This red, gold and silver Valentine’s card uses padded material shapes for a lovely raised look and scalloped heart punchies on the background for extra interest.
What you will need to make this card:
- Slimline (A5 tall) scarlet red card blank
- Woodware Large Lever Craft Punch – Scalloped Heart
- Woodware Super Duper Lever Craft Punch – Square
- Pearlised card in gold, red and silver
- 2cm Padded Material Hearts – Red Satin
- Padded Material ‘LOVE’ – Metallic Gold
- Padded Material ‘LOVE’ – Metallic Silver
- Padded Material ‘LOVE’ – Red Satin
- 5mm sticky foam pads, strong craft glue
- Scissors
Directions to make:
Using the large scalloped heart craft punch cut out 9 heart shapes – 3 from the gold card, 3 from the silver card and 3 from the red card. Arrange these hearts on the front of the card blank starting top right with a silver heart, then a red one a bit lower on the left, then a gold one a bit lower again on the right and repeat this pattern left and right until you end with a gold heart bottom right. The hearts on the left lean over to the left and the hearts on the right lean over to the right. Once you are happy with the positioning of the hearts use craft glue to attach each one to the card blank. Use scissors to trim the very top silver heart and bottom gold heart as shown in the picture so they are flush with the edge of the card blank and give the illusion of the pattern continuing.
Next using the super duper square craft punch cut out a square from more of the gold card. Again using the craft glue carefully attach the 3 material word LOVEs to the gold card square, starting with the metallic gold at the top, the red satin in the centre and the metallic silver at the bottom. Once the glue has dried use several sticky foam pads to attach the embellished gold square to the card blank so it sits in between the first and second red scalloped heart shape without overlapping them.
Finally use craft glue to attach a red satin padded material heart to the centre of each of the 3 red card scalloped heart shapes. The material hearts are also scalloped so fit nicely onto the punched hearts with a small border of the red card showing around the edge which does give a nice effect.
Card Idea by Janine