Love You to Pieces - A Valentine Card

This weeks challenge over at Heart 2 Heart  is to use a stamp you haven't used before or at least in a long time.  I've got several of those.  (!)  I've been wanting to make a Valentine card so I thumbed through my stamps looking for one that would work.  I don't use many of my Valentine stamps.  I pulled out my Feburary Word Puzzle stamp set. Remember those? I LOVED those word puzzle stamps!  There was a Word Puzzle stamp for every month.  I bought each month before they retired. I've got several months I've never used but keeping thinking someday I'll use them. So I'll probably always keep these stamps in my stash.  My February Word puzzle had hardly been used at all.   So this one will qualify for H2H.  

Since I seemed to be in a 'retired' mode, I decided to use my retired Sweetheart paper.   This paper was in the 2011 Spring Summer Idea book.  I used the sketch from Mojo Monday to create my card.

My scallop circles were cut with the Art Philosophy cartridge - <Circle3> at 2 3/4" and 2 1/4".  I cut the white centers at 2 1/4" and 1 3/4" using the <Circle1> setting.   I also used the AP cartridge to cut my black edge underneath my sentiment.  I used the <Retangle8> setting at 1 3/4" and then trimmed off 3/4" of the long edge to attach to my white cardstock piece.

The hearts are stamped in Cotton Candy and Tulip inks.   I added a some Pink & Red Sparkles.  

Here is the Mojo Monday sketch:

I haven't used this Sweetheart paper in a while.  I forgot how much I liked it.  Maybe I'll make a few more Valentine cards with it!

Today is an exciting day for me.  I've got a box full of exciting new products from the 2012 Spring Summer Idea Book coming.   I'll have tons of new things to play with!  Can't wait to share!

Happy Wednesday Everyone!