While rooting through my stash recently, I found a pack of 5x7 cards and envies I bought many moons ago, so I decided to pull them out and use them. I started this with a SSS Mosaic heart stencil, sponging assorted colors of distress inks in shades of red, purple, and pink. I decided to get out some Nuvo metallic embossing mousse and add some texture to the heart, and then added a pre-cut black stitched die-cut heart I found in my stash. I heat-embossed the GinaK sentiment in white and added a little pink smooch brad I've had for years. The lower border was done with a SNSS heart border die. I cut one in black, then sponged random snippets of matching inks and die cut those, swapping the negatives inside the border to match the stenciled heart above. I thought the embossing mousse gave this a masculine touch, so it's going to my husband's nephew and his wife for Valentine's day.
I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - With Love
Double D Challenges - Hearts
the Male Room #129 - I Heart You
Addicted to Stamps and More #375 - photo inspiration
Thanks so much for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful day!
Carol
26 comments:
Carol, this is so pretty and will be great for a guy! Love the little lips brad and the heart is beautiful.
Lynn
Love the texture you added on the heart! Awesome job! You should link this up to The House That Stamps Built, if you haven't already!
This is gorgeous Carol, love the embossing mouse and the texture it gives, then the inked matching shapes and the stamped black heart and border, a wonderful design. With both my hats on - Thank you so much for joining us in our Heart challenge at The Male Room this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Faith The Male Room DT
Great Valentine's card. Love the stenciling. Thank you for joining us at The Male Room - Charlotte/Lady Joyful, DT
This is so gorgeous and I love the colors and all the texture.
The sponging and embossing mouse together do make a really neat look! I think this would be a fun card for anyone!
Love all of the great texture you have created. The touch of purple is wonderful!
Awesome Valentine's card, love the colours and the mousse you've added really adds texture and interest. Nice to pop the sentiment in the die cut heart and oh gosh the pink smooch... brilliant x
Fabulous touch of texture and lovely card Carol, love this it's delightful...xx
Beautiful card and design.. Loving what you used for this challenge. Thanks for entering into our HEARTS challenge, and good luck in the draw and hope you join us again.
{aNNie Designer for Double D challenges
Fabulous card, your mosaic heart is gorgeous. Hoping you will link up to The House That Stamps Built!
Oh, so beautiful! Love all the texture, color, and design! A wonderful Valentine card!!
Very cool stencil, and I LOVE the added texture with the embossing mousse. Awesome card, Carol.
A fabulous card Carol, a super stencil and pretty border.
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I love how you used the stencil to create dimension on your card! So lovely!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful work in our ATSM challenge & we hope you will join us again in the next ATSM Challenge!.
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Oh WOW, this is awesome, Carol! I so love the look of the stencil done with ink & a mousse! The texture is brings to your card is so cool! Love the stitched heart in black and the lips brad! Love it!!! TFS and stay dry today! The rain & wind right now is CRAZY!
OH so pretty Carol ... great job! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Double D ‘Hearts’ challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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This is really pretty, Carol! Now you have me wanting to pull out my (negleted) stencils and sponge with color...
Fun / lovely background make for a lovely card .....Lis
Beautiful card, Carol, love the textured stencilling. xx
Gorgeous card Carol and love the beautiful textured heart stencil
Carol x
O this is beautiful!! Love all the detail. Never played with the mousse but now I wan too! And the time and patience to change all the colored hearts in the border....Wow! Sure they will LOVE this masterpiece.
I just love the texture you added to the heart - everything goes together perfectly. Thanks for sharing with us at The Male Room Challenge.
Linby x
DT
Wow! Lovely card, could be perfect for male or female recipients! It looks so modern with the muted colours of the stencilled heart that looks as a wall and the black topper with the mouth!! Well done also for the heart border, it looks great to match the stencil!
I have to buy some embossing mousse, they seems so fun to use! :)
Thanks for the inspiration!
Hugs
Beautiful card, lovely colours and great design also! Thanks for sharing with us at Double "D" Challenge.
Amelia (Double "D" Challenge Design Team)
What a beautiful "love" card you made :-))
Thanks for joining in at The Male Room challenge.
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