Xtra love hearts

Welcome to another challenge over at the Alphabet challenge blog, and without further ado, we'd like to see hearts on your creations. As always, feel free to show us whatever technique and project you like, just make sure to follow our very seasonal challenge theme.

With  the warm temperatures outside, I decided to create some ice cream for you. Specifically, a popsicle made of white chocolate with a little touch of raspberry. For my project, I used a piece of patterned paper with loads of tiny hearts, which couldn't be more perfect for our challenge theme. To make it a focal point of my card, I made sure to keep the rest of my creation pretty simple: a white embossed background with swirls, a piece of red paper to frame the image, and a couple of shiny pearls for a bit of bling. 

But even though I thought I was done, I just couldn't help thinking that the card was missing something. As the popsicle didn't pop from the white background as expected, I decided to draw a thin red line along the patterned paper. The border between motif and background is now defined more clearly, but I'm not sure whether I like the result. I obviously can't use 3D adhesive pads to raise the popsicle as everything is already glued together, but I'd appreciate your ideas on any solutions that come to your mind. 

challenges: 

- krafty chicks: all occasions

- 613 avenue create: ATG with optional twist "love letters"
- a place to start: ATG with optional twist "mononchrome"

- as you like it: feminine or masculine (I like to create both types of projects, but I certainly make way more feminine things. While masculine creations usually present a challenge for me, meaning I have to focus on making it masculine, I like how I can set my fantasy free when I'm working on girly projects: flowers, pearls, gemstones, patterned papers, and all that jazz. I consider the CAS hearty popsicle to be a feminine project, too, but it's fun to think that it could be also suitable for a boy/men, showing that certain things like love for ice cream are universal and can not be attributed to one single gender.)

- CAS on Friday: male/boy

- classicdesignchallenge: ATG DT 

- crafty calendar: add a heart

- crafty catz: ATG
- crafty gals corner: add a heart

- creative inspirations: ATG with optional twist "for a loved one"

- cutie pie challengeblog: red

- do-all kreatives: ATG

- double D challenges: patterned paper

- everybody art: birthday

- friendship challenge: ATG

- lil patch of crafty friends: ATG handmade 

- make my monday: love

- morgans artworld: ATG
- moving along with the times: love hearts

- pearlysparkles: hearts
- pennys papertake: ATG paper
- scrapping4fun: ATG

- male room: Valentines/use a heart

- wortartwednesday: ATG
- worldwide crafters and colorists challenge: ATG