{"id":374,"date":"2025-10-30T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:33:35","slug":"authentique-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Authentique &#8211; Lovely &#8211; Valentines Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Halloween Eve,  I love the Halloween holiday and usually would have decorated the house but this year, we were away for the first half of the month so I didn&#8217;t get to it.  I&#8217;ve posted a few more Halloween cards to my gallery though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m in the middle of a project documenting the build of our house.  I think I&#8217;ve already filled one album and working on another and I haven&#8217;t even gotten to the good stuff yet.  It has been a 2 &#8211; 3 year journey so I&#8217;m sure it will take up a few albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I may be posting some pages this weekend but for now I will post some recent work I did for Valentines Day and working with the Lovely collection from Authentique.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?resize=960%2C772&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C402&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C618&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1236&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1648&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?resize=1140%2C917&amp;ssl=1 1140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C483&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_E0773-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This card making kit included 6&#215;8 cardstock, sticker sheets, alphabet stickers, and cardstock accents.  I used my own scrap of ribbon or thread, metal accents, doily, die cut elements, buttons, solid cardstock and lace.  I think there is enough product in this kit to make a hundred cards, especially when combining with some of your own leftover scraps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&#8217;t a style that I normally work with as I prefer a cleaner, less cluttered type of card or scrapbook.  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