Yesterday I was at the arts and crafts store trying to gather materials to make a Valentine’s card for my husband.
As I was perusing the aisles, with whatever I wanted at my fingertips, I just couldn’t put two and two together to make a card. I’d look at the stamp aisle, the embellishment aisle, the scrapbook paper aisle, and nothing tickled my fancy. Zero creative juices were flowing.
I was getting fed up. Seriously.
Then it hit me when I got to the punches. Everything went dark except for this bright beam aimed at a tiny little heart punch. I knew exactly what I was going to create. To make matters even better (opposite of – to make matters worse), the punch was on sale, 50% off. Now, when it comes to buying – just about anything, I only buy it if it’s on sale or I have a coupon. That’s just the way I operate. So, with it on sale I’m not sure if this was fate, or destiny, or both.
I debated whether or not I should buy additional colored cardstock but decided against it. I figured I could use up my scrap pieces.
So, I plopped down my $1.65 and away I went with my cherished heart punch.
The card I made turned out even better than I expected. Check it out.
Supplies
- Heart Punch or Standard Hole Punch (.25″)
- Cut-Out of a Heart (print or draw one by hand on cardstock or heavy paper) (4.75″)
- Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue
- Cardstock (different shades of pink)
- Cardstock (full sheet of white and black)
- Scissors
- Brea Reese Brush Pens (writes on dark colors)
Step 1
I started this card by punching a bunch of hearts in various shades of pink. If a heart punch isn’t available, use a circle punch, it’s just as effective. I’m not sure how many hearts I made but there’s a bunch (I’d guess a couple hundred). The amount of heart punches needed will depend on the size of the cut-out heart being used. The smaller the heart the less amount of punches needed, the bigger the heart the more needed.
Step 2
With the cut out heart in hand, I glued a small section of the heart and placed a bunch of hearts onto it with zero concern of where each shade of pink went or the direction the punched hearts were facing. I continued this process until the hearts covered the entire cut-out, no white parts of the cut-out heart were showing. Don’t worry about the punched hearts hanging off of the edge, this is ideal. My cut-out heart had several overlapping layers on it.
Step 3
Once the glue dried, I turned the heart around and with my scissors I trimmed any punched hearts that were hanging off of the edge.
Step 4
Next, I created the card. The dimensions of the card will vary depending on the size of the cut-out heart. The size of my card was 5″ x 6″. Then I glued a layer of black cardstock onto the white, the dimensions of the black layer was just slightly smaller than the white cardstock, 4 15/16″ x 5 15/16″.
Step 5
I decided to hand-letter a sentiment on the front of my card with a silver metallic brush pen. This brush pen works well on dark papers.
Step 6
Last, I glued the cut-out heart onto the card.
