SENDING HEARTS PAPER PUMPKIN ALTERNATIVE VALENTINE!

 Hi, Friends,

Just wanted to stop by and share a cute valentine card with you today (even though it is after Valentine's Day)!  I fell in love with the snail stamp and wanted to make a card featuring Mr. Snail.  So here is what I came up with:

I also made a second card that was very similar, but had a different DSP at the bottom.  The reason I used two different DSPs was that there were two different card bases in the Paper Pumpkin kit.  I cut the card bases apart into pieces 1-1/2 x 3-1/2 and made 48 cards instead of eight!

The second card looks like this:

The other difference was that I ran out of the hearts provided in the kit, so I used the white hearts from the Resin Hearts Embellishments (January - June 2021 Mini Catalog).  The insides of the cards were exactly the same.

MY RECIPE:

     STAMPS:  Sending Hearts (January, 2021 Paper Pumpkin)

     CARDSTOCK:

          Petal Pink:  5-1/2 x 8-1/2, scored at 4-1/4

          Poppy Parade:  3-5/8 x 4-7/8

          Pool Party:  3-1/2 x 3-1/2

          Paper Pumpkin Card Base:  1-1/2 x 3-1/2

          SCRAPS:  Basic White, Pool Party, Poppy Parade

               INSIDE:  

                    Poppy Parade:  3-3/4 x 5

                    Basic White:  3-5/8 x 4-7/8

     INK:  Memento Black, Pool Party, Poppy Parade

     BLENDS:  Pool Party, Poppy Parade

     ACCESSORIES:  Ornate Layers Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Squares Layering Dies, Stampin' Up! Die Cut Machine, Resin Hearts Embellishments, Rhinestones, Dimensionals

The inside of the card looks like this:

HOW I MADE IT:

1.  Use Poppy Parade ink to stamp signature stamp on back of card base.

2.  Stamp "snail" on lower right corner of inside panel using Memento Black ink.  Color using Poppy Parade and Pool Party markers.

3.  Adhere inside panels together; adhere to inside of card base.

4.  Use XOXO stamp and Pool Party ink to stamp repetitively on the Pool Party panel.  Adhere to top of Poppy Parade cardstock.

5.  Adhere Paper Pumpkin card base DSP to bottom of Poppy Parade cardstock.

6.  Adhere panel to front of card base.

7.  Use rectangle die from Ornate Labels Dies to cut die cut from scrap of Poppy Parade cardstock.  Adhere over "seam" of DSP and Pool Party cardstock.

8.  Use Memento Black ink to stamp snail on scrap of Basic White cardstock.  Color using markers.  Cut out using square die from Stitched Shapes Dies and Stampin' Up! Die Cut Machine.

9.  Cut scalloped square from scrap of Pool Party cardstock using die from Layering Squares Dies and Stampin' Up! Die Cut Machine.

10.  Adhere stamped image to Pool Party scalloped square.  Attach to front of card base using dimensionals.

11.  Add rhinestones to snail square.  See sample for placement.

12.  Add White Resin Heart Embellishment to Poppy Parade rectangle.  See sample for placement.

I hope you are having a great day!  Today is sunny here, but not necessarily warm.  I will take the sun, though--love my sunshine!  

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy stamping,

Linda