Love Bandits Stole My Heart Valentine’s Day Card!

Hi there,

Hero Arts’ new stamp and die set, Love Bandit is brimming with adorable raccoons ready to offer their heart this Valentine’s Day. Each raccoon is sooo cute! It was a blast to color and create this card with these mischievous little creatures!

This card begins with a piece of white Bristol paper, the My Favorite Things Full of Heart stencil, and a few distress oxide inks: Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry and Candied Apple.

The stencil is placed over top of the panel and taped down. Then, with a blending tool and starting at the lower right corner with the candied apple distress ink, working diagonally, I lightly blended roughly one-third of the panel, next Picked Raspberry oxide in the middle and finally Worn lipstick oxide ink to finish in the upper left corner. I finished the panel by splattered water droplets onto the panel and blotting dry, then die cut the panel with the MFT Mod Rectangle STAX.

With the panel complete, I stamped the raccoon and ‘love ya’ onto white card stock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Since there are solid parts of black to this little raccoon and expression, I used a stamp positioning tool (ie: Tim Holtz Stamping Platform or a MISTI) so I could stamp multiple times in the same area to get a good solid black stamping. The raccoon was then colored with Copic markers. The colors used were: C0, C2, C4, C5 and RV13, RV04, G03 and Y35 for his flowers.

Once colored, he was die-cut out and IrRESISTible Pico Embellisher was added for shine and dimension to his eyes, nose and his bunch of flowers.

The sentiment “Be My Valentine” was stamped onto a scrap of dark pink cardstock using Versamark ink and then heat embossed with Hero Arts white embossing powder.

The card was assembled by starting with a white card base, adding the stenciled heart panel (with a little foam behind it to pop it up. The “Be My Valentine” sentiment was added on top with foam tape, then the raccoon and ‘love ya” were placed using a bit of foam tape too.

The final touch was adding a few clear round drops and VIOLA! it is done!

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