Late Valentine Share and Looking Into Future With More Calendar Months!

Animals, Holidays, Other Than a Card, Seasons, Spring, Taylored Expressions, Valentine's Day, Winter

Hello friends!   (Long post with lots of photos!!)

I wanted to share the Valentine card I made for my hubby on Valentine’s Day yesterday, but I couldn’t share it on my blog until after he got it because he can be known to be a “stalker” on my blog to see what I’m up to!!  LOL!

Vicki-BMLoveBug-Valentine

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I’ve colored up these “wasps” with Copics and for the wings and hearts there is a bit of shimmer on them as you can see in the photo.  For that I have used the Aqua Pigments Valentine Collection plus the Aqua Pigment Pearl for the wings.   I heat embossed the sentiment from the stamp set with EP and I cut the banner myself with scissors and mounted it over the card with the Foam Tape. The little wooden Convo heart accent was added too.  Lastly, I took some Nuvo White Crystal Drops and added a few dots here and there around the hearts.

I’ve cut the “wasps” out with a stitched circle die and mounted it over some cardstock from the kit that was cut with a scallop circle die.

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So, for the background of my card, as I had mentioned above, I used the stencil in the background which is a huge heart with several hearts inside of it.  I took some Ink and sponged it over my white card front background.  I was able to take some Nuvo Moonstone Glitter Paste and go over it to add sparkly dimension to it!  LOVE how it turned out!  I stamped a couple more hearts in the bottom corner and colored them the same as the hearts with the “wasps” using the same Aqua Pigments collection.  I also added more dots with the Nuvo White Crystal Drops.  I layered this onto a piece of red cardstock and cut it out with a scallop rectangle die and then mounted this entire design onto an A2 sized top folding white card base.  The envelope underneath was used to house the card in and I embellished it with some heart glitter stickers that was included in the box as well.

Challenges I’d like to enter this above card for:

  1.  Crazy 4 Challenges (C4C470) – Valentine’s Day Card
  2. Crafty Cardmakers – Love, Love, Love
  3. Always Fun – Love/Valentines
  4. Tuesday Throwdown – Falling Hearts
  5. Try it On Tuesday – Romance
  6. Crafting By Designs – Love is in the Air
  7. Crafty Gals Corner – Love is in the Air (Add a Heart)
  8. Creative Knockouts – Love is in the Air

Now if you remember this post I had a few weeks ago where I had started (late of course) making up my calendar pages for 2019 to put in my stamp room, I needed to make up a couple more of them as the time keeps on ticking….

Vicki-TE-March and April Grumplings Calendar

LOL!  These cute Calendar Grumplings from Taylored Expressions so crack me up! 🙂

Oh, I can’t believe we are getting ready to look into the month of March soon!  I think after having so much cold, ice and snow, I’m about ready to see some pretty flowers in my back yard! Yay!

Vicki-TE-March Grumplings Calendar

So, here’s my March calendar and like the entire calendar card set, I’ve used the Taylor Expressions pre-made 3×4 Calendar set for 2019.  I’ve cut down this panel very slightly so that I could mat a black piece of cardstock behind it.

For the image area, I’ve used a rainbow die from Lawn Fawn and cut it out in several different colors to create rainbow strips which I’ve added to the backside of the black scallop frame from the TE Build A Scene – Calendar 2 die set.  I’ve also cut out a strip of grass from the Build A Scene – Calendar die set.  The sentiment (from the same stamp set) was stamped with black pigment ink and clear heat embossed over a strip of vellum which I cut into a banner with scissors and then attached it to the corner of the black frame.

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Here’s a closer view of the image panel.  I colored the image with Copic markers and then cut it out with the coordinating TE Calendar Grumplings die set.   I’ve also added some Nuvo White Blizzard Glitter Drops over the clover.

Vicki-TE-April Grumplings Calendar

And here’s my April Calendar card using the same stamp set, coordinating dies and 2019 pre-printed calendar cards.  I slightly cut the edges to mat the blue cardstock behind it as well.  I’ve used this same color of cardstock to cut the frame from the TE Build A Scene – Calendar Dies.  I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of white cardstock and made a banner with my scissors and attached it behind the frame on the top left side.  (I’ve also used this same die set to cut a couple of clouds and sponged some gray ink at the bottom of each one.

For the bottom of the frame, I took a piece of vellum and cut out that piece from the Build A Scene – Calendar 2 dies.  I took a glitter brush pen to add some sparkle to this piece of vellum, so it makes it look like a “rain puddle” he’s standing in.

