Saturday, January 31, 2009

Snoopy Biker Valentine Card

I had a request from a friend to make a Valentine's Day Card for her to give to her husband. He loves his motorcycle so I made this card using my Snoopy stamp.

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Snoopy was stamped with black Stazon ink onto Stampin Up Whisper White cardstock. I colored the image using Prismacolor pencils then went over the motorcycle parts with a Versamark pen and heat set clear embossing powder. It makes the bike parts shine like they are clear coated metal. I added a tiny bit of black stickles to the tires.

The inside saying was printed from my computer onto Whisper White cardstock.

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I hope she likes it!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Friend Valentine Card

Can you handle one more card today? This is the last one.... at least for this weekend!

This is a simple card to send to a friend. I'm enjoying playing with this tree stamp. As I said before, I'm also keeping to my New Years Resolution to decorate the inside of my cards. They certainly aren't fancy but they are getting better. At least they coordinate with the front of the card now! LOL

The light pink is a pearlized cardstock. It's hard to photograph. The flash bounces back very strongly, but you get the idea.

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The white swirls are rub-ons. The tree was stamped with black Stazon ink then colored in with embossing markers and heat set with clear embossing powder. I added a pink rhinestone to dot the "i" in the word friend.

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Oh I also wanted to point out that all the cards I've posted today have been made using supplies from my stash!

Pucker Up Valentine

I'm running out of Valentine inspiration but wanted to get a couple more cards completed. Here is a cute card using a Stampabilities stamp called Love Birds. I added the "Pucker Up" saying from a Studio G set. Inside the sayings are stamps I found at a garage sale. They are unmounted rubber so I don't know who makes them.

The gold swirl background paper is from a pack by Scrapworks called Formal Affair. The hearts on the inside are die cuts using a Cuddle Kid die.

I stamped the birds using Stazon Saddle Brown ink onto Stampin' Up Whisper White cardstock. I colored the birds with Prismacolor pencils.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Valentine Tree

What a cute little tree stamp! I added the bird to the image. It's from a Studio G set.

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Lots of Cuddlebug on this card. The swirls are a Sizzix die that I cut out twice. I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder on the front of the card then cut out the oval hole with a Nestability die. A little bit of Cricut ....the white and red hearts are from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge as well as the tag on the inside.

I stickled the hearts on the tree after coloring them in with Stampin' Up markers.

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Frosted Acrylic Card - Beautiful Music

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I picked up this stamp at HL's this past week. I thought it was so pretty. I've used it to create this Valentine card on frosted acrylic that I purchased from Sheetload of Cards.

This was a tricky image to color. First I stamped with black Stazon ink onto Stampin' Up Whisper White cardstock. Next I used Prismacolor pencils and outlined the heart in red. I scribbled pink in the center of the heart then used the MCPT to blend the 2 colors into each other. I highlighted the music lines with a burnt yellow pencil. The stamp's picture shows all the splatters of color and to recreate it I put a couple of drops of ink from my Stampin' Up Reinkers into separate wells of a paint palete. Then using a tiny paint brush I dipped it into the ink and tapped the brush to create the splatters. I did this using red, yellow, pink, and green. I also managed to splatter my work surface, my tee shirt, my hands and my wall! But it was worth it! LOL Lastly I inked the edges of the cardstock with yellow and red Colorbox ink.

I stamped the dotted swirls on the acrylic using Stazon Red ink. After I was sure it was dry I added small drops of red stickles to the dots. The music notes and tiny hearts were stamped using Stazon Black ink.

Here is the inside:

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The verse was printed onto the cardstock using my computer.