Altered Playing Card Challenge - Week 20 and Give-a-way

Welcome back to the blog and the Altered Playing Card Challenge - There is a drawing this week so stay with me to see what you can win and to enter

I am so excited to see more people joining in on this challenge, I hope everyone is enjoying the challenge

We are on week 20 and card #38 and 39 of our 52 card deck

unbelievable how quickly these weeks are going by.

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Since we have Valentine's Day coming up I figured I would dedicate this week to "Hearts/Love"

I am still playing with that box of DecoArt products that I received so I am using some of those for my backgrounds this week

I got these DecoArt Misters and I used those to create both of my background this week, they are simply paints in a spray bottle

For this yellow backed card I first sprayed the yellow over the entire background and then for the red portion, I spritzed the bottle lightly (without pushing the sprayer all the way down and pushing the sprayer slowly) to create splatters
You can create splatters by using a paintbrush also, just dip your paintbrush into your paint and tap your brush over your project to create splatters

Next I used some patterned papers that my friend, Tanager  sent to me,  she created these herself

For this first one, I used a stamp by Roc Nicholas called Flying Heart I heat embossed the heart and then cut it out

I then used the media paints to color in the little heart 

I did have to cut off the wings and position them differently so they would fit on my card but it all worked out

I used this stamp by Janet Klein and archival ink to create a border

I cut out the word "forever" from a Sizzix Tim Holtz die

Once everything was done my card came out like this

(I colored in some of my ribbon border with white gel pen)

For the next card I used this background paper, also created by my friend Tanager

I used a black sharpie marker to draw my own hearts and then cut them out

I also used that plain black washi tape that I found at JoAnns in the clearance section

I glued my hearts on first

 and then tore the washi tape and added it onto my card, I then wrote my words onto my washi tape with white gelli pen

I added little dots around the edges with my black Enamel Accents

Here is my finished 2nd card

And here are both cards together -

I hope you like this week's cards, they aren't your traditional "love/heart" cards but I kinda like that

Next week we will be using clear embossing paste, I think clear is tough to figure out and a lot of people ask me how to use it

Well tune in next week for a fun way to use your clear embossing pastes 

We are having a drawing this week -

In order to win you must be following along with the Altered Playing Card Challenge and creating your own set 

Here is the prize pack you can win

Maya Road Kraft Window Envelopes

Tim Holtz Rubs

Self Adhesive Gems 

Artist Trading Card stamping paper

Jillibean wooden buttons

Just leave a comment to be entered to win and I will randomly select a winner that will be announced in next week's post

Good Luck!!