Elegant color combo...

I would have to say that my very favorite color combo would be black and white with a pop of another color thrown in. It's classic, beautiful and can also be fun on occasions. You can NEVER go wrong with it in my opinion. It also just happens to fit with the latest challenge over at Cas-ual Fridays!

 

Here's what I came up with...

I was going for an older/distressed look so I inked up my stamp and stamped it lightly on scrap paper before stamping it on my panel. Something like this can easily be used for a wedding, anniversary or even Valentines day. You could also easily change out the sentiment and the pop of color and have a card for just about any occasion. Thinking a nice blue or orange would even work for a guy friendly card.

Don't forget to stop back in on Monday for our fun new feature: Tool Talk. I have a very special guest all lined up to tell you about her favorite not to mention very useful tool. After seeing what she has to say about it, she pretty much has me wanting to ditch what I use and get one for myself!!

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With Love...

I have been busy busy busy making some Valentines day cards. If you're like me, you're ALWAYS pressed for time and then there's always that last minute card that you forgot you needed. This one couldn't have been easier or faster to throw together.

I cut my panels (edge punched the pink one) and stamped the heart swirl in light pink randomly all over my white panel, then stamped the brushed heart in purple and using a dark pink stamped the solid heart outline in the middle of the brushed heart. I added the sentiment from the love sentiments set randomly all over. I attached my panels and added a bit of pink/purple heart Washi and well-ah, there you have a finished easy peasy card that took less than 10 minutes and it has plenty of color and depth to it.

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love letter

I had the idea to create a love letter card. I sat at my desk with a pencil and scratch paper thinking on how to achieve something like that. My mind ran over all of my DeNami stamps deciding how best to achieve it.  My first thought was to use this cute little heart stamp image, but I wanted my card to look more shabby chic than fun and cute. I ended up using a stamp I had in my "contraband stash" by 7 Gypsies for my postage.

For the "send to" area I somewhat randomly stamped a border 3 times then stamped pink hearts over that and added a little sentiment. I decided it needed to be distressed to I added a few swipes of ink and roughened up the edges. A little twine and matching button finished it all off.

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XOXOXO's

I decided to revive a little layout I did quite a while ago. The little band of fringe makes me smile, what a fun element!

And seriously, how can you not like pink and chocolate...it's one of my favorite color combos and you can never go wrong with it! This is such a quick little card to put together. The fringe is way easy to make using your paper trimmer. I simply used the measurement lines to evenly space them apart and the ribbon hides the varying lengths of the cuts (I can get them close, but not perfect). After adhering the fringe I fiddled with / feathered it so that it doesn't lay all flat. Go ahead, give it a try...it's easier than you think and is a very unexpected element to your card that adds lots of depth and fun texture.

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You're sweet treat

Ever since I came up with the adorable stocking card I made for Christmas, I've wanted to play with the layout a little more. I liked the idea of a flat panel...kinda postcard style card and wanted to see what else I could create using that concept.

It didn't take me long to come up with this sweet little treat.....

You don't want to know how many boxes of conversation hearts I went through to get all those pink hearts ;)

 

I started off with a kraft panel and layered on a cream panel that I had stamped a pretty little pattern on. For the 3rd panel (pink) I stamped the teeny heart background, randomly stamped the sentiment, I edge punched it and added a length of ribbon before adhering it to the base panels. I attached the little glassine bag using my ATG and the ribbon doubles as a pretty embellishment, but also helps hold the bag in place. I added adhesive to only half of my punched circle layer so that I could filled down the top of the bag and tuck it behind the top half of the punched circle to keep it closed. I can add a little hand written note on the back or leave it just like it is, either way, I'm thinking the recipient is going to love it!

 

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With Love...

Have you heard that DeNami Designs is having another AWESOME challenge? This one is a sketch challenge...my favorite kind!! WOO-HOO!! Here's my first entry...yes, I said first, unfortunately I had too much fun and made three...again...sigh

I just "love" this card. I love finding ways to use the little glass bowl and thought, why the heck not fill it with hearts...like a blow full of love, right? After I did that I got to thinking a little more..I know, I'm still in a little bit of shock myself ;)  Anyway, I got to thinking that the hearts could be falling into the bowl too, so I made a heart out of teeny hearts falling into the bowl filling it up...

I used three different shades of pink / red inks for all of the hearts and used a little light blue and crystal lacquer on the bowl for a "glass" look. I added a little liquid pearl to the corners of the focal panel to finish it all off.

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I took a couple of extra picture...trying to capture the card better...my picture taking skills seriously lack.

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!

Chickies and hearts....

Does it get any better than chickies and hearts and pink and yes, sparkles???? I think not!!

I really love the "X & O" sentiment and couldn't resist just stamping it all over. I used the stitched heart from the hearts stamp set because I though the chickie looked like she was sewing her hearts together...

I set the chickie overlapping the corner of the card instead of a standard bow then glittered the hearts for some blingy goodness. Did you notice I colored my chickie pink...

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!

Falling Hearts

When I saw this heart in the product spot light I just couldn't wait to get my hands on it. I knew exactly what I wanted to do....

Surprised? If you know me at all you are lol!! No layers,,,very clean and simple...so NOT me, right? I just had this vision and wanted to run with it. It's a little hard to tell in the picture, but I stamped the first heart in a dark pink distress ink, the faded it out as they went down by using a lighter pink ink on parts of the stamp together with the darker pink.

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!