Time Out Challenge #281

Hello friends.  I'm tickled pink to be guest designing with the sweet ladies over at the Time Out Challenge today.  They have a new and FUN idea for this challenge where you need to pick out 2 of the 6 ideas and incorporate them into your card.  You can definitely use more than 2 of the ideas listed if you'd like, but no less than 2.

 Lots of great prompts to get the juices flowing here, and I immediately thought of Valentines Day for my card, but you do you and create any type of card you'd like!  I may have gone a little overboard with the prompts and used 5 of them (all but the food prompt!), but they all seemed to fit with my card.  Take a look and you'll see what I mean...

  A couple of months ago, I bought PTI's Build-A-Hat die set and have not been able to put it down!  Winter lasts forever here in Michigan, so I thought the warm prompt was perfect for this hat and decorating it with hearts (and stitched hearts at that!!) filled the bill even more perfectly!  There is also stitching on the hat brim, the zig zag and straight line on the hat too!  My background is layered with a panel that I embossed using Sunny Studios Quilted Hearts EF and a piece of Real Red cs (SU!) before attaching to a white card base.  And of course if it's a Valentine card, you have to add the word LOVE somewhere on the card and I used a really old PTI set called Wonderful Words: Love and die cut it 3 times for some dimension and then die cut it a 4th time in the pink (PTI's Lovely Lady cs) so I could add the pink heart for the "O" in the LOVE word.

 You can see a bit more of the detail in this close up.  LOTS of hearts, layers, stitching, love, and warmth (from the hat).  I finished by adding some red & white bakers twine at the top and then a few Disco Ball Sequins from Gina K.

A BIG thank you to all the gals over at the Time Out Challenges for choosing my card back in November (you can see the card HERE) as a winner in their COZY challenge!

Make sure you check out all the wonderful inspiration the DT has for you for this current challenge and play along right HERE...there's always a spot for YOU in the gallery!!  As an extra incentive to play along, there's a $25 gift card from Newton's Nook for the winner, and who doesn't LOVE FREE stamps?!!  This challenge is open till Wednesday, Feb. 12th @ 5:00PM. 

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!