First day back at work after two weeks off and I feel like I never left...hmmm...
Fortunately I did enough stamping over the weekend to provide enough blog material for the week. Today's post is another card I did using the Friends Furever set. I'm starting to do Valentine-themed cards in preparation for this month's classes and workshops. So here is one candidate...
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Cute Valentine using Friends Furever set and Playdate DSP! |
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Close up of the little doggie with his Valentine |
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Sentiment and retired epoxy brads I purchased during the online Clearance Rack Blitz! |
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Inside of card |
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Close up of sentiment from the Valentine Defined set in the new Occasions Mini. |
I like this card because it is one you could send to pretty much anyone. I also like that it is clean and simple...something I haven't done much of lately! Here is what I did:
I started with a small piece of watercolour paper on which I stamped the images using Staz-On ink. (I had to mask the dog to get the Valentine to look like he was holding on to it.) I coloured the images using my blender pen and ink pads in real red and basic grey. I sponged all the way around the edges of the watercolour paper with real red ink and then adhered it to a slightly larger piece of basic gray cardstock. Then I took a piece of basic gray cardstock and layered the heart patterned paper from the Play Date DSP pack on it. I then adhered the focal image using dimensionals. The I added the brads and then adhered the whole thing to a real red card base. The sentiment is stamped using basic gray ink on whisper white cardstock and is punched out with the medium jewelry tag punch. I adhered it to the back of the middle brad with a glue dot.
For the inside of the card, I adhered a 4 x 5 1/4" piece of whisper white cardstock to the inside of the card and then added a narrow strip of the DSP along the left edge. I stamped the sentiment in basic gray, cut it out using my paper trimmer and sponged the edges in real red ink. I stamped the first part of the sentiment again, inking it with my real red marker, and then punched it out with the word window punch. I adhered that piece to the basic gray sentiment using dimensionals. I layered the whole thing on a decorative label punch out in real red, popping it up again with dimensionals. Then I glued the whole thing inside my card.
This was a quick and easy card, even with the bit of colouring and masking. It may just make my monthly card class line-up! Tomorrow is my team meeting, so I likely won't have time to post, but I'll be back on Wednesday with more Valentine ideas.
Nice job watercolouring!
ReplyDeleteGreat card for a workshop! Simple yet impressive!
TFS!