This is the second card I made with the bunch of hearts I punched from a sheet of hand decorated paper I made. It started as a sheet where I tried out all the colours of a new set of pens using a very loose handwriting, a bit of colour added after another project and I added yet more watercolour in a variety of colours to get it bright enough to make the hearts for my two cards. This is my second card and after having reverse engineered one I found on line I knew that I would need 14 hearts and 4 half hearts. I did leave one space blank in the third row to put my special heart. I chose a piece of purple light weight cardstock and glued down my hearts in close proximity to each other and then added the half hearts. I put it under weight while it dried and then added machine stitching with purple thread tying off the ends on the back and securing them with regular tape. For my special heart I punched one (SU) from silver metallic cardstock, embossed it with a flourish embossing folder (CB) and added a blue scalloped heart die cut (SU) in behind. I mounted it in the open space using 3D foam tape. The stitching on this one was more pronounced and I like it more subtle like on my first card. I trimmed the purple and mounted it to a light aqua card which fit in an envelope from my stash. Will do for a "much love","lots of hugs" card or an anniversary card. It is going into my stash. Therese
