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Trio of Hearts Valentine Card

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You get lots of hearts in the stamp set and dies I used to make this easy slim card, Trio of Hearts Valentine Card, for Valentine’s Day or really any time! These hearts are pretty big but they still fit perfectly on this slimline card.

I just got the Lots of Heart Bundle, which has the Lots of Heart Stamp Set and the Many Hearts Dies. And there really are many heart dies in that set! In fact, I recommend making a copy of the sheet with all the dies still adhered with your printer and keep it with your dies so you can see clearly what you are supposed to have! There are 15 different dies in the set!

To make this card, I decided to make pastel-colored hearts so I started with a card base of Pool Party Cardstock. I cut the paper 6″ x 6″ so that when I folded it in half, it would be 3″ x 6″ for a slimline card. The Whisper White layer is just a tiny bit narrower than the card base, 2 7/8″ x 5 7/8″.

I stamped the hearts on another piece of Whisper White and then die cut with one of the heart dies. This heart die also cuts a narrow outline of the heart, which I didn’t notice at first so the excess paper was getting left in the die. If you have this set, make sure you check the underside of your heart die because if you cut several times, that paper still stuck in the die will prevent getting a complete cut after awhile!

The hearts are stamped in Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, and Pool Party ink. Since the photopolymer stamps are new, even though I wiped them on my Shammy a couple of times, the ink still beaded up a tiny bit when I stamped, but I don’t think it’s anything that’s bad enough to jump out. I adhered the hearts flat on the white card layer, but I could have popped them up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Either way is fine. I did stamp the greeting in Pool Party Ink and then popped that up on Dimensionals. The greeting is in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set.

I almost left it as is at that point, but I decided to add some Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Who can resist a few rhinestones?! And for a final touch, I just used a piece of white twine I had to make a little bow on the center heart, adhered with a rolled-up Mini Glue Dot.

This is one example of how you can make an easy Valentine using three hearts in the Lots of Heart Stamp Set in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog on page 15.

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Quick and Easy Valentine Card

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Quick and Easy Valentine Card

Yes, I know Valentine’s Day is over, but who knows, maybe you need one more valentine for someone today! I didn’t get around to posting this one and it’s one I like because it is a quick and easy valentine! And who doesn’t like quick and easy!

Even if you don’t need another valentine, think of the basic design of this card and think about how you could easily change it into a card for any other occasion.

This valentine has a card base of Real Red (of course!) with a layer of the From My Heart Designer Series Paper. I thought this particular pattern looked really cute on this card! For the focal point, I just have two hearts. The frilly background heart is die-cut with the Be Mine Stitched Dies in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. The heart on the front is stamped on Whisper White with a stamp in the Heartfelt Stamp Set in Real Red Ink. Then it is punched out with the scallop-edge heart punch in the Heart Punch Pack.

Just for a little something-something, before I adhered the hearts, I used a little Snail Adhesive to hold down a strip of Real Red 3/8″ Double-Stitched Satin Ribbon, just in the center. You can either pop up the hearts with Stampin’ Dimensionals or adhere the hearts flat on the card.

Now if you don’t need a valentine today, all you need to do is change out the hearts to some other focal point whether it be an image or a greeting. You can still use designer paper as a layer and you can still add a strip of ribbon behind the center image. Just keep it simple, whatever you make!

Happy Day-After Valentine’s Day!

Easy Valentine Hearts and Ribbon Card

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Valentine Hearts and Ribbon

Valentine’s Day is coming up at the end of this week so if you need more valentine ideas, here is an Easy Valentine Hearts and Ribbon Card you can try!

The card base is Real Red with a layer of Whisper White to help the designer paper stand out a little bit. This dotted foil layer is in the From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper. It really caught my eye when I was making this card!

The next step is to simply punch two hearts from another design of the From My Heart DSP. I chose the paper with the scattered hearts. I thought it stood out well against the foil DSP.

The center heart is punched from the sheet of foil hearts and then layered on a punched scallop heart from Flirty Flamingo Cardstock. You can get both these plain-edge heart punch and the scalloped edge heart punch in the Heart Punch Pack. And if you want the Heartfelt Stamp Set, too, you can purchase it with the heart punches and save 10% in the Heartfelt Bundle.

After those two hearts were layered together, I put more adhesive on the back with Snail Adhesive so I could stick the ribbon going back and forth behind the heart. Then it is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals® and centered on the card between the other two hearts.

Even though there is no sentiment on the front of the card, I think it is pretty enough on its own so you can just stamp a greeting inside the card on a Whisper White layer.

