I have the rest of the family valentines to share today. All of them feature animals. And all of them qualify for the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: “All Creatures Great and Small” and the CAS-ology “Love” challenges.
The first card doesn’t feature any stamps. I drew the hedgehog from an image I found online. Despite a search on Pinterest and Google, I haven’t been able to retrace where I found it. If anyone can direct me to the original, I’d love to credit it. Sarah’s a huge fan of hedgehogs so it seemed to be the perfect image for her valentine.
After drawing the hedgehog with a fountain pen, I use a combination of Copic markers and watercolors to color the image. The red and pink hearts make this card qualify for the Simon Says Monday “Red and Pink” challenge, as well. I made the frame by layering two Papertrey Ink “Stitched Rectangles” on Pure Poppy cardstock. It’s all adhered to a Fog (Simon Says) card base.
The next card is for Adam. I purchased the W Plus 9 “Knock, Knock Valentine” set for future use with grandchildren, but I decided it would work for Adam when I discovered the iguana (TPC Studios) in my stash.
I stamped the sentiments, and layered it behind a Pure Poppy frame created with a Nestability Small Classic Rectangle frame, stamped and cut out the iguana and added it with some dimensional tape.
The last card was inspired by this card by Kathy Racoosin. I already had the “Quite the Pair” set from Simon Says and loved how she sat the frog on the paper airplane.
The heart was cut from some “Kiss, Kiss” patterned paper from Crate Paper that came in the February Simon Says card kit. The cardstock for the card base was also in the kit. The frog and the paper airplanes were stamped and cut out, and the clouds are die cuts from Papertrey Ink. I colored Mr. Froggy with Copic markers and added some googly eyes for fun.
I hope you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day. I’m delighted to be spending it with family!
That’s quite the collection of Valentine’s cards you have created this year. I’m sure every one will be loved. Happy Valentine’s Karen!
Oh, these are lovely! I’m a big fan of hedgehogs too, but these are all fab 🙂
WOW! hey, who needs stamps?! This is really amazing, both the drawing and the watercolouring! So glad you joined us at CASology this week!
They are all just lovely … I have a fondness for those little paper airplanes, though!
You really have outdone yourself with Valentines, Karen…hope you enjoyed the time with your family xx
What a delightful collection of cards! It was so enjoyable to see each one and read about how it was created. I’m so impressed that you drew the hedgehog! I love the look of him and you did a great job coloring him with copics and watercolors (great detail with the “shadow” below him)! I also got a kick out of the wittiness of the second card and the third card was just adorable! I really liked how you made the heart out of faux wood, which I haven’t ever seen done quite like that before. Great job on some very heartwarming and charming creations! Thank you for sharing your talents with us for this week’s Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!
Hi sweetie, these are so cute, I love the colours you have chosen too, Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Challenge this time, hugs Pops x x x
These are all lovely Karen but the hedgehog wins my heart.
wicked fun valentines!!!! thank you for playing along with us at simon says stamp wednesday challenge!
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