Hi Everyone. Happy Valentine's Day.
Tonight's card is dedicated to my darling hubby, whom I love dearly! This Ever After card is one of the Valentine cards he will be receiving today!
I used the sketch challenge from stamping411 and the crazy4challenges challenge to make a predominantly red card in celebration of Valentine. Why don't you click on the links and see inspiration cards from the talented design teams and participants! I guarantee you will find lots to stimulate your creative juices. You can see my other Ever After cards here
Card recipe:
- The base is metallic gold
- The next layer is Real Red. I ran this layer through my Big Shot and used a texturz plate. You can see the scroll detail if you look above the bow. I'm still having trouble with my photo editing software and have downloaded a trial of another product and will try playing with that tomorrow! It's driving me crazy that it's washing out these rich lush colors!
- I have a strip of the gorgeous paper from the Sending Love DSP pack that has hearts and glitter already on it 🙂
- I stamped the heart from the Ever After set (113401) onto Very Vanilla using Real Red classic ink
- I attached the focal image onto a layer of Real Red using dimensionals. I adhered this to the metallic gold using snail.
- I ran some of the fabulously rich and luscious satin Real Red Ribbon underneath the central image and around the back of the DSP and Real Red layers and adhered with snail.
- I stamped "4 you" and "love" from the Tiny Tags and punched them out with my Jewelry Tag punch.
- I made the bow from the same Real Red satin ribbon and put 3 mini glue dots behind the bow. I adhered the front of the tags to the glue dots behind the ribbon and then applied that to my card.
The gold of the card stock and the gold in the DSP look fabulous together and the Real Red ribbon and the DSP are just so rich….. I wish I could let you feel it and hold this card in your hand. My photo really doesn't do it justice.
I hope you all have a day filled with love, laughter and get to spend quality time with those that you love the most. Thank you for taking time in your day to visit my little area of the stamping blogosphere. Your visits are always much appreciated.
Hugs
Jaydee
6 Responses
This is me hootin and hollerin! Wow! This is absolutely Stunning! I love the ribbon and the tags, and that pretty heart! Great job!
So rich and Beautiful!!!
What an elegant valentine!!! I love everything about it!!!! The colors…the stamps…..the ribbon…it’s perfect!!
I don’t know how I missed this card…it is GORGEOUS! What a Valentine! You must really love this Lou of yours. Your card is so elegant, I really like the ribbon and the tags. I think that the card being all one color with just a hint of gold is what makes it! You have done a great, wonderful, super fantastic job with this one. It just screams Romance. Love it!!!
((Cyber Hugs)) Trish in Wisconsin
This is so rich and elegant looking. Really very lovely!
Jaydee — beautiful card. Love the red and gold together. Thanks so much for playing along with the Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge. We hope you’ll be back for more soon! Blessings, Gretchen — http://www.gretchenbarron.typepad.com