Ruffle Heart Valentine

In years past, I have made and sent Valentine's to my friends and family in the same way as we send Christmas Cards. I personally feel when you get a card from someone for Valentine's Day, it is remembered better. I am very excited to have discovered the Ruffled Heart, All Over the Page Punch, by Martha Stewart to use for my project this year. This unique punch has a magnetic back which allows you to punch anywhere on the page; hence the name. :)

Using this punch, along with a glitter technique involving packing tape, yes, that's right, packing tape, I was able to create these cute cards. This technique has you place a piece of tape behind your punched design, and then sprinkle glitter onto the tape. The glitter adheres to the tape, and voila, you have created a translucent glitter window; and how fun is that!


Basic ingredients for this card

Card stock cut to 8.5x5.5
Decorative paper cut to 4x5.25
Ruffle Heart Punch, Martha Stewart
Glitter
Adhesive
Embellishments of your choice


Step One

Line up your cardstock and decorative paper.

Step 2

Position your punch on the paper. Punch.

Hint. You are able to position the punch slightly after the magnets have adhered together, but they are quite strong, so it is best to have everything lined up as precisely as possible.

Step 3

Flip the decorative paper over and place a piece of packing tape over the punch.

Step 4

At this point you can begin to embellish some of your card or wait until you put the glitter on the tape.

Step 5

Sprinkle the glitter over the tape and remove the excess.

Step 7

Adhere your decorated, embellished paper to the cardstock

Step 8

For both cards, I stamped a message on to some cardstock to attach. I used the ink that I was stamping with to outline the cardstock to make it pop a little more.

Hint - It is much easier to outline your cardstock before you stamp on it. It is very easy to get ink fingerprints all over your stamped image.

Step 9

After the outline has dried, stamp your message and then adhere it to your card.

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For this card, the ingredients I used are:

Bazzil Basic Cardstock in Petunia

Making Memories 12x12 Je T'adore, French Dictionary

Classic Crest Natural Cardstock

American Crafts Mini Pewter Brads

Colorbox Pigment Stamp pad, Rosebud

Stampendous Stamp, With All My Heart

Stampendous Pearl Glitter, Rose

For this card, the ingredients I used are:

Bazzil Basics Cardstock in Petunia

Making Memories 12x12 Je T'adore, French Dictionary

Classic Crest Natural Cardstock

Kaiser Craft Silver Rhinestone Strip

Colorbox Pigment Stamp pad, Rosebud

Stampendous Stamp, With All My Heart

Stampendous Pearl Glitter, Rose

Happy Crafting,

Sandra