I wanted to try something a little different for this 'Valentine'! I combined the new Sweetheart products with some animal print paper from the retired pack, "Expedition".
I used the stamp set, Wild Thing.
Inside the card it reads,
"You make my heart sing!"
CTMH has a new product available, a spray pen. You mix water, re-inker color of your choice, and a bit of peart paint to basically create your own glimmer mist. I tried it out last week to create some Valentine cards. I hope you can see it in the photos...I masked off a circle that will appear white and then sprayed my mist with Baby Pink re-inker.
This first card uses Sweetheart papers and the new epoxy embellishments, as well as some chipboard hearts.
Today I finished the gift album I have been working on. Our pastor & his wife will be grandparents for the first time and I wanted to make something special.
Title page:
A grandchild is a gift from above, one to cherish & to love.
Great joy comes in seeing our family enter another generation.
I thought I had forgotten how to hold a baby...but my arms remember.
God gives us Grandkids to keep us young at heart.
Grandchildren are loving reminders of what we are really here for.
Baby just another word for love.
A family is a gift that lasts forever.
Baby face, you've got the cutest little baby face!
Now I lay me down to sleep.
A gift from above.
I don't know why...but masculine cards are harder for me to design. I was pushed outside my comfort zone today, as we have some nephews with birthdays coming up soon.
The first card uses some themed basketball papers I had on hand and the stamp set 'Shootin Hoops'. I also added a basketball button for dimension & fun!
This next card is for our nephew who loves to hunt. The stamp set is appropriately called 'Hunting' and uses Back country papers.
This last card features CTMH's Route 66 papers. That is one of my all-time favorite paper packs!
I tried to keep their individual interests in mind while I created each one.
Hope they like them!
I have had another test of my patience since yesterday. NO internet! That makes me very crabby! Thankfully we are up and running now so I will quick post before anything else happens!
We have friends who will be grandparents for the first time this spring, so I wanted to make them an album to have ready when the baby arrives, so they can easily record all those 'Firsts'.
Yesterday I finally got started with the first page:
I also LOVE the new Bohemian Alphabet stamp set! I used it to spell beautiful. It is available to order now!
I just had to get out and finally dig into my new Spring products from CTMH! I used the new Sweetheart Paper Packet and the stamp set called Card Chatter-Love. The colors are Baby Pink & Cocoa Brown. I also used a Martha Stewart border punch...love my punches :).
Close To My Heart has some new button collections that feature these fun shaped buttons that are on the front of the card.
