with only 5 of them it took a long time.  

While drinking my morning coffee and surfing, I found a perfect Valentine's Day challenge.  Pals Paper Arts this week is a colour challenge using any three reds.  I always like to showcase punches in my workshops and I have a TON of red & pink paper lying around so I came up with this little baby.  Not only it is a great way to use up little scraps that I've been hoarding, but you get the chance to play with the small heart stamp and the amazing new Framelits collection.  I love the combo of Riding Hood Red, Real Red, and the Red Glimmer paper.

It still needed a little something extra so I ran the matting piece through the Big Shot with the Vintage Wallpaper EF.  After that I took a pearl acrylic paint dauber and ran it over the cardstock to give it a nice shimmer.  I'm pretty please with the outcome.  Now I just need to get started cutting the paper for it!