A Valentine

This is my first valentine for 2011. I used this adorable puppy image from Karen's Doodles called I Didn't Do It! The sketch that I used is from this week's challenge at Fresh Brewed Designs. I created my card using brandy wine, mauve ice, vintage pink and white cardstock. The base of my card is vintage pink that is backed in white and then again in brandy wine. I added crystal stickles to the white cardstock. I then cut 2 strips of mauve ice and added it to white. On the white cardstock I punched a border on both the top and the bottom using a lace heart border punch from Martha Stewart Crafts. I left a thin strip of white between the two pieces of mauve ice and added crystal stickles to it. I then added a strip of wine & white dotted ribbon to the top and bottom to hide the seam of where the mauve ice and white meet.

I colored the image using crayola and prisma colored pencils. I backed the image in brandy wine and then in white and added crystal stickles to the white. I also added crystal stickles to the collar to look like gems. I added a pink paper flower backed in a green paper flower. I used the green paper flower as the leaves and added a pink rhinestone to the center of the flower. Then I added some crystal stickles to the pink flower and finished off my card by adding 3 pink rhinestones to the right side of the card. I added all the glitter and rhinestones for the all that glitters challenge at Karen's Doodles and the sparkle and shine challenge at Bunny Zoes.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

Kaboodle Doodles: Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Fab N Funky: Anything Goes

The Pixie Cottage: Punches

Wags N Whiskers: Valentines

Stamp Something: Digi Day

Craft Your Days Away: Anything Goes

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge: Tons Of Texture

Sundays With Crissy: Ribbons

Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central: Flower Power (item from store: Stickles & Martha Stewart Border Punches)

~ Supplies Used ~

Karen's Doodles I Didn't Do It! Digital Stamp

White Cardstock

Bazzill Basics Brandy Wine Cardstock

Bazzill Basics Mauve Ice Cardstock

Bazzill Basics Vintage Pink Cardstock

Stickles ~ Crystal

Queen & Company Pretty In Pink Rhinestones

Martha Stewart Lace Heart Border Punch

Oriental Trading Company Pink Paper Flower

Oriental Trading Company Green Paper Flower

Wine & White Dotted Ribbon

Crayola Colored Pencils

Prisma Colored Pencils