Valentines Card

 

Today I am showing a Valentines Day card. 

I embossed the red panel with a heart embossing folder. I die cut a rectangle postage panel from a nesting die set. On that I added a die cut envelop out of brown cardstock from and Alexandra Renke set. I then die cut hearts from various die sets in 2 tones of red card stock as well as some mini hearts in white. I added some foam tape on the back of the white panel and adhered it to the embossed heart panel. I then added this to a kraft card base. For the finishing touch I added a homemade sentiment that says "I Am Sending You All My Love" if you translate it to English. I figured this would make a nice card for Valentines.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Kaartjes Inspiratie #215 - Valentijn
The Dream Factory  #146 - Love Actually

Till next time
Renate

A Floral Card

 

Today I am showing you a floral card. There is a little story as to how I made the background so read on it you are interested in that.

I don't have a hot foil machine. I have several die cut machines but none that I can use the hot foil machine with so I came up with another solution and to find out if it would work you need to try it right. So here is what I did to get that gold foil border on my background.
I printed a green colored digital paper from Nitwit Collections. It was from the collection Snow Family. I used my inkjet printer for this part. I found a nice border graphic on Creative Fabrica and I then placed the background paper I just pinted into my lasterjet printer and printed the border in black onto the background paper I just made. I then added a piece of gold foil onto the background paper and ran it twice through my heated laminator. I then couldn't wait to reveal it to see if my idea work. Guess what it did. It looks so beautiful and shiny. If in future any of my current machines will need replacement I may buy a Spellbinders machine but for now it works like a charm.

So and for the rest of the card I used the leaves of Papertrey Ink Into The Blooms Anemone set. I inked these with Distress Ink Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain and added some pearls on it. The flowers I made some time ago so I don't remember the brand. I was giving glitter centers a try and I saved them to use later and they were perfect for this card. The white panel is from Papertrey Ink Reflections September die. I added some white sheer organza ribbon through it. The Love sentiment die is also from Papertrey Ink and I cut it out of gold metallic cardsock. 

So that was quite a story to tell on this card. I hope this will inspire you to make your own foiled backgrounds without owning a hot foil machine.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Kaartjes Inspiratie #209 - Flowers/Bloemen
CD Sunday Plus #165 - Anything Digital Goes
The Flower Challenge #105 - Add Embellishments
Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral Goes
Creative Uncles #68 - Anything Goes
Dragonfly Dreams August 2025 - Lots Of Layers
Creative Inspirations August 2025 - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations August 2025 - Anything Goes
Creataliciious #292 - Anything Goes Optional Bling
Ally's Angels #97 - Anything Goes

Till next time
Renate

Challenge Card

I wanted to try my new flower stencil.

I die cut a postage collage panel from Waffle Flower and added non sticky tape of all these borders. I then used my the Winter Rose stencil by Gina K Designs to make the beautiful 2 tone blue rose. I used Distress Oxide ink in the colors Stormy Sky and Blueprint Sketch for the rose and Bundled Sage and Mowed Lawn for the leaves. I also used some postage stamps of Waffle Flower. I die cut the Love sentiment in gold and added two white layers underneath to give it some dimension. I put a black panel underneat onto a white card base.

I entered the following challenges:

Make My Monday challenge #245 - Love

Creative Inspirations February 2025 - Love Is In The Air

Creative Knockouts #540 - Love/Valentine/Anniversary/Wedding

Gem Of A Challenge - Anything Goes

Knutsels en Kadootjes - Echte Post is Leuker

Ellibelle's Corner #23 - No Designer Paper

Till next time
Renate