Love Valentines

Kids love Valentines Day at school but if you make cupcakes and other goodies, even the biggest kids love it. :) The Valentine collection by Recollections (Michael's) has lots of great stamp sets and the papers and embellishments have this perfect blue - notice I didn't say aqua or teal? real blue! I just love it and when I pulled out my photos from last year, my son had on that exact blue, which was super cool. I used the doilies and enamel dots from the collection too.

 

Have you ever stamped and heat embossed on vellum? I will say that you want to hold the heat tool higher and heat it slowly or the vellum will warp, but it really turns out nicely. And if you look at the "love" stamp, it has fine lines for the shadow and when I heat embossed it melted together, but I love the look. I also wanted a sort of watercolor-ish looking effect for some of the stamping so I used a water based ink marker and applied it to the stamp and then stamped.