Flora and Fauna Love

Happy Thursday!  How's your week going?  I see a bright light at the end of the tunnel I've been working through the past few weeks and things are looking up!  I spent an entire day in the deep torture chamber that is Quickbooks and I came out the other side victorious!  Hip hip hooray!

To celebrate my victory, I decided to spend a little time getting inky last night.  The SCS sketch {SC316} was calling my name along with this Flora & Fauna Ledger paper I picked up on my last trip to the craft store.  The pad is spiral bound, and I just love the way I could cut my panel to use those torn spirals.  I rounded the corners of the panel to make it look like a mini notebook page, then stamped the lined heart from Love Notes on it as well as the trio of hearts.  On another scrap of the ledger paper I stamped the XOXO sentiment three times and a few more hearts, then cut in a flag shape and hand-stitched to my card using the Sew Easy hem piercer as a guide for my stitch marks.  Next up, I stamped the medium heart on Cherry Cobbler and cut out, then accented with two cranberry pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty.

For the LOVE panel, I decided to dress up my ledger paper by repeatedly stamping the Love sentiment across it, then filling in the heart with the coordinating heart stamp in cherry cobbler.  The top panel is cherry cobbler, embossed with a heart background and all of the edges are inked up with some Early Espresso ink.  I finished off with some Stardust Stickles on the outer edge of my lined heart and a seam binding bow with a little mulberry flower attached to the center.

Funny story about x's and o's.  I was married before I knew there was a meaning behind XOXO.  I always just read the letters... ex-oh-ex-oh and had absolutely no idea why people wrote it at the end of their letters!!!  {sheepish grin}  When Mark finally explained that it meant hugs and kisses I laughed out loud and spent quite some time trying to determine which letter is the hug and which one is the kiss.  I'm still not sure I have them straight!  Funny these things we grow up with that everyone just assumes you understand.

Okay, I've probably rambled on enough for one day... time for the enabling portion of this post...

Enabler's List:
Stamps: Love Notes (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Brenda Walton Flora & Fauna Ledger Designer Paper Pad (K & Company), Cherry Cobbler (SU!)
Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler (SU!)
Accessories: Stardust Stickles (Ranger), corner rounder, Sew Easy piercer, Sew Easy head attachment (hem), needle, thread (We R Memory Keepers), cranberry pearls, 10mm open rose (Pizzazz Aplenty), cherry cobbler seam binding (SU!), Valentine Set #4 embossing folder (Sizzix)