Viva La Verve Week 1

I finally got a chance to play along with Verve's weekly challenge.  I'd wanted to play along last year, but somehow never got around to it.  Each week a new sketch is uploaded onto their Splitcoast Stamper's forum.  Here's the thread for week one.  And, here's what I came up with:

The background is made with several different grey and pink patterned papers edged with tea dye distress ink.  A brown ribbon loop behind my stamped image helps the image to pop a bit more.  Since Valentine's Day is around the corner, I decided to challenge myself to create Valentine's themed cards along with the sketches.

Stop by tomorrow for the next challenge card!  See ya later alligators!