It's raining today, giving me an excuse to work on valentines instead of getting ready for spring in the garden. The garden can wait. February 14 will begin to close in on my this next week or so. I'm not sure I'll get a complete set of 30 cards ready, but I'll make the effort.
I had some scraps of printed paper in my Valentine's Day bin that I had die cut to make small postage stamps for the CAS challenge last month at The Paper Players. I ended up doing something else and set them aside, thinking I would use them somewhere along the line. Enter the first challenge of the year from Tic Tac Toe and Time Out Challenge as inspiration!
I used Silke's diagonal row of Hearts/Red/Ribbon to reassemble my scraps. I had some iridescent pink scraps that I die cut with two sizes of stitched rectangles onto which I stamped a postage cancellation in gray and then glued the stamps in place and stamped once again. Then I die cut a PTI 'Love' from the stamped face of the smallest rectangle to use the spotlight technique (one of my favorites), building up the sentiment with several layers of pink cardstock and placing a red heart behind. I glued all of the layers together with an ivory watercolor paper as a mat, using the paper's deckle edge for the bottom. Finally, I prepared an ivory card base, punched a double rectangle on the right edge, wrapped a red satin ribbon around and through the punched openings, and assembled all of the layers.
TTTC263- Featured Designer Silke - Tic Tac Toe Challenge
This card is also appropriate for an additional challenge: Time Out Challenges #281 - "Pick 2", wherein we are challenged to use two of the words from their list for our cards. I selected 'Layer' and 'Love', but could also include 'Heart and 'Stitch'.
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Gorgeous Valentine, Fran! Love the design and the sweet way you've added your ribbon.
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty Valentine!
ReplyDeleteFabulous Fran - I absolutely love the "cancelled postage stamps" and the eclipse technique with the sentiment ... and your layers and warm colours and stitching! Great to see you in the gallery at Time Out Challenges, so glad you were inspired by our new challenge!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Kate (DT Time Out)!
Beautiful designed card Fran! Thank you for playing the TTTC with us :) !!!
ReplyDeleteThis is so gorgeous! All the elements work beautifully together! Thanks so much for joining us at Tic Tac Toe.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Fran, you were chosen as our Top Pick in Challenge #281 at Time Out! If you haven't already, stop by the Time Out Blog to see how you can claim your prize and I hope you will join us as our Guest in a few weeks! Hugs, Kate (DT Time Out)!
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