Coral & Grey for Valentines day

I wanted to try different colors for Valentine's. 

I really liked the Coral with grey and with some embossing in the back it all came together. 

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Cause it will get better

I put this card together pretty quickly, only because I had the bigger flowers from the SU! Pop Up Posies Designer Kit, in the current Sale- a- bration catalog! Easy peasy! 

 

I used a challenge I never have before. It helps to have a few stamping buddies that open your world up to all sorts of challenge in the big Bloggosphere that you don't normally do. This one has been bookmarked for future use. :) 

So the SPARK challenge at Paper Smooches  challenge--use this picture above as your inspiration for your creation. Create anything with polka dots as the focus or as part of the design! Follow it closely or use it loosely...just have fun!  

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OH MOTHER!!!!

Mothers day is quickly approaching and I will be out of town, so I needed to mail my card to my mother, which translates to making a card for her!!! Oops! 

 

What I love most about this card... besides the Coral color, and the Bordering Romance set, is the sentiment in the middle. ..it reads

You have been my inspiration,

my confidante, my friend.

Because of you I've learned to love, to forgive 

and to live 

a life filled with purpose. 

While I have been  absent from my blog, I still have been touching rubber... just in a sad, sorting kind of way... With the new 2012-2013 SU! catty revealed June 1, they have quite a retirement list.  I sorted my retired stamps, and sadly will miss a handful of them dearly. So 100s... HUNDREDS of stamps are ready to find themselves new homes... to be loved, be inked, and enjoyed! 

With this being said, it was time to get my other retired stamps out of the way... I am talking stamps that I have owned since 1998. YES! I was a stamper then too! For sentimental reasons, I cannot seem to part with my first SU! foam stamp set.  Oh well! 

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Uniquely Yours

Normally, my kids get non-traditional cards for holidays, such as Valentines... just like when my son got a boxer card.  They love it! I love it! It eases the pain of being 'just like the others'.  Of course, most of their cards end up in my example stash in the long run anyway! {{yes I am one of those}}. This year will be no different for them. However I have decided that those I mail will also not be out in the red/white/pink color combo!... yeah, I am living on the edge!!

 I pulled in the In Colors to make this years' Valentines for those that I will make. I love the Calypso Coral, with the white and  Pool Party as well... I wanted simple. I wanted fast and unique. Nothing gender oriented. They are  fun. 

Sometimes simple is too clean for me. Sometimes, like here I add bling and its not obvious until the light catches it. Good, bad or indfferent.. guess it depends.

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Simpy Soft Calypso Coral

Its often that I want to make a vintage card... and get lost in the process... why? (shake my head) because I want to keep it too clean.  I continue to put forth the effort.

I want to make a collection of vintage looking cards for a card box set for a friend, and EVERYTIME I  park my butt down to do it - I end up with something TOTALLY different than I wanted... seriously? why can it just cooperate!

It was a rainy night, which I thought maybe would help me pull in the vintage forces.... so I got the embossing folder out that is Vintage Wallpaper, and used Very Vanilla CS. I then sponged it with Crumb Cake. In my head I guess I think that makes it look "older". I tore a corner off and sponged it, then I wished I didn't, but I couldn't stop.... well I could .. but I didn't!..

I used the Simply Soft  (Hostess) stamp set, in Early Espresso, then colored the flowers with Calypso Coral using a Blender pen. I added Wild Wasabi to the stems. Then used a white gel pen to the little stems in the center of the flowers.

I layered it up with Crumb Cake, and Calypso Coral CS. I did sponged the edges before adhering them together. I added Pearls to the ripped corner after I put some Crumb Cake seam binding across the middle.

I didn't add a sentiment, because I truly thought it might be pulled apart... So what do you think? Is this vintage? What do you do to make a vintage looking card?  Maybe I will stick to clean.. ?

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