I Brake for Valentines!

Hello! I would love to share two Valentine Cards I made using stamps that are not created for Valentines.  The first is one of the newer stamps in the store, Huge Floral Background.  And it is huge at about 4.5 by 6.5 inches.  The second is the little snowdrop from Bubble Wrap, Lattice and Flower Sheet.  And lastly, the Love sentiment from Wedding Sheet.

First, I stamped the background in light pink.  I die cut out a heart in the center, and saved the heart for my second card.  I stamped, simply colored and fussy cut the snowdrops.  Here, I glued the base of the flowers down, but used dimensional foam tape to pop up the blooms over an embossed white background.  The entire panel was placed a light green card base, and I added a die cut sentiment.  

I could not just throw out the pretty heart, so I stamped the word LOVE on it, put three gems under and popped this up on an embossed background.  I think the simple detail of matting in black, and adding some sparkly silver ribbon, really makes this card pop.

I have already sent these cards out as Valentines, but I think they could also make a nice wedding card, or birthday card, if you just changed the color of the background stamp to suit your needs.

I hope that YOU have a wonderful Valentine’s Day!  Thanks for visiting as we love to share our love of stamping with you!

Heidi @MyLittleStampingBlog

I Brake for Valentines!

Hello!  I have a very traditional looking Valentine to share today.  I thought that the grungy look of the sentiments in the Old and New stamp sheet would look good with the Chalkboard technique.  That was my starting point for this card.

I heat embossed the sentiment, then smudged white ink around the edge of the panel.  After framing this out with another red die cut, I used some neat foiled patterned paper for the background.  My embellishment Kiss is also from the stamp set!  I thought this turned out nicely, and definitely the photos don’t do this one justice.

Thanks for visiting today!

Heidi @MyLittleStampingBlog

I Brake for Rose Valentines!

Hello from design team member, Heidi!  I hope you are doing well.  Today I would like to share a Valentine I made with a bit of a vintage feel.  

I first stamped the background using June’s Rose stamp in gold ink.  I stamped it several times to fill in the entire panel.  I then sponged Antique Linen distress ink to add a vintage feel.  

I then stamped my sentiment from the Wedding Sheet with hot pink ink onto some light pink kraft cardstock.  I stamped the heart in a very light pink.  I die cut the sentiment, and with the die still in place, traced the inside of the die with gold gel pen.  I also added Wink of Stella outside the gold line.    I stamped a second heart in the hot pink and trimmed it out, for an embellishment.

The stamps I used today can be found in the I Brake for Stamps Store

Wedding Sheet stamp set

June’s Rose

Have a wonderful day!

*** Heidi ***

I Brake for a Heart Cloud Bear !!

Hello IBFS fans !!!

It's Crystal here with a card that was "clearly " fun to make ,so let's get started .. My image is Heart Cloud Shy Bear

my card base is clear acetate cut 4 1/4" by 11" and scored at 5 1/2" then I cut one this size from candy hearts bazzill card stock, I then used a speech bubble cloud die to to cut the front flap in the colored card stock

I bought these speech bubble dies off a resale site not sure the brand

next I glue the colored card base to the acetate one  , next I cut a white pc 51/4" by 4" for the inside and then I stamp the Heart Cloud Shy bear with black ink and then used clear embossing powder of the black ink and heat set it , I do this because I like the black shiny color it adds , it really makes the image pop , I then copic colored the bear

I then glue it to the inside of my card

I die cut my sentiment from silver foil CS , added some enamel dots and some silver dots

die plate I used

I hope you can see I " Clearly " had a lot of fun creating this card , hope you try clear acetate for a card base for a fun peek a boo window to the inside.

For this image and may more great ones go check out the online store at www.ibrakeforstamps.com 

I Always Brake for Love ...

Hello IBFS fans !!!

It's Crystal here with a Valentines card , Feb 14 will be here before you know it so its time to order your stamps to make a card for your sweetie .I am using this Always with Love digi from Rick St Dennis , I Brake for Stamps store has lots of great stamps you can order  , I love the digi stamps to get an instant download ,but they have great red rubber stamps too , they carry thousands of great stamps so go look what they have . I colored my image with copic makers , the digi was printed from a Dell laser printer ( don't think I have ever told this , works awesome with copics )

my background was created with a love embossing folder and then I rubbed pink chalk over it , my image was colored and then cut out with a Brother ScanNcut , the coil flowers are a Time Holtz die and then fruit punch stickles ( My Fav ) added to them , the vine is a MFT die , glossy accents was added to the hearts in the background .Bakers twine was also used to wrap around the black layer several times .

I used these colors of copic markers

inside my card I used a sheet of pattern paper and added some flags and a twine bow  , I left this empty inside , it really can be made into any kind of card you may need .Wedding ,  Anniversary or just to drop a note .

Thanks for stopping in to see me today , I hope I inspired you to make your sweetie a cute fun card , show some love <3 <3 …

for this image and so many more visit the IBFS store  .

when you visit I Brake for Stamps store ,

 Crystal Lopez – Design Team member for IBFS

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Brake for my Valentine ..

Hello I Brake for Stamps fans !!

It's Crystal here and today I have a Valentine easel card I made using the Large Love Femme  . I love making these easel cards , they are like a pop up surprise and so fun to display . This card has clear plastic strips ( recycled clear plastic packaging ) that hold the hearts and they look as though they are floating around the image.

Thanks for stopping in ,I hope this card has inspired you to get inky with some rubber stamps today ,

for this image and so many more visit the IBFS store  .

Crystal Lopez – Design Team member for IBFS