Good morning, dear Maja Friends, welcome to the blog today 🙂
February is all about love, so today I bring you a Valentine card I made using the Little Street Cafe collection:
I used the gate fold card base and decorated the front panels with layered papers and hand-coloured stamped images of a boy and girl kissing. As the background panel is busy with flowers, I placed the figures upon a glitter heart to make them more visible:
When you untie the ribbon the card opens…
…to reveal the inside panel with a stamped and embossed motives: a red sentiment heart against golden hearts background. I used the masking stamping technique to achieve this effecct. I also decorated the inside flaps with chipboard flourish corners to stabilise the card and help it keep its shape:
There’s also some space left to write your name in 😉
And here’s the list of my supplies:
Maja Design papers:
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- Always time
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- Always time-bs
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- Tea please-bs
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- Cherry cream-bs
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- Mono Celebration-Lavender Rose
Other:
stamps and chipboard: Agateria; die: CreaLies; flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts; acrylic glitter stones: Prima; ribbon: Rayher.
I do like how the card turned out, vibrant and cheerful – what do you think?
See you soon!
For this layout I had a beach theme in mind with the lovely teal and cream papers from the “Denim & Friends collection. I totally went for the distressed look for the borders on this page {used distress oxide -vintage photo-} I also used that on the beautiful boards. The beautiful boards frames 
On the background sheet {Fashion} I added a stamp and a splatter stencil to give it that beachy feeling. The pictures I used are from our vacation to Spain back in 2010 {doesn’t Kevin look cute??} Oh and boy am I in love with those amazing dragonflies aren’t they the best {
On the background paper I also sprayed with some different colors of Lindy’s sprays that matched my papers. To finish of my layout I also added some art stones and some gorgeous 
