Love Is In the Air: Part 2

For some reason, I've really caught the Valentine's Day card-making "bug" this year!

I've never been drawn to the heart motif necessarily, and yet right now I just can't seem to get enough of it.  When I sat down to create Valentine's Day cards, four different series developed.

These labels appear on the back of the cellophane bags that hold each greeting card.

The first set I worked on I called my "Valentine Poste" series.  They were inspired by a design from Colette Copeland in the Volume 4 2010 edition of Somerset Holidays & Celebrations magazine.  I used reproduction Victorian scrap and mailing labels, while the postcards are all from between 1910 and 1913 (except, perhaps obviously, for the "Seattle" postcard in the last photo!).

If I had to choose, this card is my very favorite.

I love the look of brown kraft paper for these cards!

How neat that the purple color on the Victorian-style scrap matched the original "Philadelphia, PA" stamp perfectly!

I owe Karenann many thanks for coming through for me when I couldn't find my mailing labels
in time to make these cards when I needed to!

I added foam dots on the back of the couple at the forefront of this card to add some fun dimension to it.

For my second series of cards, "Homeycomb Poste," I used a beautiful piece of scrapbook paper with collaged hexagons, which look just like a quilt.  I just added the stitching to complete the look.

 

There are a total of six of these cards.

The third Valentine's Day series I made is called "Birds of a Feather," which I think is a fun sentiment for the holiday.  And, as you can see with almost all of my cards this season, I had to "put a bird on it"!

These are all quite different from one another, and some have a "Happy Valentine's Day" sentiment inside, while others are blank cards.

It's hard for me to resist adding some stitching to my projects!

Some of the cards do not acutally SAY "Birds of a Feather" on them, but the sentiment is still there!

I used the foam dots on the back of the hearts to add some dimension to the card.



The fourth and final Valentine's series that I created is called the "Love is in the Air" series.  These cards are also all quite different from one another.

I used a postcard of Raphael's famous angel duo that I purchased in Italy for this card.

This is a vintage postcard from the auction I frequent, with reproduction Victorian scrap added.

Still putting a bird on it!

Amazingly enough, after all these cards, I'm still playing around with hearts.  I will share with you three fun ways to create heart embellishments for your Valentine's Day cards and other artwork in my next post!