Monday, January 4, 2010

A Monday Valentine

I made this card for 2 challenges I'm playing along with for the first time. I used the sketch from the CPS148, and then went with the clean and simple challenge 48 on SCS to create a Valentine card. Again, I'm really growing fond of the clean look with lots of white space. Another thing I love about this kind of card is that there is no extra postage required to mail them! I stamped both of the polka dot punches hearts with versamark on white and black cardstocks, and embossed each with opposite colors. I don't have a heart punch (GASP!!!) so I cut them out by hand. I embossed the white panel with the swiss dots ef, layered it with black, added some very old Heidi Swapp ribbon and popped the hearts up on foam tape. I know it isn't your traditional Valentine red color, but I'm thinking someone will like this look as much as I do.
Thanks for stopping by and have yourselves a wonderful Monday!

Carol

16 comments:

  1. Just gorgeous, Carol!! Love the sharp contrast of the black & white, and the swiss dots just makes it really stand out!!!

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  2. Absolutely love it! Black and white is my favorite color combo! TFS

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  3. So clean and elegant!! I love the added embossing! Thanks for playing at CPS this week!

    ♥Lea

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  4. Gorgeous take on the CPS sketch!! I like the sound of the SCS challenge too - I'll have to check their challenges out! Cheers!

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  5. This is absolutely beautiful. Love it.

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  6. Simply stunning! Love it!! Thanks for playing at CPS!! :)

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  7. I love this! The clean look with lots of white always gives such an elegant feel to a card, but is SO HARD for me to do... I have the hardest time just leaving it alone! lol This is beautiful.

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  8. Totally GORGEOUS, Carol! LOVE those stitched hearts and the black/white combo is so striking!

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  9. CAS style done simply gorgeous!!! Love this card - Carol!!! Hugs ~S~

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  10. Ohhh this is gorgeous, Carol! I'm lovin all the white & how simple this is! Nicely done! (as always!)

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  11. Such a pretty card - so clean and fresh

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  12. simply perfect... swoon♥. love the black and white color palette, love the white swiss dot embossing, love the hearts... fabulous card :) thanks for playing along at CPS this week :)

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  13. I look at cards with lots of elements on them and I like them - I look at cards like this with simple clean lines and I love them!

    A beautiful classically simple card.

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