Shiny Valentine

This is a Valentine for a friend's husband.  Before you get the wrong idea I have to tell you that she asked me to make it for HER to give him.  I made it following this Freshly Made Sketch and assorted foil papers from Stampin' Up.

I cut the hearts using the three smallest dies from the Stampin' Up Sweet and Sassy framelits set and Simon Says Stamp's Cupid's Heart Border die from four foil papers (Black, Champagne, Lovely Lipstick and Grapefruit Grove) and proceeded to play mix and match.  Yes, I have a lot of hearts for other projects...  The overlapping hearts are popped up with thin foam tape.  For the word "Love" I used the die from Hero Arts Love stamp and cut to cut two from black cardstock and one from black foil paper and stacked them.  The rest of the sentiment was embossed in copper using words from the Thoughtful Messages set from Simon Says Stamp.  This required cutting (gasp!) the word "you" from the sentiment strip "you more today than yesterday."

This picture does not accurately show how shiny the hearts and "Love" sentiment are.  The Grapefruit Grove is particularly beautiful because it has a holograph effect when you tilt it, appearing to be copper until the changing angle of the light lets you see waves of pink and a bit of green shimmer.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time, Hansi