Hi everyone! I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since I last posted a Clean & Simple Die Cutting Episode.
This post is from the bi-weekly “Clean & Simple Die Cutting” series. You can view all posts from this series by clicking here.
With all the traveling and the Holidays its been crazy down here. We just got our lost luggage yesterday, it was delayed for 5 days! Mine even made it all the way to Turkey while traveling to Ukraine. Its crazy. But the good thing its here and I can now finally unpack and get back to my usual life.
Heads up – while at CHA my Youtube channel hit 4000 subscribers so I will be doing a giveaway soon, stay tuned for that! Meanwhile, there are two giveaways going on my blog right now, be sure to enter!
- Clean & Simple Card Making 4: Techniques Made Simple Class Giveaway!;
- Video! Quick, easy and simple Valentine’s Day Cards + Blog Hop + Giveaway.
Now lets get back to cardmaking, shall we? Today I’m sharing 3 Valentine’s Day Cards and I’m talking about creating your own textured paper. Notice I’m not saying embossed paper, I’m saying textured.
Now these cards were actually inspired by a different project I shared recently – Elegant Valentines Day Cards, the cards shows there are somewhat similar, but use different supplies.
For my today’s projects I used textured plates (Vintage Damask and Scratch Lines). These are fun metal plates from A Gilded Life line from Spellbinders. I’ve been seeing a lot of beautiful shabby and kind of vintage projects using these products and that got me thinking that I could use these texture plates for my cards.
What I liked about these plates is that they can be used to add texture to you media. I would say these are usually used with leather, but they work wonderfully on cardstock. In my video I’m sharing embossed and textured pieces side by side to show you the difference. So basically, these can used as regular embossing folders or plates or as texture plates.
If you’d like to see how I made these cards and don’t mind me talking about texture plates for a couple minutes, please watch my video below or on my Youtube channel. And if you like it – please give it a thumbs up, thanks!
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Yana, these cards are gorgeous! Love it!
Its clean and simple but still pretty and striking great cards
Great cards!!! Love them!!!
Clean,simple and elegant!
I love all 3 cards. Need to add the filigree heart to my wish list. Also remind myself to use my embossing folders on cards
Wow, congrats on your 4,000 YouTube subscribers! Love these textured cards, thanks for tutorial.
These cards are beautiful!!
Love your cards!
I like the way you weaved the arrow through the heart nice cards.
So pretty Yana! Love the subtle textures!
I need to add those dies to my wishlist. The cards look great. I love your work
A very, very pretty card. (A great video too, BTW!)
A lovely design. Thanks for the great videos, also.
Love the colors and design
Love these beautiful cards. Great video.
Awesome cards and great video!!!
Awesome sets of card and love those texture, so beautiful!
This is really clean and simple project? Realy pretty
oh no, “lost luggage” is never fun – especially if there are some new goodies involved – so glad it is finally home! Lovely cards, Yana!
oh my goodness, I did not expect so many comments on this post. Thank you so much, everyone! I’m so glad you enjoyed those cards!
Preciosas y los colores super bonitos y lo mejor elegantes y nada complicado