Across the Miles

Today I have a rather unusual Valentine's Day card. I mean really, how often do you see black and orange highlighted as Valentine's Day colors?  It was created because a friend's granddaughter's classroom was trying to collect Valentines from all 50 states.  I live in Idaho, so chose to showcase the state insect - the monarch butterfly (hence the orange and black).  

For the card front (above), I took a blue background with small hearts on it (Adoreable Scoreable card stock from Hunkydory) and wrapped it near the top with orange and black ribbons from my stash to create the border.  I taped the edges in the back before gluing the background in place.  Then I matted the white heart-shaped doily with a peachy paper from my stash, before adding it.  Three fussy cut butterflies from my stash complete the focal.  The sentiment, which was stamped using a stamp from Crafter's Companion Compendium (CCC's Love and Hugs), was stamped in orange on white card stock, edges inked with orange, then matted on black.

Inside:

Inside I used more of the blue & an extra fussy cut butterfly for the border on the right.  On the left I fussy cut a map of Idaho, then put a dimensional butterfly sticker (from the Dollar Store) in the middle of it.

Hopefully her class will enjoy the Valentine and learn something about Idaho in the process.