Sunday 16 February 2014

Love and Romance

For this month's Claritystamp challenge entry I decided to use the beautiful Garden Heart stamp.  I stamped the heart in Black archival and embossed the line art.  Then rather than colouring in the flowers, I coloured in the background with a red promarker.

 
Then I masked off a border, again stamping with black archival, but I didn't emboss this time.  And yes, I missed a bit!  Thank goodness I'll be covering that up in a minute.  This time I coloured in the flowers with the red promarker, being careful not to make the archival ink bleed, and finished the edges with a black micron pen. 
 
 
The finished card.  I wanted to keep this very simple and dramatic, so I mounted the heart onto red and black card, and just added a few red gems.  I hope you like it.  Good luck to everyone with your challenge entries this month.
 
 
 
 

19 comments:

  1. This is such a beautiful and simple card Barbara - it would be a great wedding or invitation card too with the appropriate sentiment. May have to get the stamp....

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  2. Very stylish card Barbara. xx

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  3. This is so stunning Barbara! I love it x

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  4. What a stunning card Barbara! Thanks for entering the challenge and good luck to you! X

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  5. Love your card yes I agree would make lively invatations good luck

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  6. Stunning card Barbara and such a classy design, I love it. Thank you for entering the Clarity Challenge blog and good luck...Jo. X

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  7. Thanks for your kind comments ladies. Glad you all like it. Xxx

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  8. Lovely Barbara. Nice positioning over the missed stamping and brave to admit it. Thanks so much for entering the challenge and best of luck.

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  9. Lovely card. I would be really pleased to get a card like this. See you soon. Fi x

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  10. That's lovely Barbara. Good luck with the challenge. I am going to try to enter for the first time this month but as my clarity stamp stash still quite small I shall have to be inventive to fit the theme! Pam x

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  11. I shall be looking out for your card Pam. Best of luck. Xxx

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  12. Perfect card for this Challenge Barbara and beautifully crafted. Thank you for entering the Clarity Challenge and good luck.

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  13. Really classy card, it's beautiful. good luck

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  14. Gorgeous colours Barbara, love it!

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  15. WOW! Xxx beautifully crafted x

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  16. That is so striking but simply elegant. Love it, Barbara. xx Maggie

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  17. This is nice and posh.
    Thank you for joining the Clarity blog challenge :-)

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