Cross My Heart...

Tuesday Trigger- Cross My Heart

I re-discovered a roll of self-adhesive mesh which was popular in scrapbooking a few years back, and thought it would make a great template for re-creating cross stitching on my card.  The advantage of the mesh is that it is repositionable, removable, and you don't have to draw and erase your lines.  This card was inspired by this weeks Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger - Cross My Heart, the theme, the textures and of course the cross-stitching.

This may be my last Valentine's Day Card, for this year any way - Cross My Heart!!

Playing along with Dynamic Duos Colour Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Have a Heart, 

Papercraft Star Love Challenge and 

Stampin Royalty Valentines/Love Challenge too!

You give my heart wings...

When I thought about being brave and putting my name forward for the 10 Minute Craft Dash Design Team Call, I realised that even though I have participated a number of times, more often than not I had stretched the 10 minute deadline.  So I thought I'd get in some more practice, and luckily this one came in at 9 minutes 25 seconds, although it almost missed out on the buttons as they kept wanting to stick to each other rather than the card LOL!

I do love my "Ginghnam Style" chicken from Purple Onion stamps, and as I am in the midst of clearing up my crafting space, he was handy, so it was an easy choice.  I thought I'd make a real feature of his heart wing, perfect for this weeks The Paper Players Love is in the Air Challenge, together with some fabulous inspiration from the gorgeous colours and chevrons from this weeks Stampin' Royalty photo and Jen's versatile Freshly Made Sketch, I was ready to create.

Some tips for a quicker card:  As I knew I was going to be pressed for time, and my L'il Inkers photo frame die cut was fresh from Santa, I thought I'd run it through my Cuttlebug with some plain cardstock first for a test run.  Very impressed with the fact that in one roll it came out clean and the cut frame fell out, without me having to wrestle with it at all - and the bonus was I now had a template to work out my framing of the stamp, and to practice writing my sentiment! 

If you use papers with a a straight line pattern, it's much easier and quicker to cut and adhere in straight lines too :)

Just a general tip for using chevron paper, if you want the pattern to look like arrows pointing upward, rather than down, as I did, then just make sure the arrows on both side edges of your card are pointing upward - it works!

 

 

Only a couple more days to go!