{"id":725,"date":"2013-01-13T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/articles\/a-brown-valentine-card\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T06:52:28","slug":"a-brown-valentine-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/a-brown-valentine-card\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brown Valentine Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nSince Jan and Feb is all about creating Valentine projects.. I wanted to<br \/>\n create some too..&nbsp; But these days I am super busy with creating my<br \/>\nniece Kiara&#8217;s announcement stuff.. So today I am gonna share a card with<br \/>\n you which was made for Valentines a few weeks back.. The best part I<br \/>\nlike about this card is that I made a Valentine Day card which did not<br \/>\nhave red&#8217;s in it.. It had lots of brown and muted red.. I really love<br \/>\nhow the card came along..<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nSo here is the card &#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Card_87_2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Card_87_2.jpg\" width=\"199\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nI love the way the brown has meshed along with the pinks and reds.. And the best part is it can be given to male since its brown \ud83d\ude42 .. So here are some more images with the details &#8211;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Card_87_1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Card_87_1.jpg\" width=\"320\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nLove the way the red rhinestones add the depth to the card.. Also the hemispherical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/embellishments\/beads-rhinestones\/hemispherical-pearls-ca0007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pearls<\/a> give a look of elegance..<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Card_87_3.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Card_87_3.jpg\" width=\"247\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nThe flourish and small flowers I have used is a Spellbinder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">die<\/a> and colored using distress inks.. I have done a lots of distressing on the card.. The primary colors I have used are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/tim-holtz-distress-inks-aged-mahogany-tim21407?keyword=aged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aged Mahagony<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/tim-holtz-distress-inks-antique-linen-tim19497?keyword=antique%20li\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antique Line<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/tim-holtz-distress-inks-vintage-photo-tim19527?keyword=Vintage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vintage Photo<\/a>.. The image is from Lily of the Valley.. I have colored it using my Staedtler water color pencils..Then once the image was dry then I distressed entire image paper with Antique Linen .. Wait for the image to dry or else your water colors and inks will combine and may give u an unwanted effect \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Card_87_4.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Card_87_4.jpg\" width=\"320\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nI have used some ribbons from my Stash.. And the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/papers\/patterned-papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pattern paper<\/a> is from Paper Mania Collection.. The sentiment stamp is from Papertrey Ink..&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nSo hope I have inspired you to use odd colors for the most obvious themes.. You will also see loads of new projects coming up with browns because I just love the vintage look.. So until the next time..<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nHappy Crafting,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nKhyati<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Jan and Feb is all about creating Valentine projects.. I wanted to create some too..&nbsp; But these days I am super busy with creating my niece Kiara&#8217;s announcement stuff.. So today I am gonna share a card with you which was made for Valentines a few weeks back.. The best part I like about&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/a-brown-valentine-card\/\" class=\"button button-primary\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Brown Valentine Card<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,813,209,338,1005],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","tag-cards","tag-dies","tag-distress-inks","tag-khyati","tag-paper-embroidery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}