Best Wishes

 Hi bloggers!  This card is unique to me for a couple of reasons.  Firstly, I can actually recall the last time I made a card with this shade of hot pink.  It was the very first set of shows I did to launch the Grand Calibur which was Dec. 2010!  So when I say, I don't use it often, I mean it, but I had this card in my head and I only saw it in black, white and hot pink with a touch of silver so it just had to be made! LOL  I also cannot see this card without recalling a particular incident relating to it.  Julia and I were asked to do a POTW with the new D-Lites that was rather last minute.  In fact, we didn't even have all the dies and only about a week to make all new samples for the shows.  This Love Locket die was the last to be sent and it arrived in the post to me the day before the shows started!  I recall this morning vividly as the postman needed me to sign for the parcel around 8am.  I was still putting my face on in fact (poor guy!).  I accepted the delivery and went back upstairs to finish my make up before starting in on the samples with it.  I could not find the die anywhere when I was ready to get started!  I had just opened the package to look at it and set it aside and it was gone, poof!  I spent about three hours looking, no searching, for it.   I had bald spots from pulling my hair out I was so frantic!  Yes, went through the rubbish bin (3x's in fact!).  I decided to work on something else and thought it would turn up along the way.  About an hour in, I was mentally going over the places it could have been when I hit on something and sure enough, I checked and there was the die.... in my make up bag!  I had gathered it up with my powder, mascara and lipstick and flung it in the bag!  Felt pretty ridiculous, I might add!  I ended up making a couple of samples that day with it and this was one of them.  I started by watermarking the background of my hot pink card using one of the Beaded Element stamps and a Clear Perfect Medium pad.  I stamped it randomly around the edges for interest.  Next I cut the Elegant Labels Four out of the middle so I would have an aperture.  I cleaned my die and used it again for the same shape but this time in black and I used the heart from the Vines of Passion D-Lite in the centre of it.  I stamped my sentiment on coconut white card and glued the black die cut so it was centred over it showing my sentiment through the heart.  I added 3D mounting foam to my pink aperture and added it in alignment so the die cut appeared to be sunken.  I made three small ribbon flowers by melting small pieces of the black silky crush ribbon and adding flatback pearls to them before adding them in the upper corner of my heart.  I cut the (now found) Love Locket die set in silver and added it to the bottom of my aperture.  I matted the card with a white and silver mat before adding my double black mat with the pierced inner layer to complete my card.  I must say I was chuffed with the results even if the process did included a bit of a wild goose hunt!  Finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x