Love Antennae

Today's card was made for several challenges:


I used a Penny Black image called Love Antennae and the Day 7 sketch from Card Positioning Systems.

She was colored with Copics and I Stickled her wings, then fussy cut out leaving a thin white border. The sentiment is from Papertrey ink and the folded heart piece behind her was cut using Make The Cut, my Zing and a fabulous file that I got from the Make The Cut Forum. Many thanks to Bryan for coming up with the original file and to Nelda for the altered file which I used today! Isn't is just awesome?!

This is also for the following challenges:

• Cupcake Craft - Pink and Red
• Stamp with Fun - Love
• Lollipop Crafts - make a Valentine's card
• Copic Creations - use a heart and Copics

I hope you like it and TFL!

Bubbly

Today's card is actually really small - only 3" x 3". It was made for a few challenges, the first of which is 7 Kids College Fund - make a 3x3 love inspired card:


I used an image from the Penny Black Bubbly clear stamp set and sketches from both Card Positioning Systems (turned from a rectangle into a square) and Sunday Sketch and Stamp, which had really similar sketches.

I colored my hedgie with Copics and did a slight bit of shading with colored pencil. The doily diecut is from My Favorite Things and the baker's twine is from Timeless Twine.

This is also for Paper Sundaes - Valentine's and Truly Scruptious - Love and Hearts.

Layered Sunflower

Even though we moved into our new house way over a year ago, I still haven't unpacked all my craft stuff!! (Yes, I have way too much stuff!) So I was going through some boxes and came across a bunch of stamps I forgot I had! This sunflower image is from Penny Black and I got really excited when I found it because I could color with my Copics and do a bit of paper tole!

The little bee is from My Favorite Things. It's in the Bundles of Bouquets set and I think it's just the cutest little thing!

I stamped the image 3 times to get all the layering I wanted. You can see from the close-up picture that I popped up the whole flower head (and offset it so it looks like the flower has more petals), and then just the center. I did just a tiny bit of shaping for even more dimension - curled the edges of the top layer of petals and then made the center somewhat rounded.

It's a little hard to see, but I also popped up the top and bottom rims of the pot. For those, I just put a few layers of scrap cardstock underneath so they wouldn't stick up too much.

And then I put the entire thing on foam tape so it would float over the dotted background (sorry for over using the Swiss Dots background but I just adore the way it looks!!).

Other materials used: white cardstock - Georgia Pacific; yellow cardstock - Stampin' Up!; Black Graphite Brilliance ink - Tsukineko; Copic markers and clear Spica glitter pen (on the bee wings)