My first romantic card is an acetate one with a central image created using a large gold heart peel off mounted onto cream pearlescent card and embellished with pearls. The sentiment, border and corners are also created using peel offs.This card fits the challenge at http://artygirlzchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ where the challenge was to use acetate and Cynthia's 'Peel offs' challenge at http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ .
My second card was inspired by the amazing tutorial by Lori at http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/ . I loved the way she had woven paper strips and then put the finished weaving in a cuttlebug embossing folder. Such a cool idea! Thank you so much Lori.
I really enjoyed doing the weaving and was pleased with my woven mat of different shades of pearlescent card. It looked stunning when it first came out of the folder. However, when it came to making it all up into a card I'm not so impressed with my efforts. I didn't want to cover the weaving up too much and pfaffed (is that a word?) around for ages trying different things in the middle until I got quite fed up with the card. Does anyone else do that?
Anyway the card did not end up in the bin (it was a close shave) and I will certainly be having another go at this technique and will maybe be more pleased with the finished results of my next effort.
As both my cards have a romantic theme they are perfect for the challenge at http://www.daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/ ,where the design team want us to use hearts of any kind on our cards and at http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/ where the theme is 'love'.
