A quick and simple Valentine with white space

 

Hi There! It is February and the challenge theme over in the Bee Crafty Facebook group is White Space, so here is a Valentines card that fits the theme. Here is a step by step showing how I made it.

I began by placing some stencil tape approximately half way down the card, then blended distress ink over the top half

Next I placed the hearts desire 6x6" inkable over the card and blended more of the abandoned coral ink through the inkable onto the inky half of the card. 

I removed the inkable and tape before stamping the heart border across the card using versafine clair ink.

I used the heart and another of the worker stamps from the Sam Journaling Girl set and added to the inky section of the card, as well as on the ends of the heart border. 

Using the distress inks and a paint brush I coloured the hearts. 

I stamped the love sentiment from Mixed Messages #3 using two shades of Versafine Clair to match the inky panel and added a few highlights with a white gel pen around the stamped hearts.

Here is the finished card once again. 

I used:

Distress inks in Wilted violet and Abandoned Coral

Hearts Desire 6x6 inkable

Bee Crafty Journaling Girls borders #1

Bee Crafty journaling Girls: Sam

Mixed Messages #3

Versafine Clair ink in Purple Delight and Tulip Red

White gel pen

Thanks for looking! 

Hearts for Valentines day

I've been busy working on my Valentine card for Steve. Inspiration for a valentine card for a man who doesn't do cute are few and far between, so I resorted to a scene in a heart shaped aperture. I used my ink dusters and distress ink to create the background, then stamped with memento ink. The one job Steve has done outside in the torrential rain this morning is feed the birds, so it seemed apt to add his feathered friends. All stamps are from Inkylicious. I added dots of stickles and liquid pearls for the buds and water droplets on the branches that make up the border.
The theme at Allsorts this week is hearts and/or flowers, so I am entering this one there.
This is my thousandth post - I can't quite believe it! 
I will leave you with a few photos of buster the squirrel who is enjoying our bird food so much, lol.

Love is in the Air!

As Valentines day is only next week I went in search of inspiration for some valentines cards. I am often asked at work for a few, and small and unfussy is always popular.

 As usual I needed some inspiration and went looking on Pinterest where I found several ideas that I liked. My first two cards were inspired by this one  - not a valentine card, but an amazing way of using up snippets!
 I had so many snippets in shades of red that I thought this would be a great way of using some up. (Stamps from Chocolate Baroque and Inkylicious)
My next card I am hanging on to for now as it may well end up being mine to Steve. I saw this card and fell in love with it! The clean lines, the music, the touch of red. I had to have a go at recreating something very like it, so here is my version.

I even used up snippets with this too. The music background stamp is from Inkylicious). I can't tell you how virtuous I am feeling after all this snippet use. It makes up for the time I spent drooling over lots of gorgeous creations on Pinterest (highly addictive!)
I am taking these cards to the playground where Miss Di will be waiting, for Pixie's crafty snippet challenge. I just hope all the thatch hasn't blown away as I fancy having a go at that. Not used my macrame skills for many many years, lol!
Thanks for looking!

A quick post

 I have managed to make a few simple valentine cards this week, so I thought I would share them with you.

I used a Crafty Individuals stamp for the heart and the writing stamp is from Inkylicious. I used antique linen and Victorian Velvet distress inks.

This uses the same writing stamp with an elusive images heart. Sorry about the strange angle of the photo!

 My final two are both very similar using Inkylicious stamps and an embossed heart. I used mainly wild honey distress ink on the central strip. The paper that the hearts are made from is some very old sugar paper that I used to line the inside of my 'spraying box'. It is mainly Crafty Notions creative colour sprays that I used on it in a vast range of colours and it saved my carpet from getting splattered! The sentiment on the second is from Elusive images/ chocolate baroque, stamped in versamark and brushed with cosmic shimmer.

I wanted to pop into blog land for a bit this evening to let you know that my visit are a little sporadic at the moment as Mum in law passed away on Monday. It is very sad, but now she is at peace, and we can start to remember her as she was before the dementia.
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments and for visiting me, even when I'm not able to visit you.