Hearts a flutter

Hope you all have a wonderful wednesday , stay positive its all downhill now towards a weekend, where do the days go?

Wednesdays mean another challenge over at Penny's paper crafty challenges , well every other wednesday but as they come around so fast , I'm not going to correct it, if you disagree , sorry.

Anyway we have another fun challenge, can you believe all the entries we had for our first challenge back wow so many entries and so much variety too, lets see if we can top it this time with our 'Hearts a Flutter' challenge.

Now when you see the rest of the design teams projects you will see so much inspiation and all so different there's sure to be something to give you a starting point so come on join the fun. We have another fab sponsor as this time it's Dewdrop crafts so a fab prize too.

Well when I saw the title of the challenge I think it must have been the flutter that made me think butterfly, though I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I started off looking for a colour challenge , then chose the papers and a layout and it just came together from there. If made quite a change making a card with out colouring anything, have I got you all intrigued now.

 Well I used a pearl base card in liliac and added some embossed white card with hearts that I was very kindly sent with some candy I won. The black strip of glossy card I stamped with a lace stamp from the stampman and powder embossed it with stardust embossing powder. The white strip of embossed card is the edge from a birthday card mum had sent to her, got her well trained now she saves me things she thinks I might use. The butterfly is actually 2 stamped in versamark and one embossed in white powder and one in matt black powder on white vellum. The sentiment is from LOTV and is again embossed in black powder on white vellum. The flowers are from my stash and a candy win from True and are from wild orchid. The ribbon is from my stash. I stuck one butterfly on the other and separated the wings with sticky pads to add dimension. Told you no colouring. Here's the finished card. I showed my son this and his comment... it's a bit cluttered? It must be a man thing.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Crafty catz-flowers
Fussy and fancy- valentine no red or pink
Paperplay-layer it up
Allsorts-saving nature
Southern girls-dry embossing
Playdate cafe-black,white and a splash of liliac, though I missed the deadline
Pear tree designs-flowers
Craft your passion-bling and red or hearts on your project
wild orchid crafts-love is
Meljen-a heart or two(plenty on my embossed paper)
Crafty Ho's-no designer papers
Magical mondays-flowers
Fun at fairy knoll-flowers
Simon says-love is in the air
tanda teaser-valentines
Papertake weekly-anything goes optional flowers