Sending You Love

Here's my card for the current My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge. I paired the sketch with MFT's current color challenge for this simple and sweet love themed design. The layout's balloon shaped element was replaced with a pierced heart die cut that I adhered to a blue panel with embossed diagonal lines. I turned the heart die cut into a balloon by adding a gray baker's twine bow and a gray baker's twine "string" that hangs down from the bottom of the balloon. The "sending you love" sentiment from the Bitty Hugs and Kisses set was stamped in gray ink on a light purple fishtail flag strip. The stamped strip was adhered directly to the heart die cut. I added a pale purple panel matching the sentiment strip along the bottom of the card. A strip of gray cardstock was tucked beneath the top edge of the purple panel for contrast. The finished panel was adhered to a purple card base matching the heart "balloon."

Materials Used:
Bitty Hugs and Kisses stamp set, Blu Raspberry and Steel Grey cardstock, Pierced Heart STAX and Essential Fishtail Flag Sentiment Strips dies (My Favorite Things); Memento Gray Flannel ink (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); Very Violet cardstock (Recollections); Linear embossing folder (Lifestyle Crafts); gray baker's twine; foam tape