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Little Card using my Far Out Foam Stamp with Acrylic paint on a blank card.
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
For the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday Kim and I had a little play date to get in the spirit. This was super easy – done in an hour – and a fun way to use some stencils!
We got some heart stickers (2″ across), baker’s twine, my stencils, and acrylic paint in pinks, reds, and violet.
Then we started stenciling onto the hearts. Here I’m using my Broadway stencil and different pinks.
Choose a stencil with a pattern that isn’t too big, but the main point is to get some cool designs onto the hearts.
Kim used the Kassel stencil and lined up a bunch of heart stickers underneath.
This was a good way to do a lot of hearts at the same time and works nicely with a 9×12 stencil.
You can also work heart by heart and line up the stencil better. Here I am using my Valley Road stencil.
Here are some with my Manhattan stencil.
Look at all these fun designs! They are (top to bottom) Santa Fe, Valley Road, Broadway, Mesa Verde, and Beacon.
And more from Kim – Manhattan, Kassel, and Flower Maze.
Cut a length of the baker’s twine – however long you want your garland. Then put a heart sticker down and stick the twine to it. Stick the twine close to the top so the heart hangs the right way.
Then stick another heart on top to sandwich the twine. We spaced the hearts out with about 3-4″ in between each one.
Looks nice above a fireplace…
And on the bookshelf!
You could hang it on a chandelier or in a doorway or even on a little indoor tree.
We hope you try this one – it was great to play with color and pattern and the results are very cute :) Enjoy!
You can find my stencils in my Online Shop. Here are some of the supplies that we used:
When I created my new Neato Foam Stamp I thought of it as being a funky mark but I also realized it can be read as a fish if you want to :) So …why not make some Valentines Cards with it :)
Simple – used with acrylic paint and stamped – added a frame and a hook with a pen – there you go :)
And hey – you are all o-fish-ally the best ! I added a bit of black outline with a pen to the Neato stamps and like how the circles can be also read as water bubbles.
For the “you are the only fish in the sea” card I cut out a heart shape out of deli paper and stenciled through the shape, then used the cut out heart as a mask and masked off the painted hear to stamp the background with my new Midcentury Squared Stamp. Last but not least I stamped the Neato stamp on top of the heart and added some doodles with a white Signo pen and a black pen as well.
Do you have any other fun “fishy” sayings for me? LOL Hope you liked those cards- here are the supplies I used besides acrylic paints:
I found them to be honest- I googled fish and valentine and it was making me laugh hard.
I was playing with some transfers and used the engagement photo of my great-aunt Margot and my great-uncle Hans. I love this photo.
She turned all pink layered over this ares :) All in all a bit too pink for me- so you can see I needed to grunge this all up a bit with some stamping but it was fun!
Love stamping with manufactured stamps but also with lids and other bits and pieces I find on my work bench to break it up a bit.
It was fun to try some different colors – and go crazy pink- LOL . Valentine’s Day is not a huge thing in Germany to be honest so the whole concept around this is kind of fascinating for me, but of course I do enjoy the wonderful flowers and gifts from my US-born husband ;)
Hope your day is filled with Love!
Here are some of the supplies I used for this spread
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Always nice to see Margot on a layout or art journal page.
My favorite items to use on paint are lids from plastic jars I have at home.
Your puns are awesome!
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