You're My Everything

You're My Everything by Santa Esmeralda is a very old song and was our wedding song over 28 years ago. Why did I use these words on this card? That's because this is a Valentine for my hubby :)
I had to come up with last Friday's weekly challenge at ECS and I challenged the girls to make a Valentine card for their partners. It would also be a good challenge for me because I am not into anything masculine. So I did my best and this is what I came up with. I just had to add a butterfly for some reason, but that's ok, my hubby loves them.

The round piece of paper I printed is an image from The Vintage Moth. You can find some great vintage clip art there, check out the button in my side bar. The couple is from my own collection of graphics.

I don't know why some pictures looks so blah when I upload them, but you are always free to click and see the full size if you want which as you will see is much clearer.

Folding Heart Card Tutorial

Several of you have asked or said you would like to make one of the folding heart cards, so I took some photos today so I could give you a little tutorial on the folding of the card. I have to tell you I messed up the first time, it is a bit tricky when you havn't done one in a while, and I hope I can explain it well enough for you to understand.
So, here goes........

Take a piece of 12" x 12" cardstock.
I suggest trying it on a piece you don't mind messing up the first time, just incase :)
Fold your card stock in half... ok that part is easy.

See how in my photo you can see the crease? Well make sure you now turn the paper over because you need to fold it the opposite way in the next step.

Fold this time from corner to corner, then keeping it on the same side of the paper, fold the opposite corner to corner.

It should now look like the picture below.

Note, it might help to click on these pictures and view the full size photo.

Holding one of the larger unfolded portions in front of you, fold the card inwards until it lays flat like this one below. I will show pictures of my finished card on the inside below so you know what I mean, and how it looks, just incase you did not see it before.

Use something like paper clips or clothes pins to hold paper together for drawing and cutting.

Using a heart shaped template, (I have no idea where I got it from, but it fits perfectly.), trace around the heart with pencil incase you need to erase some later. I always do.

You can also draw your own heart.

Next step is to cut out your heart. The edges may look a bit rough but you can tidy them up after it's cut.

Now it should open up and look like the picture below.
If not, then I am terrible at explaining this, or you did it wrong *giggle*

I cut out heart shapes in patterned paper and glued inside of mine, but on the heart shapes that fold inwards you will need to cut half a heart for those or it will have trouble folding in afterwards.

I then collaged mine using gel medium to glue everything, but, you can do whatever you want to decorate it.

Below you can see the inside of mine.

I also punched holes through all pieces except the very front, threaded some red seam binding and tied it.

Please, let me know if it works out for you :)

My Soulmate

Just look at this sweet, sweet digital art of my fur baby. He is now a butterfly fur fairy :)
Anitra at Cute Art World commented on how cute little Cooper is and asked if she could use him to make a fairy. I said of course, and sent her this photo, and look at what she sent me. I am going to print the original copy and frame it :) Thank you sooooooooo much Anitra, this was so kind of you , I will treasure it always.

Hope you are all having a great Saturday, I have spent the best part of my day, or should say all of my day trying to organise my studio.

Pretty Paper Hearts Challenge Multiple Hearts

This weeks challenge at Pretty Paper Hearts is to use multiple heart shapes.
I made this Valentine card which is folded on a 12 x 12 piece of cardstock , then cut to make a heart shape. I used multiple heart shapes on the front of the card, including a tiny heart charm.

Holes are punched and ribbon threaded through to tie the card together and just give a pretty finish. It could also be used as a wall hanging.

The inside of the card is collaged with all things lovely to me, including Angels, cherubs, birds, butterflies and flowers :)