Valentine's Card

Thank goodness for the Card Concept's "Love is in the Air" #108 and Sunday Stamps SSC198 lovely sketch, both of which arrived in time for me to make a Valentine's Day card for my husband. I ended up making two colourways, and liked both. (With any luck, he won't remember the card and I can give him the other one next year!)
I'd call the card clean and layered: a stripped back version of the sketch, in which I responded to the colours and clean lines of Card Concept's photo inspiration.

Ingredients:

Stampin' Up! card (Whisper White, Merry Merlot, Crumb Cake, Basic Black), white embossing powder, stamp (Sure Do Love You), dies (Lots to Love Box Framelits), enamel shapes, Corrugated embossing folder.

Other: white kitchen string

Love Heart

The current sketch from Thank God It's Friday (#tgif159) made me think about hearts, so that's what I went with, when making this card. To do the clouds I had to fight my brain's spatial ineptness, so it took me a while to work out that I should use a die to make cloud shapes in post-it notes, then use the hole rather than the shape to sponge onto the card, first onto white card at the top, then onto previously sponged card, in the same colour, to make the v-shape at the bottom. Phew!

Card ingredients:
Stampin' Up ink (Pool Party, Lemon Lime Twist, Melon Mambo), card (Lemon Lime Twist, Pool Party, Shimmery White), stamps (Heart Happiness, Sure Do Love You, Lift Me Up), dies (Rainbow Builders, Up and Away, Lots to Love Box), enamel shapes

Monochromatic hearts

I got a box of Stampin' Up goodies today, so dived right in and used some of them to make this very simple thank you card, responding to CAS(E) this Sketch's Challenge #261 and Less is More's 'monochromatic' themed challenge #366. I decided to go for a muted purple palette - my thank you cards are often very cheery and I thought it would be good to have a few on hand for more subdued occasions.
The card:

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