Valentine's

Besidews making a card for my wonderful husband,

I also make cards for my 2 daughters.

Here is the first one for my eldest.

Lately we share a love for coffee and so I made

her this coffee card.

I also want to enter this card for the Paper Players

color challenge.

Background made with direct to paper technique and

a stencil. The cup is a die from Stampin'Up! as well

as the paper I used for the sleeve of the cup.

The heart is covered with glossy accent.

Do you see the cute little silver spoon next to the cup?

I composed the sentiment with Tim Holtz stickers

a stamp for the & and a Verve die for coffee.

Here the inside of the card with a leftover

strip from the front panel, some hearts

and a sentiment (both Tim Holtz)

and my favorite Club Scrap coffee ring stamp.

The second card is for my youngest daughter

and made with Club Scrap Valentine's stamps (2008).

On top of the card I did the faux postage technique

and the hearts are colored with a red marker and

on top glossy accent (I seem to use this a lot lately!).

I also made some cards with my grandson yesterday.

He made his kisses so colorful

and even added the names of his brothers.

Colorful closing of the envelop.

In The Netherlands we had free postage on Valentine cards

if you add  a lipstick kiss. So here you see Owen

kissing the enveloppes and make them ready for sending.

And here they go!

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day

and thanks for looking!

Faux Postage for Valentine

 Valentine cards are so wonderful to make

and while I am into all these postage cards for Club Scrap,

I also made some for my Michael Strong group.

 

I needed a fitting sentiment and I found one at 

Create with TLC. When you married to the most 

wonderful man, he is not only my Valentine, 

but my heart keeps fluttering even when I think of him!

So this is my card for him.

This is what I used:

Club Scrap paper

Bakers twine from my stash

Michael Strong mini cloisonné heart

Create with TLC sentiment Heart Flutter

Club Scrap wings and love sentiment.

 For the Faux Postage technique there is a turorial for you

just a few posts before this one.

You find it here:

http://craftchaos.blogspot.com/2012/02/club-scrap-technique-for-febuary.html

BTW don't forget the BLOG HOP

on the 18th of Febuary.

If you like fairy tales, do stop by!

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Technique for Febuary

 For Febuary I chose the Faux Postage technique.

Great for Valentine cards, but you can use it on

any other card too. It is an old and loved

technique and there are many tutorials out there.

Here is mine:

Supplies:

besides stamps, ink

and your favourite color material

you need:

a faux postage template

(click on mine and save to your pc)

or make your own in word

cutting knife,

pencil,

ruler

transparent paper

(click and save to your computer)

Resize it to how you want to use it.

You can use one or more

stamps for your card.

 Place transparen paper on top of the

stamp template and mark with a pencil 

how many stamps you want to use

and cut out these windows.

Put your stamplate underneath the windows.

It is handy to fasten this with masking tape

or celotape to keep it from moving around.

You can stamp with any color ink.

I stamp with black, because I want to color

it when finished.You do not have to

stamp within the wondow. The transparent paper

will make sure you only see the stamped images

inside the stamp lines.

 With a sponge and some light brown ink

the stamps are colored around the images.

Then I take my copic markers and color the images.

 This is how the stamps now look, when you take them

from underneathe your template. You can add a postage number

if you want or other postage items.

If you have a postage scissor, you can cut around the stamps

to make them even look more real. I also added some ink around the 

border with a sponge. Now you are ready to use the stamps for your card.

Stamps I have used

are all by Club Scrap

Let me count the way 2006

  Fizz 2007

Valentine's 2008

Paper Club Scrap Navajo January 2012

Have a creative day!