Inspired By All The Little Things #78

Since I started making cards a few years ago, I have met or connected with so many people in this industry who are some of the most wonderful, and encouraging people I know and the sharing is incredible. Today's card is in honor of a few of them and is for the challenge at Inspired By All The Little Things.

Not long ago, I admired this card made by my online friend, Nancy Penir. We visit each other's blogs but Nancy and I are on The Card Concept Design Team together. With our upcoming move, I took this term off from the Design Team, but I still like to see everyone's projects and I thought this card by Nancy was so pretty.  I asked her where she got the background die and she said it was an older Spellbinders die that isn't available anymore.  However, she offered to send me a couple of cuts.  I actually got them more than a week ago but the last 10 days have been so hectic that I haven't had time to even think about using one of them until yesterday evening.

I started by inking up using a stencil brush with some Sweet Blush Ink and then added an additional bit of ink in Lovely Lady. After that I added some Vintage Jadeite Ink to the leafy areas of the die cut. Once that was done, I ran it through my Xyron 5 inch Creative Station rather than trying to put a bazillion dots of adhesive on the back. I applied that to a 5 x 7 inch piece of Mint Julep Cardstock and then die cut the panel with my largest Stitched Rectangle Die from WPLUS9 which cuts a full A2 sized panel.  I adhered that to a top folding card base made from Stamper's Select White Cardstock.

Next, I die cut the middle sized heart from the Little B Stitched Hearts Dies from Stamper's Select White Cardstock and used more of the Sweet Blush and Lovely Lady inks with a stencil brush to apply soft color all over the die cut.  I gave it three good sprays with some Iridescent Gold and Sheer Sparkle Shimmer Mists.

Once I had let that dry, I started the heat embossing portion of the card.  To begin, I triple stamped and heat embossed the "love you" sentiment using Versamark and Antique Gold Embossing Powder from Simon Says Stamp. For a little touch to tie it all in together, I ran my Versamarker all around the outside of the heart then dipped it in the same Antique Gold Embossing Powder and heat set that. It gives the edge of the heart that gold touch all the way around.  I adhered that with Kokuyo Dot Runner which has been my favorite adhesive for many years, back to when I was doing a lot of scrapbooking and making multiple albums each year.  I was unable to find refills for quite a few years, I no longer had any refills left and was down to my last two full dispensers. Since then, Jennifer McGuire was able to find refills and now they carry the dispensers and the refills at Simon Says Stamp in both sizes.  I have both sizes.  The small is great for portability but the larger size lets me make many cards before I have to refill it.

I add a few Mint colored sequins from the Little Things from Lucy's Purely Peppermint Sequin Mix to finish off this card. I used Ranger Multi Medium Matte for this.

The supplies I've used are linked below for your convenience (Affiliate Links may be used at NO additional cost to you).

Cuttlebug Shop at: SSS	GKD Wild Wisteria Ink Shop at: SSS | GKD	Hero Arts Love Stamp & Cut Shop at: SSS	Kokuyo Long Dot Runner Adhesive Shop at: SSS
Little B Hearts Designer Dies Shop at: SSS	Little Things from Lucy's - Purely Peppermint Shop at: SSS	PTI Perfect Match Sweet Blush Ink Shop at: PTI	PTI Perfect Match Vintage Jadeite Ink Shop at: PTI
PTI Stamper's Select White Cardstock Shop at: PTI	Ranger Multi Medium Matte Shop at: SSS	SSS Antique Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS	Teflon Bone Folder Shop at: SSS
Sheer Sparkle Shimmer Spritz Shop at: SSS	Versamark Ink Shop at: PTI | SSS	Wagner Heat Tool Shop at: SSS	WPLUS9 Gift Card Layers Designer Dies Shop at: SSS

Love & Romance

There's a new challenge up at The Card Concept and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.  The image on the left is our inspiration for the theme of "Love & Romance" at The Card Concept and Simon's theme is "The Color of Love". I never need an excuse to use pink, but I do love to incorporate it into Valentine's Day projects.  Since I enjoy making cards so much, I love having all types of cards ready to go for each occasion and Valentine's Day is no exception.

I love the colors in this particular inspiration image and I wish I had a scrapbook store nearby so I could peruse the paper section for some paper that looks similar to this. It's got the French Country look to it and that's a style I love.

For today's card, I started with a top folding card base made from Stamper's Select White.  The Silver and Pink Paper is a sheet that found at Michaels in Dallas when I was there at Christmas. I only got one sheet because I tend to use a lot more gold than silver, but I think this is so pretty and elegant and I knew it would make a pretty card for just the right person.  The hearts are cut from an Accucut die that I have had for a number of years that cuts and embosses at the same time.  I cut these from Silver Cardstock and Lovely Lady Cardstock.

The sentiments both came from the Hero Arts Love Stamp & Cut Set.  I used Stick-It on both sides of a piece of White Fun Foam, then added the silver cardstock to the top of one side and die cut the whole thing to get the thick word die cut. I'm still not very good at working with Stick-It so I consider this more practice. The small little sentiment on the pink strip is the only stamping I did on this entire project. I used Versamark with Detail Silver Embossing Powder.  Once I had the card put together I added some Sparkling Clear Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. The ones I have are a mix of sizes in 4, 6, 8 & 10 mm all in one package.

This card was easy to put together once I decided on how I wanted my design to look.  It was simply a matter of die cutting and assembling.

Thank you so much for coming by today and checking out my project.  I love this theme so I hope to have time to make a couple more cards for this challenge. I'm thinking I need to make another of these for a young lady who is getting married in May of this year.  If you'd like to leave a kind of encouraging comment, I do read each and every one of them.