Hello! Today is a very special day at Our Creative Corner. We are excited to welcome five talented new designers to our team and today is their very first challenge. Our wonderful host, Wendy Jensen, has challenged us to make a 3-D Valentine project. Oh my, what to make? I'm really fresh out of project ideas. And for Valentine's Day, I wanted to do something vintage. Finally I decided on a very Victorian style Valentine's greeting with this cone shaped "envelope" and a tag type greeting tucked inside. I have to say that this design is not my original idea. I saw these at Christmas on Anne's Paper Fun and thought the cone-shaped "envelope" would work great for a Valentine.
To make this, I started with an 8" heart shaped doily, traced it on to a sheet of K&Co. designer paper and cut it out, giving me two hearts of the same size. I made a tri-fold out of them and then took a 6" heart shaped doily and stamped the Classified Ads background stamp from Whimsey Stamps on it. Then it was misted with my homemade Vintage Photo glimmer mist and when dry, it was wrapped around the two larger folded hearts. I threaded a piece of shabby seam binding through the holes around the top of the smaller heart and added a toile piece stamped from Gentler Times (SU retired) colored with Copics. A sweet vintage cupid was added to the front as well as a handmade flower made with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and a vintage style SU brad.
A little pull-out tag type greeting was made for the inside featuring another vintage Valentine image, cut with a Spellbinders heart and adorned with several pieces of ribbon and lace. The sentiment is from SU's Holiday Best set.
Thanks for stopping by for a visit today. I hope you will stop by the blogs of all our new designers and wish them well. We have a lot of cute Valentine's projects to share with you so be sure to stop by the OCC blog too.
Challenges Entered:
Sugar Creek Hollow - Sweet Vintage Valentine
Tag Tuesday Challenge - Valentines
Creative Cottage Challenge - Shaped Cards
Charisma Cardz - Valentines/Love
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Trifold Card with a Tag Insert
Meljen's - Put Your Heart on It
If the Shoe Fits - Anything Goes - Except a Card
Crazy4Challenges - Vintage or Shabby
J.U.G.S. - Handmade Flowers
Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge - A Valentine Card
Soartful Challenges - Victorian Romance
57 comments:
Stunning creation, it's really beautiful, gorgeous lace and images .... very romantic.
Have a lovely weekend
big hugs
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Adorable.
This is one of your pretties creations ever Linda...it's stunning!
Have a great weekend!
Abby
This is beautiful Linda, I do love how you do vintage so well, it's just gorgeous. Sue C x
This is just stunning Linda, I just love how vintage it looks! The vintage valentine images go so well with that stamp from the Holiday Best!!!
Totally gorgeous creation. Annette x
This is very pretty and you hit the vintage mark to perfection.
You've done it again Linda, this is a masterpiece of a creation. I love love love your style. Mwaa..h
Suzi xx
This is absolute perfection! The kind of Valentine we all want to find in our mailboxes! Thanks for sharing it at Tag Tuesday
Stunning creation hun beautiful lace very vintage thanks for joining us at the creative cottage hope to see you again at the next challenge hugs linda x
this is so brilliant and wonderful!
a fantastic inspiration!
hugs and kisses from germany,
silvi xoxo
This project is stunning thanks for sharing it with us at CRAFT Challenge this week.
Kerry
A sensational project, Linda!! I love all of the little touches you added!! Thanks for playing along with us this week at SCH!!!
When I saw this earlier I know you had to enter this in the SCH challenge! What a beautiful Valentine. Thanks so much for joining us this week with your beautiful card.
Hugs, Heide
SCH DT
I love all of the vintage goodness that you have included in this gorgeous project.
Hi Linda! It is so wonderful to see you have joined us this week! Your creation is purely stunning! I am off to Ben Franklin Monday to see if I can find the 8" hearts. I absolutely adore this Victorian vintage look and you have raised the notch up even higher for those of us who attempt this look! Gorgeous!!
donna
SCH design team
This is one absolutely stunning creation Linda, I have really enjoyed looking at all the wonderful detail
Hugs
Lorraine x
Oh MY Goodness.. This is sooo pretty.. I love the vintage vibe this has.. Perfect for Tag Tuesdays challenge..
