2016 Valentine's Day Card #2

Hi Everyone!

Since the last post, I decided to let a few ideas cook during the week, so I would have all weekend to put play them. Well, so far, I have 2.5 done... Here goes the first one!

For this card I decided to pull out the Silhouette Cameo. I used one of the designs from the design store, and cut it out of a pretty metallic soft coral cardstock.

Then, I used a cool collage style paper as the background. I fell in love with it at the store, so of course I couldn't leave it behind. And it's a good thing I didn't. It went PERFECTLY!*^_^*

To add another layer to the foreground, I decided to do faux stitching around the edge of the paper and the heart with a pen.

Because I didn't want to take away too much from the beautiful heart design and textured background, I stamped and embossed the sentiment on vellum.

Add to it a dark purple card base, and it makes all the soft pinks, blues and purples stand out.

Well, thanks for stopping by. Links to the materials I used are below. Until next time!

~Jackie 

• Heart design
• Soft coral cardstock
• Background paper
• Vellum
• Stamp (a seasonal item from Michael's)
• Glue Stick
• Liquid Glue
• Black embossing powder (Not the best, but it gets the job done)
• Embossing ink pad
• Card base
• Micron Pigma pen 01 (0.25mm)

Watercolor brush and glitter Gel Pen Card

After watching a YouTube video by Jennifer McGuire about brush pen, I felt like playing around with mine, so I pulled out my supplies.

Sakura of America Koi Watercolor Brush Pen, Master's Touch watercolor paper, Stampabilities Quatrefoil background stamp and black pigment ink. 

At first I tried Color Box black pigment ink, but it looked faded so I decided to try Stampabilities black pigment ink.

After stamping, I selected four colors, traced around the inside of each section, and then traced around the sections again using a clear Gelly Roll Stardust pen. 

I then spread the color out with a water brush. Once the project was dry (I'm impatient so I used a heat tool), I cut out a section of the project using a die, adhered the project to a blank card that I printed a message on, and stamped the expression "just because" inside of the cutout. 

It took awhile to complete, but I'm more than happy with the finished product. 

Well, thanks for joining me on this leg of my creative journey. Until next time!

~Jackie