Better Together Valentine Inspiration
Hi readers! Happy Saturday to you! I hope your weekend is starting out wonderfully! I’m so pleased to welcome guest designer Yoonsun Hur to our blog today! She brought some of our newest Simon Says Stamp exclusives from the “Better Together” collection to life in a really beautiful and unique way! Be sure to check all of these beauties out!
Valentine’s Day is a wonderful occasion to remember your loved ones with flowers and cards.
When I saw the pear image from the Simon Says Stamp Quite The Pear set, I instantly fell in love with it and I chose non-traditional colors to make a valentine card. YES! NO PINK here lol!
My masculine valentine card today, I made watercolor card. For the background, I stamped in VersaMark ink on the watercolor paper panel and heat embossed using Clear embossing powder. I then applied 4 different colored Distress inks – Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers, and Evergreen Bough– from the top using a wide brush and then painted the detail of pear images using detailer waterbrush. For the main image at the bottom right side of the card, I stamped the pear using VersaFine Pigment Ink Onyx Black and heat embossed it in clear. I then colored it with Distress inks and applied Zig Wink of Stella Clear for finishing touches.
SUPPLIES:
Wow! Quite the Pear Stamp Set is truly awesome. There are pears, a paper plane, a gumball machine, a cute cat, and even well-matched sentiments in it. For my card, I wanted to make it in a unique way. Hint? There is something secret hidden inside the square windows!
For the background, I made the white panel using Stitches Rectangles Die and cut 2 small square windows onto the rectangle panel using Stitches Squares Die. I then stamped the pear & heart images randomly using Fog Gray dye ink and then stamped the sentiment in black at the bottom side. For the images inside the windows, I stamped cat & gumball machine in black pigment ink and then colored them with water-based distress inks & watercolor pencils.
That’s not all! You can pull the ribbon and the card turns into lots of great sentiments on the inside. Too cool?! I had a lot of fun creating this design!
SUPPLIES:
To create this card, I was inspired by the story –not the picture- of the oldest (but best) movie ‘You’ve Got Mail’. As you know, Kelly (Meg Ryan) and Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) meet online and begin anonymous Internet romance. So, I decided to call my monsters ‘Joe Fox’ and ‘Kelly’. Hahaha :D
Supplies:
My second valentine card with Monster Hugs is a fun shaker card. Shaker card is very trendy and widely loved technique.
To create this card, I stamped all sentiments included in this set on the white panel using VersaFine Pigment Smokey Grey for making my own background. I then cut a circle window out using Stitches Circles Die and applied strong adhesive to the back of the panel and then placed acetate over the panel. I affixed the mounting tapes with no gaps to avoid my shaker card “filling” might escape through. For the main images in front of the window, I color monsters with Copic markers and cut balloons out of the glitter papers using Celebration Time Die for more fun on this card.
Love the pear card!
Yoonsun, these cards are awesome. You did an awesome job. I love the second card the most. I have to give that technique a try.
SUPER CUTE cards Yoonsun!!!
LOVE them ALL, especially your AWESOMELY INKY pears – WOW!!!
Fun cards. “You’ve Got Mail” is one of my favorite movies too.
WOW ~ such inspiration ~ thank you ladies! Loving the “BetterTogether” Collection :-)
Great cards! Thanks for the ideas and inspiration. ;-)
Oh so cute!!! love the lil monster cards……..so adorable!!!
These are the cutest cards. Great stamp set.
Such fun cards!
Great cards! Love them all.
Wow! Adorable cards!! I really love the background with the pears!!
Wow all so fun and adorable!! And I see lots of fabulous inking and water colouring too!!
Such cute Valentines! Love them all!
Inspiration to the max, along with an abundance of happy-making! Fabulous cards!
~c
What fun cards!
Completely ADORABLE! Love them all ♥ Thank you so much for sharing and the inspiration!
These are super cute! So fun to give to kids for valentine’s day.
Gorgeous cards!! Watercolor cards are always so beautiful!
Ack! I love them all!!! I can bombard my honey with a pile of cards!
These are all awesome!!
great monsters! very cool! so bright and lovely cards are made
What an amazing assortment of cards! Love all the watercoloring!
I just love the watercoloring with these cute stamp images!
I love those monsters….these cards showcase them perfectly!
Sooo Cute!!!love these cards! I can’t wait to try a shaker card,thanks for the inspiration.
Cute and fun!
Love these cute Valentine cards!
Like the slider card style & shaker card style.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
OMG these cards are so darn cute – love all of them especially the one where you remove the bookmark tag and find a message hidden behind:) Thanks so much for sharing such wonderful designs!
Having a bookmark with hidden messages is a fab idea! Love the watercolor look, too!
OMG! Cuteness overload!! (I think I´m gonna faint right now.) :-D
These are all gorgeous. Love the pullout tag and the monster shaker card. Brilliant. Hugz
Such a fabulous set of cards, beautiful coloring and the designs are fantastic!!!
Really cute cards. Love the shaker card. So many different sequins inside.
So many fun and happy cards.
Love the cards!!!! So adorable ;)
These valentine cards are so cute–and unique! Love the break from traditional colors for the “pair” card–very cool indeed!
A lot of fun going on in these cute cards!
All of these are really cute. I especially love the “We Make The Perfect Pear” card.
Awesome cards!!! I love the one with the pull out tag and will be making one like it this weekend:) Thank you!
Amazing water coloring!!! Beautiful cards!
Wonderful cards!! LOVE the background colors with the pears!!
<3 J
jwoolbright at gmail dot com
HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com
Thank-you for all of the inspiration!
Super cute – fun and sassy!
Love these creations!!…super fun and creative, thank you so much for sharing!!
Adorable cards, so cute! x
So cute
Super duper cute cards…love them all… can’t wait to create now..thank you for your awesome inspirations :)
The pears are so cute :)
what great cards as always