Valentine Rosettes

Hello my friends, we are racing through January, Valentine's Day is just around the corner and my thoughts have turned to love so I created a trio of floral cards using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Vault Rosettes Thinlits for the flower heads, Vault Widflowers for the foliage and the hearts from Vault Lovebirds.

I trimmed Distress Watercolor card to make 3 - 4" x 5.1/4" panels. I spritzed the Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mini Flourish Layering Stencil from Set 10 with Scorched Timber Distress Oxide ink and water and tapped repeatedly on to the card panels to create a monoprint background effect.

I fixed Tim Holtz Idea-ology Palette Ephemera to the panels using Distress Collage Medium and applied Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide ink through the Tile Mini Layering Stencil from Set 9 using the Tiny Blending Tool which is my new "oh so dinky and cute" best friend.

I repeated using the Dotted Mini Layering Stencil from Set 5 with Scorched Timber Distress Ink.

I had a rummage through my stash of Tim Holtz/Idea-ology 12" x 12" paper pads and selected papers with smallish patterns that I thought would be perfect to die-cut my floral rosettes using the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Vault Rosette Thinlits.

I die-cut 3 strips for each rosette, coloured two of the sets of 3 with Worn Lipstick and Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide inks to match the colours on the background ephemera. Before assembling, I trimmed down the width of two sets of the strips to make smaller rosettes.

I fixed the rosettes to the panels with Distress Collage Medium, applied only to the centres and added the circles die-cut from contrasting papers or ephemera. I die-cut the leaf stems from Distress Watercolor card coloured with Peeled Paint and Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxides and neutral colours of Sizzix Eclectic Cardstock. I die-cut the hearts from left over scraps of the rosettes paper, coloured with either Worn Lipstick and Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide inks using the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Vault Lovebirds Thinlits.

I inked around the edge of the panels with Scorched Timber Distress Oxide ink using a Tiny Blending Tool and added Simon Says Reverse All the Love Sentiment Strips popped up on foam squares to create dimension. 

To finish I fixed the panels to A2 white card blanks.

It looks like it's going to be another batten down the hatches week in the cubbyhole. The snow has gone but has been replaced with heavy rain and horrendous gale force winds. In other words, it's never two days the same when it comes to our British weather. Stay safe and warm where you are and have fun with whatever you are creating.

Hugs Kath xxx