Shabby Chic

Recognize this heart? It's the same beautiful 'Floral Heart' image designed by the FABulous artist Crissy Armstrong that I used on my previous post. This style is a little more "me".......okay........it's a lot more me. LOL I love love love my PINK! This could be a wedding card or a baby card or a card for a special girl friend. AND.......as Crissy pointed out to me.....this would make a great Valentine card (Thanks a bunch, Crissy). I wanted to use this heart in another color to show you (or remind you) that you can change the color on digital images to reflect the color palette of your design. So go ahead......feel free to change that digi from black to a pretty pretty pink. The possibilities are endless.

The background paper for my card is from Bearly Mine Designs. I adore their papers. They print up so beautifully. The lace, ribbon, flowers (folded in half & tucked on the sides of the Love sign) & bling are from my stash. The butterflies were made with a Martha Stewart '3 in 1 butterfly' punch.

All distressing was done with my FAVorite tool......the Tim Holtz' little distressing tool. It was then inked with my 'Brushed Corduroy' Distress Ink. Of course a card wouldn't be complete without using a Nestie diecut. I used ovals & circles & the matching scallops.

The sentiment circle is from Bird's Cards freebies. "Love" is computer generated using the font 'Chopin Script'. The corner embellie is from a Cuttlebug small "Vintage" die set of corners & frames that was on clearance at Michael's. I can tell I'll be using these a lot. I love a good sale!

Challenges I'm entering:
Cute Card Thursday: Lace
Cupcake Craft Challenges: Your fav challenge ~ #1 flowers
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge: We love Pink (& so do I)
The Shabby Tea Room: #70 Flower power
Bearly Mine Challenges: #14 Anything Goes (use their DP)
Simon Says: Anything Goes
Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog: Get Inspired (shabby tag)
The Pixie Cottage: #78 Wrap it in Ribbon
Scrap-Creations: Recipe: use at least 2 DP's ~ (I used 3) & use at least 2 embellies ~ (I used way more...lol)
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge: #90 A Vintage Look
Digi Doodles Shop's Best: #66 Butterflies
Stampin' for the Weekend: Wings & Things
Stamp Something: Something with Bugs or Butterflies
Stamp & Create: July challenge ~ Ribbons & Bows
The ABC Challenge: Y is for Yesterday (vintage)
Crop Stop: #27 Follow this Sketch (YAY! I won!)

As always.......thank you so much for taking the time to leave me some love (I know I must sound like a broken record but I truly appreciate your comments).

Huggies & Blessings ~♥♥♥~