Friday, January 26, 2018

Masculine Valentine Set


Hi, Friends......

I have been busy making cards lately and have several that haven't been blogged, so today I am trying to catch up a bit. This is my second post of the day. I hope you will look HERE at my other one, too. :)

Earlier this week I saw a wonderful valentine made from collaging a bunch of patterned paper scraps that had been sitting on the blogger's craft desk. It was gorgeous!! AND I WISH I REMEMBERED where I saw it!!!! ARRRGH!!! (Why, oh why did I not Pin it so I could find it later?????) If I remember (unlikely) or run across it again (slight chance) I will post the link. It was a girly valentine in pinks and vintage scraps....so romantic and pretty. Anyone have a clue whose it was???

Anywaaaaaaaaaaay.....I was inspired to make a set of masculine valentines with the manly scraps that were sitting on my craft table! Here's a close up of one of them. You can see the set of four at the bottom of this post.


I had a lot of fun dusting off some long-neglected Unity stamps to use on these cards. I stamped directly onto the patterned paper collaged background and collaged heart, not worrying (too much) if the images turned out perfect or not. :) I added a few Nuvo drops for fun as finishing touch.
Supplies used include:
Serendipity - Heart Scroll stamp and die set
Sizzix - Thinlits TH Mixed Media die set
Assorted Unity valentine motif stamps
Versafine Ink in Smokey Gray
Lots of patterned paper scraps
Core'dinations cardstock
Twine from my stash
Tonic Studios - Nuvo Crystal Drops in Pink Raspberry

In my effort to make multiples of my cards, I made a set of four of these. Each one is a little different....(Ha!..maybe in more ways than one!!! lol...)....and I love how they turned out. I will save my favorite for my hubby and the others will go in my box of cards I'm selling to help support the family help center where I volunteer. Yay!!

Hope this gave you some ideas on how to make fun masculine cards, valentines or other, and use a bunch of scraps at the same time. Thank you so much for stopping by!!! Have a great weekend.

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card (top one) in the following challenges:
1. Mod Squad - Valentine/Love (must use red)
2. DL.ART Thankful Thursday #221 - Love or TY
3. Crop Stop January Linky Party #36 - Anything Goes use a product from company CS sells (I used Core'dinations cardstock, Sizzix dies, and Tsukineko - Versafine ink)
4. Pixie's Snippets Playground Weeks 317-318 - Use Snippets
5. The House That Stamps Built - J2418 Anything Goes
6. CARDZ-TV - Anything Goes Challenge #32
7. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Layer It
8. Word Art Wednesday #318-319 - AG
9. Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - January 

9 comments:

  1. How fun!! What a great way to use some scraps, and the stamping on top really draws them together! Thanks for playing with The House That Stamps Built.

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  2. Beautiful collection of hearts cards I love the heart beat stamp I think I have that one.
    Thank you for entering the DL.ART THANKFUL THURSDAY challenge # 221 “LOVE” or Thank you” for this challenge. Have a blessed day
    DIANA L.

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    DL.ART DESIGN TEAM MEMBER
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  3. What a great way to use your scraps -- to create awesome masculine Valentines! So happy you linked these up to The House That Stamps Built, AND to the Cropstop blog as well!!

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  4. These are wonderful Janis. Ànytime you can use scraps up and turn them into something this nice is a great day. Well done.

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  5. Oooh Janis - these really are lovely! At first I thought you had four fellas on the go :) Wonderful use of snippets.

    Hugs

    Di xx

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  6. Ha! Very funny, Di. :D
    Well, actually, if you count my gentlemen cats.... ;)

    <3
    Janis

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  7. haha to cat to care! so funny!
    Wonderful card!
    hugs

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  8. Wonderful set of masculine cards, love them. Thank you so much for participating this week at the Mod Squad Challenge

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THANK YOU so much for taking the time to leave a comment. Your kind words encourage me so very much!!!

Have a lovely day!
<3
Janis