You Are Loved / Blog Candy Winners

Hi bloggers!  I was trying to get the feel of a heart shaped knot hole in a tree with this one.  A bit of a stretch, I know, but sometimes you just have an idea and the fun of it is seeing if you can pull it off.  I did have a little difficulty in that I wanted the heart to be recessed, but also have the doors open so rather than just cutting and folding them, I had to add a piece of paper between two doors that I stamped and sandwiched so they could fold open easier.  The doors are only connected at a small section rather than all the way to the tip part.  You can see this easily in the pic below.  I cut my aperture then embossed the rest of the piece with the Creative Expressions bark embossing folder.  I inked it with Tea Dye distress ink.  I stamped the heart with the flower in it to go behind my doors and coloured it with Distress markers.  On the heart cut out, I stamped the heart door using a coffee archival and inked it with tea dye also.  I cut, stamped and assembled several of the Vintage  Floret flowers for my card and inked them with Victorian Velvet.  By the way, since the Vintage Florets sold out so quickly, they are going to let me bring them back for shows in June that I will be doing, they are gorgeous, aren't they!  I cut several of the swirls from the Bella Rose set, inked the leaves and used them as accents on the top and bottom around my heart.  I cut one of the small lattice hearts from the Timeless Amour set and tucked it behind a flower.  I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with a small Labels 18 and inked it Victorian Velvet and added it to the bottom of my card with a piece of cream tulle.  I pierced the edges and added flatback pearls to the flower centres.  Finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x 8" in size.

Now for my second blog candy drawing this week!  Wow that has never happened!  It definitely has to be a record on that one.  The THIRD place prize goes to..................................................
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Dawn Searle!!!

The SECOND place prize goes to........................
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Barbara Allcard!!!

And finally, the GRAND FIRST place prize goes to..........................
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Debby Berry!!!

Congratulations to all!  Please email me at americansue1@gmail.com to confirm your address and claim your prize!  We will draw our next big candy when we reach our new goal of 4200 followers!  thanks for all your support!  All for now, Sue x