Shabby Blue Valentine Card

Hello everyone,

I created a Valentine card in Blue and White tones, hope you like it:

I used super heavy white cardstock for my base. The card measures 6" x 6". First layer is a script print paper in light blue shades with distressed edges. It is just peeking behind double layer of cheese cloth.
The top layer is a piece of blue cardstock that was distressed with Faded Jeans Distress Ink and then covered with Glue n' seal. once that was dry, I dabbed two layers of white paint onto it. Once the paint was dry, I embossed it with script embossing folder, distressed all the edges and randomly sanded off parts of script to uncover dark blue color of cardstock.
The hearts are different size and shape Cricut cutouts. Dark blue and the smallest one was treated with Picket Fence Distress Paint, the middle white one with Faded Jeans Distress Paint.

The sentiment was creating using "be mine" stamp from More than Love Verve Stamps set. I stamped it with Versamark and covered it with Snow Embossing powder. Then I treated entire banner with Faded Jeans Distress ink and gently removed the ink off of the embossed area.

This side view gives you an idea how dimensional this card is...

The flowers: all handmade by me. I used white cardstock to cut out 5 petal flowers in different sizes. I used two different ways to ink the flowers with Faded Jeans Distress ink. First one is inking with sponge and the second was just dabbing the ink pad directly onto flowers. After I made all my roses I painted one with Picket Fence Crackle Paint, the others were treated with white acrylicic paint using a sponge. I added a thin layer of decorative sisal before I started adding flowers to my card.
In this closeup you can see crackle paint effect really good...

The shabby bow was created using white seam binding ribbon that I hand died with Faded Jeans Distress ink. I added a small metal heart with a key charm, tied to a sisal string. I painted the charm with Picket Fence Distress Paint.

One more side view of the finished card...

I am entering this card into following challenges:

The Artistic Stamper February's Creative Challenge "Love"
Word love means hearts...

Artist Trading Post Exchange "Love is in the Air"

Cardabilities Sketch #116

The Mixed Media Card Challenge #8 {love}

and

The Shabby Tea Room #245 I {heart} You

I hope you enjoyed this post.
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

Samra

02/14/2015 UPDATE
It is my great honor to announce that my card was selected as one of the Feature Designers at Cardabilities! I am absolutely thrilled and ecstatic!

02/21/2015 UPDATE

I am so honored to announce that my card was Top 3 at Artist Trading Post Exchange!!