Valentines......

Morning peeps brrrr.... another cold day we've got huge icicles hanging from our garden water feature in the pond, looks very pretty but no snow yet. I had a lovely day yesterday and I've got another day off today, I could get used to this, hubby spent the day cleaning out the kitchen cupboards and I spent most of the day playing in my room......did I feel guilty? only when he brought me a cup of tea up.....lol, he's going to put my pictures up on the wall for me today so that I can organise my room a bit better as they are sitting on a shelf at the moment. When visiting blogs I'm amazed at how organised and neat and tidy some look, thankfully some that I visit look like mine, organised in a more creative way .......lol.

Well I managed to catch up with a couple of Dt cards yesterday and finish this one thats been a working progress for the best part of the week, sometimes, well truth be know most of the time I stamp something without any pre plan as to the colours or what the fininshed card will look like, I just keep adding bits until eventually it kind of works. This card definately falls into that catergory, the main image was a play at first with the background, then I glimmer misted it then I added some silver embossing to it, then I thought I know colour the leaves with Prisma pencils to see if they colour on top of pre coloured card.......and yes they do. The stamps I used are by Chocolate Baroque called Harlequin Rose. I did get mine when they were called Elusive Images but the stamp set is still the same.

Then I thought, stamp and colour the rose and puff it out for added dimension. The one thing that I knew I wanted to use was the delicious ruffled ribbon which is shimmery and such a lovely colour, then the rest of the card was a trial and error, like the pink hearts that I stuck to the punched out border using a Martha Stewart punch which fit perfectly over the heart punched out bits (you can get those from MeiFlowers).I know its the not a traditional looking Valentines card but I quite like the colour combo, I used Victorian Velvet, Brushed Sage and Dusty Concord for the background and used a Vintage Rose glimmer mist by Tattered Angels to spritz on the top.

Challenges

Truly Scrumptious.....love and hearts.

Scraphouse Inspiration.....Hearts.

Little Red Wagon....Valentines.

Divas by Design......anything goes.

Creative Beli.....Hearts/Valentines.

Top Tip.....Valentines.

Oldie but A Goodie.......have a heart

Snazzy Design Team......Love/Romance.

Paper Sundaes.....Valentine

Corrosive Challenge.....I heart you.

Crafty Pad.....Valentine/Anniversary.

Cooking it up with Katie......Herats, punch and embossing

Creatalicious......love, punched border, ribbon,flower and bling.

Moving Along with the times....have a heart

Hugs n smiles