I started with the horizontal stripes in the background. I used a snippet of white card and a ruler and one of my new Alcohol markers. I spaced the lines by eye placing them quite close together. I have to say when I got to the end they weren't that straight, but I cut it into a rectangle and managed to straighten the edges so they weren't wonky..lol. I then got out several Pixie Powders in blue, green and a white pearl mixer and using another snippet of white card I sprinkled them over and spritzed with water and finished up with a piece in a blue/green shade with a soft sheen which I thought looked fairly good and I cut a larger heart and five smaller ones from it. I then used the Hearts EF on the large heart and having a senior moment I debossed it instead of embossing it, and didn't particularly like it, so I cut a further white heart from another snippet of white card and did it again, only to do exactly the same thing...duh!! This time I decided to get out some Distress Ink in a similar blue which seemed to be Broken China, and I ink blended over the top and actually I preferred the look of the ink blending, so I doubled up the hearts placing this over the original. To finish I die cut the 'love' die three times from another white snippet and layered it up to add over the centre of the embossed heart, and I added the striped piece to a 5" x 7" card and then added the large heart backed with some foam tape for dimension, and then four of the little Brushoed hearts along the bottom. I did cut a small piece off the bottom of the card as the proportions didn't look quite right to me.
I wasn't sure about the look of the card, but hubby thought it was good, so that is the main thing. Thank you for visiting my blog today and I'll see you again soon.
I am entering the following challenges:
I am entering the following challenges:
Allsorts Challenge - Week 767 Hearts/Anything Goes.
NBUS Challenge - No. 59 Where we use up our Never Before Used Schtuff.
Snippets Playground Challenge - No. 473 Where we use our snippets of card and/or paper etc.
NBUS Challenge - No. 59 Where we use up our Never Before Used Schtuff.
Snippets Playground Challenge - No. 473 Where we use our snippets of card and/or paper etc.
Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Hearts and/or Flowers.
Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge - Anything Goes/Reds and/or Pinks.
The Male Room Challenge - No. 183 Valentine/Use a Heart.
Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge - No. 340 Love.
Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge - Anything Goes/Reds and/or Pinks.
The Male Room Challenge - No. 183 Valentine/Use a Heart.
Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge - No. 340 Love.
22 comments:
Love seeing a blue Valentine instead of the common red! It's a beautiful CASE of Hannalie's card. Great shading from the Pixie Powders!
A lovely romantic design and the lined background is so very effective, many thanks for sharing at this weeks Allsorts challenge and including a heart
Super Valentine for your husband and I like that you've described its making in detail, always interesting to read how others achieve some of their results. Zoomed in to see details of the embossing on the blue heart - it's great.
You should be content too, it's a great card! Love the striped background and the big embossed heart with the elegant text in white. The small hearts at the bottom are lovely too. Haha, your senior moment made me laugh, so recognizible...
A lovely card Pat and I'm sure your hubby loved it too! I like visiting Hannelie's blog too.
Kath x
Looks perfect to me Pat. Great card to let your hubby know you love him.
Thanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. See you up in the treehouse for refreshments later. X
This is a stunning clean and graphic card, Pat! I love the debossing and inking on that heart and it's beautiful against the clean stripes. Thank you so much for joining the Hearts challenge at Allsorts.
I just love your card! There's so many nice details yet has such a clean look. Thanks for sharing with us at Can You Handle the Pressure!
A super Valentines card Pat - and lovely in the blue colourway. The embossing on the large heart on top of the lines really make it stand out. x
This is wonderful Pat and it looks fab in blue. Thank you for sharing at Allsorts. Sarah
I love your take on Hannelie’s card! Fab colours, love the embossing too xxx
It's a lovely card for your Husband Pat, a fabulous design and I love the shades of blue you've chosen, Kate x
Wonderful Valentine card Pat, great colour choice.
Liz xx
A really lovely Valentine's Day card for your Hubby Pat! At first I thought you'd used the layered Eclipse technique for the background - what a clever idea!
Hugs
Di xx
Smashing make and such a fabulous choice of the cool blue
Have a fab weekend
Kathyk
Love your card. Great choice of color and love the lined background. Love it. Thanks for sharing over at Cardz 4 Guyz.
great masculine Valentines card, I thought you had stamped the background so well done on drawing the lines :)
Sweetness...and hubby was happy!! :-) Thanks for joining the fun and playing along with our masculine LOVE challenge over at Cardz 4 Guyz!! Today we start a new challenge for guyz...hope you will join in that challenge too!! Deb Horst, DT C4G340
SO SO pretty Pat! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Can You Handle the Pressure challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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Beautiful colours and a great design! Thank you for joining us at Try It On Tuesday,Chrisx
Catching up Pat, yet again! What a wonderful card, I love the lines (compliments of Hannelie) such a clever design, I love the embossing on the large heart with the large "love". It's all beautiful and so elegant. x
Beautiful CAS design, love all the blue (my fav color), big embossed heart and the layout. Thank you for joinin The Male Room #183 challenge, I hope you'll join our new "Food / Drink" -challenge also.
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