Valentine’s Cup of Love

I just had to play some more with the Cup of Love set! I made these envelope pocket cards for my son’s teachers for Valentine's Day along with some Hot Cocoa packets.



I used some more of those junk mail envelopes… yay for recycling! The Tag pulls out and I wrote on the back side of it.



I have just started using Background soup… so much fun to add different elements.  As you can see from these two different cards you can change it up by stamping directly after inking and getting a darker and crisper result, or stamping off on other paper before using it for lighter effects.



This shows the front and back, you have to make it all pretty right!



Stamps: Cup of Love, Background Soup, Bless Your Heart
Ink: Noir and Bordeaux Palette
Paper: Recycled Envelope, white CS, Pink DCWV
Other: white gel pen, sponge, ribbon, eyelet, crop-a-dile, ribbon, Labels 1 Nestabilities
Copics: 0, C1, C3, C5, R81, R85, R39

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look, let me know what you think! If you haven’t played along this week yet… there is still time, so swing by The Savvy Projects blog and join in one of this weeks hops! Don’t forget, Cup of Love is 25% off this month, along with tons of other sets, check out my TAC Specials Page for more information and a link to list of sale items! Have a Fabulous Day!!!!!

Fabulous You---Cup of Love

Today’s Fabulous You featured set by The Angel Company is Cup of Love. The guest designer is Julie Robinson. Check out her examples on The Savvy Project Blog and join in the fun for a chance to win a prize from TAC!



I stamped the cup and used a Stamp-a-ma-jig to place my brushes… such a great tool for perfect placement of images. I colored with copics and added some highlights with a white gel pen. The brads are also colored with copics and have a marble look to them. The patterned paper is from Rustic Chic.

I played along with some challenges too, be sure to check them out:

Sew Many Cards: Challenge #42 Anything Goes
Catch the Bug: February Anything Goes Challenge
Pile It On #6 Get Bright and Breezy
Paper Crafting Journey: Love is in the Air
Simon Says Stamp: Love is in the Air
Creative Craft World: Love

Stamp: Cup of Love
Ink: Noir and Burnt Umber Palette
Paper: Rustic Chic, white, kraft, brown CS
Other: Copics, white gel pen, brad, sponge, pop dots, corner rounder
Copics: 0, C1, C3, C5, E21, E25, E27, E29, E51, Y32, BG11, BG13, BG15, R21, R22, R24, R27

Thanks for stopping by, let me know what you think! Swing by the other examples to share the love and please play along!

TAC Dream Team Call

TAC has put out a Dream Team Call to it’s Angels and I’ve decided to try out, wish me luck!

My first card was made with Cup of Love, such an adorable set! I colored with copics and popped the cup up, cut out a bunch of flowers and layered them. The background is embossed with the Flowers Impressabilities Die and sponged with Sunflower Palette ink.




Copics: 0, Y000, Y11, Y15, YR24

For my second card I used Heather Scott’s weekly Sketch #135 and I decided on a masculine theme. The image and sentiment are both from Good Things, such a sweet set! I colored with copics and added a few highlights with a white gel pen. For the background I added some Background Soup in Versa Mark. All paper is Amberley Grace SWIC and CS.




Copics: 0, E51, C1, C3, W3, W7, BG000, BG10, BG11, BG13

My third card is my favorite I believe, it just seems so soft to me. I stamped the image from All Things of Nature in Versa Mark and then chalked it. I wanted a little more so I outlined the flower with a glitter pen and chalked over it again to tone it down. I cut it out with Label’s 4 Nestabilitie Die and sponged Aegean Blue ink on before removing the die. I added some texture to the Maggie SWIC paper with the Scor-Pal and Scor-Bug. The three pearls are from the Clear and Pearl Gem Collection.



For my project I decided to make a mini album. I used a tutorial from 2 Worlds blog for her recycled envelope album. She has some awesome tutorials to share! I’ve been saving all those return envelopes that come in our junk mail and this is s perfect way to put them to use. All papers and ribbons are from Maggie SWIC and CS… my favorite new paper from TAC! The sentiments are all from Joy, Found and the Tree is from Good Things, I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and OMS.













The album isn’t quite done yet… but then I doubt you want to see where I go with it! I am making it an album for my hubby and I, each section will be half his and half mine starting with… What did you think about him/her when you first met and moving through the things we love about each other, etc. So there will be pics of us and our own responses on the inserts… so long as I can convince him to play along!

Thank you so much for stopping by, and for making it through the whole post! I hope you have a wonderful day!