Pseudo Valentine's Day card

With Valentine's Day fast approaching I thought I should get into the groove and not forget about it this year like last year. Oops! I decided to start stretching my romantic muscles, they don't get used too much and do need stretching. The problem is that I ask my husband a lot of questions when I'm crafting such as "how does this look" and "do you think these colours look good together" so it is going to take me some time to make a card worthy of him without him knowing about it. So this is one of my warm-up cards.

For this card I borrowed the Eastern Influences set from a friend and then coloured in the flower with blender pens and Real Red ink along with Kiwi Kiss, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip. I stamped the background in Belle Toile (also borrowed) in Rose Red. I matted the flower and greeting (from the Best Yet hostess set - retiring soon) on Rose Red as well and black. I finally used my scallop border punch for the edge and put it all on Rose Red. The brads are vintage gold I believe and they are from a craft store.

I love the way I coloured in Real Red but it looks find with the Rose Red paper. I am finding it really easy to fake having the matching colours and since there are, like, 6 shades of pink and red it is satisfying knowing I don't need to have then all to make some pretty cards.