Totally twitterpated

Goooood morning!

It's Sunday again and you know what that means... time for another fantastic Cupcake Inspired Challenge! :)
This week the colors of the inspiration photo totally set the tone for the type of card I created, especially when the My Mind's Eye Be Loved papers that Rachel sent were a perfect match. Well technically what I used are the backs or "B-sides" of the papers but that's why I love double sided paper... you get twice the options (and sometimes the B-sides are even cuter in my opinion...). ;)
Anywho... with the soft peaches and cream look I knew I wanted to do another Valentine's card and I also knew just who I wanted to bring back out of the retirement folder in time for the big day. Some of you may remember Miles and Maisy from my Sprout week back in September. I still love the idea of a 'couple' image so these two are strolling back on the scene for one more day in the spotlight. Awwwww, young love...
And of course I just had to add my 'go-to' embellishments... pearls and flowers into the mix. This time I had some yummy felt flowers (again from Rachel) as well as my trusty Primas. I even used the teeny tiny pearls again to add little earrings to Maisy... cuteness!

Oh, and I've gotten quite a few comments on how I add pearl and flower sprays. Now I don't know any real tricks to it but one thing I'm always mindful of is keeping whatever I'm using to an odd number. It's an old design trick that applies to multiple applications but holds true for card and page embellishing too. Our eyes just naturally find odd numbers more pleasing and more interesting to look at that even numbers of things. Strange but true. So the next time you are adding bits and baubles to your card remember, if four is good, five is better... sadly the same rule does not apply to cookies though... ;)

Alrighty, have a lovely day and be sure to check out what the rest of the sweeties have created:

~Colleen, ~Michelle, ~Rachel, ~Teresa

and I hope to see you play along this week too!

Supply list:

cardstock- Cardstock Warehouse, PTI

paper- My Mind's Eye (Be Loved)

stamp- Basic Grey (LE set 4 sentiment)

ink- Memento rich cocoa, Tim Holtz antique linen distress ink and Colorbox chestnut roan chalk ink

Zva felt flowers and pearls

Prima Got Flowers

Kaiser Craft pearls

Martha Stewart rings corner and edge punch set

Copic multiliner 0.1 pen

Copic markers:

Miles skin- E00, E11, R20

hair- Y32, Y23, Y35, YR21, YR23

clothes- E74, E77, E79, E30, E31, W5, W7, W9

Maisy skin- E00, E11, R20, R02, W5

hair- E55, E57, E59, E49

clothes- YR000, YR00, YR01, R02, E30, E31, E44, E47, E49

sky- BG0000, BG000

ground- W00, W1