Love Jar of Hearts

 Happy FriYay, everybody! Hope y'all are okay. I might as well tell you, we are a bit nervous here on the upper Texas Gulf Coast, because a blue norther is settling in. We even have snow forecast for Monday with a high of 28F and a low of 12F. Wait, WUT????? Oh mylanta, we may not survive! We don't DO that kind of cold here. There's already been a horrible deadly vehicular pile up in Fort Worth as the system moves south. Dear Children report icicles on their backyard trees and everywhere else in Austin. I am just praying our electricity stays on. Our central heat, water heater and stove are gas but the heat requires electricity to operate. It's times like this I wish I'd put my foot down and demanded a generator. I did insist that Honey go this afternoon to stock up on nonperishable groceries and he said people were like chickens with their heads cut off. We'll survive but it won't be pretty without power. Anyway, it's supposed to be through Tuesday, so if I don't post you will know it's cold and dark over here. The forecast has 5 nights below freezing. {Sigh}

Ok so onto my card. This Valentine is for Honey's mom, who is probably my biggest card fan. I wanted it to be bright and cheery for her, so I used my Promarkers to color the Bugaboo "Valentine Jar" digital image. I followed up by accenting with a white Signo gel pen, highlighting the "Love" and the hearts, and then doodling little circles all around the balloons. I like how that makes the "Love" stands out.

    
I also used Bugaboo's Stella Says Sketch #903, resizing it in PSE.

I dove into my Valentine paper and pulled out a few very old (circa 2006) Junkitz Teresa Collins Love Line 121x12 collection designer papers that have bright and bold colors to match the colorful focal image, and I wanted the dominant color to be mauve-y pink because that's The Rainbow Card Challenge's color this month and always Creations in Pink's challenge. The 5x7" card base is SU and I used a scrap of black card stock to mat the image. The 2 vertical heart borders were cut with a very old Quickutz 12x12 scrapbooking die out of the SU card stock.

  

Inside the card is more of the Junkitz. I laid the paper down on the opened card and realized it was a perfect fit if I cut it apart down the middle, so that's what I did! I added a simple MFT hand-stamped sentiment and we signed the card inside the bottom right heart. On the back, I used a piece of Basic Grey Bittersweet paper that was leftover from my Scandi card and hand-stamped a Technique Tuesday siggie, currently my go-to siggie.

And a final view of my bright and happy colored card! Thanks for visiting and have a great day! xox

MY CHALLENGES PLAYLIST:

1.   Bugaboo Stella Says Sketch #903

2.   Bugaboo Saturday Challenge 2/6: AG -- #1/3  I've used Bugaboo's Valentine Jar digi

3.   The Library Challenge #76: Jar of Hearts (Title, Cover or Story) --  Title, I chose the Bugaboo image because it IS a jar of hearts, literally (literarily? heehee). :-) 

4.   Happy Little Stampers Feb. Challenge: AG with Dies -- I used 2 borders cut with Quickutz 12-inch Hearts Cookie Cutter vertical border die (over a decade old, made for scrapbooks)

5.   Creations in Pink #30: AG in Mainly Pink -- #1/3

6.   The Rainbow Card Challenge #26: Mostly Mauve  

7.   Double D Challenge 2/3: Valentine Love -- #1/3  I was inspired by the word Love in the wreath, the colors and the hearts.

8.   Paper Funday #26: AG + Opt. Twist LOVE is in the Air -- #1/4  Option played!

9.   Outlawz Twisted Thursdays 2/11-2/24: AG + Opt. Hearts -- #1/2  Option played!

10. Time Out Challenge #181: Photo Inspiration -- I was inspired by the hearts and the colors.  

11. Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week5: AG with Colouring -- I used Promarkers and white gel pen

12. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends C#151: AAG

13. Scrapping4Fun #185: Friendship/Wedding/Valentine -- #2/3cards Valentine Theme and I used a sponsor image

14. Inkspirational Challenge #232: Hearts -- 

15. Passion for Markers #578: Celebrations -- Celebrating Valentine's Day

16. Classic Design Challenge Feb. 2021 #2: AAG  

17. MAWTT #127: Valentines/Love -- #2/3

18. YSBP February: AAG -- #1/3 (I'm entering the regular monthly challenge only)

19. Use Your Stuff #415: Hearts

20. More Mixed Media Feb: AG + Opt. RED --  I've used some red, so Option played!

21. Simply Create Too #167: Use Hearts -- Entry #2/3

22. Cut It Up #219: All You Need is Love -- The vertical pink heart borders are cut from a 12" Quickutz die.

24. Aud Sentiments #268: Sentiment + AG -- #1/5 My sentiment is inside the jar "LOVE"

25. I Love Promarkers #428: AG no opt.

26. TIOT 2/2-2/15: Falling in Love

27. Creative Fingers Challenge #201: AAG -- #1/3  I've used sponsor image

28. ABMTTC #133: AAG  

29. ABMTTCX Feb: AAG  

30. My Time to Craft #450: Love

31. CHNPPC Feb. 2021: AG + Patterned Paper

32. ModSquad Challenge 2/3: Love (Word on Front)

33. Daring Cardmakers: Share the Love   

34. CCEE2106: Love is in the Air

35. Get Creative Challenge #98: AG + Opt. Red or Pink -- Entry #2/3  Option played!

36. Pearly Sparkles #59: AG