February hearts and flowers

Happy February friends, the month of love.... and spring flowers. It's time for our new challenge over at Country View Challenges. I am delighted to be your host this month and I have chosen "Hearts and flowers" for the theme. This means that you need to have both hearts and flowers on your make. You can make anything you like using any products. You can enter a maximum of  5 times and into a maximum of 10 challenges including ours. As always there is a fab £20 voucher up for grabs for one lucky randomly selected winner to spend on the website.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here

This is what I got up to;

I have added clickable links within this post to the CVC website. If anything is out of stock just add your name in the email notification and Susan will email you when she has them back in stock. 

I used my favourite ever flower stamp by Visible Image Creative chaos for my "flowers". 

which I stamped 3 times, coloured with distress inks and cut out.

I made a "smooshed" distress ink background using mustard seed, salvaged patina, kitsch flamingo and speckled egg. I thought this gave a very "spring" feel to my card.

My "heart" is a very old die from my stash. I used it to die cut some pink inky leftover card

and then added a little blueprint sketch distress ink. 

I stamped happy birthday (from Visible Image's birthday sentiment set) at the top of the card.

I also added a little background stamping using the other stamps in the Creative chaos set. 

I glued on some sequins as a finishing touch and then matted and mounted it onto a card blank.

 Here is my finished card

with a close up;

and one final shot;

 I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our February "Hearts and flowers "challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the challenge are here.  Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website UK postage is FREE on orders over £ 7.50 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be sharing my 2nd design team project in 2 days time on 3rd Feb..

I would love to see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x