Challenge Card 11

Today I went a little crazy...what else is new you say, lol!  I forgot to scan the original harlequin before deconstructing it so bare with me.  I used the heart stamp from the other day to "ink" the harlequin stamp.  That resulted in the pattern on the heart to be transferred to the harlequin stamp.  Then I stamped the paper with the harlequin and it left an all over pattern.

The next thing I did was to carefully cut out the center section of the harlequin and then I glued the "frame" that was left to the card base.  I stamped a smaller heart (Carved Heart 1) from Hampton Art Stamps in red and attached it to the center of the frame.  To each "diamond" I glued little heart shaped confetti pieces and one "love" to the center heart.  The final touch was to add two red stripes to either side of the frame.  They were cut from a "Dollar Store" holographic gift bag.

Challenge Card 8

This card started with a red harlequin that I trimmed around.

The red sent me to Valentine's Day.  I had a beautiful heart stamp (Ornate Heart) from Stampendous that I stamped in black ink in the center of the harlequin.  Then I used the same stamp to add background by randomly stamping on the base card.  The design needed some kind of border so I made one out of red holographic paper from a Dollar Tree gift bag.  The final touch was a pretty red ribbon tied in a bow.

I Love You Mom

 

November 22, 1911-February 14, 2002

Traveling Valentine

Card Making International (another card group) also held a Valentine card swap.  I did a variation of the card I made for my sister.

 

I used a piece of the same red carnation paper that I used in my sister's card and the same punch for the edges.  This time I used a pink button with the bow and a pretty heart decoration for the center.

Bitter Sweet

February brings mixed emotions to my sister and I.  We lost our mom on Valentine's Day eight years ago.  Both of us have found Valentine's Day extremely difficult.  This year I decided to start the healing process and celebrate my mother's life and not dwell on her death.  Baby steps...

I love to make cards for my sister and this is the one I made for Valentine's Day.

 

I used my new Martha Stewart "Hearts" corner and border punches and created the red and the white rectangles.  I embossed the white piece with Cuttlebug's "Swiss Dots" embossing folder and the red piece with Cuttlebug's "Heart Blocks" embossing folder.  I topped it off with a pretty ribbon bow held together with a heart button and placed a paper doily heart below.

 

On the inside I cut red carnation patterned paper to fit and glued it on one side.  To make the greeting I punched three hearts with an Anna Griffin punch, and then I punched around each of the hearts with a scalloped circular punch from Paper Studio.  I glued the circular part and the center of the heart down and left the "wings" of the heart loose.  I bent the heart wings up and wrote "I", "Love" and "You" on the centers.

In addition to the card, I included a bookmark I made using red cardstock, a piece of Valentine ribbon and the same Martha Stewart "Hearts" punch.

To complete the ensemble, I used another piece of red carnation paper and formed an envelope using "The Enveloper".

  

Here are some tutorials for "The Enveloper"...

   Paper Pressings 

   Sara's Blog

   Crafter's Companion Video Clips  

   You Tube 

Double Trouble Double Take

The next version of the "double slider" Valentine card was done for a swap that went to Australia.

I used a small paper doily, a sticker and Valentine ribbons to decorate this version.  Below you can see the card when extended.

I made a slightly different second version of the pink Valentine  "double slider" again using a paper doily, sticker and Valentine ribbon.

Double Trouble

There are several versions of "slider" cards on the net.  This particular one is a "double slider"  that I made following Dawn's directions found on You Tube.  This technique is so cool that I made three different Valentine versions.

 The first Valentine card is the picture above.  It shows the card when it is closed.  I die cut the cat and added a bead on floss for a collar.  The fence it sits on is a piece that has been border punched.  I also added ribbon and a heart button.

The next view shows the card after being opened by pulling on the top ribbon.  Both the top and bottom extend at the same time...thus the name "double slider"...lol! 

This card uses a plastic bag as part of the mechanism as seen in the video.  There is also a different version of the "double slider".  I've found tutorials for both.

   Stamping with Princess 

   Obsessed with Scrapin'

Different version...

   Angel Stamper 2 

   Split Coast Stamper 

   Stamping It Out 

   Chia's Rubber Stamp Art