Valentine's Day card with The Park die by Tim Holtz

Hello everyone, I'm here with my first project for our February challenge over at the Country View Challenges, Hearts and Flowers. Be aware that in your project both (flowers and hearts) have to be featured.

To make my card, I took a piece of watercolour paper (300gsm) and stamped the floral background on it. For this, I used embossing ink. Then I sprinkled it with embossing powder (Weathered White) and melted it on with a heat tool. 

Then I blended Distress inks onto the surface. First I added Tumbled Glass (first layer), then Faded Jeans. With this order, the Faded Jeans became lighter than normally.

Then I added Ground Espresso to the edges.

The lady and the gentleman were cut three times from black paper. Usually two layers are enough for me, but this was a thinner paper. I glued grey paper behind the figures to cover the open parts.

The hearts were cut out from the same red paper I used as one of the layers for the card. For this, I used the Falling Heart die.

The text was heat embossed with super fine white embossing powder.

The heart I put in the gentleman's hand is one of the small hearts from the Bigz Heartfelt die set.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, The Park by Tim Holtz (665204)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Falling Hearts by Tim Holtz (664415)

Sizzix Bigz die, Heartfelt by Tim Holtz (660233)

Stampers Anonymous, Vines&Roses by Tim Holtz (CMS298)

Stampers Anonymous, Tiny Text by Tim Holtz (CMS394)

Ranger Distress inks (Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, Ground Espresso)

Ranger embossing powders (Weathered White, Super Fine White)

Ranger Distress embossing ink

etc.

So if you have a project with hearts and flowers, please don't hesitate to join our February challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher in the Country View Crafts online shop.