“Love You Tons” – BONUS FREE Digi of the Week!

As promised, I wanted to share with you all an extra free digi this week. This is another cartoon style digi that started life as a little doodle (from my January Doodle Days Challenge participation) and it’s called “Love You Tons.”

I was making two 3″ x 5″ (index card size) love-themed cards for my crafty friend Pam’s (YT: theoneandonlygrand), challenge celebrating 1000+ subbies on YT. Woot woot! These are a clean and simple (CAS) styel, and I thought these digis would be perfect for this project.

I shared the colors I used on the “Believe” digi in yesterday’s post, and the following are the markers I used for this digi: Elephant: W1 and W3; Blush and water/hearts: R30 and R20. I also added a little Clear Wink of Stella on the hearts to add a little shimmer.

I used paper from the new-to-me My Mind’s Eye Lost & Found Record It! Double-Sided Cardstock 12″X12″- Heirloom Glamorous, the matching Layered Stickers, and Adhesive Enamel Dots. I love the sparkle from the red glitter in combination with the vintage feel of the more muted colors. The main thing that took more time (other than drawing and cleaning up the digis) was the fussy cutting of that intricate lacy heart behind the elephant (I added clear Wink of Stella on the lacy part of this heart too).

Because I couldn’t leave it at two non-doggy cards, I made an extra card with this adorable Tiddly Inks pup from the “I Wuf You” stamp set. I colored it up with Copic markers: E23, E25, and W1. The Sentiment is from one of my all time favorite sentiment stamp sets from Fiskars Cloud 9 Designs called “Simple Thoughts – Dog,” which was gifted to me by my crafty friend, Laura (YT: littleluluscraps). I used Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black Ink and clear Recollections embossing powder to lend a little elegance and shine to the sentiment, which reads: “Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog. – Sydney Jeanne Seward” Again, to add a little extra shimmer, I used clear Wink of Stella on the heart in the dog’s mouth as well as on the lacy parts of the fussy cut heart behind the dog (yep, I cut out another one–LOL).

These cards are being entered into the following challenges:
CARDZ TV Any Occasion Challenge and
CASology NBUS Challenge
The dog card is being entered into the Tiddly Inks New Beginnings Challenge

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day! WOOF

12 Comments

Darnell on January 19, 2015 at 12:00 am

These are darling, Kristina! They remind me of old-fashioned Valentines!! You did a great job! Thank you for playing in the CASology NBUS challenge again! I hope you’ll also link them over at the NBUS Challenge on my blog!! Hugs, Darnell

Hazel Hodgkins on January 19, 2015 at 3:00 am

That little elephant shooting love hearts out of his trunk is too cute. Lovely colour combo too! Thanks so much for joining us at CASology this week!

Anonymous on January 19, 2015 at 6:43 am

These cards are adorable!! Thanks for joining us at Cardz TV!
Gerda
http://cardscreations.blogspot.com

Lucianna on January 19, 2015 at 11:27 pm

Your card is so sweet and the sentiment is just so perfect with the adorable pup! Thank you so much for joining us at Tiddly Inks for our “New Beginnings” challenge 🙂

Kimberly Wiener on January 20, 2015 at 3:07 am

Wow, FUN Thanks for joining us at CASology in the NBUS challenge this week, so glad that you did!!!

Larissa on January 20, 2015 at 1:34 pm

A very sweet card. Love the sentiment. Thanks for joining us at the Tiddly Inks challenge.

Hugs,
Larissa

annb on January 24, 2015 at 1:37 am

Gorgeous cards Kristina,and thanks so much for that lovely free digi!

IKE on January 24, 2015 at 5:51 am

Oh how fabulous and thank you very much for the cute Ellie 😀
Hugz
IKE in Greece xxx

Tina Cappa on January 24, 2015 at 9:29 am

OMG! Can you say sinking cute . I love these cards so much they do remind you of the old time valentines . The images are darling I really need to get a printer so I can create with your wonderful digis . You are amazing drawer n crafter Kristina and I’m so blessed to have you as a friend.. Have a great day ! 🙂 xoxo

CraftyPaws on February 5, 2015 at 2:49 pm

Aww you are so sweet, Tina! Thanks for stopping by and leaving such a kind comment! Big hugs, Kristina
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hoptownracer1 on January 24, 2015 at 1:05 pm

Thank you so much for your wonderful images! I am in love with the elephant, and the pig is adorable! Your doggie card turned out so sweet! You are so talented! 🙂