Valentines from a kit

I’m back to share a few more valentines — this time the cards I mailed out myself. For the first group of cards I used an old card kit. I didn’t care for the card designs in the kit, so I decided to use it to create valentines instead.

The tropical colors are not the usual color palette for valentines, but I needed something bright and cheerful, so this was perfect. I started by applying white rub-on transfers to the card bases in a random manner to add some interest to the backgrounds. Then I used the papers from the kit to cut layers and hearts. I pierced a border on each heart and distressed the edges.

For the greeting on each card I used a sentiment strip. And I finished them off with a few black or white clay hearts.

To finish my valentines this year I made a few mini slim cards:

I used the Love Letters stamp and die combo (Taylored Expressions), and it was so fun to make those little  envelopes and sheets of lined paper. The background is the Weather Words stamp, also from Taylored Expressions. They’re simple cards, but I really like how they turned out.

That’s it for this year’s valentines. I just realized this weekend that I still need to make my February Christmas cards. Oops. Hopefully I’ll be able to do that this week!

Thanks for stopping by!