Obviously to a card maker, Valentine’s Day is a fairly important event. In the Holiday catalogue there is the Stampin’ Up! Seasonally Scattered set which had three stamps with season images around them. I’ve used both of Merry and Thanks. Now it’s the turn of the Love stamp.

Sadly it’s rather hard to photograph this beauty – the metallics do not work well with the camera. It definitely looks better in person. After using the embossing buddy, I stamped in versamark on real red and then sprinkled on the gold embossing powder. It’s magic seeing any embossing come to life, but a large stamp is even more exciting. I matted this with the gold foil (the brushed gold cardstock doesn’t stand up to the gold embossing in my opinion) at a quarter inch larger than the real red and then had a larger border of real red around the gold. The base is half an inch larger in all dimensions than the gold mat.

The envelope is lined with Maritime DSP which contains real red, coastal cabana, whisper white and night of navy.