Family Valentine Cards

Hi everyone!
I thought I would share pics of the valentine cards I made for my sisters.  I'm a bit late this year but - hey! they will get to them by the end of the week.  Hope you enjoy these.  If you are wondering what products I used, please add a comment.

First up are a couple of cards using Anna Griffin's paper line.  I really love her papers because of the great victorian feel they have. Did you know that she collects vintage wallpaper and uses the patterns on some of her papers?  Isn't that great! 

The lock and key came from an Accucut die that was released at the 2010 CHA I believe.  Its a great die and has a lock and two keys on it.  I added foil to the chipboard and then die cut the lock and key.  The little gold heart on the second card is the inside of the key from the die cut.

 Boy do I love bling!  I took some of the prima Say It in Crystals and covered the card (after I added the bow and the punch design).  I simply trimmed off anything that was outside the card margin.  I can use those extra bits to accent other cards in the future.  The punch is a new one that EK Success has in a plaid design border.

Modern Valentine's Day Card

Here is a modern Valentine's Day card made with a sticky backed shiny holographic foil.

Modern Romance

Materials:

Paper:

White Cardstock (5 ½” x 8 ½”) American Craft Cardstock – White

Gold Glossy Cardstock (5 ½” x 4”) Foil Coated Gold 8.5"x11"

Holographic Foil (5 ¼” x 4”) -Holographic Hearts WWP-holo-hearts 12"x12" 

Embellishments:

Kaiser Craft Rhinestones SILVER,  RED

K & Company Que Sera Sera Borders (with foil) - 22 total pieces 12" long 

Tools:

Paper Trimmer – Fiskars

Making Memories The Slice

Slice Design Card Vintage Findings 

Directions:

1. Fold your white cardstock in half to form your card base.  The card opens on the bottom. Set aside.
2. Glue your valentine background paper to your card base.
3. Glue your fancy border strip to your card.  (I let the strip go to the edge of my base card and trimmed it there instead of trimming to the mat paper.)
4. Add acrylic gems alternating in red and clear to the design on your border strip.
1. NOTE: Since I had an even number of designs, I made a pattern of red, clear, red, red, clear, red rather than alternating so that I could avoid having red on one side and clear on the other.)
2. Have fun with this and create a pattern!
5. Using The Slice and the Vintage Findings design card, I cut out the word “romance” and a design element from the gold glossy cardstock.
6. I attached the word Romance and the design element to my card with glue stick.

This is a fun and quick valentine card that can be made with whatever background paper you want.  Change the word and the color and you can create different cards for different holidays or celebrations. Enjoy!