Club Scrap January Artist Challenge: Circles

Welcome to a new Artist Team Blog hop.

Hope you arived her from 

Roni's Ink Stains Blog

and then you know the theme for all the 

projects is:

C*I*R*C*L*E*S

You can read all about it on the 

Club Scrap Blog.

 At first I thought,ok coffee rings are

circles, so i make some coffee card

with lots of different coffee ring cackgrounds,

but ok that was an easy oiption, so

I choose to make three Valentine cards with

circle elements.

Here you see all the cards together.

I used red papers from different kits in combination

with the white and decorated paper from this months

Celebrate kit and also the circle stamps from the

 Celebrate unmounted rubber stamps that come with the kit.

For card #1 I embossed half of the background

with an heart embossing folder.

The sentiment is from a vintage Valentine kit called Fizz.

The circles are  first stamped and then cut.

Around the heart there are tiny silver holografic

cicle stickers that came with another kit.If you click

on the picture to enlarg it, you have a better view.

It is so hard to have a good photo of them.

Here you see how the circle and the heart are cut::

I stamped the image with a Fuchsia inkpad

and found the right spellbinder circle die to cut with.

Before cutting I also placed a tiny heart die

in the middle of the circle, so in one cut

all is done. I made several of these circles

with hearts to play with.

On this card I used the cut out hearts to decorate

the ribbon. Of course some blingon top!

For card #2 I embossed the complete background

with the heart embossing folder ( btw this embossing

folder is by Stampin'Up!). In the middle of the

card i tied a ribbon and the sentiment is again from

the vintage Valentine Fizz kit. It is one of the

wooden stamps that Club Scrap used to have.

For decoration I added a few tiny sticky pearls here and there.

For the final third card I found a wonderful tutorial

on Splitcoaststampers here.It looks complicated,

but is fairly easy! Really!!

The  card folds flat and is 5,5 x 4 1/4 inch.

Perfect for sending in a normal enveloppe.

The sentiment inside the circle is from February 2012

Full Circle. The outside ia a larger circle stamp from this months

Celebrate kit. I used 2 circle spellbinder dies for

cutting this circle: the ouside and inside of the cirle.

Little red gemstones decorate the outer circle.

For decoration on the smaller circles I used these fun

roses that you can buy in tiny packages and they are easy

to add by pricking a hole in the paper.I aways make two holes

and have the end come to the front again.Then I take a toothpick

and roll the wire around it, so you have these nice curled endings

along to flower.

Here you can see the contruction behind the large

circle. You use two 1 inch circles as a platform.

The videao on Splitcoaststapers shows it very clearly.

I loft the backside blank,

so you can write your message here.

Just added the little hearts that

where cut in the beginning.

Did not want to waste them,

they are just too cute. Added a little

gem stone in the middle.

Now for more ideas hop over to

Josette's Blog

and see what she has in store for you.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!