Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009 XO Valentine

I'm sure none of you are surprised to see that I've made another Valentine's Day card. The colors just jump out at me and are SO easy to work with !!! And since I'm mostly a girlie girl sort of girl :) .....These kind of cards are usually what my girlie girl side wants to create!!

Details..... Cut brown CS and run through CB. Cut red CS smaller than the brown and layer the Bella Rose DP onto the red. Adhere to card base with pop dots. Cut another piece of red CS smaller than the existing bella rose DP. Cut polka dot DP to fit the red CS. Adhere and add to card using pop dots. Cut small square panel from red CS and cut pink DP to fit. Add the ribbon and adhere square panel. To make the hearts. Fold the white CS and cut out the heart starting on the fold line using scalloped scissors. Run through CB. Repeat making the second heart smaller. Stamp sentiment cut out using word window punch. Adhere with pop dots. Cut a small heart add a brad to the center and adhere over sentiment with pop dot. Adhere buttons. Punch out centers with circle punches and adhere. Make a corner tab run through CB and adhere.

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Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009 Double Duty

This card is doing DOUBLE DUTY! I made this using 2sketches4u l/o's and altered them to fit today's WT202 challenge at SCS today (customizing DP).
I had a difficult getting the light colors of this card to show up . The tones in the photo are very weak! This card was fairly quick and simple to make!!

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   Directions:


2. 1. Cut Cardstock. This card is 5 1/2 by 5 1/2.

2. Run card base through CB. Cut and punch lace border before adding trimmed DP. Adhere trimmed rose DP and slide lace border behind rose DP.

3. Punch 5 butterflies. Sponge, add pearl and adhere.

4. Use the medium oval nestabilites die cut with the white cardstock. One punched out. Run it through the CB. Use the next oval in size with the bella rose DP . Adhere to card using pop dots.

5. Cut the largest rose out of the Bella Rose DP and add layers by cutting out the layers of the other roses and adhereing them to the first rose that was cut out. Sponge edges. Apply stickles. Adhere to oval using pop dots.

6. Embellish with bow. Add pearls to card base.

SUPPLIES

Paper: DP Bella Rose (stampin' UP), CS pretty in pink, white

Ink: pretty in pink (stampin' UP)

Tools: heart lace punch (fiskars), oval nestabilities (spellbinders), butterfly punch (Martha Stewart), Cuttlebug

Accessories: pearls, ribbon, stickles

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