Handmade Valentines Day Card

Brown and pink color themed handmade Valentines Day card was inspired by chocolates and candies, isn't that sweet? This project uses fine detailed trimming of patterns from the pattern paper you use, so selecting a good pattern paper that allows you to individually cut the design is important.

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Cherry Cordial Praline You

Dimension

Card measures 10cm X 15cm.

Materials

For the card

1 brown cardstock for the cardbase.

1 matching striped pattern paper. I use Basic Grey Praline pattern paper for this piece.

1 matching floral and flourish pattern paper. I use Basic Grey Cherry Cordial pattern paper for this piece.

1 pink cardstock.

Other tools,

Foam tape/Glue/Glue Dots.

Penny Black 3301H sentiment stamp (shown below).

Watermark ink.

Ranger Puff embossing powder (shown below).

Heat Gun.

Non stick craft scissors by EK Success Honey Bee (shown below).

This stamp is a 2005 production but still readily available in several online merchants. To do a quick search and price comparison, type "Penny Black 3301H" in the google search section and click "SEARCH".

To look for puff embossing powder, you can do a search for "ranger brown puff embossing powder" and click "SEARCH". Ranger products is of very good quality and I would normally pay around US$4.00 range (just a price guide).

Instructions

Cut pink cardstock approximately 7cm X 7cm.

Stamp "There is You" sentiment using watermark and emboss with Brown Puff on the pink cardstock.

Layer pink cardstock over brown cardstock, leaving approximately 0.2cm border round it.

Cut the striped pattern paper 13cm X 7cm. Paste on the brown card base.

Cut out various designs and shapes from pattern paper.

Use these shapes cutout and decorate round the sentiment tag as shown in the picture or according to your preference.

Paste the sentiment tag on the striped pattern paper using foam tape to give an added dimension.

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