Pink and White Punched Hearts Card

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.

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Products used:

• Frantic Stamper Dies
• Dazzling Diamond Border
• Martha Stewart Punch Enchanted
• Anna Griffin Papers

Victorian Birthday Greetings

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog!  I share all kinds of projects here and how to make them, techniques and so on.  I really love cards so I make a lot of them.  If you are interested in another type of project, let me know and I;ll see what I can do for you!

My card today is one that I made for my sister's birthday.  It turned out so nice!  I used an oval die from Paper Wishes (oval doily) and its so pretty! I cut the doily out of grey suede paper believe it or not!  I thought I had gone a little crazy BUT when it came out it was really nice.  I chose grey because I was looking for a more Victorian antiquey look.  I used an ivory card stock for my card base.

There have been some new dies that have come on the market which die cut bows. The gold one I used on my card is one of them. Although I like it very much, it doesnt really replace a real ribbon bow.

As you can see from the inside of my card, I did cut a window oval in the front so that the inside could show through (this die I used includes a shadow die which is so cool.).  I used Anna Griffin papers to cover the inside and a cute Victorian postcard greeting.

Hope you enjoyed my little card!

Lis