Hello Crafty Friends! Now that Valentine’s Day is over, I can share with you my You Slay Me Valentine Card that I gave to my Hubby. My Hubby loves anything that involves history and Vikings. He even has a Viking costume including a sword with scabbard for Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) events and Halloween. In addition to that, we are currently re-watching the Vikings TV Series. When I saw that Stamp Anniething’s January release was Vikings, I just had to get the whole release! There are three Vikings in it. I used two of them on this card and the third is on another card that I will share later.
Details of My Card
I coloured both of these cuties with my Copic markers in the colours of the main characters in the Vikings TV Series…all blonde hair and natural tones, other than Siv’s skirt to tie in my red hearts that I wanted to use. Gale comes with a number of different weapons that you can swap out depending on what you want. I went with the axe and added Glossy Accents to the metal part to make it look like polished steel. I created my two-tone shield with a number of circle dies of varying width. My Hubby informed me that Vikings preferred coloured shields when I was colouring Torin below.
I love the sentiment “You slay me” that comes with Gale. Perfect pun for my Hubby’s Valentine card! It fitted nicely on the tag that I cut out of the matching paper. I added some twine and a die cut heart to add some visual interest to it. Some hearts and a couple of red rhinestones add a bit of pop in colour to my card.
My note to my Hubby said that I will be his Lagertha to his Ragnar always!
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Copic Markers:
Siv
Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/E04/R20/R21
Hair: Y31/Y26/YR24/E25
Brass Breast Plate: E18/E15/E11
Skirt: R22/R24/R27/R29
Greens: YG91/YG93/YG95/YG97/YG99
Wool: C3/C5/C6/C7
Gale
Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/E04/R20/R21
Hair: Y21/YR23/E15/E18
Greens: YG91/YG93/YG95/YG97/YG99
Browns: E35/E33/E31
Belt: E18/E15/E11
Wool: C3/C5/C6/C7
Axe: C9/C6/C5/C3/E35/E31/E11/Glossy Accents
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Card Recipe for You Slay Me Valentine Card:
Siv – All I Ever Mead and Gale You Slay Me, Stamp Anniething
Paper Basics – Stamper’s Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Victory 12” Paper Pack, Cambridge Collection, Bo Bunny
Stripe 12” Paper Pack, Cambridge Collection, Bo Bunny
Cut Outs 12” Paper Pack, Cambridge Collection, Bo Bunny
Galvanized Metallic Sheet, Stampin’ Up!
Standard Layered Circle Dies, Large, Sizzix Cutting Dies
Standard Layered Circle Dies, Small, Sissix Cutting Dies
Be Mine Stitched Dies, Stampin’ Up!
Black and Gray Twine, From my Stash
Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Stampin’ Up
Glossy Accents, Ranger
Real Red, More Mustard and Mossy Meadow Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!
Finished card size: 5.5” x 5.5”
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Hope you like my Valentine card for my Hubby using
Siv – All I Ever Mead and Gale You Slay Me from Stamp Anniething!
Thank you for stopping by!
Hugs,
Laurie