One of my favoite holidays or calendar events is Valentine’s Day.  I love looking for new ideas, techniques, paper and other paper crafting materials .  For these two cards, I used two different stencils from The Crafter’s Workshop TCW that are the 6 x 6 size which are perfect for card making.  I used  pinks and purple distress inks and blending brushes . I even used some Pixie spray to hold the stencils in place when inking them.  I added some die cut hearts and lots of clear embossing powder for a shiny effect and my go to bling- a gold thread bundle behind one of the tiny hearts.   I posted them on my Instagram page and got a shout out from TCW and a posting on their Instragram page.  That was awesome!  The cards have arrived in mailboxes of family and friends already.  Love sending happy mail!