I haven’t done any challenges in a few weeks since I was in Spain without my carding supplies. So today I’ve created a card for this week’s Pals Paper Arts challenge and their colour inspiration.

It’s screaming for a Valentine’s card and for once, instead of being a rebel, I went for it. I’d been wanting to use my Stampin’ Up! Hearts border punch and this seemed the ideal time.

The pink pirouette is about 2 inches deep and I used the border punch for the top edge. I’d been expecting that it would punch the bottom edge and had a couple of cards designed with it but it looks as if I’ll have to redesign them! The sentiment is from the newly retired Good Greetings (hopefully most people snapped it up before its retirement, it’s a very useful set) and is stamped in rose red. I cut a 1/4 inch wide strip of basic grey and adhered that below the pink pirouette. I initially intended on adding another strip at the top, but it was too much. The base is rose red. Due to my dislike of grey, I would never have selected these colours but I actually like the grey with the rose red. That isn’t to say that there will be lots of grey and pink cards in the near future, but there may be one. Or two!