Hey there my fellow crafters! Today's card is a Valentine's Card, but I made it using a stamp set I got to make Christmas cards. It's part of a challenge I am doing with Jen Hartsgrove. We are Instagram friends and decided to challenge each other to make a Valentine's card using a stamp set that was not designed for Valentine's. It's very fun, and I actually had a hard time narrowing down the stamp set I wanted to use for this project. In the end I settled on the Skisons Greetings stamp set from Dare 2B Artzy. I won a gift certificate from Dare 2B Artzy in the fall and picked this stamp set, so that I could use it to make Christmas cards. Somehow I never got around to doing that. I think it is such a cute set and it does have a sentiment in it that says "Love You". So there you have it.
A lot of people here in Idaho are out skiing this time of year and will most likely continue to ski until Spring Break, so going skiing for a Valentine's date is a real thing. Not for me, but for people. I never took to it, I had a bad instructor, my husband. If you want a romantic day out skiing with your spouse I would recommend it not be a skiing lesson, just saying.
Now let's talk about this background! I am in LOVE with it! I could continue to make pink skies and variations of pink skies for a while! This one was created using PanPastels, show in the picture above. They are an artist quality pastel, but in a pan form, instead of a stick. The glide onto your paper like butter, so smooth. For this background I started by stamping snowflakes on my white card stock with clear pigment ink. Then I applied the pink PanPastel over the top. The pastel sticks to the stamped image and intensifies the color. I did this half way up my 4-3/4" square piece of card stock. Then, from the other side, I applied the red PanPastel. The two colors over lapping in the center. To smooth out the two coloring and help blend them together I used the Colorless Blender PanPastel. It gave me the ultra smooth transition from red to pink that I wanted.
The splatter on this background is a product called Silk by Fun Stampers Journey. The are liquid shimmer in different colors that come in a bottle that looks like fingernail polish. You tap the end if the applicator brush to splatter the shimmer on. I use two colors on this background, Bubble Gum and Whip Cream. After that dried, about 1 minute, I sprayed the entire background with a fixative spray to seal the PanPastels from ever rubbing off.
Both of my skiers were colored using Copic Markers. That puffy vest is my fave! I really think I need it for myself! She is adorbs in her ski outfit.
To give the vest that puffy feel. I used three shades of pink (RV11, RV13, RV14). I outlined each section of the vest, leaving the center of each white. After all the blending of the three colors the center of each sections remains lightest, creating a highlight and giving the puffy effect. At least I think so, what do you think?
For this bear, I added some black to his red outfit with a C10 Copic marker. He is such a cool guy! If you did not want to color the hat and scarf, there is a stamp of each in this stamp set that you could stamp on colored card stock, die cut out and paper piece over the top. I love options.
I also stamped a sentiment on the inside of this card, from this same stamp set, it says; "I could hibernate with you all winter long". Don't you love that. I am starting to think that this set is a Valentine's set!
You can see this card being made in the video below. I would love for you to subscribe to my channel if you have not yet done so. I will be back on Tuesday with another video, Episode 5 of my January Stamp Set of the Month Series.
Now you should go check out what Jen did for this challenge! You can find her YouTube channel right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEWCMMwsF3OzKUp-KjuaVCw
I have listed and linked all the supplies I used to make today's card for you below.
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