The only purchase I made for valentines this year was Concord and 9th's Mix and Match Hearts. I started out die cutting many different colors of hearts which gave me a nice collection of not only hearts, but the frames for them as well. I played around with different layouts but ended up making three of the same design, but differing colors, for my three granddaughters here in Rochester.
It takes awhile to inlay all the hearts, but it's worth the time. There is an accompanying stamp set which adds words to the hearts. I tried using multiple words, but ended up liking one heart with a word, layered with some dimensional tape.
You might notice a few pink hearts with some ink blending. I found a panel I had ink blended some time ago, and used it as one of the panels, and of course, got an array of ink blended hearts as well. You can see that panel in the last of the three valentines.
The sentiment on all three cards is from Simon Says Love You Greetings which I die cut with My Favorite Things Itty Bitty Strips.
Not surprisingly, there are multiple card challenges looking for hearts and valentines. These are off to four of them:
First up, Just Us Girls is looking for Heart Dies (plenty of those here!) I'm also sending these to Double D where the challenge is Hearts and to A Cut Above where Anything Goes with a Die Cut. And last, but certainly not least, it's off to Darnell's NBUS. For a change it didn't take me long to put this die to use.
