With the Christmas holidays and children home for two weeks altogether, coming and going, I haven’t had time to play with my new pre-order products for the upcoming Spring Mini Catalog on January 7th! I almost don’t remember what I ordered, but I will catch up! One thing I noticed I had was this new ephemera pack so this was something great to use to make this Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card.
I got out the Celebrate Love Mix & Match Ephemera Pack and checked out what the coordinating colors were on the back of the pack. Pretty in Pink was one of the several colors so I started with that as a layer on a Basic White card base.
You see three precut heart images from the ephemera pack on my card, but that actually is just one in the pack. You can leave it that way or you can punch the pieces apart and use all or one or two of the hearts. There are also greetings in the pack. I loved the precut long flower image but wasn’t quite sure how to use it on my card. It took me a couple of minutes to somehow lay out the three individual hearts the way I did and then I felt like I was on my way to making a card I would like.
The long, curved flower stem was still a problem, but don’t be afraid to cut it apart as I did! That gave me two stems of flowers that were a size that fit my card better. I liked the way they looked just placed along the sides of the two hearts. I popped them up on Stampin’ Dimensionals when I was ready to adhere them to the card.
The third heart in the lower right of the card looked best placed over one of the colored hearts in the ephemera pack. These are sized just right for this purpose if you want some color underneath the white diecut heart. That heart is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals also.
It was easy to choose a greeting for the card and this one was in the Celebrate Love Ephemera Pack. I just adhered it flat on the card. You know I had to try out some of the new embellishments coming in the new mini catalog! I used the Pretty In Pink dots in the Party Dots package. They are fairly flat so good for mailing.
It still seemed like the card needed “something” so I used the Pretty In PInk Stampin’ Blend marker to add some very small dots on the white hearts. I was hoping this wouldn’t ruin the card, but I did like it. Not one to leave well enough alone, I wondered what some tiny little hearts scattered around in the background would look like, even if I ruined the card, I took the brush end of the Stampin’ Blend and made little hearts. If you push down a little on the brush tip and then lift up as you pull down a tiny bit you will make one side of a heart. Do it again on the other side and you’ll have a cute little heart!
That’s my Easy Celebrate Love Hearts Card that I made a little more involved than I first intended! It still was easy and would certainly be easy for you to copy! You can make this card with just the ephemera pack and none of the extra things I added to this card…except, of course, maybe the Party Dots! It’s just too fun to add some dots, gems, jewels, sequins, or whatever to a card for a little bling!
Get ready because the new January-April 2025 Mini Catalog is going live on Tuesday, January 7th, along with Sale-A-Bration! Try to order at least $60 so you can get a free product from the SAB brochure!