For Someone You Love at Sparkles Monthly

Animals, Craft Roulette, Holidays, love, masculine, Ocassions, Seasons, Slimline cards, Taylored Expressions, Valentine's Day, Winter

Hello friends!  I hope that you had a great Valentine’s Day yesterday however you chose to celebrate it!  We chose to stay indoors where it’s warm and watch a movie!  

And speaking of love, this brings us to the February challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and for this month, our hostess is asking for a “Love Card (for anyone you love)” .  Be sure to stop by the blog to see what the rest of the design team has created for you.  Here’s my project for this challenge:

Aren’t these heart sweaters adorable?!  I had fun making a couple of cards to send to my kids (whom I love) for Valentine’s Day.  I was actually able to create two similar cards using a stencil set that allows you to make 4 sweaters at one time.

I love the Taylored Expressions Sweater Weather Stencil Set that you can ink blend up to four different sweaters at once.  This had previous come out for Christmas, but in December, they came out with a cute Valentine line to go with this stencil.  So I gold foiled a panel from the TE Foil It-Valentine Sweater Weather pack and then to decorate the sweaters, I used the TE Dinky Decorations Valentine die set.   I wanted more hearts, so I die cut a few extra to place around the background.

Speaking of the background, I used the TE Lots of Love 3D embossing folder and then sponged a bit of white over the hearts so they stood out a bit more.  I also die cut the A2 Thin Frame die for a gold mirror frame.  The sentiment came from the TE Love & Hugs stamp set. 

And here’s a closer look at the other card I made.  I know I could’ve used just one sweater for each card, but I thought these sweaters were too cute, so I decided to use all of them!  I’m thinking one of my sons would probably wear a sweater like one of these and the other would think it’s ridiculous! LOL  Regardless, at least they each know that they are loved by me!

I also had these fun TE Snarky Valentine Insiders panels that I gold foiled.  I have to share some snark with those I love too! LOL  (Click on the photos above to enlarge them if you’re on my website.)

 

I thought I’d share another card I had made for someone I love that was given to my husband for Valentine’s Day yesterday.  (Sometimes, I have to wait until he gets it before I share!):

This pup and his boing heart hat cracks me up!  Look at that face!  I actually made this last month during a Craft Roulette challenge.  I decided that I liked it so much that I put a Valentine greeting on it for my husband to give him on Valentine’s Day.

I used the Taylored Expressions Puppy Love (retired) stamp set and colored in this cute pup with Copic markers and die cut him out.  I stamped the TE Gingham Check BG Stamp in black ink over red cardstock.  I splattered some white Copic Opaque over top.

For the lace, I white heat embossed the border stamp from the TE Flip the Lace stamp/die (retired) over the Toffee cardstock and placed beneath the check background piece.  I added a black strip between the two and then popped the dog on it.  I stamped the “Seriously” from the pup stamp set and the Valentine greeting from the lace stamp set together and fussy cut them out to pop up with foam tape on the card.  I added a few white hearts around the pup.  The entire card is a mini slim from a pre-cut and scored Toffee card base.

  • Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope that you enjoyed these “love” cards or have been inspired to make and send a card to someone you love too!  I look forward to seeing what you share in the gallery this month!  

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Challenges:

  1. Critter Crazy – Anything Goes With a Featured Creature (Bottom card only)
  2. Crafty Animals – Anything Goes + Animal (Bottom card only)
  3. Pearly Sparkles – Love is in the Air
  4. Crafts Galore Encore – Anything Goes
  5. Crafty Calendar – Hearts
  6. 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes with optional: Lots of Love
  7. Crazy is Our Fame-Stencils Are Our Game – Pinks &/or Reds + stencil (sweater cards)
  8. Make My Monday – #245 Love (bottom pup card)
  9. Crafty Gals Corner – #264 Fill in the Blank:  “Pink________” (sweaters)
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31 thoughts on “For Someone You Love at Sparkles Monthly”

  2. Your Valentine’s Day cards are wonderful! The Taylored Expressions Sweater Weather Stencil Set and the gold foiling create such charming and unique sweater designs. The details you added with the TE Dinky Decorations Valentine die set and the Lots of Love 3D embossing folder make them extra special. The card for your husband with the playful pup and his boing heart hat is absolutely adorable. Fantastic work!

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  3. Those cars are fantastic Vicki. I can’t believe the plaid and the lace are both stamped. I thought the lace was lace and the red plaid was red plaid paper. The pup is adorable and so are those sweaters. I hope you had a great. Valentine’s Day and everyone loved their cards. Hugs to you my friend- Erika

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  5. Your sweaters are absolutely darling, now you have ‘enabled’ me to go and check out the site, thanks, I think, LOL.

    Thanks so much for joining our challenge at Stencil Fun!

    Diane SAF Co-Owner

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  6. OMGoodness, these are all adorable! I totally love all the TE products you used… you REALLY need to be on her design team! Sounds like you and the hubs had a good day yesterday. Sometimes it’s fun just to do nothing but stay at home and keep each other company… or craft, at least! Bahahahaha!

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    1. Thank you friend! You’re too kind! I’ve been infatuated with TE products the last few years and I have a collection to prove it! LOL Glad you had a relaxing time with…er without hubby!! LOL

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  8. Such a cute pup – I’m sure he loved it! I really like the sweaters, too – what a brilliant take with stencils and foiling – they’re really fabulous! Thanks so much for playing at Make My Monday!

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  9. Such cute cards!!!! I wore my Valentine sweater out to dinner last night – got lots of compliments. I’ve lost so much weight, I actually found my sweater in the girls department last week! Anyway, love the sweaters, and that sweet dog made me smile out loud!!! Hugs, Pj

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  10. What beautiful, cute and fun cards Vicki..that little dog is so cute and look like she is extremely in love..lol..and I love the lacy embossed detail along the bottom. Your little jumper cards are adorable and I love the red and pink, hearts and arrows, so gorgeous..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  11. Fabulous cards and Valentine sweaters, love the little envelope with the heart-gorgeous card for your husband with the beautiful lacy border and cute little pug with his teenager–yer whatever expression lol-love it.

    Carol x

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  13. This is a first, I’ve never seen inside sentiments foiled! Love the way you did the lace on hubby’s card. And I would have used all the sweaters too, so adorable. Hope you are having a good rest of the weekend, xoxo

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  15. What fun cards! The sentiments really made me smile and I love the little dog too – perfect ❤️. You die cut jumpers are fab, I bet they took some time to put together 😊. Happy and creative wishes! Hugs, Jo x

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  16. these are all so cute, I love the one you made for your hubby. You guys seem like so much fun…I love the plaid (him in mind perhaps and lace you in mind perhaps) and the dog just because he is so cute!

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  20. Hi there, those are wonderful cards and perfect for last month’s Crafty Calendar Challenge! I’m sorry that I’m late with my commenting. Sarah – DT, Crafty Calendar Challenge.

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