Showing posts with label valentine's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentine's. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Crafty Collaborations - Valentine's Day Blog Hop

Hello Stamping Friends,

Happy halfway through the week. Hope your week is going swell.  Today I join the Crafty Collaborations for a Valentine's Day Blog Hop. Valentine's Day will be here before you know it, since the days are flying by. I can't believe we are more than halfway through January already. 


I made a card that may not scream Valentine's Day, but it certainly is a good card to give to your Valentine, 


What's sweeter than sharing a milkshake with your sweetie? One shake and two straws. I used Sweet Sorbet ink, designer series paper, and cardstock, but made the ink have two colors by stamping off, and muted the cardstock by placing a piece of cardstock vellum over it. I love how it looks a little softer than what the cardstock would look like without it. 

I stamped the sweet sorbet ice cream top on scrap paper and then stamped a second time without reinking to get it a little lighter. This is a perfect way to get a coordinating color without having a second ink color on hand. 

When you stamp the greeting on the vellum, you need to be a little careful because it takes some time to dry. You don't want to smudge it by touching it too early. Also, when attaching the vellum, you put the adhesive on the vellum where there will be other things covering it so you won't see the adhesive through the vellum. 

For the ice cream cup, I stamped off the smoky slate and then stamp it for the first layer and then stamped it full strength for the second stamped layer, 










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Friday, February 7, 2020

All About the Hearts

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Hello Stamping Friends,

Welcome to another week with the Sisters in Stamping. This week we are all about the hearts. Today is Go Red for Women in honor of women's heart health month. This is a day near and dear to my heart because my mom died at the young age of 40 from a massive heart attack which changed my life forever. 


Below is a picture of her and my fiance (now husband) just a few short weeks before she passed away. Notice she was wearing red. Her favorite color. Interesting how we celebrate women's heart health in February, the month of her birthday, in the same week as her birthday. Great way for our family to remember and honor her.


She somehow always managed to live life to the fullest no matter what was going on around her. It's been 25 years since she left us and I miss her every single day. I still have the dress she is wearing. Perhaps one day I will wear it for her. 


My project for today was a class I held last week. I love, love, love the way it turned out. It's a 12x12 page that goes in a frame for a marvelous home decor piece. It looks very complicated, but in reality it was pretty easy to make. It's all about the layering, and I have a lot of layers going on. 

I used the From My Heart Suite Bundle to make this and then just added in a few other things to complete it. Each little square or rectangle looks great on it's own, but the look of them all together is just fantastic. Using the suite bundle gave me everything at my fingertips and made creating this artwork so easy. 

Everyone at the class loved it. I'm even going to hold a St. Patrick's Day class soon. Contact me if you are interested in that class. I even offer them to go if you can't make it in person.

Don't forget to head over to the Sisters in Stamping blog for more heartfelt ideas.


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