Love You ......

It's that time of year for us ........ we celebrate our 41st Wedding Anniversary on 13th February, and of course, 14th February is Valentines Day  ... 

 

Here is the Anniversary/Valentines card I made for Mr Fixit

 

On the inside of the card it says "I think I will keep you!"

 

Sentiment (font: Finesse) printed with laser Printer, the heart shape was foiled in Red with the MiniMinc.  Centre panel was die cut with Spellbinders, then background was ink blended with a brush using Distress Ink (Candied Apple) while still inside the die, giving another border effect, without adding an extra layer.  

Centre panel was then layered onto red cardstock, then mounted onto black leathergrain (300 gsm) cardbase using foam dots.

Red Gems and Black Bling hearts added as a finishing touch!

There are so many challenges with a 'love' theme at the moment :) it is a real love fest out there!

 

The 'InspiredBy' challenge inspired the placement of the two overlapping heart shapes I used.

The 'Inspiration Station' challenge inspired the use of red hearts.

The 'TicTacToe' challenge, I chose Across Middle Row: Red/Free/Love Sentiment 

The 'Try it on Tuesday' challenge theme is 'all you need is love' ......

 

-oo0oo-

 

Linking With the following challenges:

Try it on Tuesday - All You Need is Love

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #196

 

Inspiration Station - Photo Inspiration (inspired by the Red & Hearts)

Cut it Up #271 - Have a Heart

Inspired by Challenge - Hearts

 

Creative Knockout - Love is in the Air

Cardz 4 Guyz - valentine for a guy

Allsorts Challenge #715 Anything goes with hearts

ITEMS USED

Stamps/Dies:  Spellbinders large rectangle Die

Inks: Distress Ink Candied Apple

Tools:  Cuttlebug, blending brush, Heidi Swapp Mini Minc

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Birthday

Today, we have a birthday card - with the idea of using up scraps/snippets for the Snippets Playground Challenge #446 as the starting inspiration.

 

 

On sorting through my snippets, I did notice some lovely primary colours and a plan started forming in my head.

 

 

I cut up some strips, and embossed them in the ProvoCraft 'happy birthday' embossing folder.  I then die cut some 'happy birthday' sentiments from HoneyBee 'itty bitty buzzwords', stamped 'Happy' directly onto the front of the card and raised the 'birthday' on foam dots.

 

 

It looked a bit 'unfinished' so I scoured my embellishments and came across these great puffy sticker balloons.  This is the last of my supply and I hope I can find some more.

 

This is a new technique for me, and I think I like it!

 

--oo0oo--

 

Linking With the following challenges:

Snippets Playground #445

Try it on Tuesday Challenge - In with the New (new technique)

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Birthday Peter

Another birthday card, for nephew, Peter.   I had a bit of fun with this image from PNG Mart, as the nephew is into music

I first printed the image in colour, then foiled some parts of it 

then added a birthday sentiment from Clipart Fairy which was also foiled.

Cardfront was trimmed, then mounted onto black cardstock, black corner stickers added, kindy glitz added to the 'microphone'

All in all, a fun card for a guy!

Linking with:

Try it on Tuesday - I can hear music

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.