Valentines Cards 2016

So these are the cards I made for my husband and daughters for valentines day this year.  I started out with no idea what I was going to do at all.  So I pulled out a bunch of valentines dies, stamps and embellishments and it did not take me long at all to come up with some ideas.

I started out with my lawn fawn heart die cuts.  I cut out a bunch of hearts from red and white paper.

When I was done cutting my red and white hearts out I was left with this piece of red paper.

And I realized that it would be cool to use this negative space piece of paper I had created for a card.  So I trimmed it up and looked for a paper to pair it up with.

And I found one!!!

So i thought it would be even cooler to pop the red paper up a little off the patterned paper.  I attached small pop dots to the back of the red paper.

Then I attached the two pieces of paper.

All that was left was to attach it to the A2 card base and I am done.  One card down and three to go!

So next I started playing with the red and white hearts I had cut out.  I double cut a few and ended up with this effect and loved it!

So I placed a few on a card base and decided it needed something else.  I picked a ribbon and attached miracle tape to the back of it.    

Then I attached it to some red cardstock.

After that I added some hearts.

I popped the hearts up with pop dots to add some dimension.  Did I mention I LOVE pop dots???  Well I do!!!!  Next I looked for a sentiment. 

I found this stamp set and decided to use it.  My grandmother used to say this all the time to us when we were kids.

I stamped it on some white cardstock using a memento ink pad.  Then I attacked it with, you guessed it, pop dots!  Two cards down and one to go!!!

So i decided to continue with the ribbon theme and since I have tons of ribbon I reached for another one.

I picked red ribbon with xoxoxo in white.  I attached miracle tape to the back of it.  Then i marked out the pattern with washi tape to make sure i had it how i wanted it.   Then I attached it to the card in a tic tac toe pattern.  Then I added red hearts to it.

I want to be clear that I usually do not have this much spur of the moment creativity hit ma all at once but I was all to happy that it did.  I knocked out all three cards in record time.  I know the cards may seem a little simple but sometimes I really enjoy the simplicity in a card.  Hope you liked the cards!  come back soon for another card!

Supply list:     
A2 cards
white cardstock
res cardstock
patterned paper
pop dots
heart dies
die cutting machine
adhesive
sentiment stamp
miracle tape
washi tape (optional to mark out tic tac toe)


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