Twofer Card Challenge: Hearts...

I could not resist joining in the latest challenge over on the Twofer Card Challenge Blog. I was already working on some Valentines, so this month's "Hearts" theme fit right into my cardmaking activities.

Here are the two cards I made for this challenge:

I had a little heart stencil that was NBUS, so I decided to break it in on these two cards.

 For my first card, I simply taped my stencil over top of a pale blue piece of cardstock, and then I began applying some blue ink with a blending brush.

Once that was done, and before I removed the stencil, I spritzed the inked hearts with some Tattered Angels blue Glimmer Mist.  It added a subtle, but really pretty glimmer to the hearts. I only wish I could capture it on camera so that you could see it, too.
 

The "Thank You" was cut from an upcycled piece of glossy black cardboard packaging. It's quite thick, so it has some nice dimension. 

My sentiment was computer-generated, matted with black CS and adhered with foam tape.







 


 

I tried taking an angled photo to capture some of the sparkle from the Glimmer Mist, but it really doesn't show.

 

 For my second card, I selected one of the heart shapes in the stencil to ink a row of multi-colored hearts down the front of my card.  To do this, I had to use some Post-It tape to block off the other hearts around it and to keep me from getting ink where it shouldn't be on my white card. I just kept moving my stencil down the card front and inking each heart with a different color of ink. 

I happen to have some sparkly silver hearts in my card parts, so I glued them on for a little fun dimension. I also added a strip of silver metallic tape on black cardstock, with just a tiny bit of the black showing.

My sentiment was computer-generated and is popped up on foam tape.
 

On the inside of my card I have another computer-generated sentiment. Here I used the stencil to ink up a smaller version of the heart shape I had used on the front.

I really do love working with stencils. They are so quick and easy and can result in some really pretty cards.

There are only a couple of days left in the January Twofer Card Challenge, but I hope you'll join in the fun, if you haven't already.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.
Cheryl