To Die For Friday - Valentine #4 - "My Heart's all a Flutter" Card

Hello everyone and welcome to another To Die For Friday post.

I want to just jump right into today's card. The inspiration for this card I found a while back. I can't find the website or the person's blog that I saw this on to give the credit to but the idea behind this card was from that. I did change it up and will explain what I changed as I go. 

I used MFT's Flying Butterfly die on some white cardstock and the die cut it again with some red and pink cardstock from the scrap bin. I used some printer paper behind the white paper so I could glue the butterflies down.  I then cut down some pattern paper from the Doodlebug 6x6  Love Bugs paper pad to be the same width as the butterfly die cut. I used the second to smallest heart from spellbinders Classic Hearts die to make the windows, the card I saw used circles. I then lined them up and marked the butterflies that will be showing through the hearts.  I just used some Tombow and filled in with the pink and red butterflies as well as some of the white ones. I used some foam tape to give just a bit of height.

I used the largest Stitched Rectangle from Lawn Fawn for the front of my card. I took some pink ribbon from ribbon bin and wrapped that around and taped it in the back to hold it in place. I then just made a small bow and used some glue dots to hold it in place. I used Jesse's ABC's from Lawn Fawn and made my own sentiment. I lined everything up on my block and then stamped it using Versafine Black ink. Then glued the panel the the front of my card base which is a top folding A2 size card. I then glued the heart/butterfly panel down. I had trimmed that so it would sit just inside the stitched lines.

For the inside I die cut another stitched rectangle (the largest one does fit inside with out having to trim) and then add some of the remaining butterflies going across the bottom and up the left side. This leaves room for a sentiment or love note.

Like I said I would love to give the credit for the inspiration behind this card but i cant seem to find the post. Thank you so much for joining me for today's post. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I will see you on Monday.

Happy Crafting

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What What Wednesday - Valentine #3 - Distress Watercolor Stinkin Cute Card

Today is Wednesday and you know what that means. We are half way through the week with only two more days til the weekend and is time for another What What Wednesday post. I was sitting in my room thinking about what I wanted to make knowing it would be a card. And as I looked around I thought to myself "when was the last time I used my Distress Markers?". I could not come up with an answer so I figured it had been a year or more. So I thought about water coloring and I know what stamp set I wanted to use. Since it had been so long I know a simple image was jsut the thing and I have been wanting to color the little skunk from Lawn Fawn's Stinkin' Cute stamp set since I got it.

I used some watercolor paper I had on hand and stamped out the skunk and the hearts with Versafine Onyx Black ink and the added some clear embossing powder from Simon Says Stamp and heat set that with my heat tool. Once that what cooled off I took my Black Soot Distress Marker and the Picket Fence (white) and put them on an acrylic block. I used a small paint brush and mixed a little of the white and black together so I could have some grey with out really watering down the black. I used some of the grey for his white parts to give him a little shading. I then colored the rest of him in and added a bit more black to the mix to give him a lighter black color (the grey was to light but I didn't what black black). I used a little Spun Sugar for his ears cheek and on the hearts.

I set them aside to dry and worked on my card base. I knew I didn't was a big card and I had some of this great paper in my stash. The card size is 4 3/8 tall x 3 1/4 wide. I then just took some scrap green paper and hand cut out a hill for the little guy to sit on. I then stamped out the sentiment using versafine ink and heat embossing that. Once he was dry I used the matching dies and cut them out. This also helped to flatten him from the wet paper as well as the heat embossing. I used some tombow to glue the heart on to him so now it looks like he is holding it (so cute), I then placed the hill all my card base to see where I wanted it and then just glued it down and trimmed off the over hang. I glued the little guy down and that is the front of the card.

I didn't really know what I want to do for the inside so I just add the other two hearts I colored and cut out leaving room for a lovely note. I then used my 3/8 corner rounder to soften the card up and added some glossy accents to the heart.

I am so glad I used my Distress Markers for him. He just looks so well Stinkin' Cute. Thank you for joining my and I hope the rest of your week is a breeze.

Happy Crafting

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Cut it out Monday - Valentine #2 - Valentine's Mailbox

Hello everybody.

So first things first there are only 13 more days left to shop Valentine's day. Weather your shopping for that special someone or for yourself (because you know you always give yourself the best gifts lol) you don't have a lot of time left. 

Alright now that that's over with on to today's project. I love being able to do something fun for my family on V-day and a couple of years ago I found some really cute metal mailboxes and knew that those would be perfect. Every year (well this was started after our youngest turned 3 which is when I found that mailboxes) I fix dinner and have the table all set then I place their mailboxes (filled) in front of where they sit. We have a lovely dinner and after the kids, as well as hubby, get to open their mail. The kids love it, I think hubby does too. But I have notice as they get bigger (or into things that come bigger) things don't always fit in their mailbox. So this year I thought I would make bigger ones using my Cricut Explorer. Now I will say I should have done a test run to see how big they would be but I didn't think about that I was just to excited to make them and it turned out so cute. 

I used 12x12 red card stock with a piece of pink scrap for the heart. The mailbox is from the Tags Bags Boxes and More 2 cartridge and there is the once piece image (which is what I used here) and one that has the mailbox in two piece (which is what I should have used lol). For the heart all I did was slice in into the flag and the add the pink before gluing it together. I also used strong tape to hold everything together.

 I do think how ever that this would be a great size mailbox for a class room. The kids can put their Valentine cards inside or a small sucker (about the size of a dum dum)/piece of candy. These would also be great to give to neighbor kids or any neighbor for that matter. I can see putting some home made goodies in this to give to our neighbors. 

I now know for next time to either make one to see how big it will be once assembled or go for the two piece one. Thank you all for joining my second project in my Valentine Mini Series. See you soon with another project and have a great day.

Happy Crafting.