Stunning Linda!! This is just the greatest!! I might have to make a few of these myself. I have a lot of ladies at church to thank for providing my family meals this week. This is a perfect Valentine's gift.
these are just BEAUTIFUL! thanks for sharing :)
wow Linda what an origianl idea,love it ,its so romantic and not that boring red and white...LOVEly
A gorgeous project. Thank you for joining CRAFT this week.
Nikki x
GDT for CRAFT for January
Just adorable!
Oh so pretty! Love the vintage style card! Nice job! Thanks for playing along with Just US Girls this week.
How fantastically vintage! I love all of your colors and those printed papers are gorgeous! The images you chose are so sweet and I love the little pull out heart with all of its fabric ribbons. This is so beautiful! Thanks for joining us again at Sugar Creek Hollow. Hope you keep playing. Your work is fabulous!
Renee
SCH DT
Beautiful vintage! Thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends!
wow!! stunning ~beautiful lace and image ~pure vintage!!
vanessa xx
Oh wow, this stunning and so creative too! You did an absolutely amazing job!
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What a stunning vintage card. Thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends!
Wow, Linda, you really outdid yourself on this one! Love it, the vintage feel is just wonderful! Reminds me of the great old Valentine's from the '30's and '40's!
Very elegant and pretty!
OMG! This is absolutely stunning! You should have entered this for publication, lol. Love it! My address is ...just kidding, lol. Thanks for joining us at "The Shoe" this week!
-Tanisha
stunning.Thanks for joining us at CRAFT.
Kelly GD for jan.
Love the angel image and matching tag, so sweet!
What a stunning project. Thanks for playing along at CRAFT challenge. Sharon x
This is such a pretty Valentine project! Love the vintage look...especially your dimensional bloom ♥
Thanks for playing along with Just Us Girls this week!
Beautiful vintage project!
This is just so beautiful!! I love seeing your projects!!
WOW! Beautiful vintage Valentine, I loe it!
Thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends!
so sweet, I love it!
this is so beautiful
fabulous creation, love it
Thanks for joining us this week on Creative Cottage
Anne x
Linda, as always, I adore your work!! You have the midas touch when it comes to vintage inspiration. So happy to have you play our challenge over at Sugar Creek Hollow. Hope you can join us again next week!!! Blessings to you and happy crafting! Tracy, Owner--Sugar Creek Hollow
PS...love the blog facelift, very nice touch.
Beautiful and gorgeous! You did an amazing job. so very pretty!
Linda, this is just so sensational! Love the vintage images, the lace - EVERYTHING! I can't find enough words to express how much I love this. Visiting your blog is just a real treat! And, almost forgot to thank you for joining us for this week's Sugar Creek Hollow challenge! Hope you will join us again next week too!
Hugs,
Marsha
SCH-DT
This is a gorgerous tag. Love the shape. Great work.
Hi Linda, this is just amazing. What a fabulous and inspirational piece.
Linda, this is beautiful - the Victorian style is gorgeous! You have such a flair with texture. I always love to see what you're working with and it's always fabulous!
What a fun card. Simply divine as always! Thanks so much for joining us at the Pixie Cottage.
Denise
PCDT
Holy cow, Linda! Doesn't look like you need another comment! I'm going to anyway! Ha! This has you written all over it!! It's gorgeous! I love the large photo so that we can see all the fine details. I really love the little tag too! Thanks for all you're doing for the team! I appreciate it. I do need to give you a hard time about how many different ways you've (mis)spelled my name this month even though I went back and corrected the posts a couple times! It's all good! I still love you! Bravo on the project!
just stunning beautiful!! Great Job Linda ;) Thank you for joining us in our challenge over at Meljens. Hope you will come and see the blog hop we have starting today ;) HUGS X
I love the vintage elements in your project- very pretty!
OH MY WORD! amazing...gorgeous...fabulous! can't say enough about your art! Thank you so much for sharing with us at the Shoe!
This is one of the most beautiful pieces that I've seen a long time. I'm so glad that you found us at Soartful. Please share your lovely work with us often.
Wow! These are gorgeous! Great vintage effects.
Linda your work is always just magnificent and an inspiration to me. This is no exception and it's a perfect example of vintage style. Thanks for playing in the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge this week. We hope you'll come back and join us again next time too!
Sharon, SCH-DT
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