SugarShine Designs

 

Welcome to the CutCardStock Valentine Hop! Today our talented team will be presenting an inspiring selection of valentine/love/friendship themed cards, scrapbook layouts, mini albums, flowers & valentines, decorations, party supplies and more. All will feature the wide variety of budget friendly CutCardStock cardstocks and papers.

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I really love the mini-slimline card size. Mine is 6 1/4" x 3 1/2" when folded shut. I made the card base out of Basis White cardstock. This is my go-to choice lately for bases because it's 80# and is nice and sturdy even when you put a lot of weight on the card front. All Basis cardstocks are 80# so with the wide range of colors available, I can make a base that will go with any color scheme.

The chunky XO phrase was cut using the Art Impressions 5072-Block Letters Die Set. I cut 6 layers for each letter in CCS Discount Dolphin Gray. I cut one layer in CCS Silver Bright Foil Cardstock. The layers are glued together to form chipboard depth letters.

I then went to work on the card scene. I cut a 6" x 3 1/4" rectangle out of Pop Tone Blue Raspberry cardstock Salty Ocean Oxide ink was used in combination with the Lawn Fawn Cloudy stencil to create the sky background. On top of that I made two layers of grass. the spikey grass was cut out of Basis Golden Green with the Lawn Fawn Grassy Hillside Borders Dies. The hill was cut from Pop Tone Gumdrop Green with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders. These two border sets work together well since the shape of the two sets match each other. This is how I was able to get a spikey grass border to match perfectly with the hillside.

After the pieces were cut, I arranged them on the Blue Raspberry panel. Then I stamped, colored and fussy cut the Porcupine image from 5117-Valentine Critters set from Art Impressions. Isn't he just adorable!

Copic Marker Colors Used:
E29, E25, E23, E21
R39, R29, R24, R20

 

 

 

I stamped these cuties and colored them with Copic markers. Then they were fussy cut and arranged on hearts that form an off the edge valentine. The white cards and the patterned card base were cut with the Rectangle A2 Double Stitched Dies. These fit into A2 envelopes and have blank white cardstock on the back where any message can be written. 

I think grade school kids would love these for their friends. I get a chuckle out of the punny sentiments that go with each animal. I made the sentiment cards using Microsoft Word.

I know a lot of you have some or all of the freebies. I have made a video that shows how I made these. If you are curious what colors I used and see how I colored each of them, click the thumbnail.

Thanks for stopping by today. Ai has many adorable stamps to use and I hope you are having fun making your valentines!

I've been working on Valentine's Day cards lately and I couldn't wait to bring out the sloths from the Eyelet Outlet Sloth and Koala brad set for this card. The koalas are perfectly sized for the small branches I have in my stamp and die stash. In this case, I decided to use dies for the branches and leaves. Pastel Leaf brads and pink and red Heart Enamels were also used as embellishments. The sky background was created by using two pieces of Sky Washi tape on a small piece of cardstock. I placed it under the scalloped window so that the seam is mostly behind the lower branch. It disguises it very well. Although not much is seen of the cute pattern, I used a border of Sloth Washi tape on the card edges. It gives a nice black border to the bright green paper and I like that there are little flowers peaking out as well. You can get all of these items and more at the EO store.

This is an A2 sized card with a 4" x 5 1/4" green panel. A scallop die from my stash was used to cut an opening in the front. After attaching the branches and the sky panel behind the window, I used foam tape to secure it to a white card base. The phrase was cut with a design from Cricut Design Space.

I bet most of us remember typewriters and rotary phones. It’s hard to believe but those things are now considered vintage. Does that mean I’m vintage too? Never mind. Don’t answer that!

Today I have a pair of valentines featuring old fashioned machinery a lot of us used to know and love.

I love the vivid cardstock colors in the Astrobright line of cardstocks. They are especially great for children’s cards and for lighthearted special occasions like Valentines Day. For these valentines, I used Re-Entry Red for the card bases. The die cuts are cut from Lift Off Lemon, Pulsar Pink, Lunar Blue and a little more Re-Entry Red. You can purchase the cardstocks used for this card from CutCardStock's webstore.

Hello my friends! I'm here today to share with you five cards I made with the fabulous January My Monthly Hero Card kit. The theme is all things floral, specifically die cut florals. In addition to the many floral dies, the kit includes a sentiment flag die and two wonderful dies that have all kinds of uses - a small envelope and a bouquet wrap. The 4 x 6 stamp set has many sentiments to fit the sentiment flag die. They cover a variety of occasions. There are also several stamps that fit the mailing theme such as a cancelled stamp and a stamp image.

The kit comes with 6 1/2 sheets of shimmer paper in dark pink, light pink and blush. There are also 2 half sheets of heavy duty kraft cardstock. The kit also comes this month with pink sparkle embossing powder, pink satin ribbon and a generously sized Aqua glimmer metallic ink.