Be Mine

I was so excited to see that my fellow i {heart} papers DT member Tracy was picked to be today's SCS featured stamper. After strolling through her gallery for a while, I picked this card to work with.

I made a Valentine's Day themed card based on Tracy's design. I used images from Unity's City of Love for my card, replacing the hot air balloon in the original card with the set's blimp image. I paper pieced the image on a scrap of Basic Grey's Basics Manila paper for a subtle pattern. The heart on the blimp is shaded with a red Spica pen for a little sparkle.

I used a dotted pattern from My Mind's Eye's Alphabet Soup Collection kit for the background. A red scallop edged strip runs down the cardfront, just a little off-center. I stretched a strip of red striped fabric tape along the straight edge of the strip--love the texture this adds! The "be mine" sentiment is stamped in red on a kraft scrap. Its edge is slipped underneath the fabric tape strip. A red button, tied with red baker's twine, accents the panel.

The blimp looked a little lonely floating in the dotted blue sky, so I added a pair of felt clouds. It took a while to settle on the placement and I'm still not so sure about it, but I went ahead and added the blimp with some dimensional dots and called it finished.

Materials Used:

from i {heart} papers: Unity Stamp Co. City of Love kit, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic Lipstick Spica glitter pen, Basic Grey Basics Manila paper pad, My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup Girl Collection Kit, e2Daily red striped fabric tape, Divine Twine Cherry Red baker's twine, Zva Creative dimensional dots

other: Riding Hood Red and Crumb Cake cardstock (Stampin' Up!); scallop edge and cloud dies, Pure Poppy button (Papertrey Ink); white felt