This year I had enough time to make a valentines card for my hubby. He was really excited.

Again 2 challenges inspired me to this card. The most obvious one was from Caardvarks who just had the rule to use a heart on the card. (Challenge post) This is not hard when doing a valentines card. The second was the 102. Sketch-Challenge by CPS.

And here comes the card:

Not everything turned out as expected but it seldom does. Nevertheless I like the card. The saying says: “You have the key to my heart.”Now for the description of the card:

Material:

• gray card
• patterned paper
• reddish paper
• heart stamp
• script stamp
• gold metal foil (a bit thicker)
• some lace
• VersaMark ink
• transparent embossing powder
• brown chalk
• ruby ink
• dark-red pen

Stamp the heart with VersaMark ink onto the reddish paper and emboss it with transparent powder. Cut it out and cut a key hole shape in the middle of it. Draw the key on the foil and cut it out. Be careful, the foil can be quite sharp! Then work the foil with an embossing pen to make it more 3-dimensional. Therefor use the small end on the front to “portion” the key and the bigger end on the back to round the key.

Cut the patterned paper and chalk its border with the brown chalk. Attach the lace to the lower border on the back of the paper. Ink the border of the card with ruby ink and stamp with the script stamp and VersaMark ink on its left side.

Attach the patterned paper on the card and glue down the heart overlapping it. Place the key on the patterned paper with foam pads. Finally write the saying with the red pen beneath it.