Love you Much Sweetheart

Hi Everyone

Happy Wednesday.  It's almost the weekend and I'm so grateful for that!

Tonight's card uses a new set that I got – Sweetheart – it works great on it's own – or with the Sweetheart Treat Cups and I paired it with my Well Scripted set.  I paired it with the new – absolutely gorgeous – Sending Love Specialty DSP.  I am absolutely loving the textural quality of the DSPs that have been featured in the last two minis and am hoping that there are more in the new Idea Book and Catalog this year!  Fingers crossed.

Stamping 411 had a great sketch this week and, as you can see from the Design Team inspiration cards and submissions – it has a lot of flexibility in how you create a card around it.

I wanted to do another Valentine's/Love card.  You can see my other love/valentine samples here.

Here's the sketch   

You will see that I flipped the sketch for the ribbon to run vertical instead of horizontal and used a bow instead of the two brads.  Instead of a square element, I decided to use the heart from the Sweetheart set.  There are two stamps – one which has a scallop heart and the other which has repetitions of "be mine".  For this card I chose to use the "be mine" heart.

I love the fact that you can play around with the sketch.

Here's my card.  Again, this will be going in my card drive box for the troops.

Isn't this paper gorgeous.  It has such a rich feel to it.  Just love it!  Consequently, I had to pair it with the metallic gold paper – which shows it's not just for Christmas! and the fabulous Satin ribbon from the new mini.  I really hope that SU carries this ribbon through to the catalog…. I love the feel of it.  It ties beautifully – and it's just the right size.

So here's how I created the card:

• Real Red, Metallic Gold and Whisper White card stock
• Sweetheart stamp set – (120780 clear mount, 120415 wood mount)
• Well Scripted stamp set – (118601 clear mount, 117072 wood mount)
• Iridescent Ice embossing powder.  I stamped the "be mine" in Real Red Craft ink and then used the Iridescent Ice embossing powder to add a little glitz to it.  I used the masking technique to not ink up the area of the "be mine" heart that I wanted to stamp the sentiment on.
• I stamped the "love you much" sentiment in Real Red Classic ink in the gap that I had left when I stamped the "be mine" heart.
• I used my paper snips to cut out the heart and the sentiment as one whole piece.
• I wrapped the ribbon around the metallic Gold and DSP and secured it under the heart.  
• I attached the heart/sentiment using stampin dimensionals
• I then made a bow and applied it to the top of the heart – to make it look as though it was a locket hung underneath it – and attached the bow with a couple of glue dots.

Really quick and really easy.  The hardest part was masking the heart – and that wasn't hard!  But I think the card has a lot of lushness and richness that belies how simple it was to put together.

I'm off to try to do some stamping… I still have to make the twins card and a get well card….

Some of you may remember my post from a couple of days ago…… talking about Lou having left to go to Argentina… having airplane mechanical issues and coming back home. then going again and having mechanical problems on two different flights…. well… he didn't make it to Argentina.  But his baggage did.  He ended up coming back to Minneapolis from Atlanta, driving home in a snow storm and getting back home at 4.00am.  No luggage.  Mmmm… his luggage landed in Argentina yesterday!  It has since made the journey back home and arrived at our house about an hour ago.  I'm sure his luggage had a really good trip and will have sent us a postcard! 🙂  With the trials and tribulations of Lou's trips these days, I'm considering changing the blog to describe world travels from the vantage point of Lou's luggage! :-)  How about Brotherhood of the Traveling Bags? 🙂

I hope you have a fabulous Thursday.  As always, thank you so much for visiting me in my little area of the stamping blogosphere – where it is freezing cold, yet again!  I swear, my old man cat Merlin is permanently glued to the fire or the register under the kitchen sink garnering as much warmth as he can.  

Don't forget… leave a little love in the form of a comment and I will enter you into the blog candy draw.  Just a few more days left before the winner is announced!

Hugs

Jaydee