Happy Valentine's Day!

Two Valentines I made this year.

For Hubby:For this card, I punched out the heart shapes, ran a length of packing tape on the back and sprinkled Martha Stewart glitter on the front, pressing it down to make it stick to the tape showing through the heart openings.

And for Daughter:
For this card, I tried a technique I found on Splitcoaststampers; a folded paper frame. I added white heart brads and mounted it onto an easel card. Martha Stewart's heart punch was used to make the swirly hearts, topped off with white Stickles.

Blue Ribbon Flower Card

Even with "help" from Dakotah, my card-making assistant, I made another ribbon flower card.

Ooh! What's this?

Mine!

Flower??? What flower?
Don't know what yer talkin' about.

After distracting her with her own length of ribbon to play with, I was able to rescue my pilfered flower and finally finish the card.

Easel Card

Yeah, I've been busy experimenting with new card techniques since I felt most of mine were all starting to look similar to me. So here is my first attempt at an "Easel Card". I think it turned out nice, but next time I would definitely make the bottom matted paper at tad smaller to show the punched border when it is properly set up. Ah well, practice, practice, practice! Pearls on the sentiment and up near the punched border add some bling and the top ones also act as stops when I open the card all the way. Otherwise, the sentiment, which is adhered with dimensionals, acts as the stopper when open.

Magic Card

Well, maybe not "magic" per se, but I've seen this technique called that. It's simply the same image stamped twice: once on cardstock and coloured, then again on clear acetate. Bind them together at the top and make a slider card to insert it into.
Here's the Copics I used to colour it in:
I guess if I were to personalize this, I would lift up the acetate and write the greeting or sign it on the white cardstock.

New Cards

Been playing around with some new techniques, so I thought I would post a few recent cards.

Here is a black and white card (I still haven't figured out what occasion it will be used for...) using a Cuttlebug embossing folder, and coloured in the bird with Copic # N zero.

This one I made after learning how to make ribbon flowers on Mary's great blog My Stampin' Dreams. Her wonderful video tutorials are full of great ideas; I know I will be trying more soon! I coloured in the button and foam center with Copics.

This card was made after I finally brought my old sewing machine up into the craft room. I sewed the ribbon and patterned paper, added some buttons and stamped the sentiment.