Seven Days of Greetings

Here's my challenge entry for this week's The Next Level challenge. This week's challenge was a sketch. I thought the layout was very cool.

I am also entering it into the challenge for Cute Card Thursday which is to make a card with a tag on it somehow, anywhere. This should qualify, huh?? LOL!!!

I made a pocket heart for a scrapbook layout earlier in the week and had a lot of fun with it. I thought the heart would be a good substitute for the rectangle image on the sketch, but I am not sure that I like it tilted on an angle. It fits perfectly, but I think it is hard to tell that it is a heart. So this is another card that I am not sure if I really like it or not. Maybe it will grow on me - LOL! With the scrapbook layout, I had filled the heart with six journaling tags. With the tag required by the sketch, there was a possibility of seven tags hence the idea of seven days of greetings. There is a lovely sentiment stamped on the back of each tag. My intent is to tell the recepient to pull a random tag each day for seven days and that will be my greeting to her for the day. The lovely sentiments are from PaperTrey Ink's Out on a Limb and Everyday Blessings sets. If you click on the photo, it will open up, should you wish to read the greetings.

The vintage rose and yellow dotted paper are digital downloads. This was my first experience in printing my own paper. It worked out okay but I am not sure of the cost efficiency in terms of buying color ink cartridges for my printer. The other drawback is that I like 12x12" designer paper and I can only print 8.5x11 on my printer. Also, the paper image prints out as a square so it doesn't even fill up the whole sheet of paper. There are some really amazing paper prints out there in the digital world. Mine came from Raspberry Road Designs. Some were free and I also purchased some other paper packs. The Next Level Challenge blog has a terrific feature called Grab Some Stash each week. This week they featured Raspberry Roads and their free downloads so I thought I would give it a try.

Card Recipe:
Paper: SU's Very Vanilla and Bashful Blue, Raspberry Road Digital Download Paper
Ink: SU Forest Foliage (retired)
Accessories: Prima paper roses, Lace from Lace Heaven, KaiserCraft pearls, ribbon from Jo-Ann's, Pocket Heart template from Splitcoast Stampers, Spellbinders Tags and Ovals dies, sewing machine.