Color Hues #56

Sheri has chosen two colors that are perfect for Valentine’s Day for this Color Hues Challenge. Although I gave thought to other occasions for which this color combination would work (and there are plenty!), I went with the obvious. 

I ended up with two cards created with one die—one totally minimalist card and one CAS card. I die cut one of the heart designs from Simon Says Geometric Builders: Hearts four times: once in red, twice in different shades of pink, and once from a cute piece of patterned paper I found in my stash. I also die cut some whole hearts to use as a base if needed.

My husband wasn’t terribly fond of the minimalist card, but I’m perfectly happy with it. 

The sentiment is from Waffle Flower’s Classic Sentiments. I layered the heart onto a small square cut with an Ellen Hutson’s Essential Squares die and added it to the card base with some dimensional tape.

The second card using pieces left over from the first design, and a square format worked best for this card.

I layered the Stitched Square by Simon Says onto a pretty pink card base. This sentiment is from Papertrey Ink’s Just Sentiments: Valentine set.

Whether it’s a valentine or a card for another occasion, I hope you’ll join our Guest Designer and the Design Team at the Color Hues blog and fill up the gallery with wonderful cards!

It turns out that other challenges have valentines on their mind as well. So I’ll be joining in with the TicTacToe Challenge where the middle row down is Hearts, Free, Shade of Red. And Just Us Girls where HEART is the word for word week there.