I have to get this post written up very quickly before the feline fur babies awake and see me posting something featuring a puppy! Here are two more of the Valentine cards I've done by recycling vintage Valentines from the box I found hidden under who know how many tons of supplies when the craft room was getting packed up and reorganized.
I especially love these two and put in quite a bit of work on them. Let's start with the puppy.
Starting from the card base and working upward, the background dp came from Paper House, trimmed to fit the front of an A2 size card. I had some lovely, glittered ribbon scraps in my stash which I think came from Crafty Ribbons.
I dug out a set of doily dies from Spellbinders, and cut alternating layers of white and pink doilies (all cut from scraps), offsetting them as best I could. Once all those were layered together with foam tape, I added the hand cut puppy to the top of the stack.
I added one of my signature bows to the bottom of the card front and called it finished.
Challenges:
Here's the second card with a sweet cupid image.
I put silver glitter on his wings, and I used a rectangle die from QuicKutz top cut the image from the front of the old card, then inked the edges with ProMarkers to enhance the distressed look. I 'dyed' a white doily with a dark brown ProMarker so that the image piece would pop. I had two scraps of ribbon, one in hot pink and the other a golden brown. I decided to put the doily between them and then wrap them around a piece of background dp (also Paper House.)
The image went on top and I make a double bow but sewing two hand crafted bows together. The final touch was a tiny, epoxy flower in the bottom corner of the image. I hand wrote the sentiment in the opposite corner.
Challenges:
Aloha Friday
Brown Sugar
Crafter's Castle
Crafty Calendar
Crafty Catz
Creative Fingers
Happy Craft
If You Give a Crafter...
Polkadoodles
Time Out
Happy Crafting.
NanaConnie
