Big Flower Love Cards

 FOR THE LOVE OF CARD MAKING
Parting is such sweet sorrow.  

Today is Valentine's Day.   
Happy Valentine's Day!

This means my "For the Love of Card Making" series has come to an end.  Don't despair.  I'm not going anywhere.  I just have to find some new material.

Today is such a fun day for me.  In several of my previous posts, I used Purple Onion Designs/Stephanie Ackerman stamps.  And today, not only am I going to use another one of her stamps sets, I'm also going to use a matching Sizzix die.  The funny thing is that I have been buying Purple Onion Designs stamps for years, and it's only been recently that Stephanie Ackerman started designing stamps for them.  After I received the Heart Flower stamp, I realized that I had a die that was very similar.  Low and behold, Stephanie Ackerman created it for Sizzix.  What a small world.

 So...let's go over how to make them.  The top card was made by using Flowers with Stems.  I cut the flower, center and heart out of chipboard, and painted the flower and it's pieces with Ranger's Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers.  Once each piece was dry, I glued them together, and added Lime Green Stickles on the stem and Cotton Candy Stickles on the heart.

The base of the card, is a 3 3/4" x 4" pink cardstock panel adhered to a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" side-folded black card.  Next is a large decorative label cut from a die and chipboard and covered with an old book page, inked with Distress Ink Pads and edged with black ink.  Next, glue the flower and greetings to the large decorative label.

The next two cards were made with the Heart Flower .  I stamped both flowers on white cardstock with Jet Black Archival Ink, colored them with watercolor pencils and cut

out each one.  For the pink and yellow flower card, I used pattern paper and some vintage lace and put everything on a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" side-fold green card.

And for the purple and pink flower card, I used the Black Soot Distress Ink Pad to create a Wrinkle Free Distress background.  I mounted this to a black panel and adhered it to a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" side-folded pink card.  The two layers of the label were punched from black and pink cardstock using punches from Stampin' Up!/Sizzix.  I added some pearls to the label and to each corner of the watercolor panel.

And there you have it.  Valentine Day Love and For the Love of Card Making.  Have you made any of these cards?  I hope you enjoyed the series...I sure did.

Happy Valentine's Day!