Having finally figured out the heart card I have been admiring for so long I have made my Valentine's card for DH using this format. I chose scraps of cardstock that coordinated including one with musical notes - one of his favorite things is music. I punched hearts from them and cut two in half to get my four halves. I played with them until I was happy with the layout. I chose one of the glittery red ones to be the special one. I found a piece of aqua polka dot paper which I used as the base for my hearts. I glued them into place, trimmed my paper and then put it under weight while it dried. I decided not to add any machine stitching to this one - I liked it just as it was!!. I had seen this heart embellishment on Splitcoast Stampers and I really liked it so I used it on my card. I die cut a white scalloped heart (Stamping UP) and mounted my red heart punchie (StampinUP) over it and added a pewter eyelet using my Cropadile. It has been quite a while since both of those have seen daylight!! I added three lengths of fiber to my heart layer - two gray with a smaller white one in between leaving them a bit loose knowing that I was going to tie them together and making sure that they lined up with where I was going to adhere my special heart. I glued this large layer to my red card front which fits in a large envelope from my stash. I used a short piece of gray fiber and threaded it through the eyelet on my heart, around the three fibers on my card and back through the front of the eyelet and tied it off with a double knot. I mounted my heart in its place with 3D foam tape then trimmed the ends of my gray heart fiber to finish off my card. I am very happy with how it worked out and I am looking forward to our at home celebration this weekend! Therese
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