When a heart isn't a heart

Last month the Twofer Challenge gave us Feathers as a theme.  The challenge?  Make two cards using them in different ways.  Well this month we have Hearts.  Appropriate, I guess, since February is the big, filled-with-hearts-and-love month, right?  What really threw me for a loop was the fact that I don't seem to have much in the way of hearts.  And then I noticed the Lift Me Up stamp set and coordinating Up & Away Thinlits had the perfect heart.  Like they say, one is enough.

For my first card I decided to heat emboss the heart onto Sweet Sugarplum cardstock using white embossing powder.  I did that twice.  Then I cut both hearts out using the matching thinlit and put them aside while I created the rest of the card.  I began with a base of Heavy Whisper White, a layer of Sweet Sugarplum, and then another layer of Whisper White onto which I did my stamping and also attached my hearts.  For my stamping I mixed and matched a number of sets including the Lift Me Up set, High Tide set and You've Got This set.  Along with the White, my colours are Sweet Sugarplum, Pool Party, Black and Smoky Slate. 

For the second card I took a scrap of Whisper White and three colours of Distress Oxide inks, the Fossilized Amber, Worn Lipstick and Wilted Violet and proceeded to smoosh, spray, dry, and repeat again and again until I had a combination that appealed to me.  Then I cut out four hearts using the Up & Away heart thinlit and put them aside.  I used Heavy Whisper White for my base again but kept it simple this time.  Using a rounded stitched rectangle, I cut a piece of Whisper White and then heat embossed the sentiment from the Butterfly Basics sets onto it using Copper embossing powder.  Then I took the small body from the Watercolour Wings set as well as the antennae from the same set and stamped those onto the base as well as onto the smaller heat embossed piece.  After attaching the rounded rectangle onto the base using Dimensionals, I used small Dimensionals to attach a heart to each side of both bodies, creating two pretty butterflies.

As required by the Twofer rules, this is both cards photographed together.

My cards are, of course being entered into the Twofer Challenge. 

Card number one is also being entered into the 

{PIN}spirational Challenge #209

Crafty Cardmakers #205 - Love and Romance

Card number two is being entered into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More #279 - CAS

CAS Watercolour February Challenge - Hearts

CAS on Friday Challenge #126 - Dies

HLS February Anything Goes With Dies Challenge