Wplus9 Throwback Thursday...

Hey,

One of my craft resolutions this year was to join in different challenges.

I love Wplus9 products and I have several of the stamp sets and dies.

I thought it would be fun to join their current Throwback Thursday challenge...

This time we are being asked to dig out our older Wplus9 stamps and make Valentine's cards...

I decided to turn mine into a little set for a friend that asked me for some I quote 'smushy' cards..

I based my cards around this fabulous set that I have had for a while -

They were pretty simple to make. 

I die-cut a stitched rectangle from watercolour card and then placed the sentiment stamp on the card where I wanted to stamp it.

Then I stamped the hearts (main card) in 2 different colours of Distress ink and then spritzed it with water and dried it. 

Finally I stamped the sentiment onto the card..affix to the card blank, add a little bling and it was finished.

I did the same with the other three stamps to make this cute set for my friend.

All of the hearts, stars, stardust and circles are by Simon Says Stamp and are from various stamp sets.

Here's a photo of the other cards..

I will totally be doing this again with this stamp set..

Fun times inspired by a fun challenge.

Cx

Hearts Everywhere!

I now have 2 heart punches, a heart embossing folder and a box full of foam and felt hearts...

I am starting to think I might have a bit of a thing for hearts!

This comes as a surprise to me, as I have always found hearts a bit twee, but I am starting to find more and more non-love ways to use them.

Today's main photo is of an anniversary card that I made (well I made 5). I have been dying to use the heart paper for ages, but it wasn't cheap and so I wanted to maximise it as it only came in 4 x 6 sheets, it's'All About Girls' by DCWV. I like the contrast of the green scalloped heart (Woodware Punch).

However I think it's only fair that I point out that the idea stemmed from the card set I made for the next craft fair - photos below are of the original idea -

I finally bought 'Happy Anniversary' peel-offs and it came to me that they would work really well with this card - so out came the green permanent marker and voila! an Anniversary card (or 2..)

Cx