WPlus9 | Pastel Valentine’s Day Card or Love Notes. Video + Sketch

Hello there! Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and so you’ll be seeing more and more love-themed projects from me here on the blog. Today I’m sharing several pastel Valentine’s Day cards or Love Notes that feature simple no-masking stamping. Today’s video also show how to fix little stamping mistakes with the help of colored pencils.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

I’ve filmed a video tutorial where I am sharing everything in detail. You can watch it below or on my Youtube channel.

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CARDMAKING SKETCH

I love to use sketches as a starting point for my cards. I often sketch out ideas in a notepad and later follow them to create my cards. I made a sketch for the cards I’m sharing today and I’m hoping you’ll find it useful. Pin it, save it, share it, use it!

CARDS DETAILS

I started working on these cards by stamping a beautiful heart-shaped wreath from the Fresh Cut Wreath set onto white cardstock panels (I used a round wreath from this stamp on a set of different cards recently, check it out for more inspiration). If you’d like to have a faint background stamped like I have done on some of the cards here it is best to stamp the background first and than do the rest of the stamping.

I used interlocking rope design from the Dockside Backgrounds stamp set (I recently used another image from this set to complete a set of encouragement cards) and stamped it using WPlus9 Pure Color Fairy Dust ink onto my paper. I love using this color as it is very pale, almost invisible, yet it adds a lot of nice “texture” and detail to the background.

I mentioned recently I love to use pink, yellow and gray for my Valentine’s Day cards. I went with this color combo, but instead of using vibrant colors I picked out very muted, pastel shades. I used Silver Lining, Hayride, Wild Mango, Shell Pink and Little Piggy Pure Color Dye ink colors to do my stamping.

Since I was stamping several panels at once I used my Misti stamp positioner for perfect placement and alignment, although you can stamp this using a clear block.

I used same colors of ink (pinks + yellows + gray) to stamp sentiments.Whimsy Alpha set was used to stamp bold “Love”,” Adore” and “Kisses” and Hand Lettered Thanks as well as the Fresh Cut Wreath to stamp “For You” and “You”.

I trimmed my panels down and adhered them flush onto A2 top folding card bases made out of WPlus9 Coal Mine cardstock. First time using this gray – love it! Its very dark so a white/gold/silver pen will be needed to write a message on the inside.

I embellished my card using clear droplets in two sizes and added tiny white dot details to flower centers.

Since I messed up some of my stamping I used my Prismacolor pencils to quickly fix the problem areas. Watch my video above to learn more. However, if you stamp the background first and later add wreath and sentiment you shouldn’t have any problems like I did.

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!

WPlus9 Fresh Cut Wreaths Stamps Shop at: SSS | WP9	Wplus9 Dockside Backgrounds Stamps Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Whimsy Alpha Stamps Shop at: SSS | WP9	Wplus9 Hand Lettered Thanks Stamps Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Hayride Dye Ink Shop at: WP9
WPlus9 Wild Mango Dye Ink Pad Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Shell Pink Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Little Piggy Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Fairy Dust Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Silver Lining Dye Ink Shop at: WP9
WPlus9 White Cardstock Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Coal Mine Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Prismacolor 150 Premier Colored Pencils Shop at: SSS	Pretty Pink Posh 4MM Clear Droplets (small) Shop at: SSS	Pretty Pink Posh 6MM Clear Droplets (medium) Shop at: SSS
Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Uni-ball Pen Signo Gel White Two Pack Shop at: SSS	EZ Runner Grand – Permanent Shop at: SC | AZ	EZ Runner Grand – Permanent – Refill Shop at: SC | AZ
Sakura Quickie Glue Pen Shop at: SSS | AZ