This past weekend, my lovely daughter and I sat down in our craft room to get inky and make some Valentines!
I know a lot of people dislike Valentine's Day, but truthfully I've always looked at it as a day share the love with everyone in my life! I usually make about 20 valentines to send to friends and family. Because of the proximity of Valentine's Day to Christmas, I never want to make anything that is TOO complicated when it comes to these cards! So these cards are all very similar, small, and clean in design.
Another note about these projects - everything I'm using here is at least 5 years old! I love my Valentine's stash and I've been using the same one I stocked YEARS ago - so please feel free to use what you have!!! I'm really trying to not spend much money this year on paper crafting and to focus on finding love in the products that I have!
These cards are 4-bar size. I used two Lawn Fawn sets that I enjoy: My Silly Valentine and Whale You Be Mine? I stamped the images directly on the card front in Memento black ink, and then colored in the images with my alcohol markers. I cut simple strips of patterned paper and glitter paper from my stash and glued them to the front and trimmed them to fit.
Next, I cropped the bottom edges of each card with my Corner Chomper. I like the look of that on a smaller card, it feels like a nice little finished detail with very little effort. I stamped a sentiment on the inside of each card and also glued a piece of patterned paper on the top to hide the bleed through from the alcohol markers.
In about 90 minutes I was able to finish 8 cards! I already have a few others in my stash from other card making days, so I'm about halfway through making my Valentine cards now!
Are you guys making Valentines this year? What are your favorite Valentine stamps? Leave me your favorites in the comments below!
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