My Type

I loved this image when I saw it in the latest StampTV kit. It certainly helped make a cute but simple Valentine's card. I really like that typewriter!

I have always like the colors red, black and white together and Valentines day cards lend themselves to those colors nicely. I used GKD pure luxury black as the base then some white lightly sponged with red. The next panel is from Basic Grey called Out of Print. A little stripe from GKD and then the few embelishments. Fun, simple, and done! 
 

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Card Recipe:

Stamps - GKD - True Love

Paper - GKD - white - black, rocket red

Designer Paper -  BG - Out of Print

Other -  Ribbon, bling heart, black fuzzy deco


Challenges:

Basic Grey Challenges - Love - Valentine

Lollipop Crafts - Valentine`s day Card

My Craft Spot - 1E -  Valentines

Stamp with Fun - Love

Forever

I just love this StampTV kit. Such great images and the paper - well - I really love that! This is going to be my DH's Valentine card. Kind of masculine looking don't you think? I also really liked this sketch on Simon Says Stamps. 


I stamped the sentiment and image on white card stock and then again on pink so I could cut out the hearts and glue them on. I took a Sakura pink pen and just filled in a border. The background kind of came together. I had the scalloped circle left from my last card and decided to put the plaid paper behind it. I really did like how it turned out. I used a Cuttlebug folder on the white panel and just added ribbon and buttons and a couple of more hearts.

Card Recipe:

Stamps - GKD - True Love StampTV kit

Paper - GKD - white - Passionate Pink

Designer Paper -  GKD - StampTV kit

Other -  Cuttlebug folders - ribbon - Nestibilities - buttons

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Sketch
Cupcake Craft - All You Need Is Love

There She Goes - Love is in the Air
Corrosive Challenges -  I {heart} You
Card Cupids - Valentines
Sentimental Sundays - must include a Sentiment - Die Cuts
2 Sisters - Embossing

So Sweet!

To see the Stampin Sisters in Christ post please scroll down to the Sunday post!

So are you sick of Valentine cards yet? I must say that I am getting close. But I sure have a hard time not using these cute images from the Gina K Stamp TV kit. This adorable designer paper came in the kit. I love the texture and the colors are fantastic.

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Card Recipe:
Stamps: Sent With Love - GinaK
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Bubblegum Pink and Chocolate Brown
DP: DP from the Stamp TV kit
Other: Nestabilities, some pink stickers, and Copics
Challenges
Stamp TV - Sketch 
All Sorts Challenge: Love, love, love
Basic Grey Challenge: Hearts 
Stamptacular Sunday - Love and lots of hearts
Creative Cowgirls - Love is in the air
Scrapbook Sisters - Valentine
Rainbow Lady's - Valentine

Birthday Love

Not only is Valentine's Day around the corner, so are several birthdays in my family! Two daughters-in-law, my dear MIL, and one of my daughters so I needed several birthday cards too! I made my grandsons last week (scroll down). This week it is the ladies - our family February birthday celebration is on Valentine weekend - I better get busy!


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Card Recipe:
Stamps: Sent with Love - GinaK
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury White, Cranberry Tart, Bubblegum Pink
DP: StampTV kit
Other: Nestabilities, White, Pink, and Red stickles, border punch 
Challenges
Stamp TV - Sketch

Paper Sundaes  - Valentines

Marks Finest Papers - Valentine Card

Craft Your Days Away  - Love

Creative Cowgirls  - Love is in the air
Creative Inspirations Paint  - Love
Midnight Madness - sketch'
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenges -  Valentine
Simon Says Stamps - Red - love

Sending Love

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and I have several more cards to make. Here is one. I just love the designer paper that came with the Stamp TV Kit. This was pretty simple card. Instead of just reds and pinks though I liked throwing the brown in there. 


Thanks for looking and for the comments!






Card Recipe:
Stamps: Sent with Love - GinaK
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury White, Chocolate Brown, Bubblegum Pink
DP: StampTV kit
Other: Nestabilities, heart shaped gems, red ribbon.


Challenges
Midnight Madness - Sketch

Paper Sundaes  - Valentines

Marks Finest Papers - Valentine Card

Craft Your Days Away  - Love

Creative Cowgirls  - Love is in the air
Creative Inspirations Paint  - Love

With Love

Another new stamp set I got this month is Hopeful Hearts, designed by Tami Mayberry and sold by GinaK Designs. 

I stamped the image on white using a Kaleidacolor pad. I have not used that in a long time and was kind of fun. Then I looked for some designer paper to use in this sketch. The sentiment came from Blocked Greetings also designed by Tami. I used some of my wonderful Nesties and popped a few red flowers that I had. Easy card.
 






Card Recipe:
Stamps: Hopeful Hearts - GinaK
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury White, Red Hot and SU Barely Banana
DP: Basic Grey - Sugar Rush
Other: Spectrum Inkpad, Spellbinder Dies, ribbon - red flowers


Challenges
Mark's Finest Papers - using a heart 
Stamp TV - Sketch
Midnight Madness - Sketch
Tuesday Throwdown: Valentine
Lexi's Creation: Say it with Love
Freshly Brewed: Valentine 
Simon Says Stamps - BINGO - gems/flowers/dies

Cuckoo

I think I am having way too much fun with the GinaK Stamp TV kit for this month. Love that cuckoo clock!
I stamped the image on Kraft, colored it with Copics and cut it out. Then I took the Lemon Drop and used the distress ink on it. Rounded the corners and put it on some red before putting it all on the Kraft. I punched out a heart and stamped the sentiments on Kraft. I also used a glitter pen to enhance the clock although you can't really see it. Well, that is it for tonight - I hope to make another for tomorrow.
 

