Valentines Day Cards
Materials: (for all cards)
•Card: Bazzill – French Vanilla, Blackberry
•Paper: Dark blue web paper; Graph paper.
•Embossing powder: Opals Franklin
•Heat tool
•Adhesives: Double sided sticky tape (DSST), Double sided sticky paper (DSSP), Foam mounting tape, Clear sticky dots (Bostik Sticki dots)
•Cutting Tools: Paper trimmer, Craft knife, Friskars ShapeCutter system and shape template HEARTS – 1 #4855
•Embellishments: Wooden craft hearts (4 of 30mm width, 25mm height, and 1 of 40mm width, 34mm height); 26 Gauge purple coloured wire; 32 Gauge silver coloured wire; Assorted beads in clear, blue and purple; 10 small silver eyelets, 3 heart shaped eyelets; Alphabet rub on stickers by Sticker Cafe
•Other Tools: Punch wheel; Card scoring tool; Ruler; Eyelet setting tools; wire pliers and cutter; forceps (to help with the beads); Needle; Metal Ruler, lead pencil.
Make the beaded hearts first
Method:
1.Cover the flattest side of the wooden hearts with DSSP, making sure the DSSP edges are cut flush to the hearts.
2.Make the large heart:
Twist together the ends of a length of each of the purple and silver wires (approx 200mm long).
String beads along the wires, choosing randomly from your bead selection, sometimes threading them over both wires, sometimes over only the purple wire.
When the purple wire only has beads, wind the silver wire around a large needle to create spirals and then rejoin the wires together to continue stringing the beads. (See picture below)
When the beaded wire is long enough, fashion it into a heart shape that fits onto the 40mm heart shape, twist the ends together, trim and wind the ends behind the beads out of sight.
Remove the top piece of backing from the DSSP and arrange the bead heart onto the sticky tile, pushing it down firmly to ensure it adheres tightly to the tile.
Emboss as instructed below.
