Valentine Cards with The Twinery

Welcome to The Twinery's "Be Our Valentine" special celebration!  All week long you will find special projects and giveaways on The Twinery blog!  The theme for today is cards & scrapbook pages and I have a fun card to share.   

This card features lots of pink!  I die cut the hearts on the front of the card and chose two colors of glitter cardstock and one patterned paper to arrange in a cluster.  I tied a tiny piece of Shimmer Twine through the heart button.  After adhering my sentiment and punched border, I tied two strands of twine around the panels.  I used Platinum Shimmer & Blossom.  I love how the two look together! So soft and pretty!

The surprise of the card comes when you open it up...

This is a 3-panel card and when you open it up, there is a heart banner inside that also opens up.  To do this, I punched a hole in the top corner of each panel.  The front panel of the card is popped up on dimensionals so that it can hide the twine knot that secures this banner on the inside.  

  

I used the Platinum Shimmer twine (of course!! I LOVE that stuff!!) to string the die cut hearts together.  To do this, I cut two of each heart out and also die cut a matching heart from a sheet of Scor-tape adhesive.  This is a super easy way to create a banner with die cuts and twine!  The twine is sandwiched in between all the pieces and it is nice and secure.

The biggest tip that I can give you when making a card like this is not to tie your twine down or adhere your die cuts until you are sure you have the right length of twine and the right position for your die cuts.  Once I determined how tight I wanted my twine banner to be when the card was opened, I then marked the middle with a piece of washi tape (because it is easy to remove) and also marked one end as well and left if loose for the time being.  I tied the other end of the twine to the card with a knot.  Then, I attached all of the hearts starting with the middle one first and working my way out on each side.  Once I had all of the hearts attached, I then tied off the other end to finish the banner.  

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this project!  The Twinery is giving away cardstock & a Martha Stewart Punch set today, so be sure to stop by their blog and leave a comment for your chance to win!

Notes: 

Cardstock card base is Bazzill 12".  It is scored at 4" & 8" and then a tiny sliver was trimmed off the edge that folds inside the card to allow it to open easier.

Supplies:

The Twinery Blossom & Platinum Shimmer Twine, Bazzill Cardstock (pink), Rustic White PTI Cardstock, Doodlebug Designs Glitter Paper, Dooodlebug Designs Washi Tape, PTI Heart Dies, Lil' Inker Designs Of the Heart Stitched Heart Die, Pink Paislee Patterned Paper, Sending My Love PTI Stamp Set

Tuesday Morning Sketch

Hello!  It is FREEZING cold here in Kansas as I type this!  It is a huge contrast to the 70 degree weather we had on Monday which was wonderful and just a tease of Spring.  But, much like the Kansas wind blows, the temperature changes very quickly and today was C.O.L.D.!  BRRRRR!!

So, while safely inside my warm home, I pulled out my stamps, paper & felt to play along with this weeks Tuesday Morning Sketch #183 which is sponsored by Lil' Inker Designs.

This card is made for a coworkers 60th birthday.  If we wanted to, we were to bring her something with flowers and I thought that making her a nice flowery card would be perfect.  I hope she likes it!

The card is based on this sketch.

Since the contest is sponsored by Lil' Inker Designs I thought it was only appropriate to use lots of great LID products!  The middle banner was cut with the large Flags & Tags die.  The panel that the sentiment is stamped on is one of the Stitched Mats Square dies cut down to size.  And those super cute flowers are made using the Fringe Flower Die which is perfect for all of those Spring cards!  The paper is from Basic Grey in a wonderful paper pack called "Fiction" and the sentiment is from Paper Smooches "Word Salad" set.

And, just for the fun of it, I thought I'd show you how I packaged it since it obviously won't fit in a normal envelope!  I put it in a glassine bag, closed it with washi tape, labeled her name with dies, added coordinating flowers that I die cut and then tied it with Gold Shimmer Twine from The Twinery.  

If you'd like to play along, you have until Sunday, February 3rd at 7 PM CST to link up  your card.  There is a prize for a $10 gift card to the Lil' Inker store up for grabs through a random drawing!  Hope you can play along!

Thank you SO MUCH for stopping by!

Pop on By!

I hope you've enjoyed the Lil' Inker Designs release festivities this week!  The team has one more day of projects to share with you today, sort of a recap of the release!  If you are following the blog hop, you should have come from Isha's blog!  If  you would like to start at the beginning, visit Laura's blog.

For this card, I pulled out some fun glittery paper (LOVE!!) to make several different sized balloons.  I stamped the string stamp from the new Balloon Builder Stamp Set.  Isn't that smallest balloon so cute?  I love the different sized balloons you get with both sets of balloon dies!  The sentiment is from the Sun Sentiments Stamp set. 

For this card I used one of the small balloon stamps and the string stamp.  Since the string stamp is thin & flexible, I made it wavy so it looked like it was blowing in the wind.  I stamped it on the inside of the Instant Camera Die which I had placed on its side.  

The "pop on by" sentiment is from the new Balloon Builders stamp set as well.  Cute!  The balloon is die cut from vellum.  The twine is Ocean by The Twinery.  

To continue on in the blog hop, visit Judith's blog! 

 

That's all I have for you today!  Thank you so much for stopping by and for all the sweet comments you've left! If you comment on this post, you will have another entry into the giveaway for one of two $10 gift certificates to the LID store!

Have a great day!  Happy shopping!

Let's Have a Party!

Let's have a party...a mini party that is!  Welcome to Day 2 of the Lil' Inker Design's release!   If you are following the blog hop, you should have come from Isha's blog!  If  you would like to start at the beginning, visit Laura's blog.

If you love the balloon and party hat dies from LID, you'll love this new die set as well!  It is a mini version of the original die sets!

I told you yesterday I'm in a Valentine making mood, so for this cute die set, I created a banner with the Mini Party hat dies and also used hearts from the Of the Heart die set.  I added the mini squiggly party hat border as a topper to the banners.  For the banner string, I used the balloon string from the new Balloon Builder stamp set and it worked like a charm.  

The mat is die cut with the Stitched Mats: Rectangle dies.  I can't quit using those!  They are so perfect for the matting on card fronts!  You can see the tiny little squiggly pieces a little more closely here.  To adhere them to the banner pieces I used a glue pen.

I pulled out a few more LID goodies for the bottom portion of the card as well.  I used the Stitched Sentiments Flag Die, the Sentiment Flag Additions Dies (the wavy flag die) and the double ended banner die from Flags & Tags Die Set.   I also used the heart again from the Of the Heart set and the sentiments come from the coordinating stamp set Of the Heart (PS...the Of the Heart Stamp Set & Die combo is ON SALE!!).  The paper is a wonderful line by Pink Paislee called Secret Crush and the beautiful twine is The Twinery's Platinum Shimmer. 

Below is a image of what this mini set contains.  Lots of tiny cuteness!  And, this set also includes a small balloon string die as well!  Bonus!! :)  And, do you see that long, skinny balloon!  I love it!

There are a couple of the dies that are the same size as the dies in the original balloon die set, but I found that to be SOOOO handy because I could cut multiple balloons at the same time and didn't have to run them through my die cut machine one at a time.  You all know how slow that can go!   I'll show you some samples using those tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win one of TWO $10 gift cards to the Lil' Inker Designs store!  To continue on in the blog hop, visit Judith's blog!

Have a great day!