Kool Kitty Musings: DCM - My Sweet Valentine

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Friday, 11 February 2022

DCM - My Sweet Valentine

Morning!

This week over on the Daring Cardmakers blog, Dawn is setting the challenge and the of course with Valentine's Day just around the corner that's the theme!

Plenty of scope for reds and pinks and hearts, of course.

As I don't make Valentine's cards, I switched up the theme slightly to celebrate Galentine's Day which is on the 13th of Feb.

Here's the card I made:

Stamps: Concord & 9th - You Matter, MFT - My Galentine
Dies: The Stamp Market - Heart Happy Cover, Neat & Tangled - Scored Shapes (r), The Stamp Market - Postage Stamp

I knew I wanted to keep things clean and simple, so my hearts would stand out: enter the Happy Heart cover die from The Stamp Market.

It's designed to be a thin heart frame on a card front, but I had lots of the hearts already cut out from previous projects, so instead of using the frame I stamped on the hearts in different shades of pink and red using the You Matter stamp from Concord & 9th, and pieced the hearts back into the frame on my card front, before removing the outline.

Finally, I added a simple sentiment from MFT on the mini postal die cut and cut another from grey cardstock and used my craft knife to turn it into a frame.

But crafting time wasn't over just yet....

Concord & 9th - You Matter stamps Shop at: SBC \| SHC	MFT - My Galentine stamps Shop at: SHC	The Stamp Market - Heart Happy Cover die Shop at: MISC	Neat & Tangled - Scored Shapes dies (r) Shop at: MISC \| SHC
The Stamp Market - Postage Stamp dies Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Blush Pink ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Bubblegum ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Cheeky ink pad Shop at: MISC
The Stamp Market - Cherry Kisses ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Cotton Candy ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Peony ink pad Shop at: MISC	Versafine - Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ \| EH \| SBC
Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: EH \| SSS	Simon Says Stamp - Fog cardstock Shop at: SSS	The Stamp Market - Lipstick Red cardstock Shop at: MISC	Tonic Studios Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: AZ \| EH \| SBC
Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH \| SBC \| SHC	MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH \| SBC	Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ \| SBC	Sizzix - Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ \| SBC
Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ \| EH \| SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ \| EH \| SBC

While I had the coverplate die out, I made another card with the same ink colours and more of those heart cutouts I had left over from previous craft sessions

Stamp: The Stamp Market - Everyday Greetings
Dies: The Stamp Market - Everyday Greetings, The Stamp Market - Heart Happy Cover

This time, to add colour, I pushed the heart cutouts into the ink pads to cover them with ink - the colours come out a lot darker using this technique as the card soaks up a lot more ink.

So I had to leave the hearts to dry out properly before I could stick them back into the coverplate outline. I used 3D foam tape this time to make them pop up more from the coverplate outline.

Finally, I added a small greeting from the Everyday Greetings set from The Stamp Market and added a few sequins to finish it off.

Make sure you check out the Valentine's project from the rest of the design team here, and play along if you can!

The Stamp Market - Everyday Greetings stamps Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Heart Happy Cover die Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Everyday Greetings dies Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Blush Pink ink pad Shop at: MISC
The Stamp Market - Bubblegum ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Cheeky ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Cherry Kisses ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Cotton Candy ink pad Shop at: MISC
The Stamp Market - Peony ink pad Shop at: MISC	Versafine - Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ \| EH \| SBC	Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: EH \| SSS	Marvy Jewel Picker Shop at: AZ
Tonic Studios Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: AZ \| EH \| SBC	3M Scotch double-sided foam tape Shop at: AZ \| EH	Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ \| SBC	Sizzix - Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ \| SBC
Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ \| EH \| SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ \| EH \| SBC

Posted by Handmade by Natty at 10:00 AM in Cards, DCM, Made in 2022 | Permalink

Tags: Concord & 9th - You Matter, MFT - My Galentine, Neat & Tangled - Scored Shapes (r), The Stamp Market - Everyday Greetings, The Stamp Market - Heart Happy Cover, The Stamp Market - Postage Stamp

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Love both of your cards. The hearts look fab in all the different shades.

Posted by: Dawn Barwick | Friday, 11 February 2022 at 12:44 PM

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