One Last Valentine

Hello friends,  I had made this card a week or so ago, but I never got around to posting it.  You know how life gets in the way sometimes?  So, after all my cards were in the mail, I figured I wouldn't be showing off this card.  But after giving it way too much thought and waffling back and forth, I figured why not?  So here it is.  The last Valentine of the season.  Hope you like it.  There are aspects of the card that I want to translate into another card in the near future.  So, if you're so-o-o-o done with Valentines, just skip over this post and ignore this poor little card if you must.

See?  There's just so many good things going on with the card, I think it deserves a showing.

When sending out my Valentine cards, I realized that over half of them were either a majority of Fresh Freesia or Highland Heather.  That really surprised me.  And as you can see, this one is a mix of Fresh Freesia and Petunia Pop.

Let's start with the base which is Fresh Freesia cardstock.  This was stamped with a stamp from Hearts of Elegance and Fresh Freesia ink in an overall pattern.

Then I started die-cutting hearts from both Fresh Freesia and Highland Heather cardstock.  I used the different sized heart dies in the Hearts of Elegance set.  When playing around with the layout, I got rid of the Fresh Freesia hearts and used them for a different project.  They seemed to blend into the background too much.  So, I stuck with the Highland Heather hearts.  The heart with the stitched design in it was darkened even more with a Blending Brush and a little Petunia Pop ink.

The larger heart was speckled with Petunia Pop marker to give it some interest.  That was still too blah, so it was spattered with the Wink of Stella pen to add some pretty shimmer specks.  That worked out well. 

The heart in-between those two sizes die-cut a piece of DSP.  Sorry, I don't remember where it's from and I forgot to write it down.

Next was trying to figure out the layout of all the hearts on the card front.  It still needed something more to define it.  A piece of Vellum was dry embossed with the Eyelet Embossing Folder and laid between the card base and all the hearts.  Viola!  Just was it needed.  

The little sentiment is from the Hugs for Love set which is one of my favorites for cute sentiments.  It's stamped on a small piece of Basic White cardstock using Highland Heather ink.  It's tucked under the hearts and attached with adhesive.

The design still needed a little more contrast to it.  In my punch stash, there is a very small heart punch that was close in shape to the other hearts.  I punched three Basic White hearts and tucked them in amongst the larger hearts.

Lastly, three of the purple Adhesive-backed Sequins in almost a white color were added.  These are one of the Sale-a-bration free items when you spend $60 or more.  Seemed like the perfect ending to this purply Valentine card.  I'll get to work on the other idea I have that will be similar to this card.

Thanks for stopping by to see what's new today.  I promise, this will be the very last Valentine I make for at least another 9 months.

Happy stamping and creating,

Sharon