Bubble Wrap For My Valentine!

Are you sick of Valentine's cards already?  Not me! I thoroughly enjoy making cards and things for my loved ones. No card is better than a handmade with love card! I started designing this card around Our Creative Corner's Sketch Challenge "hip to be square", and then I took a gander at  Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stamper, where she had a "bubbles" challenge. I had no bubble stamps or images that I could  think off, and the doily lace I chose to use on the card was perfect for four large bubbley, circley things. So being one in the morning and ready to give up, I decided to walk away and go to sleep, but a funny thing happened on the way to the bedroom. I stepped on a package of glass hearts (ironic...and phew, none broke) wrapped in B-U-B-B-L-E wrap. Epiphany!!!

I sanded the dots on the paper and distressed and inked the sides, then folded it in half.  I trimmed the doily in a square shape, and stamped the letter image stamp on it in Pumice Stone.

The bubble wrap was cut into four circles and Pitch Black Alcohol Ink was applied.

I adhered the doily and bubble wrap to the card. I inked the heart with Brick Red Distress Ink, and stamped dots (Snow Cap Paint) and letter image (Black Soot Ink) on it. I applied Crackle Accents to the black portions.

The before and after.

The wings and crown were painted with paint dabber and crackled with Rock Candy, and inked with Pumice Stone. The numbers are coated with Crackle Accents.

 

Supplies:
Basic Grey: Laser-Cut Doilies

The Paper Studio: Metal Number Stickers

From My Stash: bubble wrap

Core′dinations Jenni Bowlin Brown & Cream Collection	Glitz Whatnots	Maya Road Chipboard Wings	Maya Road Chipboard Crowns	Accoutrements 2 - Buttons	Glitz Background Stamp Set
Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint	Pumice Stone Distress Ink	Black Soot Distress Ink	Fired Brick Distress Ink	Pitch Black Alcohol Ink	Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool
Glossy Accents	Crackle Accents	Ink Blending Tool	Snow Cap Acrylic Paint Dabber	Silver Acrylic Paint Dabber

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon! 

Lovely, Little, Red Valentine Tag

Happy Saturday crafters! The Artistic Outpost has a monthly challenge called the Referral Program. They have  revamped the Referral Program for 2012, and it started today, February 1st. Each month they will post a challenge theme on the blog along with inspiration from the Design Team.  To participate in the challenge, you'll need to use Artistic Outpost images along with the theme to create your project, and then add your link to the Monthly Referral Program post.  The challenge will be open for the entire month, and you'll be able to enter as many times as you wish.  At the end of the month they'll have the Random Number Generator pick the winner, and post the winners name on their blog.  The winner of the monthly Referral Program will receive an Artistic Outpost Prize Package!  The first Theme Challenge is "Shades of Red", and you have until February 28, 2012, to enter and hopefully win some yummy stamps! 

Here is the tag I created for the Referral Theme Challenge (shucks, I can't win the prize). I used the Lovely Day stamp set. I am also submitting this little beauty (I named her Hannah) to the "embellish it" challenge at The Stamp Man.

I stamped Hannah and her bicycle images with Archival Ink in Jet Black and colored them in with Glaze Pens, Watercolor Pens, and a Marvy red marker, and then cut them out. The sentiment was stamped in Festive Berries Distress Ink and heat embossed with Fired Brick Distress Powder, then given a coat of Crackle Accents. For some reason the Crackle caused the sentiment to bleed and blur underneath. I think this was due to a  Distress Ink reaction, but I am not entirely sure, and will have to research that. Any opinions, please let me know.

I had this scrap red paper that I tore out of a  Somerset Studio Magazine. I embossed it with the Valentine Background texture fade, and then inked it with Black Soot Distress Ink. I adhered it to a tag, although I went with a black one instead of manilla.

I used Red Pepper Alcohol Ink to color the button rose.

Black paper lace die cut from Tim's Vintage Lace Die and a gold foil doily were added to the tag and trimmed off. I bunched a hole in it and adhered the button, and tied the wire to the button hole on the back making a loop. Hannah and her bicycle were adhered and embellishments (roses, glittered cut out hearts, ribbon) were added.

Supplies:
Wilton: Foil Gold Doily
The Paper Studio: glittered red cardstock
Uchida Marvy: Red Pigmented Marker
From My Stash: red wire, red  and white cardstock, ribbon, wooden heart (given to me)

Lovely Day Stamp Set	Valentine Background & Borders Texture Fade	Accoutrements - Buttons	Fired Brick Distress Embossing Powder	Watercolor Pencils	Sepia Glaze Pen
Red Glaze Pen	Blue Glaze Pen	Crackle Accents	Ink Blending Tool	Black Soot Distress Ink	Vintage Lace Die
Glossy Accents	Jet Black Archival Ink	Winter 2011 Distress Ink Pack	Red Pepper Alcohol Ink	Black Glaze Pen	Surfaces Black #8 Tag

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!