Friendship Valentine Card with Yana

Valentine’s Day cards, I think, are not just for the love birds, but can be given other people - friends, family, even co-workers.

Hello friends, this is Yana and today I’m sharing an example of such a card created using some older products from WPlus9.

I filmed a video tutorial showing my cardmaking process from start to finish.

Watch my video tutorial:

Watch above or watch in HD at YouTube

I wanted to use “Hugs & Kisses & Valentine Wishes” sentiment from the the Valentine Wishes stamp set for my card. I decided to alter the sentiment a bit and use large Whimsy Alpha letters to spell Hugs Kisses.

I stamped my letters in Falling For Blue ink, cut them out using companion dies and also created a banner stamped in Lake House with “Valentine Wishes" stamped in Falling For Blue.

After foam mounting letters and banner onto a Dove Grey cardstock panel I added selective dry embossing using my bone folder and scoring board just like I did in their post here; I’m rather enjoying this old technique these days - I feel it lets me easily add unique texture to my cards.

I also stamped and cut out images using Fresh Cut Florals stamp set. I used Silver Lining as well as Bloomsberry and Cockleshell ink colors for my stamping and added little floral details to my sentiment cluster.

Have fun stamping!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list contains affiliate links.

WPlus9 Whimsy Alpha Stamps Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Whimsy Alpha Dies Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Valentine Wishes Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Valentine Wishes Designer Dies Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Fresh Cut Flowers Stamps Shop at: WP9
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Scor-Pal Mini Scor-Buddy Scoring Board Shop at: SSS	Martha Stewart Mini Scoring Board Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS | SC	Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS	White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS | AZ
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Clean & Simple Valentine's Day Card with Yana

Some of you will say that it’s too early to even begin thinking about Valentine’s Day, not to mention make love cards! And you are probably right. But I honestly am a bit tired of the Christmas projects at the moment (I think I’m all Christmas-ed out in terms of making cards; I’m all into Christmas decor right now), so I wanted to make a quick Valentine’s Day card for my hubby and step away from the Holiday cardmaking. Be sure to save this post or pin this card idea and come back to it before February 14th.

I used two stamp sets to create this card - a stunning floral heart from the Fresh Cut Wreaths stamp set (see more inspiration using this set here - I simply adore it for elegant & simple cards and Valentine’s Wishes set for the sentiment.

I stamped my wreath using two colors of ink - Last Leaf and Appletini (I inked up the bottom portion of the wreath using the darker green) and added flowers in Little Piggy & Cranberry Crush. I just wanted to have pinks and green on this project although this wreath is designed in such a way that you can easily stamp flowers using different ink colors.

I also stamped a banner and sub sentiment onto a separate piece of paper and cut it out using a companion die. Together with the main sentiment stamped inside the wreath it reads “”Love You Still. Always Have, Always Will”.

To add texture to this card I used my scoring board and added simple score lines every half of an inch avoiding the wreath area. So easy to do and the result, I think, is stunning. This might be my new favorite technique. We’ll see!

I adhered my stamped and scored background onto an A2 side folding card base, foam mounted my die cut banner on top and added a tiny pearl onto every line crossing to add a bit of elegance to this card.

I can’t say this a guy Valentine’s Day card, but I love the way it turned out, so that’s the card my hubby is going to get!

Have fun stamping!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list contains affiliate links.

WPlus9 Fresh Cut Wreaths Stamps Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Valentine Wishes Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Valentine Wishes Designer Dies Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Little Piggy Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Cranberry Crush Dye Ink Shop at: WP9
WPlus9 Last Leaf Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Appletini Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS	Tonic Ivory Seashell Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ
Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ	Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Martha Stewart Mini Scoring Board Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ

Modern Anemones in Pink and White with Yana

Hello friends! This is Yana and I hope you are having a fabulous week!

For today’s project I created a friendship card using gorgeous flowers from the Modern Anemones stamp set.

After stamping my images in black alcohol marker-friendly ink onto white paper I went to Pinterest and looked up various colors of anemones. I spotted a lot of white and also a few pink and decided to go with both color options for my card.

I picked several Copic markers for my coloring and used the following:

• C1 and C3 to color white flower
• C7 and C9 to color black flower centers
• RV13, RV11 and RV00 to color pink flowers
• YG17, YG03 and YG00 to color leaves

I also used the same pink colors to color a banner from the Valentine Wishes stamp set which housed the “You’ve Got A” part of my sentiment.

After using companion dies and cutting all of the images out in my die cutting machine I arranged them on a 4 Bar card base. The background of my card felt a bit too stark so I decided to add some light pink ink blending. I masked the bottom and right edges of my card base with washi tape and used Little Piggy PURE COLOR Dye Ink for the blending.

I stamped the second part of my sentiment - “Friend In Me” directly onto the card base and foam mounted my die cut images on top. Some were adhered directly onto the card using glue, some popped up using one foam square thickness and some using two to create different levels of dimension.

Lastly, I added several dots in black and neon pink using Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Have fun stamping!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list may contain some affiliate links.

WPlus9 Modern Anemones Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Modern Anemones Die Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Valentine Wishes Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Valentine Wishes Designer Dies Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Little Piggy Dye Ink Shop at: WP9
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