Monday, January 15, 2024

Love You - Valentine

 

Sometimes I find it challenging just to keep up with my favorite challenges, which is often the case with Atlantic Heart Sketch Challenges. A weekly challenge, beginning every Monday morning and ending on Sunday evenings, following is the sketch. This is Challenge #560 ending on Sunday, January 21, 2024.



After selecting a pretty striped paper to cut on the diagonal for the first layer, the yellow linen-textured cardstock backed with black pearlescent cardstock was added. The squares in the sketch were replaced with hexagons, my favorite shape in cardmaking. The smaller hexagons were die-cut from patterned paper, also backed with black pearlescent cardstock.

The center hexagon consists of black pearlescent cardstock. The paper pattern was an unusually large image for cardmaking use so I trimmed away a small portion to adhere to the hexagon. I did not care for the plain white portion above the three flowers the white portion was cut away, leaving part of the black hexagon exposed. I was satisfied with the result so left it.

The completed card front was adhered to a white card base and the inside was decorated with a bit of scrap paper and die-cut hexagon rings. The five black hexagon-shaped stick-ons were added for interest.

Thank you for stopping by... please leave a comment. Happy New Year!
Melanie


Materials
Cardstock: Stampin' Up! Basic White; Doodlebug (textured yellow); Paper Papers "Pearlescent" (Black) 
Paper: Doodlebug "Hello Again" Collection; Paper Rose (preprinted sentiment)
Dies: Spellbinders Hexagons
Misc.: Stampin' Up Hexagon Stickers, CTMH thin foam tape


3 comments:

  1. This is wonderful, Melanie! Love the spring feeling colors and it looks like a pocket full of posies :-) I barely keep up with my DT cards and wish I had time for more challenges. You are a valued regular at AHSC! Thank you so much for joining the challenge at Atlantic Hearts.

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  2. Loving the rainbow colours so bright and fun, I love it! I also love how you mixed up the shapes, great job! Thanks for playing along with the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (AHSC).

    Brandi R.
    DT member AHSC
    crzy4scrapbooking.blogspot.ca

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  3. I love your valentine's day card and how you adapted the center square as a pocket. Very cool! Thanks for sharing your talent with us at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week.
    :) Marie
    AHSC DT

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