A final CAS Valentine ... ... ...

I’ve made too many red love themed cards over the past couple few weeks lol!  I’ve put my Barn Door ink pad away for a while.  As much as I enjoyed making love and valentine themed cards I got a bit bored of the theme. 

I love the CWC Candi heart but he didn’t!  It took me a while to stick foam pads to the back of those Candis and then I had to take the top layer off and stick them in position – but he didn’t like it. 

Then I made, what I thought, was a gorgeous kraft card and red heart valentine – too brown for him!  In fact he didn’t like any of the cards I made for the challenges at that point and I seriously started to think about going out and buying a card.  I’ve not purchased a card for more than 10 years – but that was how desperate I was at one point lol! 

Because I was sorting out my old stash and stuff I finally had an idea!  I wasn’t sure if I could pull it off though, very clean, no way could I hide any mistakes and had to be patient and wait for the ink to completely dry before putting those chipboard hearts anywhere near that pristine white card and before I forget I want to share that card. 

Now there is a very cute little crochet heart there.  The card didn’t look right with two heart embellishments.  It needed a third heart which is a small one – and I cannot crochet!  Vicki, aka Blush Crafts, had a giveaway on her blog and I was one of the lucky recipients – four gorgeous crochet hearts.  When they arrived and DH saw them and said ‘They’re cute. You won’t use them’.  I have used one on his valentine card.   I will use the rest but on projects I get to keep!

I knew exactly how I wanted the card to look and unusually, this time, it turned out exactly how I wanted it to look!  Quite CAS but elegant and classy, well at least I think so! 

Enough waffle here is 2013’s final Valentine card … … …
 

9" square card 

CWC chipboard hearts and a cutie crochet heart

 

Clean and Simple

 

One of the crochet hearts I won from Vicki http://blush-dolly.blogspot.com/

 

 

Not too busy on the inside

 

A final look.

I’ve made quite a few cards the last couple of days – found a tonne of images that had been coloured and ready to use – so you will be seeing some of them over the next week or so!

 

I’m really hoping I can make it to card club tomorrow night.   When my back is bad and the RA is flare I have to take more medications and that can affect my driving.  Because my back was damaged in two previous car accidents (we were rear ended twice) I won’t take any risks to myself or more importantly to any other person!  Enough of that whining lol!

Thank you for taking the time to visit and comment on my blog – I really do appreciate it!  Hopefully I will be able to catch up with everyone this week – hope you are having a good one!  I’ll be back later on this week with some new Design Team creations!

ttfn Karen x 

 

 

Challenges

http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ CMC#14 is love that I’m feeling

http://cardsformen.blogspot.co.uk/ #3 all my love

http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/ #6 anything goes

http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ red and white anything goes

http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.co.uk/ #3 hugs and kisses

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ #51 ribbon and bling

http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.co.uk/ love is in the air

http://theprettylittleribbonshop.blogspot.co.uk/ #19 anything goes
 

Tools:

Papermania: Entwined Hearts boot punch

Papermania: Relative clear stamp

Unknown: ‘I love you’ and ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ rubber stamps

Old stash:

9” square card blank – this was huge – glad to be using those up! *

White card

Tim Holtz Distress ink pads: Barn Door

Decorative chipboard hearts (on the inside) *

CWC chipboard hearts

Hobbycraft Red self adhesive gems

Red organza ribbon *

Double sided tape

Foam pads

New stash:

Red card: local stationers

Crochet Heart: thank you very much Vicky http://blush-dolly.blogspot.com/ 

* old stash no idea when or where purchased