Flourishing Hearts

Hi all.  I needed a quick anniversary card and did remember seeing somewhere a card using flourishes behind a heart aperture and I haven't used any flourishes on a card for ages, and I remembered that I had a set from Honey Doo bought ages ago called Flowers for Design which has a flourish which I have never used, and I also used my Torn Edge Hearts and a couple of different mica powders.

I started with a piece of white card just a little smaller than the 6" square card and I roughly found the middle and started down one of the sides by about 1/2" using Versamark ink.   I stamped the flourish and then from the other direction did the same thing so the long straight edge of the flourish joined up in the middle.  I then heat embossed using WOW Metallic Silver Embossing Powder.  I decided where to cut the heart..a little above the centre using one of my Torn Edge Hearts. 

Moving on I decided to use Brushos to colour the slightly smaller heart with, i.e.Violet and Ultramarine and spritzed to get them moving.  I then decided to add some mica powders whilst wet so that they would set, and I chose a silver and a pinky lilac and using the tip of a piercing tool I put some of each on and moved them around and then dried the heart on the low speed of my heat tool.  Wow, some great sparkle and I wiped it over with some kitchen towel to remove any that was likely to come off which wasn't much.

At first I had thought that I would add the coloured heart into the torn heart aperture but thought on reflection that I would place the heart back into the aperture to show off more of the flourish and then I added the sparkly heart over the top, and finished with a stamped and heat embossed sentiment using the same Silver EP.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and I'll see you again soon. 

I am entering the following challenges:

Addicted to CAS Challenge - No 315 Anniversary.

Allsorts Challenge - No. 856 Embossing (dry or heat)/Anything Goes.

Simply Clean & Simple Challenge - Aug. '26 Anything Goes/Nature.

Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Inspired by a Song (Anyone Who Had a Heart - Cilla Black).  If anyone fancies a bit of nostalgia this is a later version by Cilla here but was originally from 1963.

A Cut Above Challenge - Aug. '26 Anything Goes/Fall Flowers.