Forever Love with Blockhead Stamps

Hi Dreamers!
Back today with more Valentine's day love.  On this project, I used a floral stamp from Blockheads Stamps for the background, custom made Shimmer Spray, and Distress Markers.

Materials List:

Stamps: Large Tulips,  Love and Romance Half Sheet all from Blockheads

Inks: Onyx Black Versa Fine, Barn Door and Vintage Photo Distress Ink: Spun Sugar Distress Re-inker

Distress Markers

Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls

Mini Misters

Spray bottle with water

Cardstock: red, brown, white

Red Rhinestone

Instructions:

• Tip: Make your own Shimmer Spray with Perfect Pearls and Distress reinkers---- In a Mini Mister put a couple pinches of Perfect Pearls, three drops of Spun Sugar re-inker, and water.  Shake
• Make card base from red CS
• To make the background: Ink the Large Tulip stamp with Barn Door ink--spray the inked stamp with water --- just a few spritzes.  Now stamp onto the white CS  --gives a nice muted image. 

• Color the Tulips with Distress Markers
• Distress the white CS with Vintage Photo ink.  
• Spray with the Perfect Pearls Shimmer mist spray and let dry or dry with heat tool.
• Stamp "Forever" with Onyx Black ink
• Stamp  heart (from Love and Romance Set) with Barn Door ink; cut out and distress with Vintage Photo
• Add to card with dimensionals.
• Place Rhinestone on heart

A few Love-ly Challenges for my Forever Love card:

Simon Says Stamp and Show: something messy

Card Mania: Love

Craft Your Passion: My valentine

Papertake Weekly: hearts and flowers

Top Tip Tuesday: Sweetheart and tip

Stay tuned for more Valentine fun the rest of the week!  Hope you are having a great day!  Love ya.
Karen

Juliet in Love with The Stampsmith

Hi Dreamers!
I am back with more Valentine's Day inspiration!  This card features the lovely Juliet from The Stampsmith Stamps.  I wanted to show how you can use a non-Valentine stamp to make a beautiful Valentine's day card.

To make the heart, I stamped Rose Background (also from The Stampsmith) on white CS with pink pigment ink multiple times.  Then die cut the heart (from A Muse Studios) from the stamped CS.   Stamp Juliet with black dye ink.

Glue the heart to  light pink CS.  Wrap the sheer ribbon around the CS.  Cut another piece of the ribbon and tie in a knot around the ribbon wrapped around the CS.  Glue this unit to a dark pink card base.  Add the pearls and laces.  Die cut the word love (from A Muse Studios).

Some lovely challenges for the lovely Juliet:
Challenges 4 Everybody: anything goes
No Matter Which: ribbons and bows
Glitter N sparkle: girls
Sentimental Sundays: love is in the air
Ink on my fingers: love and hearts
Mark's finest: love

Are you making any Valentine's Day cards this year?  I have made a ton and sent most out for the hospitalized children's card drive.  I made a few extra cards that I will send and/or give out.  My hubby will get one and I will send out a few others.  I hope you are enjoying your weekend and find time to make some cards!  Love ya.
Karen

Valentines for the Kids

Hi Dreamers!
Just wanted to do a quick post and show a few more of the cards I made for the hospitalized children.  The cards are all on their way to the hospitals.  The cards below are from the second batch I sent out.

The first card has a some cute owls from DeNami, a heart from Stampin Up, Sentiment from The Stampsmith on this white on white card.

Second card uses stamps and a punch from Stampin' Up.

This card has a large background stamp from My Sentiments Exactly and the Stampin' Up owl.

Here are two photos of the whole group of cards.  50 cards in total.

How about a few fun challenges for my Kids' Valentines!!

CAS on Sunday:Valentine
Dream Valley: Valentine
Stamptacular Sunday:heart
Mark's Finest: love
Simon Says stamp: hearts

These were really fun cards to make!  I tried to keep them simple and made multiples of about six designs.  Hope your weekend is going great.  I might pop back again later with more Valentine's Day inspiration.  See you later!  Love ya.
Karen

Valentine's Day Cards for Children

Hi Dreamers!

Valentine's Day is getting closer!  So, I thought I better get all the cards posted I made for the hospitalized children.   Here are three more designs.  The cute images are from Meljens Designs.

This is a view of the inside of the first card and most of the cards looked like this on the inside.

