Playing with my Heart die's

    I spent some time just cutting hearts from different papers and then played with layering them in different ways. I have always admired Lovely Linda Lucas and her spellbinder creations so I used her as a inspiration for some of the cards I made using my hearts. I am sharing 2 that I made but I am entering one of them in 2 challenges one is Mod Squad and the other is MFT sketch challenge.
   I used spellbinders dies Vines of passion and Lace Hearts and Annalee embossing folder from Couture creations for both cards and the red small hearts is a die from Top Dog dies, love is from paper smooches.
    I die cut the card with a accucut die and embossed the card front. The red hearts fit perfect in between the embossed design. I die cut the lace heart from some pretty aqua blue paper I had and the lace heart from cream.I cut the word love from the same red paper as the red heart stripe.I added a strip of the aqua blue paper under the scallops.
   The second card I used pearl paper and metallic paper.I love the way they look so elegant and it was so easy! I embossed the white pearl paper and then added a few dots of glitter pen by Viva to look like small flowers on the vine design. I layered the pink lace heart on the gold and then positioned the lace pink under at an angle.
   I hope you enjoy both cards and dig out your dies and your fancy pearly papers or play with some other color combo's like the aqua blue and red.
     Have a great day and I have a few more cards I will be posting later this week.
Donna
" When I stand before God at the end of my life, I hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and I could say,"I used everything you gave me" Erma Bombeck Writer

A simple black and cream valentine

 

   I wanted to play with the stamp set I have from Raisin Boat called Free as a bird.  I wanted to keep it simple so I embossed the bird and cages with a pewter embossing powder and die cut it with a fun heart die from Nellie they fit nice as this is a longer style heart. I then embossed the bottom of my card  that I had die cut with an accucut die and added a black print paper from my scraps. I cut a small stripe of silver paper and added a black washi tape on top to pull the silver out a bit.I die cut the word love with a paper smooches die. I added a small stripe of the black printed paper under the scallop and I was done. Not your traditional Valentine colors but I do like the simplicity and the elegant feel of this card.
    I will be entering this in Raisin Boats Challenge # 30 Love is in the air and MFT sketch challenge Be sure to stop in and see the other wonderful cards that the talented paper artist have made at both of these wonderful challenge blogs.
   Thanks for stopping and I hope this black and cream card helps you to think out side the box for your Valentine ( Wedding/Anniversary) card making.
Donna

" When I stand before God at the end of my life, I hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and I could say,"I used everything you gave me" Erma Bombeck Writer

Red filligree heart card

I love the pop of red in this card. I die cut the heart from Kraft and then the filigree overlay in red ( spellbinders die set). I added some red pearls to make it pop. I embossed half the card with an embossing folder and added a fun Kraft and white word paper on the bottom.( Bo Bunny) I added a stripe of red card stock to divid the 2 and a few more red pearls.
   I hope you find some time to play with your heart stamps and dies. It is good for your soul to play with hearts.
  Thanks for stopping.
Donna
" When I stand before God at the end of my life, I hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and I could say,"I used everything you gave me" Erma Bombeck Writer

Golden filligree hearts card

This is such a pretty elegant card great for Valentines Day,a wedding ,or a 50th Anniversary card. It was fast and easy to make. I stamped the background stamp ( JustRite Elegant Fronds) on a pearl paper with versa mark ink and then I embossed it with gold embossing powder. I also did the same on some scraps,which I die cut with a spellbinders heart die.I die cut the pearl paper with a scalloped rectangle spellbinder die as well as a gold card stock with a rectangle spellbinder die. They were all layered on the white card bace and small pearl flowers were attached to the center of the hearts that I layered on the card with mats.
  I wish the picture would really highlight how pretty the pearl paper is with the gold embossing.
  I will be entering this into JustRites Background challenge and Stamp T.V.s Valentine Challenge.
  Thank you again for stopping.
Donna
" When I stand before God at the end of my life, I hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and I could say,"I used everything you gave me" Erma Bombeck Writer