MTCC 1 – Valentine Card

Hello! Today we are making an adorable Valentine’s Day card inspired by the new challenge from Make the Cards Challenge. Make the Cards Challenge is a brand new weekly challenge blog for card makers. There’s a new and different challenge every week. It includes sketch challenges, color challenges, theme challenges, and more. The design team is amazing and I can’t wait for you to see the amazing cards they designed.

Here is the sketch for the challenge.

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Valentine’s Card for Make the Cards Challenge

Let’s talk about this super quick and cute card. I did some simple die cutting and foiling to get this amazing look.

Maker Forte has this black and white patterned paper that you can foil. It make creating a foiled back ground so simple. You just need a laminating machine, you know one of those from the office supply store, and of course foil. DecoFoil is the best for this since Glimmer Hot foil won’t work.

I selected a simple diamond pattern from the paper pack and gold foil to create a background.

Next, I die cut the heart border from heavy red cardstock that has just subtle shine to it. I glued this to the background slightly below midway down the panel. TIP: You can create your own shiny red cardstock by spraying your red cardstock with a mist of Perfect Pearls or Kaleidoscope Powders. Be sure to allow the paper time to dry before you die cut it.

The border die I used is from Spellbinders. I think it was from a monthly kit from several years ago. I couldn’t find it so I included some options in the links at the bottom.

Then, I die cut the large heart from light pink cardstock. I popped the heart up using foam tape at a slight angle off the edge of the panel.

For the sentiment I stamped the geo heart from the Concord & 9th Little Love Tags set in matching pink ink. Then I stamped the sentiment in Versamark and heat embossed the message with gold embossing powder. There’s a coordinating heart die for the heart image and I used that to trim out the heart. I used foam tape to pop the sentiment up as well.

I finished the card off by gluing everything to a top folding note card on heavy white cardstock. I used a pair of scissors to trim off the excess cardstock hanging over the edge of the card. TIP: Flip the card over so the front of the card is facing away from you and use the card base as a guide to trim away and overhanging cardstock. You’ll get smoother cuts this way.

I hope you enjoyed this quick card and head over to the Make the Cards Challenge to join in the fun!

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