Hello, and welcome to my blog! I have a Valentine to share today. I hope you will love it as much as I loved making it. It's a very traditional looking Valentine - lots of hearts - lots of red, pink & white. I have to admit I'm partial to all the reds, pinks, hearts & flowers and the scalloped-edged heart. What about you?
What made this especially fun to make was the background piece, stamped with rows - or I should say, columns - of hearts, alternating red & pink hearts, as well as alternating the direction of the red & pink rows. Was it hard to stamp this? Not when you have a wonderful tool called the Stamparatus! To shop all the products used, see the list HERE.
The column of hearts is a single photopolymer stamp in the Lots of Heart stamp set. This is how I got the look:
Starting with a piece of Basic White CS, cut 4 7/8"x 3 1/2", I placed it into the Stamparatus base. I positioned the stamp, then closed the Stamparatus & picked up the stamp - it will adhere itself to the inside, top plate of the Stamparatus. I inked the stamp with Real Red Ink, then closed the Stamparatus down onto the paper & stamped the image. Keeping the card stock in the same place throughout the stamping process, I continued to stamp all the rows. I moved the Stamparatus plate down to the next notch (it snaps out, then snaps back in, allowing repositioning of the stamp, without taking the stamp off the plate); I inked the stamp again, & stamped the next row of red hearts. I continued inking, stamping, and moving the plated until all rows of red hearts were done. Then I cleaned the stamp, repositioned it onto the card, reversing the image to have the hearts going in the opposite direction. I used Flirty Flamengo ink, and proceeded as I had with the red hearts.
The other elements on the card were made like this:
- Using Real Red ink, I stamped the checked heart from Lots of Heart stamp set onto white card stock. I used the Many Hearts Dies to cut it out.
- I used the same set of dies to cut out the scalloped heart from Flirty Flamengo card stock .
- I stamped the trio-floral image four times in Memento Tuxedo black ink onto white CS, and also die cut them. Using Stampin' Blends (Real Red & Flirty Flamengo), I colored two sets in red flowers with pink leaves, and the other 2 sets just the reverse: pink flowers with red leaves.
- Using another set of dies, the Always Dies, I cut out "Love" from white card stock, and the background for LOVE from Real Red CS.
Then I assembled the card:
- Card base: Real Red CS, 11" x 4 1/4", fold at 5 1/2".
- Layer of Flirty Flamengo CS, 5" x 3 7/8". Glue this layer to the card base.
- Glue the piece with all the columns of hearts on top of the card front.
- Assemble the larger hearts & the "Love" cut-out:
- Glue the checked heart to the Flirty Flamengo heart.
- Glue the white "Love" to the red Love background. Then glue this to the top of the checked heart.
- Glue this focal piece, the hearts + Love onto the card front.
- Use Stampin' Dimensionals to adhere the 4 floral pieces to each corner, having the ones with red flowers in diagonal corners, and the one with pink flowers in the other diagonal corners (see picture).
There you have it! Let me know what you think.
To see the list of products used, and to purchase those supplies you need, click HERE.
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Happy Crafting!!
Be safe, stay well, take care, Julie. 💟
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