Baroque Motifs Goes Valentine

For today's featured stamper challenge on SCS, I pulled out my Baroque Motifs set, inspired by this card by Renee/prchvs (see her SCS gallery here). I was late to get on the Baroque Motifs bandwagon, mostly because I didn't feel the images were my "style" and that I wasn't sure I could do anything with them. Well, after looking at what everyone else created with this set, I added it to an order. I've tried it a few times and I'm still pushing myself to make it "mine."

Anyway, I decided to convert Renee's card to a sort of Valentine. I changed the card from a square (those are hard for me) to a standard sized card, but kept the feel of the layout and the colors used basically the same. For the main image panel, I used the swirl image from Sweet Shapes to create a stem. I added heart shaped flowers using images from Sweet Shape (large ones) and Mark the Date (small ones). I outlined the hearts and traced the stem/swirl with a Stardust pen for some subtle sparkle (so subtle that it doesn't show in the photo-LOL!).

I loved how Renee used the paper piercing template to outline just the top half of the image panel, so I did that on my card as well. I replaced the patterned paper on the bottom section of the card with a piece from the Bali Breeze paper pack.

Materials Used:

Baroque Motifs, Sweet Shapes, and Mark the Date stamp sets, Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive, and Close to Cocoa Classic inks, Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive, Close to Cocoa, and Very Vanilla cardstock, Bali Breeze designer paper, mat pack and paper piercing tool, Chocolate Chip wide grosgrain ribbon, distressing tool, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); rectangle dies (Nestabilities); copper brads (Making Memories); Stardust pen (Sakura)