Hello!  Yes, I know it seems strange to be sharing a valentine today when most people in the United States are thinking of Thanksgiving turkey and stuffing and pumpkin pie.  But valentines need to be sent to Operation Write Home by the end of December so that they can be shipped out to the troops stationed overseas, and our military men and women can have time to write in them and send them home to their loved ones by February.

Today’s card is going into my valentine stash for OWH.  I’ve used this week’s Dynamic Duos colors and tweaked one of my own cards from 2007.  This time the Dynamic Duos crew added a third color to the challenge.  The colors suggested “flowers” to me, so I’ve used a fairly large one on my card.  After I got started with this idea I remembered I don’t have any large heart-shaped dies.  (Note to self – put “heart shaped dies” on Christmas list.)  So I traced around a cookie cutter to get my heart shape and then cut it with scissors.  I trimmed the end of the sentiment panel to follow the contour of the heart so that the shapes wouldn’t compete too much against each other.  A trio of heart shaped mini brads finishes off the card.

That’s it for today!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Stamps: Heartfelt Thanks (Stampin’ Up); My Silly Valentine (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride, Very Vanilla (SU)
Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Raspberry Ripple
Other: mini heart brads (Making Memories); heart shaped cookie cutter (Wilton); sponge