A bit of Lurve!

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I hope you're all having a good week, with nice weather too.  Our weather is quite mild here today, overcast but at least not the rainy spells that the weatherman threatened :o)

Today I'd like to share a card with you that I made for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge. Finally I'm starting to get chance to play along. I love their sketches.

This is the sketch for this week..

I wanted to have a go at shabby and chic, what d'ya think?  Did I get there?!!

For this card I used my new Lawn Fawn hearts, Teeny Tiny Backdrops, with Fired Brick distress ink by Tim Holtz.  Using my heart shape nesties I cut a red larger heart and a white smaller one on which I stamped a heart using the 'Seasons of Love' set by Waltzingmouse Stamps.  I also used the sentiment from this set too.  I then smudged around the edges with the Fired Brick and inked the sentiment tag, finishing off with red swarovski gems to the left of the sentiment.  Finally I added three prima flowers and a red ribbon (which I stitched on to keep it more secure)  Once I'd finished assembling the heart I pop dotted it off the centre of the card.  I'm really pleased with how this one turned out.

Using the same sketch I then made a very quick birthday card.  Rather than stamping the background I just used heavily patterned paper.  The card is actually prettier in real life because I used some pink Stickles on the centres of the flowers.   I just never have enough cards on hand, do you?  Sometimes it's nice to have a quick card you can pop in the post if you need to!  The paper is Basic Grey, the stamps 'Sophie's Sentiments' and 'Bannerific' by Lawn Fawn. 

Tomorrow I will be back with two cards, one for this week's Play Date Cafe challenge, and another for the monthly challenge over at Tiffany Doodles.  Until then, happy Wednesday!!