Time Out Challenge

Time Out posted a new photo challenge yesterday, and as soon as I saw it I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Here’s the fabulous photo:

My granddaughters are coming tomorrow to bake valentine cookies, and I wish ours would be this beautiful! But it wasn’t the cookies that attracted me as much as it was the colors and the patterns. I knew that Papertrey Ink’s Bitty Big papers would be great to replicate a couple of these hearts, and I have new floral dies from The Greetery to play with as well. I also wanted to make a valentine for a dear friend, so after dinner last night I sat down, and this is what I came up with:

I die cut three different sized hearts from the Bitty Big papers in Black and Pale Peony as well as some Pure Poppy with My Favorite Things “Stitched Hearts” dies. Then I die cut some of The Greetery’s BotaniCuts: Forget-Me-Not flowers from watercolor paper and sponged them with Pure Poppy and Pale Peony inks along with a couple of leaves sponged with New Leaf. Here’s a closer look at the pretty flowers.

I die cut both a white panel and a red panel with Ellen Hutson’s Essential Rectangles which cut the rectangle as well as the narrow frame. After mounting those on a white card base, I arranged the hearts and flowers and added the sentiment from Reverse Confetti’s “Crushin'” embossed in white on a strip of black cardstock.

It’s not often I get a card for a challenge created so quickly, but I need to deliver this to my friend tomorrow morning. I’ll be back again tomorrow with some more valentines for friends and on the big day with the valentines I made for family.