Mon Cheri Valentine!

Bonjour mes amis! Valentine's Day is less than a week away and I have made hardly any Valentine projects this year. I love making cheery and happy Valentines - you can be super cute and funny or more serious and classy. Today's card is of the fun variety! Happy Friday! Now that my studio is organized I can actually find exactly what I'm looking for! In this case, some adorable cherry stamps from Avery Elle. I have all my clear stamps organized by company now (YAY) and there they were, right in the stack. Whew. That feels good. It was a hard week so I stayed busy crafting and blasting music in the studio so I would keep my mind occupied. I made a lot of cards evidently. LOL. My husband will be home from his business trip tonight and then he took next week off so we could be together. I cannot wait.

Today's card has design elements from several different companies...some Simon Says Stamp things, MFT dies, Avery Elle stamps... That's how I craft when I am not working on a specific assignment. I like to combine and mix and match what I have here in the studio.

This finished card is a 4.75 x 4.75 square cut from pretty red cardstock. The big white circle fits perfectly into the square and this card will fit into an A6 envelope for mailing. I did some stamping, some Copic coloring, and some embossing! This card has a bit of everything.

I started by making my square card base. Then I stamped the cherries (so cute right) in Memento Ink. Then I went over to the die cut machine and die cut the cherries, the words and the circle piece. I like to die cut everything at once and then bring it all back to my table. I also die cut before coloring in case I happen to mess up the die cut!! Then I colored the cherries with Copic Markers. I used a white gel pen to add a bit of accent.

For the card base, I wanted to add some visual interest, but I didn't want to use patterned paper. I used a stamp and stamped with red ink onto the red paper creating this look below! I like how there is something going on in the background but it doesn't take away from the focal point.

I love this Taylored Expressions Cherry Pop red ink! Oooh la la. Here is what my card base looks like underneath everything else. That red is messssy!!! (Or maybe I'm messy)

These are the Copic Marker colors I used. Just a few reds and greens.

The die cut of the words is glued down with a glue pen and my tweezers. I was able to move the die cuts into a shape that went with the circle. I left room for my little cherry couple on the bottom.

The mon cheri words come with the cherry stamp set. I heat embossed the words with white embossing powder onto black cardstock and attached it to the top of the circle. Lastly I placed the cherries on with foam squares.

Have you finished your Valentine cards? Are they already mailed? It's a fun holiday, not too serious around here. I am lucky to be spoiled most of the time. I think on Valentine's Day I will ask for a drive to the ocean. We'll see what happens. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I'll be back on Monday morning with something cool to share. XOXOXO