DYSU #58 - Love

Morning all, today brings us another challenge from DYSU, and it's all about....



Yep, we want to see your love themed creations, break out those hearts, and pretty papers and get creating!

Here is my Love themed card:




I have used an adorable little girl from Birdie Brown, and coloured her with Promarkers.
I cut her out using Nestabilities, and layered onto some matt silver card by Papermania.



I then created a layered rectangular panel using my square nesties, and just extending the dies before the full cut as I don't have any rectangular dies in my collection yet!




The patterned paper is by Echo Park, called Yours Truly - Blossoms.
The text side appears to be love letters written by servicemen during WWII, and makes for very touching reading. I almost didn't cut this paper up, it's so gorgeous, but I have a habit of hoarding and am resolved to using what I have this year!




Before layering together I tied some red and cream striped ribbon from The Ribbon reel, and tied a fancy bow, and added a little sentiment label using Papertrey Ink stamps.

I then attached this to a petal point card base, and added some red gems along the points.

Our sponsors this week are:

Birdie Brown


Through The Craftroom Door



Supplies Used:

Stamps: Girl with Rose - Birdie Brown; Tiny Tags - Papertrey Ink

Ink: Memento lady Bug Red; Versafine Smokey Grey

Paper: Yours Truly - Blossoms - Echo Park; Matt Silver Card - Papermania;
Neenah Classic Crest Card - Crafter's Companion

Other: Petalpoint Cardbase - Craftwork Cards; Spellbinders Classic Ovals S4-110;
Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Ovals S4-111; 9mm Grosgrain Stripe Red/Ivory - The Ribbon Reel; Red Gems from stash.


I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop

The City Crafter Challenge

Cupcake Inspirations

Tuesday Throwdown

Party Time Tuesdays

Lilypad Cards Challenge

One Stop Crafts Challenge

I Love Promarkers

Well, I'm just about packed for our trip to The Gambia, just got to pack the toiletries and certain medications! I don't know how I'm going to cope without being able to craft for a whole week, but I have a couple of scheduled posts ready to go for next Thursday's DYSU and Charisma Cardz challenges, so I hope you manage to drop by and say hi! I will be taking my iPad, but have no idea whether the promised wifi will work or how reliable it is.

So I have a really fun day planned - cleaning, stripping the beds, and cleaning! But then that's it for a week lol! Not looking forward to the 4.30 am start tomorrow though, I just hope it doesn't snow or our flight is delayed from Gatwick.

Hope you all have a fab week,

Pauline


Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline