Bleeding Hearts

My rather awesome - and very arty and talented - niece turned 18 recently and of course I had to send her a card...

 

I decided to use one of Rebecca Sinz's awesome digi stamps from Sweet Pea Stamps and for this card I chose Bleeding Hearts:

 

 

I love Rebecca's striking women and in particular her series of flower-themed portraits. I coloured Bleeding Hearts with my Promarkers and added some accents with a white gel pen.

 

 

I teamed the image with some gorgeous papers in rich, purple shades and lots and lots of pretty die-cuts and punches. I embellished the edge of my card using a decorative scrollwork die and then layered over bronze coloured cardstock, which I edged with a scroll edge punch.

 

 

I cut a delicate lattice using a Marianne Creatables die and layered this over the left side of the card.

 

 

I matted my image onto bronze card and attached it with foam pads, layering a decorative die-cut corner under it.

 

 

To finish I added layered metal and paper flowers and a greeting stamped and heat embossed and cut into a pennant shape.

 

 

I also decorated the inside of the card, to increase the contrast behind the die-cut edge.

 

 

This gorgeous image is available in red rubber or digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store.