Valentine’s Day cards for assisted living residents

My niece and I made cards for the seniors at the assisted living center my mom was at.

The patterned paper is from a seasonal paper pad by The Paper Studio. The heart is a negative of something, and I just loved the way the words lined up with the shape of the heart. I drew a dashed line around the edges of the card with a Copic marker.

The heart and XOXO are die cuts from my Cricut. The Be Mine sentiment is an unknown stamp. The sentiment on the right is a cutout from a cereal box, and the purple sparkly heart die is unknown.

The pattern paper is by Recollections. The pink glitter heart is Making Memories. The border at the bottom consists of heart punches.

I know very little about the cards above. The background is dry embossed. The flower stamp was colored with markers for the multiple colors. The heart die cut was by Quickutz. The sentiment on the card on the right is by Lawn Fawn. The heart is unknown. Sizzix paper.

My niece put this one together. The red paper is dry embossed with hearts that are going horizontally when the pattern is vertical. The sentiment is by Hero Arts, and it is heat-embossed in white by a Spellbinders die cut.

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Peach large Butterfly Valentine’s Day card

The patterned paper is by Sunborn. The big flower butterfly is a Stampin Up stamp set. The sentiment is a Mrs. Grossman’s sticker. The hearts are die cuts from some dies I bought on EBay. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Wild about You

I made this card for Craft Roulette #199 

Project: card with a bookmark 

Color: Bakery 

Elements: Large animal

Random: add horizontal lines 

I cut the tiger out using my Cricut. The patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket. Sentiment by Close to my Heart. The background behind the tiger is mixed media. I was playing with my Distress Oxide inks. Thanks for looking.

Accordion fold card with vintage wrapping paper

The sentiment is by Just Rite stamps. The chipboard button is by Colorbok. The white card stock panel is stamped with different Hart stamps. The colorful green, pink and blue paper is actually wrapping paper.  

The hearts are from all different walks of life. I just grabbed the colors I needed from my love  supplies. One of the hearts from Dollar Tree was a puffy plastic and it had an industrial pattern and color too. I painted hot pink over that shit. Another heart is chipboard. Another heart is felt.

In the picture above, you can see the backside of the card. I cut frames out of the wrapping paper to make the back look pretty.

This card was created with the following the parameters on Craft Roulette #200

Project: kids card (I gave it to my niece). Colors: in brrrr (The blue and white reminds me of winter, which is cold). Comic or cartoon: (the line up of squares in the center look like a comic strip to me). Random: button. (The front is a chip board button to hold the card together)

I’m trying really hard to get my cards posted. 

I can fill in the blanks at a later date.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Valentine's Day card

Love tag with Heart Card

My stash of anniversary cards was low and so when I had the love supplies out for Valentine's Day, I whipped up a few easy anniversary cards.

The word "love" was a die-cut tag by Heidi Swapp. I trimmed the tag portion off the top and made it into a rectangle. 

The red heart in the center was pink until I colored it in with Copic markers.

The patterned papers are from a Recollections pad at Michael's

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Valentine's Day Cards

I die-cut some more Valentine's Day cards using my Cricut.

This one was easy. I cut it out, inked the background paper, and glued it back together.

On this purple card, I used too much glue and it seeped out the side. I had to fix it by gluing a heart on top of the problem.

For the Love Struck Card, I stamped a background stamp onto the background with Versa Mark ink. I dried it with a heat tool before inking the inside card.

And then there's this one. Ugh!!

When I glued the sides down there was a lump between the two cardstocks. This is where I rolled my eyes. 
It wouldn't come apart without ripping the paper.

Great!

I cut it down the edges which removed the bulge between the card and the inked background. 

Everything was wonderful and

So I stamped the inside sentiment with black ink and when 

I lifted that stamp off the card base and the card fells backwards onto the black ink pad.

Enter four letter words.

OMGoodness! Really? 

Screw It! and I sent it out anyway. The little boy will be more into the stickers and maybe doing that with his hands than the card's F-up. The black on the wrist kind of looks like a bracelet.

The kicker...The mail lady didn't grab all of the cards I had put in my mailbox for pick up.

Sigh...

Sometimes you just can't win.

Time to wash my hands and move onto the next project.

I'm entering the first card into the 

Bitten by the Bug challenge 

Use your Cricut to make a heart or more for your project

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Cricut Valentine's Day Cards

Here a couple of Valentine's Cards that I cut out using my Cricut. 

It took a little bit of time, patience, and finesse to glue the intricate heart background onto the cardstock without glue getting everywhere.

I do love my Cricut when it cuts out designs like these so beautifully.

The sending stamp is by Lawn Fawn The bird stamp is by Stampin Up. I colored it in with colored pencils. The die-cut is by Spellbinders.

The pink LOVE sentiment is a Circut cut adhered to black cardstock.

For this next card, I used a Sizzix die-cut and inked the inside before taking the paper out. The "Sending" is a stamp by Lawn Fawn, the word "Paper" is an alphabet stamp set by Technique Tuesday and the word "Hugs" is a sticker by Flair.

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5 Valentine Cards

Last year a friend and I made a bunch of twisted easel cards for the seniors at my mom's assisted living center. The twisted easel part was wasted for they didn't know what to do with it. 
From that project, I have leftover easel cards and the 4x4 card fronts.
Since they were in a basket waiting to be used I finished a few and redid a few by taking apart the easel to make the card fronts into cards that I will be able to use. 
I included the original photo of the card below the redo.

This first card was a leftover square that never made it onto an easel card.
Patterned paper by DCWV and K and Co.
Die cuts by Spellbinders, which has eyelets at each end and the sentiment stamp by TPC Studio 
Circle die cut by Elle’s Studio 
Black ribbon on the left and then layers of cardstock
The card’s base is having a hard time supporting the weight

The next card is a strange combo of colors. 

