Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by to help celebrate the launch of Hero Arts Valentine’s Day products (more about these new goodies, blog hop and giveaway below).
Even though Valentine’s Day is just once a year I think it’s important to make (and give) little love notes to each other throughout the year. I have several favorites in this new release and one of them is the Cherub stamp set with the sweetest little angels. I used this set to make both cards I’m sharing today.
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARDS & BACKGROUNDS DETAILS
I had a very simple card design in mind for these and to somehow spice my cards up I added selective dry embossing to my white stamped background panel and I made sure to avoid the area with the stamping. I didn’t use my die cutting machine or any embossing folder to add this dry embossing, but went with a good old manual embossing. I used my scoring board and a bone folder and added manual embossed lines to my background.
The idea was to avoid adding dry embossing to the area where you have a stamped image. And this is the beauty of this technique, because really you can dry emboss with anything as long as you have a die cutting machine, you can dry emboss with dies, embossing folders, die cuts, stencils, even little pieces of paper. But the technique I used doesn’t require the use of a die cutting machine and lets you do selective dry embossing.
I started working on my cards by stamping clouds from the Cherubs stamp set in the Soft Sky ink forming a little cloud cluster. Next, with the help of my bone folder and scoring board I added score lines to my panel avoiding the area where I had my stamping. I added horizontal lines to one of my cards (spaced at 1/2″ intervals) and diagonal lines (also spaced at 1/2″ intervals) forming diamonds. There’s not a whole lot of designs you can create using this linear scoring method, but there are a few.
I also stamped and die-cut the little angels for my card (I used Pool to Navy Ombre ink pad) and ink blended a blue panel for my card using same color of ink to match my stamping.
I trimmed by dry embossed panel to 3 3/4 x 5″, foam mounted onto the card, foam mounted the cherubs on top and added a “Forever Yours” sentiment heat embossed in white over black paper. Finally, I embellished my card using Frost sequins from Hero Arts.
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GIVEAWAY!
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SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Hero Arts Cherubs Clear Stamps Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Cherubs Frame Cuts Die Set Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Soft Sky Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Ombre Pool To Navy Ink Shop at: SSS |
 Scor-Pal Mini Scor-Buddy Scoring Board Shop at: SSS |
 Martha Stewart Mini Scoring Board Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS |
 Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives Black Foam Tape Shop at: SSS |
 White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Frost Sequin Mix Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Shop at: SSS |
Love the clean look of your Valentine. The embossing truly adds a great wow factor
Beautiful, simple card! Your videos are always so inspiring! Thank you!
Beautiful CAS cards, Yana! I love the background embossing that you did.
Lovely cards – love the colour
such a classy card!
Very cute card. I love the dry embossing and the Cupid images. Thank you for sharing.
Love your card simple yet elegant and love that you used ombre ink pad.
Lovely card and looks easy to make.
Your cards are adorable and the embossing is the perfect touch for the background.
Fun ideas for your cards! Thanks for sharing with us on this blog hop!!
Lovely card!
These are gorgeous Yana! Love the scored cardstock backgrounds!
Lovely cards, love the clouds behind the cute cherubs and the scored backgrounds are a pretty but subtle detail. Thanks for another awesome video tutorial too.
Lovely romantic card, great soft shades of blue, x
Love the colors! Super excited!
Great masculine card. Love it.
Beautiful!!! I love the CAS design and those colors together. TFS
Gorgeous Valentine blues!! xoxo
Love this dry emboss technique! The cards are angelic! Thanks for sharing your time & talent!!!
What a clever idea- selective dry embossing!
Very hip CAS card. love the non traditional colors I am seeing with this new Valentine release
What great cards!!!!
I love when stamp sets have matching die cuts. Cute card!
Yana, thanks for sharing two very simple but elegant Valentine cards. I love the simplicity of both cards.
I love how you stepped up a CAS design with embossing!
Love the simplicity of these cards. Pretty!
So cute! I am ashamed to say that my Scor-Board has been hiding out for quite some time now. This project has me ready to get it out of hiding.
Love how the vertical score lines make it look like wood planks. Also like the blue instead of pink or red… though not sure the sequins pass as masculine 😉
As always, so beautiful, Yana! The embossed backgrounds really make both cards special!
I have a score board – I am ashamed to admit I don’t think I’ve ever used it! Well, these little cherubs have me yearning for a reason to use it
I loved how you used your score board to make your background. The cherubs are darling and added the perfect touch to your card. Thanks for sharing with us!
What an original idea to use cupid for a masculine Valentine’s card! I would have never even thought of doing it.
Amazing CAS card!! Love the simple technique too and it is a lovely masculine project 🙂 Thanks for sharing with us!
Love the ideas!
Your little cherub cards are adorable! What a sweet, sweet set!
I love the masculine inspired valentine card and dry embossing. And thank you for the video on your photo backdrops. It contains fantastic information to help improve my photos.
A sweet and simple card with lots of impact. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice, thank you for the inspiration!
Love the untraditional blue.
Simple card but so pretty.
thanks for sharing.
Love the embossing technique. Adds such subtle interest to the card and doesn’t make it girly for the perfect masculine card.
Pretty colors and details!
Such beautiful cards – love the embossed backgrounds (especially since I don’t have a die-cutting/embossing machine but do have a bone folder!)
So beautiful, Yana! Thank you for inspiring me to get my score board back out!
As always, lovely card
Your cards are absolutely adorable ! And thanks for sharing this dry embossing technique. margessw@icloud.com
Who would think that some plain embossed lines would add so much to a design! I love that CAS card.
Love your simple and elegant card.
Wow! They’re so elegant!!! Love the colors!!!
Clean and simple, but sophisticated!
Yana, these are perfect!