Saturday 7 February 2015

One more Valentine's


As you read this, I'm surfing down the information highway at very high speed. Fasten your seatbelts! After a long wait, I no longer have to wait for a minute to upload a photo to the blog. We have left the dark ages! I'm so giddy about this, I want to do a happy dance. I must have scared the poor BT engineer with my high-pitched squeal of "Oh my gosh it's working!!!". You can say he had one happy customer.

Today's card is inspired by the wonderful card over at Time Out where the challenge is to CASE the card. It is also inspired by the colours over at ColourQ which I used to colour the flowers on the tag. I'm also linking up at Make My Monday where the theme is Hearts and Flowers (I don't know if it's cheating, but the small flowers look heart shaped to me), at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge where the theme is Bright and Beautiful, In(k)spire Me "Valentines", Kitty Bee Aloha Friday Challenge "Valentine's/Love", Polkadoodles Challenge "Flower Power" and Simply Create Too "Valentine".



I stamped the flowers onto the tag in Versamark and heat embossed in white. I used Stampin' Up inks and a watercolour brush to colour the flowers and a marker to draw the faux stitching. I embossed the background and printed the sentiment. I added some pink ribbon from my stash and matted the card onto pink card.

Card: 300 gsm white card, Hobbycraft 160 gsm white card, Stampin' Up Melon Mambo
Stamps: Stampin' Up So Very Grateful
Inks: Tsukineko Versamark, Stampin' Up Blushing Bride, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Blushing Bride marker
Other: Cuttlebug script embossing folder, Papermania Seafoam White embossing powder, pink ribbon from my stash, Scalloped Tag Topper punch

13 comments:

Melissa Bove said...

Beautiful card! Love that pretty tag and the great embossing!

Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

hugs...
Melissa

Sazzle Dazzle said...

Beautiful stamping and colouring and love your take on Kylie's card
Thanks for taking part. Sarah GD x

sandie said...

Fab take on Kylie's card, the heat embossing in white and water colouring is the perfect look. Thanks for joining us at TIME OUT

Kylie said...

I love your CASE of my card. The flowers on your tag are so pretty and I love the embossing folder you chose xx

Marina said...

Bright and clear colours, pretty florals. Thank you for joining us at Make My Monday. Marina DT

Beverley said...

Great CASE of Kylie's card and love the colours you've used a wonderful combination. Thanks for taking the TIME OUT and joining in on the challenge. Hugs Bev x

Arielle H Gordon said...

Beautiful card, I love how you used the challenge colors! Great background texture, too!

Deborah Frings said...

This is absolutely gorgeous! Love the pretty texty embossed background and the pretty flowers on your tag.

Welcome to high speed internet - it's fab, isn't it? I remember having a similar reaction when I got HSI in North Wales!!! :)

Erica said...

Lovely card with pretty colors and there haven't been many tag themed cards in our challenge. Thanks for joining us for challenge no. 78, Valentines/Hearts
Join us again soon.
Erica (Simplly Create Too DT Member)

Fliederfee said...

You used my favorite embosses background and it looks so pretty to the rest of your lovely card! Thank you much for joining our In{k}spire_me Challenge and congratulation to your high speed internet,
ela

Anonymous said...

This is lovely. Thanks for joining us over at Kitty Bee Design for this week's challenge.

DT Pam

Creations by Shirl said...

Love how you did the tag on the card...Thanks for joining Kitty Bee Aloha Friday Challenge!

Lisa Elton said...

What a pretty tag on your card and I like the big red bow! Thanks so much for joining us at the ColourQ!