Love - Red with Gray Stripes

Today's anniversary challenge on the Papertrey Ink (PTI) blog is to make a card with die cuts and without any stamping.  I thought of a many-layered Valentine for my husband, with die-cut hearts and borders and lots of color.

Then I cut out my first piece, a red "love" word, and set it down on a gray-striped background.  Loved the simple impact of just that.  So I inlaid a striped heart and tied on some striped twine and called it done.  Sometimes super simple is very good! 

Card details:

• Card stock is PTI pure poppy (red).
• Patterned paper is the tiny stripes print from PTI pure poppy "+ white basics" patterned paper (retired) and the narrow stripes print from PTI soft stone (light gray) bitty big pattern pack.
• Red striped twine is by WeRMemoryKeepers.
• Die is PTI wonderful words: love.

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