Love You

Welcome to this week's LIMES inspiration post!

I chose this card as my inspiration from the gallery of this week's Splitcoaststampers' Featured Stamper, Amber!

LIST: Colours (white, grey, silver, pink, yellow), Techniques (stenciling, embossing, stamping, colouring, die cutting), Elements (partially stenciled brick wall, stamped outlines, silver embossed panel, sheer ribbon, coloured/cut flowers, one word die cut sentiment)

INCLUDE: white, silver, pink, yellow, embossing, die cutting, flower, basic layout of colourful focal image in the centre of a white card

MODIFY: focal image is colourful, embossed heart with silver frame instead of flowers, background is white on white die cut, square card, moved sentiment onto focal image

EXCLUDE: ribbon, stamping, colouring

SPIN: square card

Amber's simple, clean card with LOTS going on really caught my eye - especially the idea of using the outline stamped image, uncoloured, to create part of the background. So clever! 

I needed to make some valentines this week, and I'm on a mission to start using up all the background panels I've created over the years so I started with an old alcohol ink panel with similar colours as my inspiration. I cut a heart from it and embossed it with an embossing folder. I also cut some small flowers from the panel to decorate my 'love' sentiment.

My background is geometric, but not bricks; I used an A2 coverplate die and then trimmed it with a square die, and created a square frame to give it a finished look.

I added a narrow silver frame to my heart for some shine and some gems for sparkle.