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Darling Dinos Valentine's Card

by Joanne James10. February 2025 16:00

Today I'm sharing a cute Valentine's card that was inspired by a number of challenges:

Pink and red are the perfect colours for a Valentine's Day card and Color Hues and Inkspirational are jointly featuring these colours. Lisa is is looking for hearts for die week over at Just Us Girls and Sunday Stamps had the perfect layout (I used it with my card in landscape mode). Take a look at what I came up with:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

I had the idea that the cute brontosaurus-like dinosaur in the 'Darling Dinos' stamp set would frame a large heart perfectly with a mirror-image mate, so I grabbed my stamping platform and silicone mat, stamped my chosen dinosaur onto my mat using black ink, then placed my cardstock carefully on top and stamped again so that the pressure of the stamp transfers the ink from the mat to the underside of the cardstock, thereby creating a mirror image. I coloured my dinosaurs in coordinating red and pink and positioned them either side of a large diecut heart which I stamped with my sentiment from the set:

To add interest for the horizontal element, I used one of my favourite retired heart-shaped dies from the Be Mine Stitched Framelits; I diecut the border piece twice and infilled the pink outline with the red hearts. So what do think? Cute, right?! I think this might be my card for my hubby - I mean hearts and dinosaurs, what's not to love, right?!

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any.

It's so, so cold here in the UK at the moment; I just want to stay inside, keep warm and craft! Enjoy your day and I'll be back later in the week with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

DARLING DINOS BUNDLE (ENGLISH) (38.50)	REAL RED A4 CARDSTOCK (10.75)	REAL RED STAMPIN' BLENDS COMBO PACK (10.25)	BUBBLE BATH A4 CARDSTOCK (10.75)	BUBBLE BATH STAMPIN’ BLENDS COMBO PACK (10.25)	BASIC WHITE A4 CARDSTOCK (13.00)
TUXEDO BLACK MEMENTO INK PAD (7.50)

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

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Comments (12) -

Nancy Leppek

2/11/2025 7:42:25 PM #

This is the second time I have seen these dinosaurs and I am in LOVE! I can not get over how well they look in our colors, Joanne! Such a wonderful card! So happy to have you in our gallery at Color Hues.

Lisa Elton

2/11/2025 11:22:23 PM #

Aww, how sweet are they! This is a darling Valentine and I love the sentiment. Thanks for sharing it with us at Just U s Girls!

Sue VanDeVusse

2/12/2025 9:58:48 AM #

Those dinosaurs are adorable looking at each other and standing by the big heart! A perfect masculine Valentine. Thanks for playing along with us at JUGS!

Carol

2/12/2025 1:54:40 PM #

Joanne, Your Valentine is sooooo cute and I really like those die cut hearts! The sentiment could not be cuter too. Thanks for playing along with our Use a heart die challenge this week at Just Us Girls!

SmilynStef

2/13/2025 12:57:55 PM #

Those dinosaurs are so fun in those colors ... so glad you joined us at Just Us Girls Challenge.

Christy Stanford

2/13/2025 4:51:27 PM #

I love this, Joanne! I've never tried the mirror image stamping technique but your dinos look so great framing the big pink heart. Love it!!

Stef Perry

2/13/2025 8:55:52 PM #

There's certainly nothing like love and dinosaurs, Joanne! What a fun valentine, with those cute dinos and awesome sentiment, and made all the more so with the mirror image dino. Very clever of you! This is so sweet, no doubt your husband will appreciate it! Thanks for playing along over at Color Hues!

Tracey McNeely

2/14/2025 4:11:26 AM #

Joanne I just love those cute dinosaurs! I've never seen this stamp but it's so adorable and a fun valentines. Thank you so much for sharing with us at the Color Hues!

Jan Clothier

2/14/2025 7:43:06 AM #

How super is this? I love those dinosaur, staring lovingly into each other's eyes. I'd thought about mirror stamping these sweeties but never got around to trying it. Love their reversed colours too. Matched up with the lovely die cut hearts, this card is wonderful.

Laurie

2/14/2025 2:50:52 PM #

Oh my goodness - how cute is this!!! Thanks for playing over at Sunday Stamps.

Deb Horst

2/14/2025 10:02:02 PM #

Adorable!! Thanks for playing along with our “pretty frames” challenge over at Sunday Stamps!! You rocked our sketch with your dino card!! Deb Horst,DT #SSC353

Pia

2/16/2025 9:29:29 PM #

How cute is this! I was not expecting to see dinosaurs with this color combo, but they are darling, Thanks for sharing with us at Inkspirational.

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Darling Dinos Valentine's Card