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Today's card combines many techniques but overall it has a very simple and clean look. 
  

I cut a heart out of masking paper and used a blending brush to ink blend Festive Berries and Spun Sugar Distress Oxide inks around the heart onto the card base.  I cut the same shaped heart out of white paper and stamped the word love from the Clearly Besotted Love Notes stamp set using Festive Berries Distress Oxide.  I re-stamped over the word using VersaMark ink and embossed it in clear embossing powder to give it a glossy look.  The hippo from the same stamp set was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored using a variety of alcohol markers.


I popped up the heart onto the card base using craft foam and glued 3 lavender pearls on opposite sides of the heart.  I put a red and white striped piece of washi tape going down the inside of the card.  I cut a small amount from the front of the card base so the washi tape on the inside of the card peeked through to the front.


I love the simplicity of the card design and how fast and easy it was to mass-produce.

Love
Supplies:
  • Accent Opaque White Cardstock 100lb
  • Inkadinkado Stamping Masking Paper
  • Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks - Festive Berries and Spun Sugar
  • Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
  • VersaMark Ink
  • Hampton Arts Clear Embossing Powder
  • Alcohol Markers
    • Copic - E18, E15, E13, R29
    • Spectrum Noir - C11, HB3, HB2, HB1, True Black
  • Want 2 Scrap Lavendar Adhesive Pearls
  • Red and White Striped Washi Tape

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