Let's have some fun with a few challenges:
Meljens: keep it simple stampers
Dutch Dare: Valentines
In the pink: romance/Valentines
Stars and stamps: cards for kids
Simon Says stamp: have a heart
Digital Tuesday: digital item and heart
Paper Take Weekly: anything goes
Ribbon Carousel: love is in the air

Well, gotta run.  I hope you are having a great day!!  Love ya.
Karen

Butterfly Kisses and Valentines with The Stampsmith

Hi Dreamers,
It is all about the LOVE this week in Dreamland.   I wanted to share a Valentine's Day card I made with Stampsmith stamps.  This stamp is called Butterfly Kisses.

I sprayed the glossy white CS with  pink spray ink from A Muse Studios.  When that was dry, I stamped  this sweet image with black dye over the pink spray ink. 

The sentiment is from The Stampsmith full sheet, Paris.

Ain't she sweet!!??    I will be sending this out to someone for Valentine's Day.  Well, I hope you have a great day!!  Love ya.
Karen

Valentine with Perfect Pearls and Blockheads Stamps

Hi Dreamers!
I am back after a few days off.  Spent Saturday shopping with my buddy, Sharon,.--Very fun.  Relaxed on Sunday and got a few things ready for Card Ministry, which was Monday night.  Hubby is home and not feeling well.  Some kind of bug, we think.  I made a big pot of chicken soup for him yesterday.  That always makes him feel better.

For the month of February, the Blockheads Design Team will be showing a few ways to use Perfect Pearls.  Blockheads is now carrying Perfect Pearls in the individual pots in some pretty new colors.  I used Sunflower Sparkle to make a shimmery spray!  And, since Valentines's day is next week, I went with a Valentine's/Love theme.

Materials List:

Stamps: Large Damask single (also available on the Feeling Regal Set),  Love and Romance Half Sheet all from Blockheads

Inks: Onyx Black Versa Fine, Barn Door and Frayed Burlap Distress Ink: Spun Sugar Distress Re-inker

Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls

Mini Misters

Spray bottle with water

Cardstock: red, black, white

Instructions:

• Make the Perfect Pearls Shimmer Spray: In a Mini Mister put a couple pinches of Perfect Pearls, three drops of Spun Sugar re-inker, and water.  Shake
• Make card base from red CS
• To make the background: Ink the Large Damask stamp with Barn Door ink--spray the inked stamp with water --- just a few spritzes.  Now stamp onto the white CS  --gives a nice muted image. 

• Distress the white CS with Frayed Burlap ink.  
• Spray with the Perfect Pearls Shimmer mist and let dry or dry with heat tool.
• Stamp "Valentine" with Onyx Black ink
• Stamp  heart (from Love and Romance Set) with Barn Door ink; cut out and distress with Frayed Burlap
• Add to card with dimensionals.

Can you see the lovely shimmer the spray makes??!!  By making my own spray, I can have any color and intensity I like!  How fun is that??!!

And why not a few challenges!!
Pause, Dream, Enjoy: mostly red
Simon Says stamp: anything goes
Cheerful Stamp pad: Heart

Hope you are having a great day!  I will be back tomorrow with more Valentine's day inspiration!!
Love ya.
Karen

February Stampsmith Challenge: Photo Inspiration

Hi Dreamers!
Happy February!  And, the first of the month always means a new Stampsmith Challenge.  Don't forget to pop over to the Challenge blog and see who won last month's challenge!  This month we are challenging you to create a project that is inspired by this photo.  And, please also use at least one Stampsmith Stamp.

I used the neutral on neutral color scheme of the inspiration photo.  I was thinking that the shoe was fashion related and picked a stamp with fashion theme.  Then I added punched shapes to mimic the shapes in the background of the photo.

This stamp is called Paris Eiffel Dress from The Stampsmith.  I stamped it on glossy CS with black dye ink.

I used a decorative paper that has a lattice type pattern that I felt resembled the pattern of the woven leather shoe.

Pretty cool stamp, don't you think?!  I love this image.  Tres Chic!  Can't wait to see what you come up with!!  Link you project up on the Stampsmith Challenge blog site for a chance to win a gift certificate.


A few Fun challenges for my Fashionable paris lady:
365 Cards: day 30-retro
Simon Says Stamp: anything goes
Creative Moments: neutrals

Hope you are having a great day!!  See you tomorrow with a Perfect Pearls Valentine with Blockhead stamps.  Love ya.
Karen