Heart Card

This card utilizes a couple items I've purchased in the last week. The card base is from a pre-embossed card set by Die Cuts With a View. It had 40 cards and 40 envelopes for $5, which equals about 13 cents a card (it was on sale at Micheal's), so I picked it up to play with. It has 10 different designs with 4 of each design. The middle part is from a set of small Cuttlebug embossing folders called "Fancy Corners." It kind of looked like hearts to me, so I figured it would go well with the heart card I chose to try out this morning. I got this set at Roberts on Monday, when I had a coupon for 25% off my entire order.

I used my pink Versmark chalk ink pad to add color to the front of the card and kind of highlight the embossed part, since the card was totally white. I wanted to use ribbon somehow, so after playing for a while, I cut slits down the sides of the center square and threaded 2 different types of ribbon through it, alternating the shiny pink one with the dotted pink one. Since I had cut one more of the dotted pink one than I needed, I used it to make a kind of bow below the embossed pink design. I used 3d mounting foam to mount the embossed pink design. I was originally going to have it be a square just slightly smaller than the one already embossed on the card, but the paper shifted as I put it in the cuttlebug, so it wasn't centered. I decided to see how it'd look cut out, and I think it turned out nicely.

A close up of the middle part of the card. I really like how the layered ribbon turned out. Now all I have to do is figure out some way to cover the inside part of the card so you don't see all the ribbon tails on the inside : ).