I tweaked the weekly sketch (#85) over at Sketch Saturday to come up with this card:

The stamp is from Impression Obsession, and I think it is so cute. The first thing I wanted to do with it was paper piecing, but I also wanted to see what it would look like kept sophisticated and simple.

The red background paper is from my Christmas stash! I’m going to see how much of that I can use up this year so I can buy new next year. The paper lace was inspired by this tutorial, and is from scrap Core’dinations cardstock, as is the mat under the stamped image.

I grabbed this piece of white paper from the place I throw all my Copic-safe paper scraps. I stamped 4 images until I got one just right, then played with colouring different parts of the hearts. On one of this mis-stamps, I thought I’d see how it looked if I coloured the birds yellow. My Y02 looked very odd, so I turned the paper over and realised I’d stamped on the back of some dark brown patterned paper! Luckily, nothing bled through just using red.

The embroidered paper is handmade stuff I found in a pack at my LSS.