Love Always Tent Card

The SC 134 challenge of a tent card got my mind racing. There are so many shapes and things you can use for tents. Last night when I made this card I went to bed with it looking like the blurry picture below.(I didn't know the picture was blurry until after I changed the card, Oops)

I wasn't happy with it but I need to get a lot of extra cards made for while I am at camp. I will be getting the cards made and the blog written so my DD#4 can post them for me. I thought it's acceptable, and I am tired and sore, so I went to bed. This morning I went in my craft room with new eyes and added the Tulips(SU Bothway Bloosoms) and the red for the heart on tag . What a difference a small touch makes.

Sometimes the little extra is too much and sometimes it is just right, I think that is what makes the paper crafts so challenging for us, and yes... so FUN.

When it's finished you just know.

I used whisper white card stock for the base, and a summery yellow and bright red cardstock I had laying around, for the rest. I had picked up this cute dotted red ribbon at(walmart) months ago and have been wanting to use it. I used my Cricut Doodlecharms cartridge to cut both hearts. I used versamark to stamp the print pattern from SU "looks like spring" and real red for the dotted over it. I punched the holes on the scallopped edge of the heart and colored with a pastle white gel pen to make faux rivets. I like this technique at times like this because this many rivets would be too much. I freehanded the faux stiching around the heart with Summer Sun marker about 1/16" in from th eedge. when testing it I decided the heart got to close to someof the faux rivet holes so I trimmed the inner heart down closer to the stitching. If I make this style again I would use the shadow feature to cut the scalloped heart so I wouldhave morespace towork with. The tag is punched with SU tag punches and mounted on dimesionals. The "always" sentiment came with the retired SU SAB 06 set"Too Terrific Tags". It is stamped with Summer Sun. I colored with a red watercolor pencil and then used a fine tip H2O painter. The "love" from wonderful words was stamped in Real Red, then masked. The Tulips were stamped in Basic Black and then when the mask was removed the ballance of the stems were added with a Basic Black Marker. After I colored the stems with a Mellow Moss marker. I then use my Red and Lemon Yellow water color pencils( Kimberly generals) to color the base and tips of the tulips. I used my H20 pen to paint the red down toward the yellow cleaned the tip and then lightly drew some yellow up making sure to leave some white paper showing. Normally I would reverse this, but I needed to get the red thinned and the space was limited. I hope you like my bright summery tent card. Until Later... Happy Stamping!