HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to my little bit of the Valentine's Blog Party - go HERE to see all the blog links.

First of all is a project for you: originally written for Simply Stamping magazine, this was never published because the magazine went bust... so I have been saving it ever since for the right occasion - and this is it! Never seen before... I hope gives you some good ideas, maybe for some scrapbooking pages. Further down, there is a set of French postcards for you to print out.

EIFFEL TOWER CARD




EIFFEL TOWER
Copyright Susie Jefferson














Inside of card

Copyright Susie Jefferson

• Fold dark olive A4 card in half to make an A5 side fold card.
  
• Cut cream card slightly smaller than A5 and randomly stamp the calligraphy background in VersaMagic Thatched Straw. Stamp the Eiffel Tower in VersaMagic Sahara Sand.
  
• I downloaded copyright-free images from Art-e-Zine and resized, printing repeat images of the boy onto vellum.
• Trim, run through a Xyron sticker maker and adhere to the card as shown.
  
• Position the ruler (K&CO Life’s Journey sticker) 4cm up from the bottom, leaving 1cm excess at either side.
• Layer to folded dark olive card and fasten with eyelets as shown.
  
• Trim away excess ruler paper.
  
• Print the girl onto glossy photo paper and trim closely; adhere with double-sided tape and position over the edge of the Eiffel Tower to give a feeling of perspective.
  
• Draw around the outer edge of the Eiffel Tower with Inkessentials Matte Accents to create a border, then flood inside this outline with more Matte Accents (this stops it running over the edge) and set aside to dry.
  
• Stamp “Do you remember” onto cream card using gold pigment ink and emboss with Gold Detail powder.
  
• Cut out with deckle-edged scissors and edge with gold metallic marker and mount using pop dots.
• Finish the inside of the card with Cream French scrapbook paper (HOTP).
  
• Cut the same height of the card x 2/3 the width, so the eyelets are covered neatly and the paper overlaps the right half of the card by roughly half.
  
• Adhere with double-sided tape.
  
• Print the boy onto glossy photo paper and attach on the right-hand side using black photo corners.
  
• Stamp “Do you remember” using gold pigment ink.

SUPPLIES FROM:

Do you remember 445D by Catslife Press

Calligraphy Mat No 6 by The Atistic Stamper

Eiffel Tower 94089-x by Inkadinkado

FREEBIE PHOTOS FOR YOUR ARTWORK

These French postcards will be slow to load because I scanned them as high resolution jpgs.

This gives you huge files, but you will then be able to print or manipulate or do whatever you want with them! Copyright-free of course (and if you happen to use them in your artwork, I'd love to see a scan).




































Happy Valentine's Day everyone!