I made this card to give to my DD for Valentine's Day. Even if you don't celebrate Valentine's Day per se, I think it is a great opportunity to tell those closest to you how much you love & care about them.
I am also popping my card into the SCS Technique Lover's Challenge TLC485 of Paper Piecing Revisited from a little while ago. I often forget about paper-piecing but it is such a great technique and it saved me all the colouring on the heart because I just paper-pieced it. Please see this link for the details on the challenge- ---> TLC485 ~ Paper Piecing Revisited ~ (6/9/14) by joan ervin at Splitcoaststampers There are no time limits on SCS Challenges so why not play along and have a go at paper-piecing your next card?!
I bought this adorable teddy bear stamp - James Big Heart - from Lili of the Valley UK just before Christmas but it hasn't seen ink till now. I stamped the teddy using Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto KW Doggett smooth white cardstock and coloured the teddy using Prismacolor + Derwent Coloursoft + Lyra coloured pencils and Odourless Mineral Spirits ie: the Magic Coloured Pencil technique aka Gamsol Magic - then coloured around the teddy using Kaisercolour blue chalk.
I paper-pieced the heart and ran a soft grey Tombow pen around the outer edge to try and give it some 'roundness'.
I stamped the teddy again onto a scrap piece of cardstock and coloured the flower and the paws holding the heart - then cut them out and popped them up on dimensionals. I also went around all the edges of the paper pieces with a Copic black 0.05 multiliner to hide the white of where I cut.
I went over any areas that needed the blackness touched up especially around his eyes and nose with a Copic black multiliner then used a white gel pen to redo the white dots in the eyes and nose.
The sentiment is also from LOTV from their newly released set 'Happy Bears' which has lots of adorable teddy bear images and sentiments. Being an Arctophile, I just HAD to buy this set :-) All the designer papers are by Crate Paper - Love Notes - 6" x 6" pad from 2013. I used a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to add some subtle glimmer to the heart and rose which is very hard to see in the photo. The centre panel was trimmed to 1/8" using my Perfect Layers Tools.
The light teal organza bow was made using my Bow Easy and I added Fray Stop to the cut ends to stop them from fraying. I glued the bow on using Fabric glue.
I used an EK Success Arrows border punch to punch some tiny little hearts from the soft red cardstock (they are the leftover punchies that look like tiny hearts) and glued them around the teddy using Tombow Aqua glue. Once I had layered up the card, I attached a white cardstock base which was diecut using a circle die except that I moved the die up so that I still had a fold at the top (if that doesn't make sense, please check out my blog post - see link below - for a photo).
I think you could use this LOTV image for a Wedding Anniversary or Engagement too.
Thanks for having a peek at my card! Please come and peek at my blog - this link will take you directly to my blog post----> http://instead-of-ironing.blogspot.c...big-heart.html I have close-up photos of the dimension and the main image.
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Sun, Feb 15, 2015 @ 1:10 PM
What a beautiful little card. Can't beat those lovely LOTV images - I must check out those sentiments too. Perfect bow - I must try harder with my Bow Easy too. Thank you for your lovely comments of my big cat card too.