Happy Valentines day

Here is the years Valentine, bird crazy!! With oil pastels and a few extra stamps round the outside

Happy Valentine's

Here is the card I made for Valentine's Day this year.

I got a set of alphabet masks, so I used those to create the love, and I used a heart mask in place of the V as well, using distress ink over the top of the masks. I stamped a heart in the background which was a free one from Craft Stamper. I used part of a stencil to create the X's with some acrylic paint and I added a few fibres of Hessian and glued it down with a gem on top. Of course inked round the edge as well :) Oh and there's a little silver gloss paint on there two, looks white on the photo though!

Happy Valentine's Day

This year I decided to throw the whole red theme out the window and came up with this card instead..

I created the background with Dylusions sprays and then stamped some Tim Holtz stamps in archival ink (blue) and the red heart was a free stamp from Craft Stamper.......and then I put two Paper Artsy stamps together to create the greeting! Oh and there's a few swipes of one of the metallic distress stains as well.....the silvery one I forget the exact name now but it adds a nice metallic finish anyway.....then as usual a little walnut stain round the edge and then a touch more (I think it was Salty Ocean) round the edge of the card itself. My new technique is to do all my inky messiness on paper instead of card seems to work out much better with less curling etc.

This was this years Valentines day card. I made some UTEE embellishments; the two hearts were made by using silicon moulds which is really good fun as you can put things like glitter, perfect pearls and micro beads in the bottom of the moulds before you pour the UTEE in and some of them will adhere on to the embellishment when it sets e.g. the glitter on the red heart; and then I poured clear UTEE on to thesaurus pages through a metal cookie cutter which I really like the effect of.

Oh and the background stamp was the one free on the cover of Craft Stamper magazine!

Thought I would post some old stuff I have made....so I have got a record to look back on...

 This was a Valentines day card from a couple of years ago....a cross stitch......the design was out of a magazine....

Here were the cakes and chocolates I made for my boyfriend for Valentine's day that's just gone.

I went for chocolate overload......chocolate cake, chocolate buttercream and chocolate decorations.....oh and I added banana too.....and I can tell you they tasted yummy!!