Valentine's for the kids

Inside: "And lots of Valentine Fish kisses!"


Inside: "Valentine I think you are out of this world!"



Can you believe it??? I actually am ahead and made the kids Valentines this year! And they are done before Valentine's Day!! Aren't you proud of me?? Well, I am proud of me!
The first Valentine is for my daughter. I saw some fish cards on the internet by various people, and thought this would make a cute Valentine! Cheyenne is on this fish kick. She's always asking me to cut out some fish out of paper, so that she can decorate them and then hang them on her walls. So I thought she would appreciate the fish on this one. Although now that I think about it, she will probably be asking me to make some of these for her next. I used the Ornament Punch by Stampin' Up, and the fins are using the 5-Petal flower punch. The eyes I cheated a little and used the eyes from Owl punch. The hearts are punched using the Heart-to-heart punch. The paper is from my stash, but since it was a water print, I thought it went well with the card! The sentiment I typed on the computer.
The second card is for my son. When I thought about a card for him, this is the set that came to mind. The aliens are from "Greetings, Earthling" set by Stampin' Up. The hearts in between the aliens are punched using the Heart-to-heart punch. The hearts in the background are stamped with some old heart stamps I have in my stash, and are stamped using VersaMark. I colored the images using my Stampin' Write Markers.
The last picture is Valentines that I made for the kids that go to my school. I was inspired by the ones that Cheyenne made for her class. I made pink ones for the girls, and the white ones for the boys. Inside there are cherry flavored lollipops.

Christmas in July Swap - NonTraditional Colors

Another card for the Christmas In July swap, this theme is Non-Traditional Colors.
I CASED this card from a Fellow PhillyInker Julianna. She had made them for a make and take last year. I used Stampin' Up's Ornament punch to punch the ornaments, and then stamps from a couple of sets to emboss the designs on them. I do believe I used "Priceless" and "Snow Swirled" although I could be wrong about the flourish one. I stamped the image in Versamark and then embossed them with white embossing powder. The scallop edge is done with Stampin' Up's Scalloped edge punch. The cardstock and Patterened paper is all stuff I had on hand. The faux stitching is nice and straight due to my new favorite scoring tool and a handy little piercing tool that fits right into it's grooves.

Mother's Day Card - for my Mom

I used the same basic idea for this card, as for the one below. This time I used Stampin' Up's Heart to Heart punch and punched out the long thin heart. On one flower I did 15 petals, and 13 on the other. I again folded them in half and distressed the edges. This time I used Stampin' Up's 1" circle punch. The flower pot was made using Stampin' Up's ornament punch and I just trimmed the bottom point off to make it flat. Then I gave it a little dimension by adding dimensionals to the back. The background was also embossed using the Perfect Polka dot embossing folder run through my BigShot. The stems were stamped using Stampin' Up's two-step stamp set "Awash With Flowers" (which will be available in the new catalog coming out in July!) Again the sentiment is one i had on hand. The brads and cardstock was also items I had on hand.

7 days of Valentine's Swap

I am in a swap on my Favorite MB for Valentine's Day. There are 7 days, each with a different theme. This theme was "container". I used the Ornament Punch from Stampin' Up to make the strawberries. I trimmed off the point, and the part the hook would go in. Then I freehand drew the stems. I used the new "Dot, Dot, Dot" stamp from Stampin Up, inked in Versamark, and then embossed with black embossing powder.