This Valentine card started with another DCWV “La Creme” black card base. I bought a box of the black and white “card starts” that come with matching envelopes and I’m having fun embellishing them and transforming them into finished cards. To make this card, I added layer of shimmery Spring green paper and adhered black gross-grain ribbon around it. Then, I just added the chipboard shapes where I needed them. It was that easy!
Polka Dot Love
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Pin ItSome cards come together so easily and others take an hour or more! This Valentine card came together pretty quickly. I used a card base made by DCWV and rounded the edges of the card with the 1/4″ side of my Crop-O-Dile Corner Chomper. I also rounded the corners of the shimmery light green cardstock I mounted the tag to. The tag is from a set of dimensional stickers from the K & Company Poppy Seed collection. I added some of my own ribbon to the tag and used double-sided foamy tape to make the tag pop out. I finished the card with a glittery heart chipboard shape I got in a grab bag.
Perfect Match
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Close-Up
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Pin ItI found two sheets of this double-sided skulls and paisley paper on clearance at The Paper Zone and bought one for this card and one for my friend Danielle (for whenever I see her again!). I didn’t see it as Halloween paper because I thought the paisleys would lend themselves to forming a heart. I made this Valentine card using burgundy textured paper, a button, and the double-sided paper. Once again, I used my Crop-O-Dile Corner Chomper to shape the corners of the paper and used a black Zig marker to create the faux stitching. The little heart card was cut out by hand and tucked into the front of the card after I jotted a little note inside and added faux stitching with a white pen. I added little tear-drop shaped pieces I cut from the paper and outlined them in a silver marker. Voila, it was done! 
Skulls and Paisley Valentine
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Pin ItIt’s February, and Valentine’s Day will be here in just 12 days so I thought it would be fun to showcase a few Valentine cards.
I made the clouds in the background with a plastic cloud template. I held it down where I wanted it and tapped a sponge dauber on a blue ink pad and proceeded to tap the edge of the cloud template and the area above. Then I moved the template a little lower on the card and repeated the process. I made the grass with green paper and wavy-cut scissors and created the lawn-mower with silver, black, red paper and a silver marker. I hoped to find a lawn-mower on a Cricut cartridge so it would look right, but I didn’t find one so I just winged it and made it myself. Hopefully you can imagine that this is a lawn-mower. I completed the card by writing with sparkly Copic Spica AtYou markers.
Each Day I Love You a Little Mower
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This was a card I made on New Year’s Eve and it was inspired by a similar design I saw in the most recent Paper Crafts magazine. I used a strip of paper, various rub-ons, my star punch, and sticky crystals for the card. To complete it, I rounded the corners off and inked the edges of the card to soften it. The sentiment could be changed and this could become a card for any occasion, such as a birthday card or thank you. I like this neutral design because it’s a good one for guys as well as gals!
Celebrate!
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Pin ItIt started innocently with a collection pack of papers from Basic Grey. I loved the fall colors of the Pyrus paper collection and had ideas for certain sheets of papers. I bought the paper pack with a coupon at the Paper Zone before they started to go out of business. Another time I found the rub-ons on clearance… and then the coordination chip stickers. I love this collection!
Well, I finally started to make a few cards with the papers, rub-ons and chipboard stickers from this Basic Grey Pyrus collection and here is one of them.
Fall colored Thank You card
I used some cream-colored cardstock for the base, added a strip of burgundy to the bottom (I used a Fiskars edge punch to get the scallops) and a strip of the Pyrus paper. I added a little bit of gross grain brown ribbon, a rub-on, a Stampin’ Up “Thank You” sentiment stamp and a background stamp that I repeated and then I smudged the edges with desert sand ink and a dauber.
Pin ItToday’sblog post features a birthday card made using a DCWV card base. I simply outlined the edges with my silver leafing marker and applied some pretty, decorative stickers and gems. Using my Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge, I cut out two layers for the birthday sentiment and edged the red layer in silver. I stamped my birthday sentiment and adhered it to the card.
Polka Dot Birthday Card
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Pin ItHow do you congratulate a Depeche Mode fan BFF for winning a fun DM guessing game? You send her a gift wrapped in tissue paper stamped with Depeche Mode motifs and make her a Depeche Mode card! In an older blog post I showcased some of my many Depeche Mode themed cards where I showed my upside-down fleur-de-lis card inspired by the DM single “It’s No Good” with a similar motif. Since then, I often use the upside down fleur-de-lis pattern in my cards for DM fans, but I think anyone would appreciate the beauty of that familiar shape.
Fleur-de-Lis card in black, red and white
I used my Cuttlebug machine with an embossing folder to get the fun, textured background and then stamped a fleur-de-lis on the top of the card in sparkly champagne colored clear ink. I covered the seam of the red and black papers with ribbon and embossed four squares with my Cuttlebug and a Nestbilities Spellbinders die. Then, I used a Martha Stewart punch for the sparkly red paper and added black and white gel stickers in the squares!
Fleur-de-Lis - dimensional layer
I love to add dimension to my cards with double-sided sticky foam.
Fleur-de-Lis Punched Shape
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Pin ItThis card was inspired by the cheerful American Crafts ribbon I received for Christmas. When I tied the bow, the single sided ribbon showed as white on the right side tail. To make it look cute, I adhered another piece of ribbon to it. Can you see it? :) I thought I’d reveal that secret to other card makers who may run into the same issue. I love the look of a button attached to the knot on a tied bow, and this sewing theme card begged for it!
The cute green stamps on the green paper are from “Sew Lovely,” from Kelly-Marie Alvarez‘s Lawn Fawn store. I found this cute sewing paper at Craft Warehouse on sale and I was happy that it went so well with the ribbon. I hand wrote the sentiment and then used a Spellbinders die to cut the shape in my Cuttlebug machine and then rounded and inked the edges!
This bright-colored card makes me smile and I hope you enjoy it, too!
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Pin ItI enjoy making 6″ x 4″ cards because it uses up a full sheet of 12″ x 12″ card stock and I don’t have any odd left-overs to save for years. Here’s a card I made with some algae green DCWV cardstock and some cute paper I bought at JoAnn Fabric & Crafts. I love how the round flowers lent themselves to primary colored buttons! I attached them with glue dots and although I like the look of a stitched button, I took a shortcut and skipped it on this card. I used two stamps for my card – the cute cakes and sentiment below are from a Stampin’ Up! stamp. I colored the image with Copic markers, a metallic gold pen, swiped the edges with an ink pad, embossed “Happy Birthday” and used Liquid Applique for the frosting on the cakes. :)
Eat Something Sweet card
Here is a close-up of the fun, dimensional and puffy Liquid Applique.
Liquid Applique for Frosting!
I buy buttons in bulk in the SEWING section of craft stores, where they are more affordable.
Buttons on my card
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