Valentine's Day might have been and gone, but there are still a few themed challenges around and it's always good to be ready for next year, right? Today I'm sharing a card that was inspired by a few of those challenges:
The lovely ladies over at Just Us Girls have 'Valentine' as the Word of the Week (and I missed last week's heart die challenge, so I had to include a trio of those too!), at Addicted to CAS they are all about 'Pink' and my card also means I can play along over at TicTacToe Challenge (I went across the top with Hearts/Diecutting/Pink). Now I could have gone full-on hearts and flowers, but decided to create a very clean and simple card that very much reflects my personal style - take a look:
Here's the low-down on today's card:
I started out with three shades of pink, then diecut a trio of circles, further diecutting a heart out of the centre of each and then mixing them up and re-insetting them. I stamped my sentiment in the two darkest shades of pink - another from 'Words of Beauty' that is never off my desk these days - and added the trio of heart-filled circles to my panel, adding a trio of pink stripes to my base before adhering my upper panel for an additional hint of pink:
Clean and simple for sure, but I think it says everything it needs to :-) It would make a Valentine or a love-you-anytime card I think.
Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:
You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any.
Whilst I had my supplies out on my desk, I made another card using a bunch of retired supplies and the offcuts of pink from the above cards. I love the Inkspirational inspiration photo this week - look at all the fab details:
I found a pack of these mini notelet cards when I was clearing out and I used one to make the quickest ever lunch box love note using my retired Word Bubble dies:
Can you see where I took my inspiration from on the photo? Yes, the pink speech bubble in the top-left of the visual. I kept things super simple, popping up my pale pink heart and adding nothing more than a sentiment to my card front - lunch box love notes don't need to be fussy or complicated, they just need to create a sweet spot in someone's working day - which hopefully this one will ;-) Stay tuned as I may well have another play along with this challenge and create a more detailed card - there are so many jumping-off points in that graphic.
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Enjoy your day and I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!
Stampin' Up! Supplies Used: