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Marbled Elegance Pierced Heart Valentine

Marbled Elegance Pierced Heart Valentine

It’s finally here! Do you have a special Valentine’s Day planned? Does it remind you of when you were in elementary school and had a party at school where everyone exchanged valentines? I think we either made our own valentines with construction paper, paste or Elmer’s glue, and doilies or we bought a box of valentines with envelopes that we would just sign on the back to give out to classmates. Then we also had a decorated shoe bag or lunch sack at our desk and everyone would scurry around delivering valentines! Even when my kids were in school I remember getting to meet other moms in their classes to help with the Valentine party.

I don’t think I posted this card before but I made a lot of them to send. The card base is Melon Mambo cardstock. Then I have a layer of Marbled Elegance Speciality Designer Series Paper layered on a piece of Gold Foil. The pierced heart in the center is diecut with the die in the Hearts of Elegance Dies.

The greeting is stamped with Melon Mambo ink on Basic White cardstock. This is in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set. The banner shape was then cut out with one of the Stylish Shapes Dies. To add a little bling, I added some gold gems. You can use whatever you have. Lots of embellishments would look very pretty!

Hearts For a Valentine’s Day Card

This Hearts For a Valentine’s Day Card has to be one of the quickest and easiest cards I’ve ever made with no idea of what I was going to make! I know that sounds crazy, but yes, I didn’t know what I was going to make until I got out the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper and looked at the Hearts of Elegance Dies. Since I hadn’t tried all the dies yet, I just chose one. Then after diecutting with that, I chose another heart shape, and another one, and another one. Pretty quickly I had this card made!

The card base is Melon Mambo cardstock. There are several coordinating colors listed for these designer papers, but I mostly keep coming back to Melon Mambo….or Real Red on some cards I made. First I chose the second largest heart die, the one with the pierced border around the edge. I used a piece of the Marbled Elegance Paper, thinking at first I would use “the other side” and not the marbled size. Luckily, in my package I already had a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece cut and luckily, I centered the heart die on this paper. After I cut it out it looked like the best idea was the adhere the negative piece to the card base with the marbled side up. I thought it was so pretty with that heart opening in the center. I didn’t even use the heart I had just cut out, but I saved it for another card another time.

Next I cut out another smaller heart from another piece of the marbled paper and placed it in the center of the open heart space. It needed something, so I cut out a larger heart from Gold Foil. Then for one more heart, I diecut a small gold heart with the decorative edge to place in the center. As you can see, once the hearts were all stacked on top of each other they looked so pretty!

I already had this greeting stamped and cut out in my scraps so I just adhered that flat in the corner of the card. For a moment, I thought about using the banner in the Mixed Labels Stamp Set to go across the hearts, but I liked the greeting I already had so I kept it simple and just used that. If you are trying to make a quick card, don’t overthink everything.

You could pop up some of the hearts or the negative piece on the card base. You could add some embellishments for a little sparkle. Or you can just leave it simple as is because the Marbled Elegance Designer Paper is so pretty on its own! It’s named Marbled Elegance for a reason!

You’ll find these supplies in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!

Don’t forget…Sale-A-Bration is going on! Try to have a total of $60 or more on your order before tax and shipping or with $120 order you can choose from a couple of special Bundles or get TWO $60 Level products for FREE!

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Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card

Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card

Here’s a fun Valentine to make! I used the book fold design which is easy to do and just gives a little different look to your card. You can make this Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card with this design and decorate it for any occasion.

To make the book fold card, cut a piece of cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″. Score at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″. Basically, you are cutting a sheet of cardstock in half vertically, scoring in half at 5 1/2″ and adding an extra score line at 4 1/4″. That’s the line that makes this a book fold card. Before adhering that book fold together you can choose to wrap some ribbon around the inside to tie on the front or punch two holes in that side book fold for some ribbon and a bow.

The card base for this card is Real Red. I adhered a 1″ x 4″ strip of the Cherry Cobbler color in the Festive Glimmer Paper. Even though it is not Real Red, I think it looks fine on the card. Before glueing the book fold, I wrapped around a very long piece of Gold Twisted Thread twice and then tied a bow. After having the book fold how I wanted it I glued it together with Multipurpose Liquid Glue or you could use Stampin’ Seal.

The front of the card is decorated with a piece of the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper. It is cut at 4″ x 4″. You could make it smaller and add a layer underneath if you wanted. This designer paper has gold foil marbled designs on it which is what makes it extra-special and fancy to use on Valentines and other special cards.

To decorate the card, I diecut three hearts with pierced designs with the die in the Hearts of Elegance Dies. These hearts are Gold Foil, Real Red, and Petal Pink. Before I decided on these three hearts, I used some of the other heart dies to cut out extra hearts and the ones I didn’t use I just saved in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set case. As long as you are diecutting, go ahead and make some extras of general things, like hearts, that you can use any time!

Here’s a tip for diecutting gold foil without leaving marks on the foil from your very used cutting pad! Place the dies on the cardstock you are cutting, then place a scrap piece of computer printer paper over the whole piece of gold foil. Run it through the Cut & Emboss Machine and the paper will protect the gold foil from looking scratched up!

For the greeting I stamped the “Love You” sentiment on Basic White cardstock in Real Red ink, but I chose to cut out around the word “Love” and also trim the word “you” just into a rectangle. It’s plenty easy to trim around a word or phrase like this for a different look to your sentiment just by taking your time, cutting outside the inked lines for the word and don’t go into every nook and cranny of the stamped word! Just use Paper Snips or some other sharp small scissors that allow you to twist and turn the paper to reach the areas you want to cut.

Everything is glued down flat, but you could pop up the sentiment or one or more hearts if you wanted to. For some extra embellishment, I added three Petal Pink dots in the Low Profile Dots. These are great because they do not stick up on the card barely at all so they won’t poke holes in the envelope when you mail the card! On the inside, put a layer of Basic White, maybe trimmed with a piece of the designer paper or a stamped or diecut heart so you can stamp a message or write a personal note inside the card. Then mail your Valentine or special card to someone who will be happy to hear from you!

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Marbled Elegance Trio of Valentines

Marbled Elegance Trio of Valentines

If you want to make some easy Valentines, here is a design for you!! I think I could have made 100 of these! Well, maybe not, but I did make these Marbled Elegance Trio of Valentines! They were easy and fun and came to me right away! All you really have to do is get out the beautiful Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper and start cutting!

The card bases are just Basic White cardstock. If you have the Thick White cardstock it might be a good idea to use that or you could use Melon Mambo for a card base, then Basic White for a layer and the center design would just be a little bit smaller than these measurements.

The side of the designer paper could vary a little bit, but I cut mine at 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. Obviously I used one of the marbled patterns with the gold foil accent marbling. It doesn’t matter which one! I layered the designer paper on a piece of Melon Mambo cut at 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″.

Since there is plenty of space at the bottom of the card I simply stamped the greeting in that space right on the card. Now, it might be a good idea not to glue anything on the card until after you stamp the greeting in case it doesn’t come out well! But if you have everything glued down and the stamping isn’t perfect, just cut a label or banner or shape, stamp on that, then adhere over the boo-boo. On these cards I used Melon Mambo ink. All of these greetings are in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set.

I made each card a little bit different. On the first card, all I added was one gold foil die cut heart with one of the hearts in the Hearts of Elegance Dies. You can purchase the stamp set and dies together in the Hearts of Elegance Bundle and save 10%!

On the second card, I liked that middle heart cut out of the designer paper but it still needed something. I added two diecut Melon Mambo hearts on each side of the DSP heart. For a touch of embellishment, I simply tied a bow with the Gold Twisted Thread and adhered it to the center heart with a Mini Glue Dot just rolled up into a teeny tiny ball. This Gold Twisted Thread is part of the Marbled Elegance Suite or you can purchase it separately. The middle heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For the third card, I diecut the fancy heart with the pierced design in Gold Foil. I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. And for a little more pizzazz, I added three Gold Dots in the Low Profile Dots package.

With only the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper, some diecut hearts, and a greeting you can make a very pretty card….or even three!

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Heart Shaped Thank You Card

Heart Shaped Thank You Card

Here’s a new card for 2025 and one using a new product! This Heart Shaped Thank You Card is an easy one to make with just stamping and a little scissor-work! My diecutting products are still put out of the way for Christmas so I didn’t want to pull those things back out just to make a card at the time. So it was back to “just stamping” which often feels good to do, like back in the day when we didn’t have a die-cutting machine and dies and embossing folders. Keep it simple.

The card base is Real Red with a layer of Basic White just to set off the designer paper a little. The patterned paper is the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper which is in the Marbled Elegance Suite. This was a new Online Exclusive back in early November when most of us weren’t interested yet in something that would work for Valentine’s Day, not that it can only be used for Valentine’s Day as you can see, but we were into the Christmas holidays.

The stamp set I used is the Heart Shaped Stamp Set, a freebie in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure. It is actually part of a Bundle that you can get FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $120 purchase beginning January 7th. That is only days away now!! While mostly you get a single product with every $60 purchase during Sale-A-Bration, Stampin’ Up! always includes a couple of bundles or combination of products that you can earn free with a larger purchase. I really liked the stamp set since it CAN be used for Valentines but also lots of other occasions, even just to say “Hello”. The Sale-A-Bration Bundle also comes with a set of dies, but as I said, since my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine is put away right now, I only used the stamps.

I did copy a sample in the Sale-A-Bration brochure for this bundle but I used different designer paper in the background and I only stamped the heart, I didn’t use a diecut shape. That’s how you can use the samples in catalogs to get ideas but still put your own spin on it if you like. The heart is stamped with Garden Green ink on Basic White. The little flowers are stamped in Real Red and I just cut those out with my Paper Snips. A little tedious when I could have used a die but that’s what I wanted to do in the moment. The greeting is in the stamp set and is stamped in Real Red ink on a narrow scrap of paper that I still trimmed down to be very narrow and short with my Paper Trimmer. I flagged the ends of the greeting and popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The white banner piece is cut first at 2 3/4″ x 3 1/2″. Your measurements can vary. I just tried to get a size that didn’t take up too much space on the card, so it is basically the width of the wreath with a little margin on each side. At the bottom I put a tiny pencil mark at the center, which was about 1 3/8″ and maybe about 3/4″ down from each side. Then I just used a scissors to cut a diagonal from each side. Or after you cut one diagonal piece on one side you can flip it over and put it in the corner of the other side and use that as your cutting guide to get the same size. The whole banner is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals also.

While you could “fancy up” this card a little bit with some ribbon or gems, I opted to leave it simple. You wouldn’t even have to cut the banner shape at the bottom. Just cut a square or rectangular shape or use a diecut.

When January 7th arrives and Sale-A-Bration and the new January-April 2025 Spring MIni Catalog go live, if you spend at least $120 be sure to check out the Bundles you can choose on pages 12 and 14 of the Sale-a-Bration brochure. But you can also choose the individual products with each $60 purchase so for $120 you can choose two products rather than one bundle. Yes, the qualifying order did rise to $60 this year instead of $50 as in the past, but the past has been “forever” so maybe it was time to raise the dollar amount a little bit.

I hope you enjoyed this first card of the New Year. There will be lots more to come in 2025!