Chocolate Baroque: His & Hers Hearts and A Punky Rose

Good morning, friends! Today I have 2 loved-up projects to show you, featuring the Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts stamps by Chocolate Baroque. You'll find my original post over at the Chocolate Baroque Design Team Blog along with more ideas from the rest of the Design Team. Here I'll share with you details on how I made these cards. 

First up is an easel card, made using the the big heart stamp from the Fluttering Hearts A5 sheet. I heat embossed in white, blended some the Distress Inks and fussy cut to create His and Hers hearts. More Distress Ink for the background with some tone-on-tone stamping using a leaf from the Autumn Poppy A4 sheet. The sentiment is from the Punky Hearts sheet stamped with VersaFine Olympia Green. To finish this card I added some bling and ribbon.

Here's a close-up. I popped up the red heart on some foam tape and tucked the blue heart under ... hearts entwined! LOL.  I used two shades of Distress Inks for each heart, starting with the darker shade on the outer edge moving in with the lighter to create depth to the hearts:  Faded Jeans + Tumbled Glass for the blue heart and Festive Berries + Spun Sugar for the red heart.

Products used to create this card:

Challenges:
Pile It On #53: Hearts and / or Flowers
The Craft Place: Love / Valentine
Brown Sugar #130: Valentines

For my second card I wanted to "soften" the punk in Punky Hearts. I started by creating a faux vellum feel for the background - made entirely with Distress Inks and a stencil. The trick here is to pick muted colours that blend with a thumping motion over the TCW Chicken Wire stencil.  The colours I picked are Iced Spruce and Worn Lipstick with some Bundled Sage and Spun Sugar to soften the look.  This helped me get that frosted glass look instead of a smooth blend.

I also did some zigzag stitching to bring back some edginess to the card base. The sentiment is from the Loving Sentiments A5 sheet.

I coloured the rose with Graph'It alcohol markers, fussy cut and adhered it to the card base. To not loose the punk, I added Metal.  Silver Sharpie, silver eyelets and silver thread offer the perfect finishing touch.

Products used to create this card:

Challenges:
Amusing Challenge #15: AG
CAS On Sunday #50: Stencil It - stencil background
The Stamping Boutique: Make Your Own Background
Sentimental Sunday #243: AG + Sentiment

I hope you've been inspired to get inky and play with your stamps to make a few Valentine's Day card.  Don't forget to swing by the Chocolate Baroque DT Blog regularly for more crafty ideas from the rest of the girls. They're having tons of fun with these new stamps!

Thank you for visiting me today. And thank you for sending hugs and cuddles for Rosie. After a couple of "good" months we've got a few issues to deal with now. It's the nature of the disease but we're up in arms for another fight. Rosie is on a Low-dose Metronomic (LDM) chemotherapy regime with cyclophosphamide. So far so good and she's taking it very well. She's a fighter, that one!

Have a beautiful Sunday, friends!

Beijinhos!