Time Out Challenge #229 – We challenge you to be … Romantic!

I am thrilled to share my first card as a member of the Time Out design team!  This fortnight, we challenge you to be Romantic - a timely challenge with Valentine's Day only a few weeks away!

Romantic made me think of Chocolate but then a lot things in life make me think of chocolate!!!  I also thought of roses and found this scrap of rose-patterned paper to make up a pretty block of chocolate!

To make this low calorie treat, I punched 12 small squares and stamped them with little heart motifs.  I then mounted them with foam tape onto another piece of card stock so that there was a small but consistent gap between the squares.  I then trimmed this piece so that there was a slight border around the edges.  I took a small piece of kitchen foil - long enough to cover about 2/3 of the block and wide enough to wrap around to the back!  I tore the upper width at an angle and wrapped it around the bottom three sides of the block.  I then took the scrap of rose patterned paper, tore one long edge at an angle and wrapped it around the block, leaving a sliver of the torn foil showing at the top and a small border of foil at the bottom - the way chocolate blocks used to be wrapped!

I added a lace doily, some hearts and this rather fitting sentiment from Verve … what could be more romantic?

What does romantic mean to you?  We'd love to see your romantic creations in the gallery so why not take some TIME OUT and join us?  All the challenge details along with the prize info (yes there's a prize) and loads of inspiration from my wonderfully talented team mates can be found HERE.  

I'd like to enter my card in Cardz4Galz Challenge #189 which is actually choose your favourite challenge of theirs from 2022.  I chose Cardz4Galz Challenge #172 which is Food and/or Drink!  

I also found another brilliant challenge at Shopping Our Stash Challenge #487 - Pyjama Day!  The striped background paper and co-ordinating rose paper, reminded me of a favourite pair of pyjamas I had many (many) years ago - long since gone I'm afraid so I can't furnish a photo!

I'd also like to enter Challenge #444 at the Snippets Playground where the theme is Anything BUT Christmas!  The chocolate and die cut sentiment were all cut from snippets left over after cutting card bases.  The roses paper was a snippet left over from a previous project.    Thank you Di and Sarn for all your wonderful inspiration over the year - "waste not, want not" as my mother was ever so fond of telling me!

Thanks for stopping by - your visits and comments always brighten my day!

Kate