Heart stamp with rose design in the the center is by Stamp N Plus

The patterned paper is by Studio Calico

The heart die cut from eBay
I used a yellow heart eyelet in the center

This next three cards were easy to redo once I removed the 4x4 square off of the easel card, I backed them onto a card base with something new behind it.
This one, I layered a pink cardstock that was dry embossed with hearts.

This one, red cardstock underneath. 

And lastly, once this 4x4 card front was ready for redo, I positioned a tape with a lace design down the center of an off white card base and taped the square on top. 

It’s a great anniversary card.

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XOXO Cricut card

This Cricut card is super cute. I remember cutting it out but I didn’t put it together. Freebies are limited time offers. When I found the bag with the pieces, I was pleased to find all of the o’s that go inside of the O’s.
I had intentions of making another card to use the left over x’s but instead I had a bunch of red paper X’s and hearts scattered all over my floor. They vacuumed up nicely. ;)
The sentiment stamp is by Hero Arts.

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Here are a few other Cricut Valentine cards.
Cricut Heart card
Cricut Love Struck Card

Dove Heart with Border Card

The die- cut is from eBay
Border punch by Fiskar
The bow is elastic and from a birthday present

The patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a view

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Here's a post using the same heart
Love birds

Deep Red Stamps Heart Card

I used a stamp by  Deep Red stamps heart stamp

I colored it in with Copic markers

The background paper is by Bazzill 

The other patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View

The organza ribbon is from my stash 

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Here are some other cards with that stamp.
Deep Red stamps Heart stamp Amore
Heart stamp card
Heart card with shadow

You and Me Card

Cute card for Valentine's Day.

Start with white pre-made card base 4 x 5 ½  by
Recollections and layer in the middle a 4x4 square of
pink cardstock (Stampin’ Up). Layer a
border to the left a strip of pink
cardstock (Core’dinations), red cardstock
and then red glitter cardstock both of
those by Recollections.

Paint cereal board heart with last remaining
Fired Brick Crackle paint by Ranger. Sniff Sniff.
The sentiment is a Colorbok sticker
that I backed with white cardstock and then cut the ends.

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Valentine's Day Card

One more Valentine's Day card. This one was published in Just Cards magazine. I'm sad that they went out of business. Sentiment stamp by Hero Arts. Heat embossed silver by Stampendous. Versa Mark ink. Heart paper by Bazzill. Other patterned paper by Little Yellow Bicycle.

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Large Assortment of Happy Valentine's Day Cards

Here's some more Valentine's Day cards. I posted a bunch more on the page at the top of the blog.

The title of this card is a cupcake stick that we tore apart for just the sentiment. Die cuts by Cricut and patterned paper by Fancy Pants.

These cards were made from an anniversary card we received. 

Die cuts by Cricut.

Old velvet ribbon. Elle's Studio sentiment. Making Memories glitter heart. 

Pink paper by DCWV and purple by Recollections. Die cuts by Cricut. Chipboard heart Making Memories. Sentiment stamp by The TPC Studio Co. Love brad by Eyelet Outlet. 

Die cuts by Spellbinders. Red velvet ribbon. Paper by Papertrey Ink. Sentiment stamp by The TPC Studio Co.

Heart stamp by SNP (no longer in business). Glitter tape and altered heart sticker from Dollar Tree.

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Twisted Easel Burgundy Valentine's Day cards

My friend and I made twisted easel cards for a few senior centers. One of them was where my mom lives. She didn't The seniors were so happy and surprised by our cards. We passed them out individually and showed them how they stand up-a couple of times.
I had 13 posts of these cards and decided to spare you the agony of seeing the same card in different colors. This is my darker red bunch of cards. I do not know all of the supplies manufacturers Sometimes I wonder if company names are important since my supplies are old and I don't have many views to my posts. Oh well. Right?

Ebay heart die made red from white cardstock using Distress Oxide Fired Brick. Background heart paper by K and Co and inside heart is Bazzill. Hugs sticker by Sticko EK Success.

Heart stamp old one by Stampin Up. die cuts behind it by Spellbinders (grey, Dahlia) and Sizzix using burgundy polka dot pp by Papertrey Ink. Background paper is a 4x4 paper pad by Stamp your Art called diVine

Label by Sizzix. Stamps: TPC Studio Company and Stampin Up (Scallop punch by SU too). Chipboard heart unknown (Maybe Making Memories). Embossing folder: Crafter's Companion. 

The pink heart was a steampunk sticker from the dollar tree. I inked with Versa Mark and heat embossed it with Stampendous embossing powder-over and over again. In hindsight, I wish I would have taken a before and after picture.

Spellbinders die cut. Red polka dot washi tape. Glitter tape from Dollar Tree. Love is a digital stamp.

I used scallop decorative scissors for the white and red trim.

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Valentine’s Day Card Deep Red Stamps

My card today and the next few days will be twisted easel cards that we made for a few senior homes. I stamped the heart stamp by Heart with Roses Deep Red Stamps with Memento ink and colored in with Copic markers. I wrapped ribbon around the top and set a rhinestone brad in the layers.

Patterned paper by DCWV. Love die cut by Martha Stewart and xoxo brad by Eyelet Outlet.

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You can also purchase the stamp from

Scrapbooking made simple

Cricut Love struck Cards

Here are 2 more of the free Valentine cards from Cricut. I cut them out of peach cardstock by Bazzill. I adhered red cardstock to the bottom where the words are and white cardstock to the inside to cover the inside panel.

The second one I inked white cardstock with distress ink before adhering it to the inside.

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