Valentine's Day

Hello Everyone

Thank you for visiting and a big thank you to my latest followers, I am so glad that you have joined me and I hope I will not disappoint.

Is it just me or has Valentine's Day come around very quickly?  I made my lovely DH a card this year, instead of a piece of altered art (he is running out of room).  He loves hares and I love Alice in Wonderland so I have combined the two.

I went with my lovely crafty friend Mo to a craft fair at Event City in Manchester this last week, with the intention of buying a set of gorgeous rabbit stamps by Crafty Individuals, but alas, no-one there was selling it so I resorted to buying a sheet of decoupage instead.  I have since ordered the stamps on-line but don't want to risk them not turning up before Valentine's Day.   This is the card I made with the decoupage (click on the card for a clearer view):

For the background I used a faux airbrushing technique that is illustrated in Craft Stamper magazine this month (page 62 & 63) and a Crafter's Workshop Template (it is meant to look rather distressed, that is how the template is designed).  On the left hand side I used Fired Brick Distress Ink and on the right hand side I used Pumice Stone DI.  It is a great technique and well worth trying, it gives a lovely muted background and it really does look like airbrushing.

The hare was cut out and mounted in layers with tiny black foam squares.  I added two black distressed hearts cut from Tim Holtz core-dinations card and two red/black hearts that I made myself.

The red/black hearts were created using Cosmic Shimmer ultra Thick Embossing Powder in Lava Black mixed with Tropic Red.  I don't have a Melt Pot so I placed a liberal amount of the powders in a small foil tart dish and heated with my heat gun.  Once melted I poured the liquid into a small heart shaped metal cutter.

I really enjoyed making these hearts and was very pleased with the way they turned out.





I then took a piece of dictionary page - with the definition of  Valentine, outlined the words in red and then cut this to size and made a small scroll which I glued in place on the card. with a small piece of black ribbon.  I added a Tim Holtz Idea-ology metal heart which I coloured with Alcohol Ink.







To finish off, I stamped a small Happy Valentine's Day onto the card and placed thin black ribbon along the spine of the card.  The three small red dots are made in the same way the red hearts - they were happy accidents - if you just dribble a little of the molten embossing powder onto a craft mat, it makes lovely little domed dots.

I am entering this into Craft Stamper's first challenge - Faux Airbrushing.  There is a fantastic prize of an Indigo Blu stamp. This challenge is open for two months so plenty of time if you want to enter, but you must use Faux Airbrushing.

I am also entering this into Sunday Stampers challenge Week 244 where the challenge is 'Endless Love - Love and Hearts'  (I have added some teeny tiny stamping Hels, hope it is OK!).

Lastly but by no means least, I am entering Pan Pastel's Love and Romance Challenge 6.

Thank you for your visit, I really appreciate it and I hope you will leave me a comment.  Have a great week! Hugs, Anne xx