Coastal Quilt Valentine’s Day Card

Coastal style decor is a loose term to describe airy and casual seaside-style interiors and sea- and beach-inspired decorative elements. Think seashells, sand, nautical stripes and weathered wood (from the Style at Home’s design dictionary).  I used these elements and colors on my Valentine’s Day card (5×7).

The quilt was made using a die called “Quilt Stitched 4×4 Panel Die #1” by Gina Marie Designs and with digital paper I purchased from Etsy.  The kraft colored paper with the hearts is from a set called “Old Paper Love” by DigiTalesArt, and the shell and turquoise papers are from the “Coastal Cottage Papers 1” set by Tammy DeYoung Designs from the songinmyheart shop.  I used the dropper tool from my Silhouette software to create the solid colored sheets by “picking up” spots of colors from the patterns.

The hearts in the center of the quilt were cut with the “Nesting Hearts (#100384)”  dies by Little B.  The nautical elements were cut from dies from the “Nautical Frame and Accents (S5-082)” set by Spellbinders.

The greeting is a stamp from the “Gifts from the Sea” set by Gina K Designs and was stamped with Gina K Charcoal Brown ink.  A little twist of twine finished it off.

For this week’s “From the Heart” Mod Squad Challenge, we are encouraged to create a project using hearts.   (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)  I was excited when I found the kraft colored digital paper with the hearts because it looked like sand and went perfectly with the colors from the other set.  I particularly loved the hearts with the “rays” around them; they looked like little suns to me!

The MIUM Challenge over at StampTV this week is to use Kraft cardstock somewhere on our project.  Check out the gallery of projects submitted HERE.  (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

Over at Die Cut Diva’s, the challenge this month is “Love, Marriage & Anniversaries.”  A die cut or file cut made on your machine (not store bought) must be used on your project or card.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

I made a pink card today.  I know… it’s not my usual color scheme!  And when I told my daughter that I was planning a pink card, she joked that I would still probably manage to get some brown on there… and I did!  It’s light, but it’s there!!  🙂

I purchased the beautiful patterned paper for my center three panels from Etsy.  It is part of a digital pack called “Textured Valentine Grunge” from a store called TheDigitalStash.  These panels were mounted on Gina K Designs Cranberry Tart card stock.  The print had a touch of tan running through it, so I added a bit of Recollections paper from a pack called Neutrals.  I also used a piece of pink from the DCWV Brights textured card stock pad.

I added a bit of texture to the tan panel with my crimper.

The greeting was a stamp by Craftsmart that I picked up in a bargain bin at one of the craft stores (AC Moore, I think?) and was stamped with Gina K Cranberry Tart ink.

I used to laugh when I was teaching 5th grade when Valentine’s Day would roll around.  This was one of the holidays for which our PTA would “host” classroom parties.  Prior to the big day, I had my students create and decorate folders to hang on the fronts of their desks so they had a place to deposit the Valentines that they brought in for all their classmates.  Imagine… a bunch of 5th graders exchanging “love notes” with every student!  (It was quite a hoot watching them open them in class. Some of them seemed to take it so seriously, making eye contact with and smiling at the senders as they opened their cards.)  Anyway, I always made a sample or two of these folders to get their creative juices flowing, and now, every time I create a Valentine’s Day card, I remember that silliness all those years ago!!  Fun times!!!  🙂

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