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For this elephant image, I also colored him up with Copic markers and cut him out with the coordinating dies.  I attached him along with the clouds over the panel where I wanted them to be.  I cut out some “rain drops” with vellum but ended up not being able to see them very well, so I took the Nuvo White Blizzard Glitter Drops and went over them and then created more “rain drops” with it….I ended up liking that effect better, but I had already attached the vellum and just decided to leave it and go over them.  LOL!

There you go, that just tells you that I’m either getting old and my sight is failing me or I just have been continuously crafting until I’m blinding myself!!  ha!

I hope you’ve enjoyed my crafty makes today and I will be back again tomorrow to share a special post with you for a VERY special cause and I hope you can join me to share in this event!!  So please be sure to come back tomorrow!

Have a great Friday evening and thanks for dropping by!

Published by *Vicki*

I'm so happy you found me! I love to share smiles with my handmade cards! I also enjoy papercrafts through art journaling, scrapooking and mixed media projects too! Thanks for stopping by!

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26 thoughts on “Late Valentine Share and Looking Into Future With More Calendar Months!”

  1. I am sure your husband love his Valentine Day card, it is so cute. Your little grumpy characters sure make an adorable calendar.

    Hugs Diane

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  2. Gorgeous little love wasps Vicki and I love the sparkly heart background..the grumpy elephant and duck made me laugh..great rain drops too.

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  3. I do love the glittery stenciled background. The bugs are so sweet. I ‘m sure this was much appreciated! I might check out the subscriptions. I haven’t done any subscriptions yet, but it would be kind of fun.

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  4. Vicki, your husband’s Valentine card is gorgeous! The little bees are so cute and I love the sparkle on the wings. The hearts within a heart stenciling is awesome! I love the card! Your March and April calendars are great with the fantastic images! Great work, my friend. Hugs!

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  5. Perfection! wow three delightful pieces of eye candy for us today!! I love love love those darling little bees highlighted by all that sparkle! and your calendar pages are simply awww-dorable!

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  6. Adorable Valentine’s card for your hubbie!
    Love your calendar months. Great coloring of the cute images.
    Have a great weekend!
    xxx Margreet

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  7. Simply FANTASTIC ist this terrific card Vicki – WOW! And your calendar pages are awesome! Such a fantastic calendar !!! Thank you very much for joining us over at Try It On Tuesday! Happy weekend! Susi

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  8. Love your hubby’s Valentine card – the stencil background makes this card – totally. And then the calendars they are just too cute – especially love March. Yes it is going to beMarch soon – as long as there is a weather change I won’t mind. We got up to about 6 inches of snow this am and more expected tomorrow am. Seems like Mother Nature shares her wrath on the weekends. Have a good weekend.

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  9. Your Valentines card is gorgeous, like the sweet image and that sparkly background is stunning! Your calendar pages are adorable! Have a wonderful weekend!

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  12. Once again, I’m going to stalk your posts! Have fallen WAY behind again. We leave for DC on the 21st, so be prepared – I’ll be MIA from blogland again 🙂 ANYWAY…..I love your Valentine’s card for DH, and I bet he did too! I made the little fish card for mine, but couldn’t say so, as he sometime reads my posts. He did like it – very much! Your calendar pages are just darling – what a happy craft room you must have!!! Photos sometime? Hint??? Hugs!

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  14. that is some mighty fancy stenciling on your hubby’s valentine and it turned out to be so stinkin’ cute! Those grumpling calendars just crack me up and I’d have to be constantly smiling if I had one of them to look at every day! Hope your Valentine’s day was a good one!

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  15. This card is unbeelievable-hee hee-sorry for the pun. But this is a super cute card and I love the bees a lot as well as that neat heart made of hearts image you used. This is a great entry over here at Try It On Tuesday. Thanks for joining us. Hugs-Erika

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  16. What a cute Valentine Vicki, I love that sweet image and the gorgeous sparkly background! Your calendar pages are adorable, I love the fun images and fabulous designs!
    Hugs, Tammy

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  18. The Bugs Vaslentine Card for your Hubby is way so cuuutee
    love the heart big heart behind theme so adorable glittery heart Vicki
    and the calendar way too cute and makes me laugh hihi
    love this post
    see you Maybe around sweet friend
    hugs
    Monika

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  23. Cute, all of them. The valentine’s card for hubby I’m sure was a hit! My favorite one is the March calendar page. I can relate to it. Luck, what is that? Lol. Great job on all three projects.

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  24. Gorgeous valentines card! So much detail. And I don’t know what that paste is but it sure makes for a beautiful background. And yes, I remember your first 2 months to your calendar, and these 2 are just as adorable! Little pieces of art.

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  25. I love these two darling little bees, Vicki! They make perfect love messengers. 😀 Delightful March and April calendar pages, too. 😀

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