Love hearts

Happy St Valentine's Day!  

According to Wikipaedia, St Valentine "is a widely recognized third-century Roman saint commemorated on February 14 and associated since the High Middle Ages with a tradition of courtly love.  All that is reliably known of the saint commemorated on February 14 is his name and that he was martyred and buried at a cemetery on the Via Flaminia close to the Milvian bridge to the north of Rome on that day."

We shouldn't need to be reminded to honour the people we love every single day, but some of us do have a tendency to forget, lol!  So today's card is made for all my fabulous family just to say I LOVE YOU, not just today but every day.  I can't imagine not having you all in my life.

The idea from this card came from Pinterest.  I've seen lots of variations of this and thought I would give it a try.  Unfortunately photographing white on white is not very easy with an iPhone!

I drew a heart shape on to white paper and then punched lots of flowers from another sheet.  I filled the shape with the flowers then shaped a few to give some dimension.

I added crystals to the centres and coloured just one of them red. I then matted the paper on to red card before adding it to a 7 x 7 card blank.

A very simple but effective card.  Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Puppy Love

Hello again.  Tuesday already and the start of a busy few days for us.  We'll share more of that over the next week or so.

Today's card is a little Valentine made with the Lawn Fawn set, Critters at the Dog Park.

I love these sweet little doggies and thought how lovely they would look on a simple card.

I stamped the background directly on to a 6 x 6 card blank.  The dogs were cut with the co-ordinating die after they were stamped and coloured.

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I tried to add bones to the bowl but I need to get better at masking! Lol!

I added four hearts as balloons and stamped the sentiment underneath.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Bee mine?

Good morning all, hope you are well and looking forward to a good week. As we are in full wedding prep mode around here I'm trying to do a few quick cards until I can show some of the wedding ones lol. 

So this card was made using scraps of paper and card that were on my desk. I stuck the strips on to a plain piece of card from my scraps box and then cut the heart using the Sizzix scalloped hearts on an angle. 

Then I used my little Sizzix Bee die and cut it out using gold embossed card, and coloured in some black lines with an alcohol pen. 

I couldn't find a sentiment I liked to match so I made my own with the Dymo  label maker.

I used a 6 x 6 card blank and raised the heart on foam strips. 

A really simple but cute valentines card, hope you like it. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Hearts

I'm not really big on sending Valentine cards.  However, this Verve stamp set I won recently has inspired me to make at least one.  The set is called Hundred Hearts.

The layout was inspired by this MFT Wednesday Stamp Club sketch.

I stamped the sentiment on white card and die cut in to a circle.  I matted this with red card and used the same red to cut the arrows.

I layered more red and white card for the background and added a single heart.

I'm very pleased with the simplicity of this card.  The sentiment does most of the work.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx