This year's Valentine's Day card for my DH. It is as close as I come to an exact CASE, from Pg 70 of Paper Crafts' special edition, Card Creations: Start to Finish. This card is standard invite size (4.25"x5.5")
I started out by punching out a folk heart by Whale of a Punch from scrap paper to determine the size of my middle row of rectangles. Basically I set the heart on my card front, eyeballed how much area I wanted to frame it, then measured the remaining width and height of the card and divided those numbers by two to get the dimensions for the rectangles.
I used the DCWV Love cardmaking kit (same as for every other card for my DH in my gallery). The pink rectangles in the middles of the rows is textured CS, and the corners are pp. In the magazine layout, they adhered the pp onto the card front, but I liked the look of it all better after I DTPd with Fired Brick onto the pp, and with Tattered Rose onto the pink textured cs. To soften the contrast of the patterns (especially in the pink cs) I sponged with Tattered Rose and it made a HUGE difference. Once I cut, DTPd, and sponged all my rectangles, I adhered them onto my card base and cut the rectangle opening using a utility knife.
For the inside, I cut a strip of one of the PPs I used on the front so it would go across the width of the card. I wish I had cut the strip a little taller than the rectangle window, as it was a little tricky to adhere down the strip on the inside so it lined up with the window. Then I punched a primitive heart out of one of the PPs from the kit, covered it in Versamark, then brushed on some rose-coloured Perfect Pearls. I almost chose gold, but now am glad I didn't because the heart would have been harder to see on the yellow paper! Once the heart was made, I closed the card and adhered the heart centred within the window. Opened the card again, handwrote "I" and "you" on either side of the heart, and awaayyy we go!
This card looks waaaayyy better in real life! I highly recommend trying out this card on your own -- great way to use up scraps, and then you can see how cool it looks for yourself.
Thanks for looking!
Date: Friday, January 19, 2007 GMT Views: 545
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