IHP’s January 2012 DT Blog Hop Challenge

If you are looking for my Waltzingmouse Stamps project for the WMS Blog Party, please scroll down to the next post.

Hello crafty people.  It’s the I{Heart}Papers monthly Design Team Blog Hop and we are happy to share with you our crafty projects.  This month our Challenge was to use one of several inspiration photos that our Challenge Coordinator, Deb Felts, found for us.  The inspiration photo I chose to use was this one.

Since Valentine Day is on the horizon, I took the opportunity to make a Valentine “laced” with lovely pinks gleaned from this inspiration photo.

Speaking of lace – I used some lovely 1-1/2” Fuchsia Lace from May Arts to create my background.  I ran my white cardstock front through my Xyron adhesive applicator creating a sticky layer on which to lay my 3 strips of lace, and then I trimmed off the excess.

My doily Lace Heart Circles by Spellbinders was die cut using Bubblegum Pink cardstock and patterned paper from the Be Mine patterned paper collection by Echo Park.  I mounted the stripped die cut onto the pink bottom layer using foam dimensional pop dots.

The “xoxo” strip was cut from the same Be Mine paper along with the “with Love” sticker.

I adorned the white heart with crystal bling from Zva Creative. To finish off my embellishments, I used a Copic Marker to color the red and white bakers twine, making it a matching fuchsia color.  I tied a bow and attached two small punched hearts to the ends. I positioned it on the right-hand side of the “xoxo” strip to balanced out the heart cluster on the left.

For more inspiration from supplies available at I{Heart}Papers, be sure to stop by the blogs of these talented Design Team Members:

Carolyn

Deb

Gretchen

Kate

Loretta

Lori

Tracy

Thanks for looking in.  Until next time – have a wonderful day!

Echo Park Be Mine 12X12 Collection	1-1/2" Lace Fuchsia Pink	Copic Blending Cardstock by X-Press (pack of 12)	Foam Dimensional Dots	Zyron 5" Creative Station	Zva Creative Crystal Bling
Copic Markers	Cherry Red Divine Twine	Spellbinders Doily Heart Circles

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