A Sparkling Salutation

Here's another nontraditional Valentine's Day card icon. Cupcakes are still a popular icon and I enjoy incorporating them into my card designs whenever I can. Who doesn't like cupcakes?! The circle and scalloped circles dies were adhered to the cardstock with repositionable tape at the same time, cutting the frame in one pass through the BigShot.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamps: Inkadinkado (image & sentiment)

Papers: white cardstock (Georgia Pacific), shimmery pink cardstock (Bazzill Pink Cadillac), patterned (Basic Grey Bittersweet)

Ink: Colorbox Chalk Dark Brown, Memories Crimson

Accessories: Spellbinder Standard Circles Small, Big Scalloped Circles Small and Doubled Ended Tags, brads (stash), glitter (Art Institute Valentine & MS pink)

Chunky Glitter

I was pleased to learn that chunky glitter is still translucent enough to reveal the stamped image under neath, while giving the card more texture than regular glitter.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamp: Just Rite

Papers: white cardstock (Georgia Pacific), green & red cardstock (Bazzill), patterned (Reminisce)

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Tumbled Glass

Accessories: Spellbinder Circles & Scalloped Circles, ribbon (Fabricland), glitter (Elmer's), Copic markers

Spellbinder Nested Hearts

The new Nested Hearts by Spellbinders are just gorgeous. My only problem with the dies is their size. The largest one (used here) warrants a 6 X 6 card base, larger than most of the cards that I make. I thought the end result was worth the half sheet of pink cardstock. Lines of double sided adhesive were used for the application of the glitter.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamp: Inkadinkado

Papers: pink cardstock (Bazzill), patterned (K & Co.)

Ink: PSX Fuschia

Accessories: Spellbinder Nested Hearts, glitter (Martha Stewart Tourmaline), ribbon (Fabricland)

Watch for Falling Ice

This icicles border punch is one of my favourite and a perfect choice for this card. It completes the border of striped paper, brads and lines of glitter. I'm still debating whether or not I should have somehow made the snowman's heart red...

Natalie

Card Recipe
Papers: white cardstock (Georgia Pacific), blue cardstock (Bazzill), red cardstock (DCWV), patterned (Creative Imaginations)
Accessories: blue glitter (Art Institute), brads (stash), border punch (Martha Stewart)

Glitter Ribbon

Just as I used microbeads on the last card to create a ribbon border, I used glitter on this card. It also complimented the Liquid Shimmers I used to paint the stamped image. Once again, I framed it using the Distress Ink with the rectangular die adhered to the die cut.

Natalie

Card Recipe
Stamp: CTMH
Papers: off white cardstock (stash), blue cardstock (Bazzill) patterned (stash)
Ink: Versafine black, Distress Antique Linen
Accessories: Liquid Shimmers, Spellbinder Rectangle & Label Dies, glitter (Martha Stewart)

Switch Up

Though this patterned paper was from a soccer themed line, I coloured the cupcake and used a ribbon in the same colour of green.

Natalie

Card Recipe
Stamp: Stampendous
Papers: white cardstock (stash), black cardstock (stash), patterned (Doodlebug)
Ink: Staz On black, Colorbox Queue Chalk green
Accessories: glitter (stash)
Accessories: ribbon (stash), square & scalloped squares dies (Spellbinders)

Go Vertical

For a different "slant" on things, I stamped the sentiment horizontally instead of vertically. The strip of brown glitter underlines the words, guiding the eye to the design title. Trimming the heart die off at the edge of the card also provides movement in the design and leads the eye from top left to bottom right.

Natalie

Card Recipe
Stamp: Hero Arts
Ink: Colorbox Queue
Papers: white cardstock (stash), patterned papers (Basic Grey)
Accessories: brads (stash), double sided tape (stash), glitter (Martha Stewart), Spellbinders Regular & Scalloped Hearts

Glitter It!

Since the moon is white and the "curly Q's" in the patterned paper were sparkly white, I wanted to make the moon sparkle too. Glitter alone would have been too translucent; I first coloured the moon with a white gel pen. It dried immediately, allowing me to apply glitter glue and the glitter right away.

Natalie

Card Recipe
Stamp: Stampin' Up
Ink: Versafine Onyx
Paper: blue cardstock (Bazzill), patterned paper (Creative Imaginations)
Accessories: Signo White Gel Pen, irridescent glitter (stash), Spellbinders Labels, ribbon (Doodlebug), googly eyes (stash)