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From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips

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From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips

Doesn’t making valentines like this From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips just take you back to your childhood?! Maybe it’s the doily because who of us did not use that white paste and doilies to make our valentines in elementary school?

I love this new From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper in the new Occasions Mini Catalog on page 9. Some of the papers have foil accents which makes them especially pretty! You can’t really tell from my photo above, but the second and fourth strips on my card have the foil accents. As usual, it’s so pretty you hate to cut into the paper, but cut you must in order to make these pretty cards and projects!

This is how this valentine came about! I got out the paper, saw a rectangle scrap in the package and it popped into my head to use several paper strips for the background of the valentine. Often cardmaking ideas just pop into your head or come about after working on your idea and then changing it when something else sparks your creativity.

The card base is Real Red. Real Red has probably always been my favorite Stampin’ Up! color because they have captured such a perfect red. With the switching around of the colors in the Color Families, it seemed like I wasn’t using it as much and that was sad! With Valentine’s Day approaching, how can you not be using Real Red again?

Now I should have gotten out my calculator or pencil and paper and did the math to figure out what size the strips should be and the size paper they are mounted on. But I didn’t! I just made the card, trimmed things down once or twice and when I still had a bigger margin at the bottom of the Whisper White, I simply trimmed that off. The card looks fine to me. If it is not mathematically perfect on the strips and margins, it’s just a valentine….it doesn’t have to be perfect.

If you want some measurements, the Whisper White layer on which I adhered the paper strips is 3 3/4″ wide and 4 7/8″ long. The designer paper strips are each 1 1/8″ wide and 3 5/8″ long with about a 1/16″ space in between the layers. And there is about the same 1/16″ margin around the edge, but you could also not have any margins and totally cover the Whisper White piece. Please don’t go crazy trying to make everything exact and fit perfectly. Just get it as balanced as you can and it will be fine.

The greeting is stamped in Flirty Flamingo Ink with a heart in the Heartfelt Stamp Set in the Suite. Then that stamped heart and the Real Red heart on which it is layered were punched out with the two punches in the Heart Punch Pack. You can purchase the stamp set and punches together in the Heartfelt Bundle and save 10%. These two hearts are then adhered to the Flirty Flamingo doily in the Heart Doilies Package. This large heart is then popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

If you want EVERYTHING in this From My Heart Suite (as I did, because who wouldn’t?!), just put the number #153931 on your order and you will get the coordinating selection of products on pages 8-10 without having to put in all the individual numbers. This won’t all only be good for Valentine’s Day, you will be able to use hearts on lots of occasions, the punches, the stamp set, etc.

Overall, this From My Heart Valentine With Paper Strips is fairly easy to make so give it a try with the beautiful From My Heart DSP and the Heart Punch Pack!

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From My Heart Valentine’s Day Card

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From My Heart Valentine's Day Card

You “might” be able to tell on this From My Heart Valentine’s Day Card that the designer paper has a few pink foil accents. Can you see the shine on the little pink hearts in this photo? There was something about this particular design in the package that really caught my eye!

The card base is Real Red with a layer from the From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper. Next, all you have to do is make the heart focal point!

The doily comes in the package of Heart Doilies. The doilies are Real Red and Flirty Flamingo, but if you flip them over to the back, they are white, which you can also use! So you really get three colors of doilies.

I flipped my doily over to the white side and added the “Happy Valentine’s Day” greeting. That is a stamp in the Heartfelt Stamp Set. It is punched out with one of the heart punches in the Heart Punch Pack. You can buy both the Heart Punch Pack and the Heartfelt Stamp Set in the Heartfelt Bundle and save 10%! The punched heart doesn’t really fit inside the Heart Doily but it looks okay I think.

For an added embellishment, I took a piece of Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon and just adhered it underneath the doily with a little twist at the top and the tails hanging below the doily. Then I popped up the whole thing with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I needed a layer inside the card since the Real Red is rather dark. I stamped a greeting from the same stamp set on a piece of Whisper White and added a heart in the bottom corner. Somewhere along the line, I got a tiny ink smudge on the other side of the card, so I stamped another little heart over it to cover the smudge. But to balance that out, I had to stamp a few more little hearts so you can see the hearts are maybe a bit overdone!

From My Heart Valentine's Day Card Inside

This was really an easy valentine card to make! It’s going to be fun to play with all the hearts and other products in the Suite to make all kinds of valentines! Of course, hearts aren’t just for valentines, so you can use the hearts for other occasions throughout the year!

From My Heart Valentine's Day Card Closeup

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