Red Rose Heart-Shaped Flower

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Here's one of the 4 cards I made for the PSA Essentials Blog Hop. A few weeks ago, I was sent a box with so many lovely products to work with: Prima Marketing flowers, Helmar adhesives, and ribbons from Reasonable Ribbons. My goodness, does Prima make the most gorgeous flowers! I punched out a red heart shape and glued red roses to the cardstock (I first trimmed off the wire stems). The ribbons I had been sent were all brown, taupe, and tan colored, so I used a green Copic marker to dye the ribbon a green color. It worked! I had never tried doing that before. I stamped the PSA image and then added some Diamond Glaze to the heart for some added interest.

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Card Ingredients

Stamps: Bouquet Toss (PSA Essentials)

Paper: white (Papertrey Ink), Real Red (Stampin’ Up), Garden Variety paper (Cosmo Cricket)

Ink: Holiday Red, Espresso Brown (PSA Essentials)

Tools: Large Heart Punch (Stampin’ Up), Tim Holtz Distressing Tool (Tonic)

Other: Diamond Glaze (JudiKins), gold cording (from Peru), Painterly Petals Floral Embellishments (Prima), ribbon (Reasonable Ribbons)

XOXO Love

Hi everyone! It's been a bit of a bad morning. This morning I noticed the freezer door of the refrigerator we have in the garage was open. I'll have to throw out all the food it contained. Ugh! When I was walking Kalino to school, he tripped and fell scraping his cute forehead, nose, and knee. Oh my! There was very minimal blood, but the poor kid was scared. He's always afraid he's going to die when he gets injured. I had to assure him he was fine. We walked back home to clean him up. He's resting upstairs.


Well after all that drama, here's a card I made for PSA Essentials to celebrate love and Valentine's Day. I wish I would've trimmed the edges of that nice ribbon (it bugs me now!).

This card uses stamps from the Bouquet Toss set.


Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.


Card Ingredients
Stamps: Bouquet Toss (PSA Essentials)
Paper (all Stampin' Up): Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, patterned paper
Ink: VersaMark (Tsukineko)
Tools: Scoring Board (Martha Stewart), 1.75" circle punch (Stampin' Up), 2" circle punch (Fiskars), Heat tool, Corner Rounder (We R Memory Keepers)
Other: Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, foam tape (3M), white embossing powder, Red/Cream ribbon (Stampin' Up), rhinestone frame (Heidi Swapp)

Love, Love, and More Love

I hope you had a great weekend. I spent what felt like most of the day on Saturday taking down our Christmas tree and packing up all Christmas related items. The Little Guy was extremely sad. If it was up to him, the tree and decorations would stay up all year.

Here's a card I designed for PSA Essentials using the Bouquet Toss stamp set. I stamped the image many times using Tuxedo Black Memento ink. Without paying attention to staying in the lines, I colored the hearts with different Copic markers. I cut out each heart and adhered each to a white card base. For added interest, I covered one of the hearts with Crystal Effects and let it dry overnight.

Here's a closeup to show how I used Crystal Effects on one of the hearts and some dimensional adhesive to lift the heart off the card.

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Bouquet Toss (PSA Essentials)
Paper: white (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukinenko)
Tools: Scoring Board (Martha Stewart)
Other: Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, Copic markers, foam tape (3M), Diamond Glaze (JudiKins)

Instructions

1. Create a 4.25" x 5.5" card base.
2. Repeatedly stamp the heart on a separate pieces of white cardstock. Use Memento ink since it will not smear with you color in with Copic markers.
3. Color hearts with various Copic markers.
4. Trim out each heart.
5. Use Diamond Glaze on one heart and set aside for dry completely.
6. Arrange hearts on card and attach to the card base.
7. For texture, use dimensional adhesive to attach the one heart.