valentine's love and easiest birthday card ever!

i love to make my husband a valentine's card, and I always really struggle with how to make it about love and valentines, but not so girly he wants to gag.  SO I took an idea I saw on pinterest and came up with this!

 The colors are early espresso for the tree, blushing bride as the pink, and real red.  After I made it, I kind of wished that I had used cherry cobbler... but here we are!
This stamp set is called "sheltering tree" and I find i'm using it constantly! for the sentiment I used a retired stamp, but there are many, many beautiful stamp sets that have love you on them in the new ocassions catalogue that you can see here! http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/CategoryPage.aspx?categoryid=110500

Then for club, I showed off a card I CASED from Mary Fish (my go to website when I want easy but stunning ideas!!!)

 I used different shades of blues and an aqua pen.  I embossed in WHITE the Happy Birthday so it really popped (and so I didn't have to wait for the whisper white ink to dry, which takes a WHILE, and who has time for THAT?!)

 finally I added some "dazzling diamonds" with a little tombow and BAM!

I also made some with blender pens, just to show the difference, and I ended up making a bunch of them for our teenagers, because I liked that it looked a bit messier and younger.

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