The Funky Junky Boutique Blog challenge for February 5, 2020 was "Love is All Around Us" and asks that hearts be incorporated in our makes.
Now I tend to avoid purchasing seasonal-specific products for holidays/events other than Christmas and Halloween (and I'm beginning to question my need for Halloween product...) so it was a real search to find something with heats involved. But I finally found two dies that would work in this challenge.
The first was a Lawn Fawn border die that came as a "favor" at Simon Says Stamp Create. I used it to cut a row of hears in a red A2 notecard base and then backed the cut-out area with a strip of textured silver mirror card from Tonic Studios:
Now I tend to avoid purchasing seasonal-specific products for holidays/events other than Christmas and Halloween (and I'm beginning to question my need for Halloween product...) so it was a real search to find something with heats involved. But I finally found two dies that would work in this challenge.
The first was a Lawn Fawn border die that came as a "favor" at Simon Says Stamp Create. I used it to cut a row of hears in a red A2 notecard base and then backed the cut-out area with a strip of textured silver mirror card from Tonic Studios:
I then searched my stamp/die collections and finally found a die from Simon Says Stamp that already had a pink die-cut made. I added a die cut from the silver card, layered it on the pink and glued that to the card front. I added three pink hearts from a set of Altenew enamel dots to finish:
Not very frilly or funky but it will have to do...
Products used in the making of this card were:
Products used in the making of this card were:
- Dies: Lawn Fawn "Valentine Borders: (LF1299); Simon Says Stamp "Love You" (czd30)
- Papers: Die Cut With a View Card Stack "Reds" (CM-92-00009); Tonic Craft Studio Speciality Card "Silver Silk" (9618E); scrap of pink
- Embellishments: Altenew Enamel Dots "Red Cosmos" (ALT2591)
- Adhesives: iCraft "Easy Tear Tape"; Ranger Multi Medium Matte (INK41511)
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