It’s time for our February challenge at Where Creativity Meets C9, and this month, it’s Love.
This is a great month for love cards, and we’d love if you joined us in our challenge. Up for grabs are a gift certificate to Concord & 9th and a Guest Designer spot! Okay, on to my card.
I needed to make a Valentine’s Day card for my husband. We have a “tradition” for cards for Valentine’s and our anniversary, where I make a card, write it out to him, and then he writes back in it to me. I know, goofy, But I love it. So I like to keep them simple, and easy to write in on the inside. So nothing super dimensional on the front so the inside front isn’t lumpy.
I used my stash of bamboo felt and die cut two hearts each out of three colors. I figured out where they’d go on the front of the card and then stamped my sentiment beneath. Wow, that Perfectly Penned stamp set is very forgiving. I think I might be in love with it! I used versafine ink and then clear embossed over it; I figured this would help me cover up any mistakes I might have made.
Once the sentiment was finished I adhered the same color felt hearts to each other, on one side of the center, using a glue dot. Then I used another glue dot on the bottom, also to one side of the center, to adhere it to the kraft card stock. This was to keep them in place for sewing. Which is not my forte. Ahem. Let’s just say that there is a lot of muttering when it comes to me and sewing machines. And that’s just to get it threaded. Ahem ahem.
Sewed the hearts on, and removed the glue dots. I had planned to puff the hearts up with either some foam or a 3d glue dot, but after all the futzing I did with them, they were more than happy to just stick up on their own. I then used some foam tape to adhere the card front to a card base that I had stamped with the Barnwood background stamp.
And that’s my card. I love it. And it was simple enough where if you need to make multiples for kids or relatives, it would be very easy to do so.
I hope you have a month full of Love. Let’s just go big, a lifetime full of love. 🙂
SUPER LOVE!!!
Lisa, I think this is absolutely fantastic. Clean and simple, but with awesome texture and interest. I really love your tradition, too. Might have to borrow that. 😉
Thanks Lindsey! It is a great tradition. It takes care of a few things… me hating the cost of a store bought card when it’s so much less expensive (cough cough) to make one at home. Him having the pressure of going to get a store bought card, etc. It’s awesome. 🙂 We do it for Anniversaries too.
What a gorgeous card. Love the text and how they are linked together to make the perfect sneitment. Great idea with the hearts and I think your stitching is fabulous!
Thank you. That’s very kind of you. My stitching? Ha. I practically hold my breath and pray that the machine will cooperate. Sewing machines and I do not have a good relationship. 🙂