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Victorian Romantic Valentine Card - VectoriaDesigns

Hey everyone! Now that we are officially in the New Year, it is time to start thinking about Valentine's Day cards.

VectoriaDesigns has some wonderful Parisian style printables that work great to embellish your cards. The tag in the background is one of the printables on a sheet that housed six beautiful tags

While cleaning out my craft room yesterday I found this ribbon that had been tucked away. It is perfect for a Valentine Card. The woman image is from Graphic 45. This card was so simple to put together, but makes a wonderful Victorian Valentine.

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Paris Tags

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P.S. I Love You!

Hi everyone! I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday. Now that Christmas is over, It is time to start thinking about our next big card event, and that of course is Valentine's Day!

I couldn't believe that I didn't have this gorgeous fan in my stamp stash! Well I rectified that!

I love to layer my cards. You can use so many elements with this technique that compliment each other, even though you are covering up part of the images.

I started out with a 4.25" x 5.5" creme card stock. I matted it onto red card stock and stamped the Eiffel tower. I used a stamp I had from Stampin Up, but So Suzy Stamps has a wonderful Eiffel Tower stamp in her Paris Collection.

I added some washi tape to the bottom of the creme card stock and added my Lovely View Die cut. At this point I adhered the 4.25" x 5.5" card stock to my red designer paper. I cut the paper a bit smaller on each sides to fit a 5" x 7" card base.

Using my foam dots, I added my stamped and embossed fan and Cafe Sign. I stamped Je t'aime and P.S. I Love you and added a post mark to the side. So Suzy Stamps has some great post mark stamps and you can find those as well in her Paris section.

Supplies Used

Stamps: Swirl Heart Fan, Je t'aime, P.S. I Love You, Follow My Heart, Tre'Port Postale, Greetings From Paris
Die Cuts: Lovely View
Inks: Versafine - Onyx Black
Paper: DCWV - Dear Jane Stack
General Supplies: Washi Tape, Clear embossing powder, Foam dots
Tools: Heating Tool, Big Shot

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Honoring Paris

I love making Parisian cards! I love the character and ambiance the city brings. Parisian themes work well with my vintage style of card making and you see this theme in my cards often.

I have been fortunate to have been to Paris twice and I often tell my husband I would love to go back. I have fond memories of my Paris trip and I will not let the scare of terrorism keep me from the city of Love!

I made these Fall note cards a couple of weeks ago and had not had a chance to post them yet. I used some printables from VectoriaDesigns along with an altered game piece, tissue paper, washi tape and an embossing folder.

I have four other tags that came with this printable set and I plan on making a full note card set.

You can find these printables along with some other wonderful vintage inspired printables over at VectoriaDesigns.

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Eclectic Ellapu - Altered Art

It is November 1st, which means another challenge over at Eclectic Ellapu. This month our challenge is to create some altered art. Just up my alley. I have been creating several pieces recently.

This is a small 5" x 5" canvas with a Parisian theme. The background was created using some textured paste and my Harlequin stencil. I added some washi tape and covered it using my distress paints.

I used my eiffel tower die cut to create a stencil and it seemed to work well. The numbers are from Tim Holt'z idea-ology collection as well as the metal word band.

A few flowers and ephemera finished off the project.

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Parisian Christmas

Hi everyone and happy Thursday! I got some exciting news yesterday. I was accepted to participate in Amazon Handmade. This is a new selling forum that Amazon just launched and you have to apply to be able to list.

I am still setting up my Amazon Store, but I thought I would try it out and see how it compares to Etsy. So far, it does not appear that there are any listing fees, so that will enable me to list as I make them and not be too concerned about paying for it only to be listed for 3 months.

I wanted to share with you my very fist listing.

I got this stamp from Stampendous months ago and I was thrilled to finally be able to use it. I love the way these cards came out. Very simple to make, yet very elegant. The paper I used below is from DCWV called The Rustic Stack.