This Country Floral Lane Punched Red Hearts Valentine uses a little bit of several things for this card in the Country Floral Lane Suite in the Spring Mini Catalog 2023. (As I write this, this Suite is back-ordered until mid-April because the Country Bouquet Punch unfortunately is unavailable until then, as well as the Bundle. The ribbon combo will be available in about three weeks. But other items are available individually.)
This card has a Sweet Sorbet card base with a Basic White layer. Just add some designer paper and a little stamping and you have a Valentine! Each side of the Basic White layer has a 1/2″ x 5 1/4″ strip of the Country Gingham 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper.
In the middle of the card, I punched five hearts from the cute print with little white hearts in the Country Floral Lane Designer Series Paper. Since these modern hearts have a slight curve to them, if you want some hearts to curve in the opposite direction, just punch from the other side of the paper! With this paper, pay attention to the pattern so you don’t get the hearts upside down! Just play around with how you like the hearts placed.
Next, I did a little stamping. The center white heart is punched out and then stamped (or you can do it the opposite way!) with a greeting in the Country Bouquet Stamp Set. You can punch out the heart itself first or stamp the heart outline and even the greeting inside it and then punch it out. I wish there was a larger heart for layering, but there isn’t so I just punched out a Sweet Sorbet cardstock heart and let it peek out over the top of the white heart. It adds a little something but nobody would notice the entire heart isn’t layered underneath. The white heart is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
For some risky stamping (could have messed up the whole card!), I stamped the little outlines of two hearts around in some of the empty spaces on the card using Sweet Sorbet ink. Fortunately, it all worked out! No messes! For a little bling, I added some Rhinestone Basic Jewels.
I forgot to take a photo, but on the inside of the card, I stamped “Happy Valentine’s Day” on a layer of Basic White and then punched out two hearts – one with the gingham like on the side of the front of the card and one with the tiny white hearts like the hearts on the front of the card and just layered them side by side on the lower right-hand corner. That makes the inside very cute!
Time to make Valentines! February is almost here! Not everything has to be red, white, or pink so use your creativity!
