Adore Valentine's Day Card with Deb Riddell

Hello everyone and thank you for stopping by, it’s Deb Riddell here with you today to share a quick and easy Valentine’s Day card created with Southern Ridge Trading Company’s Heart stencil, Taneesha Heart and Love and Hearts Banner chipboard and Wood Adore Tags.

I was inspired by Julia Chupik of Paradise Lost who made a beautiful card with water based pigment ink (click here to see her process video).  I admired her use of white space on her card which I always struggle with so decided to give it a go myself.

I started with a piece of plain old white copy paper, spritzed some Frankly Scarlet and Raspberry Infusions with water  and dipped and dragged the copy paper through it.  Once dried, I randomly stamped the paper with the Ledger Script stamp and Vintage Photo Distress Archival ink and then stenciled hearts onto the background with Southern Ridge’s Heart stencil and Ranger Transparent Gloss Texture Paste.

The Taneesha Heart chipboard was covered with white gesso and then dipped repeatedly into diluted Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry Distress inks on my craft mat.  The edges were inked with Ground Espresso Distress ink and then some Indian Gold Nuvo Mousse was diluted with more water and randomly applied to the heart with my finger.

I forgot to take a picture of the Hearts Banner before I put it onto the card, sorry about that!  The Hearts Banner chipboard was also covered with white gesso and this time I coloured it with Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide inks and more diluted Indian Gold Nuvo Mousse.  As you can see, the stenciled Heart background was adhered to a kraft cardstock card blank.

The Wood Adore Tag was first coloured with Vintage Photo Distress Stain and once it had dried, Tarnished Brass Distress Crayon was rubbed over the surface and then quickly removed to only leave it in the recessed ‘adore’ word.

And then the card was assembled, the Hearts Banner was adhered along the top edge.

And the Taneesha Heart nestled on an angle below the banner with the Wood Adore Tag added to the center of the heart with a brad coloured with Gold Mixative.

You can see the texture and shine from the stenciled hearts and the Nuvo Mousse in the picture below.

I hope that you’ve enjoyed seeing how my Adore Valentine’s Day card came together, I haven’t quite mastered the use of white space as expertly as Julia but I do like the way it turned out.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Taneesha Heart

- Love and Hearts Banner

- Wood Adore Tags

- Heart Stencil

Other Supplies Used:

- Paper Artsy: Infusions Coloured Stains

- Ranger Ink: Distress Oxide Ink, Distress Ink, Distress Stain, Distress Crayon, Gold Mixative, Distress Archival Ink and Transparent Gloss Texture Paste

- Stampers Anonymous: Ledger Script stamp

- Tonic Studios: Nuvo Mousse

- Miscellaneous: Copy Paper, Kraft Cardstock, Brad and White Gesso

Thanks as always for stopping by today and hope that you’ve been inspired to make a Valentine’s Day card for your sweetie too, happy creating!

Deb Riddell ~ Paxton Valley Folk Art

Hugs & Kisses Mixed Media Valentine with Deb Riddell

Hello and thank you for stopping by, Deb here today to share a mixed media Valentine with you that I made for my hubby using Southern Ridge Trading Company’s Chipboard Albums, Wild Heart, Love and Hearts Banner and Heart stencil.

I knew I wanted to cover one of the blank pages from the Chipboard Album with scrapbook paper and use that as the base for my valentine but couldn’t find any paper in my stash that was to my liking.  So I decided to ‘make’ some paper of my own and used this 12 x 12 black and tan floral paper as my starting point (sorry no idea who’s paper this is, it was a gift from a friend and there are no markings on it).

I slip slapped some DecoArt Acrylic gesso onto it with a large paint brush, leaving some of the background pattern showing through here and there, and then added some stenciled hearts through the Heart stencil using DecoArt Media Modeling Paste.

Once the modeling paste had dried, I painted the whole sheet with washes of DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics, drying in between the washes and adding spritzes and runs of water as I layered.  I used Green Gold, Yellow Green Light and Cobalt Teal Hue.

The painted and stenciled paper was adhered to the blank chipboard page and the edges were trimmed and sanded with an emery board.

A coat of Distress Crazing Collage medium came next and when it was dry, I washed the whole page with diluted Payne’s Grey DecoArt Media Fluid acrylic, wiping the wash back with a damp baby wipe so that the grey blue colour just emphasized the crazing.

The chipboard heart insert from the Wild Heart set was coloured with Barn Red Distress Stain and embossed with the Script embossing folder from We R Memory Keepers.  The raised embossing was then emphasized with a dry brush of Cool White DecoArt Americana acrylic paint.

The Love banner from the Love and Hearts Banner set was heat embossed with a mixture of Burnt Copper Leaves and Hammered Metal embossing powders from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies.

The number 14 from Tim Holtz’s Metal Numbers and an arrow paper clip from my stash were coloured with alcohol inks, I used a combination of Mushroom, Pitch Black and Rust.

A small white resin frame was painted with Ground Espresso Distress Paint and then given several washes of Golden Fluid Acrylics Quinacridone/Nickel Azo Gold.

And then the valentine was assembled. The Love banner was adhered across the top of the chipboard page, trimming off the ends slightly to fit.

The painted resin frame was then centered overtop of some ‘hugs and kisses’ from Tim Holtz’s Label Letters and the alcohol ink coloured arrow positioned to point towards the frame.

The embossed heart was positioned overtop of some coffee stained cheesecloth and a piece of coffee stained lace was adhered along the bottom edge of the chipboard page.

A fragment of Tim Holtz Passport Design Tape was positioned beside the heart and then the alcohol ink coloured numbers were glued to the page with E6000 glue.

And to finish the valentine, I edged the chipboard page with Ground Espresso Distress crayon, blending it in with my finger.

I hope that you have enjoyed my how to and that I’ve given you some inspiration for your own Valentine creations this year.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Chipboard Albums

- Wild Heart

- Love and Hearts Banner

- Heart stencil

Other Supplies Used:

- DecoArt: Media Modeling Paste, Media Fluid Acrylics, Acrylic Gesso and Americana Acrylic Paint

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Stain, Distress Paint, Distress Crayons, Distress Crazing Collage medium and alcohol ink

- Golden: Fluid Acrylics

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Hammered Metal and Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder

- Advantus/Tim Holtz: Metal Numbers, Passport Design Tape and Label Letters

- We R Memory Keepers: Script Embossing Folder

- Miscellaneous: 12 x 12 scrapbook paper, cheesecloth, lace trim, arrow paper clip, resin frame, Scotch Tacky Adhesive, E6000 glue, scissors, emory board, paint brush and baby wipes

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!  

Deb xo

Love Canvas by Corina Finley

Hello!

Thank you for joining me today for my Mixed Media Love Canvas. I created this canvas for decor in my studio. I won the easel & blank canvas at a scrapbook retreat and the canvas measures 8x10 inches.

I used one large & 2 small Butterflies from the Lg Frame Butterflies set, the OCT from the Month Circles, and one heart from the Love and Hearts Banner on the canvas. Embossed each of them with Ranger Clear Embossing Ink dauber and Frantage Embossing powder in Aged Black and Aged Spice.

I also trimmed out the LOVE from the Love and Hearts Banner and embossed each letter with Ranger Clear Embossing Ink dauber and Fine Detailed Black Embossing Powder.

Southern Ridge Chipboard used:

Love and Hearts Banner

Lg Frame Butterflies

Month Circles

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

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