I decided to indulge my love of order and symmetry (somewhat) with today’s card. I have to fight myself quite a lot to stop myself making everything centred and symmetrical since I know it just doesn’t look as good. But it’s hard!

So this is a 4 inch square of whisper white paper with a 4.25″ square black mat and a 4.5″ square (well 4.5 by 9 to be technical) card base of real red. I had sort of planned this in my mind and then found that I don’t actually have any single heart stamps. Oops. But I do have the sweetheart punch so I punched out a number from a sheet of Back to Black DSP and one from real red card. I was originally going to have five hearts but it was too much and cut it back to three. Although my sense of order wanted the red heart in the middle, it was too predictable. I used my beloved metal rulers to get the heart bang in the centre of the card (one of those times when it’s really handy to have multiples) and then it was much easier to get the other two in the right places.

The change in direction on this card means that I have more hearts punched out and also a nice strip of DSP which might work for a negative heart kind of card. I seem to acquire oddments that “could” work on another card faster than I produce single cards! I assume (or rather hope) that I’m not alone in this!