Happy Tuesday!
I’ve been seeing so many fab Valentine’s Day cards from the girls on the design team lately, I thought I should probably make a few myself! Here’s a quick card I put together since I couldn’t wait to try out the new Falling Hearts die from Tim Holtz. It is one large die that perfectly fills the front of a standard A2 sized card, plus 3 different sizes of individual hearts.
I cut the falling hearts on the front of a top fold dark pink card, then lined it with an off-white card which I cut just a smidge smaller so it would sit inside better. I used some adhesive to attach the panels near the fold on the inside of the card and tied some ribbon around the front panels to keep them together.
Once I die cut a few panels (you may be seeing a lot of this die, I kinda dig it!) I starting looking to see what stamps I had that would be fun to use along with it. I noticed the Tim Holtz Funny Farm stamp set has several images I hadn’t used yet… including this little pig! Together with his ‘hogs & kisses’ sentiment, he’s perfect for a cute Valentine! I stamped once in Versafine Clair, carefully positioning him over the hearts. I stamped him a second time on water color paper, then did some quick coloring with watercolor pencils in shades of pink. After trimming him out, I simply glued him over the image I had stamped directly on the pink. Looking at the front of the card, you’d never know I was ‘hiding’ a heart shaped hole under Mr.Piggy 😉
I had a few ideas for things to add… but I think it’s perfect in it’s simplicity! I hope you like it too!
Inky hugs,
Tara
