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Good morning, Oddies! Alexis here with a little love for you. While what I write inside might be serious, I prefer cheesy Valentine Cards when I make them. It feels nostalgic to those little valentines that got passed out at school with the cute, but totally corny puns. 

For this card, I went back to an old favorite. Octee is one of my all time favorite digi stamps. He’s soooooooo cute, right?

I didn’t have a sentiment stamp for it, but I knew exactly what I wanted it to say. So, in my terrible handwriting, I put ‘I only have arms for you’ in the little speech bubble. I think it’s cute even though I wish I’d just had a stamp. 

I’m working on more cheesy Valentines this month, so check them out on our community page and let me know what inspires you most! 

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Hi Oddies!

We started the month with February’s new digi stamp freebie, Aquarius.

I have created a card with a shape for this stamp, thinking spring
already, although I think that today it is cold in many places, but spring will arrive with good weather soon…

The papers are from Lawn Fawn, and the stamp I have colored with the following Copic colors:

Skin: E000, E00, E01, E11.
Hair: W7, W5, W3.
Dress: RV11, RV13, RV21, W3.
Water: BG000, B41.

I have added a small umbrella and a bow with raindrops to accompany, and many pearls … I hope you like it, thanks for the visit.

Hugs!

Cristina Valenzuela.

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This image took me back to being a teenager with her first crush.  Everyone girl remembers picking up a flower and playing the “he loves me…he loves me not” game! Just like Love Me Not Mae.

I love to use my Copic markers on these images.  Below are my steps to coloring and creating this card.

  • SKIN: E04, E11, E21, E00

    CHEEKS: R20
  • HAIR: Y15, YR23, YR24, E99
  • SHIRT: R17, R29, R39, R89
  • SKIRT: T9, T7, T5
  • FLOWER STEM: YG61, YG63, YG67
    FLOWER MIDDLE: YR23, Y17, Y15
    FLOWER PETALS: Y15, T0
  • EYES: YG67, YG63 & Black Glaze pen
    GROUND: W7, W5, W3
    OUTLINE: BG000, BG0000
  • The “He Loves Me” I printed on my laser and foiled with red Deco Foil. The heart is LF Lacy Heart and cut from foil cardstock.
  • I layered the two pieces of patterned paper together with Tombow mono permanent adhesive.
  • I put one layer of foam behind Mae.
  • The sentiment strip and heart has two layers of foam tape.
  • And to finish it off I added red sequins.

I always print my images on Neenah 80# solar white and use Neenah 110# for my card bases.  The patterned paper I used is something that I have had in my stash for awhile.  It is from DCWV and it is called Everlasting Love.

I cut out Mae using my Brother Scan N Cut and the black paper was die cut with Honey Cuts A7 Double Stitched Frame die.  The gold polka dot paper was just trimmed to 5″ x 7″.  The sentiment was die cut with the Lawn Fawn Everyday Sentiment Banner die and the heart was the Lawn Fawn Lacy Heart Stackables.

To give it a Valentines feel I used the red Deco Foil on the sentiment, the foil die cut heart and red sequins from Darice for the finishing touches.

I hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane playing He Love Me…

Happy Valentines!

-Carol