I wonder who will get this card on Valentine's Say?





Card Recipe:
Stamps: StampTV Kit, Sent with Love - GinaK
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Kraft, Red Hot, Lemon Drop
DP: None
Other: Heart punch, some red half pearls, Distress Ink and a few Copic Markers


Challenges
Mark's Finest Papers - using a heart 
Card Patterns - Sketch
Tuesday Throwdown: Valentine
Lexi's Creation: Say it with Love

Love for my BFF

This card is for my best friend. We have been friends for more than 38 years. I used a Flopsey stamp set from MFT. It is hard to tell on the picture but the black background is cuttlebugged. This is one of those cards that really does look better in real life. I colored Flopsey with Copics.This is for the Card Pattern Sketch 50 challenge.

Horse Valentine

This card is for my son the farrier. I love making cards for him because I love using the "Out West" stamp set from Theresa on GKD. This one was a little harder because I did not want to "bling" it up. This was also done for the challenge on GKD's StampTV. I am also posting this for for a a challenge for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. The awesome card-stock was also from Gina's pure luxury line. I stamped the image with bleach on the brown. I got the cute little cowboy boot charm from Stamping Bella a long time ago, forgot I had them. So here is tonight's card - hope you like it!

Lovebirds

It is back to Valentine Cards tonight just in time for the Thursday Challenge on GinaK. I dearly love the Heartily Yours set from Nina Brackett. For my large family there are just so many wonderful images to make a large variety of cards. This will be for one of my adult children - I can't say which one in case they see this. Not that they look at this but their lovely young ladies do! So it will be a semi-surprise. I made this with Gina's lipstick red CS and some of her pure luxury vanilla. The DP is from the Sugar Rush pack. The little beads are from the sale bin at Micheal's - I love those finds! So this is my upload for tonight!

Musical Love

Oh my goodness! I checked my blog after church and WOW, all the comments have just overwhelmed me {blushing}. For several years I have been stalking so many blogs, many of yours included, and thought that I would never be able to create my own cards as lovely and original as yours. Yet, here I am. Thank you so much.

Today's upload is a mistake. Okay, not a terrible mistake but I read the colors for the Monday challenge wrong (don't tell my principal!) and thought it was red, kraft and black. Oops! So this card, that was supposed to be for Monday is now for some the CPS challenge. I will try to come up with another one for the StampTV color challenge for Monday. So, without any further yakking - here is the card.....

Sent with Love

One more time I am posting another valentine! I created this card very quickly. The idea came to me at work today so it was just making some colors work and although the envelopes are rather large for the mailbox I still think that it worked. The stamps were all from GinaK.  I used 3 different stamp sets for this: Autumn Beauty, Picture it, and Heartily Yours Additions. The designer paper was from the Sugar Rush paper pack from Basic Grey.This was also for the SG10 Challenge on Sketch Girls.

Lovely Day

Have a lovely day! What a great sentiment that is and I know that I will use it on cards other than just valentine cards. For now, however, it is a valentine card for one of my wonderful family members. I am so blessed to have so many people that I want to send cards to. Well, back to work and hopefully another card. This card was made with the Heartily Yours stamp set created by Nina. Look at the post below to get that link. This is a quick post during my lunch time at work.

Lots of Love

The valentine cards keep running through my mind, probably because there are so many "loves" in my life. By the time I finish making all of these I will probably not want to see reds of any kind for a while. Anyway - this was made using GinaK's Square Pegs which was created by Melanie.

Vintage Heart

Another valentine that I could incorporate into a challenge for Gina K Designs and also for Little Paper Shop. I used the Timeless Treasures stamp set from GinaK. The lace I had from my supply of embellishments that keeps on growing - probably because I buy some ever time I see them on sale anywhere. I aged the heart using some silver metallic rub and popped up the key. I do like the way it turned out.

Sending Love

Yup, another valentine card. I told you I was going to be making a few. This one was hard, it was for a sketch challenge on GinaK and it was a bit of a struggle for me. I think the deep burgundies is what threw me off, I should have stuck with the pinks and reds. Anyway - it is done and entered and here's to hoping I win! Free stamps spur me on. 

Hot Rod

The first of several Valentine cards I will be making and posting. If you are the mom of my grandchildren don't peek! {wink}. This is the image I was excited about for my grandsons. It is from the newest of GinaK Designs. It is called Heartily Yours and has a lot of wonderful images. I also used some of buttons from there and, yes, I actually sewed on the buttons! Another new addition is that I finally got a a watermark for my cards thanks to my daughter-in-law (thanks Elisabeth!) she did a great job, I love it. Tomorrow is an extra day off and I hope to get some stamping in so watch for another upload tomorrow.