Evening folks.
It's so nice to be back creating, although I must admit, ideas are flowing s-l-o-w-l-y. Think my brain is still on vacation :)
I managed to sit down a create a valentine's card for my sweet, sweet husband. He's definitely not into "frilly" so I kept it pretty CAS. Although, I am pretty sure he'd say he liked anything I made, even if it was pink and girl-ified to the Nth degree. Probably wouldn't even get much of a reaction from him so it wouldn't even be fun to do it as a joke :) He's so supportive - trust me, I thank my lucky stars every single day :)
On to the card....
Of course I had to incorporate a few challenges :) First is the Just Us Girls Challenge #15, which was to use stitching on a card, while the color inspiration came from the Play Date Cafe's Creativity Challenge #11 (gold, silver, black and white). I thought those colors could lend themselves well to a masculine card. I distressed the edges of the paper for a bit of texture.
Well, it has been a nice, relaxing but productive weekend. Productive aside from Saturday, which was spent watching football. I'm a Jets fan and my hubs is a Cowboys fan so the weekend was good to us! Go Jets and Cowboys!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
TTFN,
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Ingredients (all Papertrey Ink unless otherwise stated):
Stamps: Polka Dot Basics, Inkadinkadoo sentiment
Ink: Colorbox gold, versamark
Paper: True black, Stampers select white, Silver and gold (DCWAV), vellum
Other: White embroidery thread, clear embossing powder
8 Responses to A non-traditional valentine
Andrea, welcome back :) You may think you are still on vacation but your card turned out fabulous! I like the metallic silver & gold hearts that you ever so carefully stitched! Thank you so much for joining us for this week's stitching challenge at Just Us Girls - I hope you return Saturday for an all new challenge :)
This is beautiful Andrea! Love the color scheme -- I may have to give that a try, and your stitching is impeccable! So glad you took some time to play along with Just Us Girls this week!!
I love the background polka dots and the stitching on those hearts, oooh lala, thanks so much for challenging with us this week at the Play Date Cafe. Sandi
LOL! Well we had the opposite result on Sunday for our teams, but I was happy for you, Sanchez and the Jets! =)
Great card - I'm sure he'll love it - especially because you didn't do the girlified card. Awesome as always, Andrea!
GLorious card Andrea - love the two hearts - your sewing is divine! Thanks so much for playing along with Just Us Girls - it's great to have you with us as we kick off the new year. Hope you enjoyed this week’s stitching challenge and will come back for more on Saturday :-)
Congratulations Andrea on making The Fab 4 at The Play Date Cafe! Make sure you stop by and get your badge for your blog and we hope to see what you can do with this week's colors, too!
congrats on your PDDC fab four win, its a lovely card
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