A hearty card

 Good afternoon blogland,

So, after I said a few posts ago about my Clean and Simple cards being mostly colourless - I found myself trying to make something a bit more colourful.

Now, you're going to have to bear with me on this one, as I used a card blank size I'm not used to working with. I was going for CaS and so wasn't happy layering up the card base too much, which I felt this die would need if working with my normal top fold (17.5 x 12.5 cm). 

I then dug around and found some very old, very small C6 card blanks (5 3/4 x 4 inches or 14.75 x 10.5 cm). The die fits the blank perfectly but to me - used to bigger card blanks - this is a very small size to be working with.  I think I was using this size about 20 years ago when it was all 'let's use stickers' to make cards and I swiftly moved away once I discovered stamping and colouring.

Anyway, I persevered and it doesn't look too bad but, next time I use the die, it will not be such a CaS, it'll go on one of my usual card blanks and I'll layer it up a bit more.

Anyways, here's the card so y'all can decide:

Supplies used:

Rubber stamp:

Taylored Expressions: Simple Strips - Background

Dies:

Taylored Expressions: Simple Strips - Well Rounded

Time for Tea - Lots of Love Cover Plate (Vertical)

Anything else:

Piece of rainbow printed paper

small card base (!)

What I did:

Die-cut out the hearts cover plate and then cut a piece of rainbow paper to fit behind the die. Stuck the two together, added 3d foam and mounted it on the card blank.

Stamped and die-cut out the sentiment, added 3d foam to that and added it to die / paper.

et, voila, job done!

My apologies, folks, as well for the mixed measurements - I'm neither a metric nor imperial person (I was taught both at school and picked up neither) and measurements don't mean much to me!

So ends another long post from me - hope everyone is doing well and I'll be back soon with a distinctly bigger card! ;-)

Signing off,

Sarah

Challenge /s:

Addicted to CAS: Challenge #211 - Colourful