Elegant Heart Vines

Hello friends, Elaine here today and I am sharing a Valentine’s inspired card using the new Heart Vines die along with a sentiment from Valentine Hearts stamps and dies.

To start, I took a piece of Bristol Smooth card cut to 6”x 4.5” (I will trim this down later) and ink blended a layer of Distress Oxide in Spun Sugar all over the panel.  Next, I blended on Distress Oxide in Victorian Velvet concentrating the color at the top of the panel and softly blended into the Spun Sugar to create a tone-on-tone gradient effect.  I trimmed the panel down to 5.5”x 4.25” and distressed the panel by splattering on some clean water with a small paint brush, removing any excess water with a paper towel after 20 to 30 seconds.

While the panel was drying, I cut the Heart Vines die from heavyweight white cardstock and removed all the negative pieces.  I glued the die cut vines panel on top of the ink blended panel with some liquid adhesive.  To help give the leaves some extra dimension I used copic markers in the shades R81, R83 and R85 to flick on color at the base of each leaf.  I love how this makes the leaves ‘pop’ and the R80 markers pair so nicely with the Victorian Velvet shade.

To embellish the centre of the open heart of I used the scripty stamp ‘Love’ from the Valentine Hearts stamp set and stamped it in Victorian Velvet Distress Oxide Ink on a scrap of heavyweight white card.  I used the co-ordinating die to cut it out and secured directly to the centre of the heart. I adhered the whole panel to a white side folding A2 card base.

For some final embellishment I used the left-over piece of ink blended card and die cut some hearts with the strip of heart dies that are included in the Heart Vines die set.  I secured them on to the front of the card and added glossy accents to each of them for some extra interest and shine.

I hope this card gives you some Valentine inspiration, thank you so much for stopping by!