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Love Love Love

Hello! It IS Love week, with Valentine’s Day sneaking up on us soon. Today I am sharing a card I love with some new stamps I love!

These are the Bold Caps Outline stamps, and I offset the Bold Caps Solid stamps in reds and pinks on the top. It’s such a fun look!

I added some enamel hearts and a red glitter background frame.

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!

Hope you enjoyed this project! See you soon with more love cards. 🙂

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Easy Ombre Valentines

Hello! Can you believe Valentines Day is less than a week away? Today I have some Valentines cards to share with some of my favorite techniques.

I have a video of the easiest Ombre tricks to share, watch it below or on YouTube:

Which card is your favorite?

For the Ombre card I used the pink hybrid inks in four colors. These are already in Ombre order to make things extra easy. I love that! Each ink gets progressively darker, and when you use a large stamp (like the XOXO stamp) with a MISTI stamping tool, you can produce the easiest Ombre Valentine card ever!!

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!

Hope you enjoyed these Valentines! See you real soon with more card inspiration.

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Kissing Moon with Plaid

Hello! Today I have another card share using the January 2020 Hedgehog Hollow Kit. I love this moon image, it looks like he’s blowing kisses! So I paired him with some hearts, a simple plaid inked background, and a “sending Love” sentiment.

To make the plaid background, I first stamped the watercolor look stamp using some light blue ink. Then I chose a striped stencil to add some lines (both vertically and horizontally) with a darker blue ink. Using a finger dauber made it easy to keep the plaid lines within the stamp.

Kissing Moon

Then I stamped the moon image with black ink and heat embossed it with clear. I colored him with a yellow Copic marker and fussy cut it. I added it to the card with foam adhesive.

I heat embossed some hearts with blue glitter embossing powder and added a white heart as a shadow behind them. I added a few glitter stars.

The sentiment is white heat embossed onto black cardstock. And I finished it all off with some teal foil paper as a frame around the entire card.

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!

I hope you enjoyed this project! See you soon with more inspiration.

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Pegasus Love

Hello! Today I’m up on the Scrapping For Less blog sharing some cards made with the Prancing Pegasus stamp set and beautiful Fairy’s Garden paper pad.

For my first card, I inked up the background with some Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberry and Dried Marigold. Then I splattered on some white pearl watercolor to give it more of a magical feel.

I stamped some of the stars from the same stamp set on the background using the same colors of Distress Oxide inks. They are a little difficult to see in the photos, but it adds a subtle detail.

I colored up the Pegasus with Copic markers and added some sparkly stickles to the wing. I die cut some clouds from my stash and added WOW! Sparkle glitter to the smaller ones. This is some WOW! glitter I got to preview at Creativation and oh…I love it!

That frame is from the diagonal paper in the paper pack and it adds just the right touch! I stamped the sentiment on strips of teal paper and popped it up with foam tape. This is for sure a “magical” birthday card that is fit for a princess!

For my second card I knew I wanted that Pegasus to be running on top of a rainbow. So I glittered up a rainbow and added it to a pink polka dot background from the Fairy’s Garden paper.

I colored the Pegasus’ mane, tail, and wing in the same rainbow colors with Copic markers. Those butterflies and leaves are cut from the paper pad as well! I was so excited to see those butterflies in there and they were so perfect for this rainbow card!

I added some clouds to the card and stamped the sentiment “For My Princess” with pink ink.

I added the Pegasus with foam tape to give it more dimension. I also folded up the butterfly wings just a little to so they look like they are flying!

I hope you enjoyed these projects today! I really loved making them. I’ll see you real soon with some more inspiration.

Kari VanNoy
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Watercoloring on Dark Cardstock

Hello! Today I have some secrets on how to watercolor on dark cardstock. If you’re anything like me, you use white cardstock a lot for your cards. Adding dark cardstock as a background is a fun way to get a different look!

This large moon from the Hedgehog Hollow January 2020 Kit is one of my favorites…and it inspired today’s card!

Without the dark we’d never see the stars

I’ve shared all the secrets in my video below (or watch it on YouTube):

When you use these secrets, you are sure to get a stunning card!

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!

I hope you enjoyed this project today! I’ll be back soon to share some news from Creativation!

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