It’s Valentine Week

It’s Valentine Week here on the blog. I have another one to share today, and hopefully, a few more before Valentine’s Day on Sunday. I’m sending (or delivering) more valentines than usual this year due to the pandemic and the fact that I can’t see my friends, several of whom live alone. 

Although I ended up liking this card a lot, it is a far cry from my initial design idea. Some of it happened because I wasn’t happy with the first dies I used, and then I made an error die- cutting the hearts which gave me a whole new basket of ideas. The card uses only two die sets, both new to me from the latest offering at The Greetery, “Shapely Hearts” and “Let’s Have a Word: Love.”

Without thinking, I first cut the “Shapely Heart” dies without cutting them apart, which gave me three hearts–one small whole heart, and two hearts with holes in them. That prompted the beginning of the card. After separating the hearts, I die cut the largest one from a piece of patterned paper in The Stamp Market’s “Miss Modern” collection. Then I added Distress Glitter to the medium-sized heart which had the small heart cut from within it.  That allowed the patterned paper to show through again. To add some dimension, I added foam tape to the glittery heart.

Then I die cut the love sentiment three times in black cardstock, adhered them together, and layered it over the hearts. The last design element was three scored lines on the top and bottom of the card. 

Sending this one off to three challenges. I’m entering this into Just Us Girls Challenge: Valentine. It’s a favorite challenge of mine, and this is my second entry. I’ve never played along with the  Happy Little Stampers Die Challenge: Anything Goes, but this card is nothing but dies! And, of course, the NBUS Challenge, whenever I break out new products!