Masculine Valentines’

Quick and Simple Valentines’ for Men

These were my cards to the men in my family this year. Like most men, they prefer simple Valentine’s Day cards and lucky for me because I was running behind with stamping my cards for Valentine’s Day this year.

The front card sentiment, “Love You to the (moon) and Back” was created by using the following sets: Words of Love, Whole Family (and), and Words 4 Celebrating (to and the – “the” came from “their” and I masked off the “ir”).

I will admit, I start to kick myself when I want a sentiment that I have not made into a stamp. But I find it quite a fun challenge to create it with what I have!

The biggest challenge was masking the word “Back“! I can’t believe I did not have the word “Back” in any of my sets! The “B” and “a” were easy enough to mask off and came from Words of Love. The more challenging masking (because the letters don’t have as much space around them were the “c” (Whole Family – in the word “Nice”) and “k” (Words of Love – in the word “Thinking”), but I got it to work!

Stamps for “Love You to the Moon” card: Owl & Autumn Moon Multi-Step Clear Stamps, Friends of the Moon Clear Stamps, Swirly Hearts & Stars Clear Stamps, Words of Love Clear Stamps, and Words for Celebrating Clear Stamps from Kitchen Sink Stamps.

Stamps for “Love U” card:

Playful Alphabet Buddy Clear Stamps, 1/2 Pint Playful Alphabet Buddy Clear Stamps (“u”), Swirly Hearts & Stars Clear Stamps, and Love 4 Ducky & Teddy Multi-Step Clear Stamps (sentiment) from Kitchen Sink Stamps.

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Please check in with the KSS Design Team and see what stamping inspiration they have cooked up for this week. Have a wonderful Inky day!

Lynn • Nancy (Video Demo)

Additional supplies for the cards above:

Paper:  All finished cards measure 4.5″ x 5.5″

• Solar White Classic Crest from Neenah.
• Ruby and Crystal from Stardream (Crystal inside the card with the sentiment)
• Lovely Lilac from SU!

Inks: (all Memento Inks – unless noted) 

• Moon: Step #3 – London Fog, Step #2 London Fog so 1x, Step #1 – did not use
• Cloudy Sky: Paris Dusk, Grape Jelly
• “LOVE”: Rockin’ Red (Catherine Pooler)
• Swirly Hearts: Parris Dusk, Lady Bug, and Lilac Poses
• Other Sentiments: Onyx Black (VersaFine)

Inks used can be found in our Color Recipes section on our Forum or found under the Color Recipes Tab here at the top of my blog.

• • Owl & Autumn Moon

Embellishments: White Gelly Roll pen (inside rocketship) from Sakura and Wink of Stella clear glitter pen (over the moon).