Valentine’s Day is coming up soon and if you have this ephemera pack, you can make this Celebrate Love Valentine Card very easily! And then you can make the same card but change the greeting and have a card for another occasion.
For this card, I used the Celebrate Love Mix & Match Ephemera Pack. These ephemera packs are so handy for just punching out some diecuts and making a card with no stamping. Of course, you can add stamping and anything else you want, but if you are looking for super quick and easy, usually any of the ephemera pack Stampin’ Up! has been offering for awhile really offer the solution. You will find this Celebrate Love Ephemera Pack in the Spring Mini (January-April 2025 Mini).
This card begins with a card base of Soft Sea Foam Cardstock with a layer of Pool Party cardstock cut at 4 1/2″ x 3 1/4″. You could make the layer 5 1/4″ x 4″ as we normally do. To the Pool Party center piece, I simply adhered the ephemera pieces using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
I began with the white crisscross piece which to me looked like it could be a flower box or a cute little fence. Before glueing it down, I placed the flower diecuts where I wanted them so they “fit” into the flower box and just applied a little bit of glue at the top of those flowers so I could be sure they were where I wanted them to be. Then I went back and added more glue to the base of the flowers on the back to hold them securely. Adding glue to the flower box requires teeny tiny dots of glue in as many places as you can put it with a very light hand.
Above the flowers I added one of the hearts in the ephemera pack. This heart could be popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals but I adhered it flat. Then I added a “Happy Valentine’s Day” banner in the Celebrate Love Ephemera Pack right across the heart. If you like you can add some gems or jewels for embellishments. I used the Heart Sequins which are unavailable right now but hopefully will be back in stock. You can use hearts any time for embellishments so even though Valentine’s Day will be past when they are available again, you can still order them if you like and use them on lots of kinds of cards and projects.
Now for an alternative card made the same way but with a different greeting. You could use this same card for a birthday, thinking of you, celebrate, congratulations, miss you, and lots more.
You can see this card is the same but I used a different greeting. I could have stamped any kind of greeting but I chose one in the Celebrate Love Ephemera Pack. This greeting is printed on one of the labels in the ephemera pack, but the size was too large for the heart. I simply cut around the words to make it smaller and it fit perfectly on the heart!
Here is another card on which I used pieces from this same ephemera pack.
I’m having fun using these new ephemera packs. The first ones were in the Holiday Mini Catalog and now we have more in the Spring Mini. They make a card easy to design and still pretty! Sometimes simple cards are the best. Check out all the ephemera packs in the Spring Mini on page 13.
