Valentine's Day Card With Real Brush Markers and Dies

Happy Monday!  January has only five days left!  We are about half way through winter.  Here's hoping spring will come early this year!

I have a Valentine card on my blog today, featuring some new stamps from the In Love With Spring 2020 release collection.  You can find the selection of these stamps/dies HERE.  
Here is my card for today....

Stamps/Die Links:
Heart Lolly D23066
Sweet Beautiful You B13114
Love DIE385-B

I stamped the Heart Lolly onto Bristol vellum card stock.  I masked the image, then stamped it again, so one lolly is somewhat behind the other.  

To add color to the images, I used Arteza Real Brush markers and a water brush.  I love the bright, intense colors these markers can give when used full strength.  And when used with water, they have a softer look.  They blend beautifully.  

I white embossed the Sweet Beautiful You verse onto a black card stock scrap, and added it with foam tape.  

I cut the Love die, colored it with the same markers, and added it, cutting another in black and layering it so that it was offset, to complement the black of the verse strip.

A few colorful spatters, and some layering onto an A2 card front finish the front of the card.

Inside:
I stamped and colored another Heart Lolly and fussy-cut it, adding it to the inside of the card.  I hand-drew some squiggly lines and some doodling to create a verse area for a personal note.

That's it!  Easy-peasy!!  

On a personal note, I'm finally almost recovered from a very bad virus that I've had since before Christmas!  I'm back now, in full swing again.   I have missed my craft room, but had absolutely no energy or strength.  

Thanks for stopping in today.  I appreciate your visits and comments.

Blessings,

Choose Happy!

Greetings!  Just playing with a couple of new stamps from the Impression-Obsession Fall & Winter stamp release.  If you have missed the release, you can find all of the fall/winter stamps, and new summer dies on the IO site HERE.

Branch L20755
Sentiments 3219-L

I had so much fun with this card.  It has stamping, coloring, and Zentangle....all of which I love to do!  I really 'branched out' and tried something different with this stamp.

I stamped the Branch L20755 image into white card stock.  I drew some Zentangle patterns inside the leaves and branches with a fine Micron pen.  I added some extra circles around the image.  

I stamped the verse from the Sentiments 3219-L  set onto a scrap piece of card stock, and drew a couple of the same type of leaves, and added patterns inside that.

I colored all of the branch and the verse piece using Arteza Real Brush markers, then created a banner out of the scrap piece, added some black card stock along the bottom of it, and added it to the card with foam tape.  I mounted the whole shebang to a black A2 card front.

I hope you like my card, and that it has inspired you to 'think outside the box,' or branch! 

I am adding my card to these challenges today:
Allsorts Challenge - Clean and simple
Watercooler Challenges - Masculine anything goes
 
Thanks so much for visiting.   I appreciate your comments.

Blessings,