Unity Challenge: Week 17

It’s time for another Unity Customer Challenge. This week’s challenge theme was provided by Amy. She challenged us to make a monochromatic card. I decided to take a break from the winter and holiday theme I’ve been leaning towards a lot lately and go in a different direction.

There’s something—I don’t know what exactly—about this argyle heart image that I really like. Maybe it’s the non-frilly look of the argyle within the traditionally feminine heart image . . . Anyway, I used the heart as the focal point for my monochromatic pink/red card. I kept the card clean and simple and it came together in about 15 minutes from start to finish.

I stamped the image two times in pigment ink on scraps of Pink Pirouette paper, then trimmed around them. I set the hearts on a scrap of dotted embossed Pink Pirouette paper. I added a Rose Red scalloped strip to the bottom edge of the embossed paper and tied a strip of matching Rose Red grosgrain ribbon around the embossed panel. I layered all of this on a Regal Rose panel to match the ink I used for the hearts.

After everything was placed, I stamped the “together” sentiment from Sentiments O’Simple above the embossed strip. Using the strip as a guide, I was able to get the sentiment pretty straight!

Materials Used:
Argyle Heart, Sentiments O’Simple kit (Unity Stamp Co.); Rose Red Classic ink, Regal Rose Craft ink, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, and Rose Red cardstock, scallop edge punch, Rose Red grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals (Stampin’ Up!); Swiss Dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug)