A big congrats to Kathleen, the newest Featured Stamper! What a wonderful gallery she has & I chose THIS card of hers to case. I was really struck by the die cut word LOVE so I kept that & the red/white Valentine colors. I used a different greeting, different die cuts & different papers.
For my die cut LOVE, I used the LVE letters from a Spellbinders set & the heart shape from the ODBD Ornate Hearts die set. Since they are individual letters, I cut them one at a time so I could place them closer together & I tilted the heart because I liked it better. The letters showed up better against the dk red bg instead of the print, but I added a stamped heart bg using white ink behind the heart shape. The greeting was split & I left out the center word “love” to be replaced by the die cut “love”. The border is one of the Beautiful Border dies threaded w/ a very thin strip of white card stock & turned upside down because I didn’t have room for the rest of it.
Congrats again, Kathleen! It's just been posted on my blog: The Write Stuff
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Sun, Feb 09, 2014 @ 4:44 PM
Love it!
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Sun, Feb 09, 2014 @ 6:36 PM
Fabulous card! I LOVE the sentiment!
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Mon, Feb 10, 2014 @ 2:52 AM
Beautiful, love the deep embossing around your "Love", and such a great sentiment... This makes for such a great Valentine card......
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Mon, Feb 10, 2014 @ 9:09 AM
What a wonderful sentiment for a valentine...so sweet. there are so many neat details that I love about your design. Like how you did tilt the heart...LOVE that idea and the stamping behind it, the cute borders, and I see....blingage...yah....great case and job. It is neat how you both used the cut outs of the letters and shoed paper in behind...cool...TFS..:0)
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Tue, Feb 18, 2014 @ 5:35 AM
WOW, Julie! This is fabulous! I'm behind in checking out the gallery, but I'm so glad to see this one close up! How creative you are -- always amaze me!! Warm hugs!
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