With Love From Me - To You

The Play Date Cafe Challenge this week was extremely challenging - red, lavender and silver.  Not a three way colour combi I would normally have put together, but after hours deliberating I came up with:

I started with the hearts on barn red TSS metal which I embossed. this is a Funstamps stamp which I assume I've had since I was married, as it's not something I would have bought anytime recently!!!
 (and the fact that its Funstamps means it's fairly old too...)

Then I had to work in the silver and lavender - well, the silver would be no trouble, except it took me ages to decide what to do.  I uncovered this Judikins marble-effect background (I used to love this stamp, haven't used it for ages - where have I heard that before??) which I stamped in silver Encore metallic ink on a piece of A4 white card.  I scored and folded it and trimmed it so the stamped image was central and left a border down the right hand side - I wanted to leave my options open.  The card IS straight - it's the scanning!
In the end, I used this Hero Arts "lots of love" stamp which comes with its own hearts border and used a sort of  lavender coloured ink (Vivid) round all 4 sides.  I added some "card candy" from Craftwork Cards in alternating silver and lavender shades and found an alphabet set to stamp "with love" down the side - border.  You can't really make out from the scanned image that the front of the card stops where the right hand card candy runs.

As I don't "do" Valentine's day (Happy Singletons Day!!)  I am sending this card to all my blog visitors and followers - thank you all for your kind words and comments since I started blogging. You are all my Valentines!!