Pretty Spring Valentine
by Lis Whiting
This month;s challenge is a shape challenge! And the shape is a heart! I love making cards so I decided to make some 3-d embellishments in the shape of hearts for my card. The embellishments are very easy to make. Choose any heart shaped punch. Choose your paper and make four (4) punches with it. This technique works best if the right and left sides are about the same (lop-sided or unbalanced punch-outs will work but it will take a little but more fussiness to put them together). Take your four punches and put them one on top of the other in a pile. Fold them in half. You can fold vertically (which is most popular for hearts) but you CAN fold them horizontally or even diagonally if you want to. Experiment! Remember that the thicker your paper the more you want to fold carefully. The goal is to have all folded exactly the same.
- Now take the first two punches. Put glue stick on the back side of ONLY HALF of the one punch and match it to the same back side of the second punch. Glue together.
- Take the glued piece in your left hand, and place glue stick on the back of the second punch. Take the third punch and match the back of this to the second one. Glue together.
- Do the same for the third and fourth punch.
You should now have four punches glued together with half the back of punch one and four without glue. Lay these flat where you want them on your card and fan out. Add glue to the back and attache to card.
I also used a Frantic Stamper lattice die and die cut the edge or my card and laced some ribbons through it to finish.
Products used:
- Frantic Stamper Dies
- Martha Stewart Punch Enchanted
- Anna Griffin Papers
