Monday, January 24, 2011

"Old" Valentine


Good Morning!
Well in my promise to myself that I would post a new card everyday here is today's card!!!  YEAH!!
As I said this is somewhat of a resoultion, and I have never kept any that I have ever made, so we will take this one day at a time.  My only problem is I also have a promise to myself to make sure my housework gets done before anything else, so I am slacking on that this morning but I hope to get it all caught up here before lunch..it is 10am right now.......wish me luck.

This card was brought to me by the paper I found.  I saw the paper that looked like a letter had been written on it, and thought I needed to add it to a card.  This is not the traditional 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 this is a 5x7 card.  It had to be this size for the inside that I added to it, and I will talk about it later on.  Here is the front of the card:



The front of the card I just kept finding things to layer on it, and I loved doing that, I used doilies that I found at Walmart, I used a white one and took Crumb Cake ink to make it look old, the red one I did the same thing.  The paper that looks like a letter, is from K&Company I just love it, I took and tore the paper around the edges and then inked them with Crumb Cake ink, I think that this Crumb Cake ink is probably my most used ink from Stampin Up. The Off White piece I embossed with the dot embossing folder for a larger card, and then inked it with crumb cake. The "Stamp" image is from cuttlebug, I believe it is a set that came with my cuttlebug when I bought it, I found it while cleaning my scrapbook room, along with a lot of other things...  :)
I used "Be My Valentine" stamp from the new Occasions mini, I inked it in Crumb Cake and then cut out another banner in red, I used a Stampin Up Marker to color it.  I love this stamp.  The flowers are from the small scalloped circle and the 3 flower punch, I used Antique Brads from Stampin Up for the centers. The leaves are some that I found in my stash and I have no idea where I bought them....I also included some red ribbon that I colored a little with Crumb Cake.

The next photo is the inside of the card.
I used a sizzix die to cut out the hearts and the pop up.  I haven't yet added a sentiment as I have ordered one that I think will look great with it and it hasn't arrived yet.  I also used a white heart like those in the front which I inked in Crumb Cake again.  The hearts are cut from crumb cake paper except for the one in the center, and I ran out of crumb cake ....



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