Vintage Valentine

 

I love shabby chic so I was pleased to see the Bloomin' Hearts Thinlit dies in the Spring/Summer catalogue, as they work really well with this style. I used them here to cut the large text heart background and the small flowers on this Valentine card. What you maybe can't see at first glance is that it's a flip (or swing) card.

The card has a linen thread closure (glued under the crochet trim & flowers) and when opened, the heart flips round to reveal a simple, understated sentiment.

I used the coordinating Bloomin' Love stamp set to stamp flowers and leaves in Sahara Sand ink (2nd impression - stamp off onto scrap paper for the first) randomly on the card and on the edges of the cream heart (cut using the heart from the Treat Bag Thinlits dies, but any medium size heart shape die will do).

 

The sentiment in red ink is from a stamp set called What I Love (#141276), and it's a Sale-a-Bration set. This means it's free if you spend over £45. To give you an idea how this works, you could buy the Bloomin Love die and stamp bundle (£31.25),  the Venetian Crochet Trim (£6.50), Linen Thread (£4.25) and the Sahara Sand ink pad (£6). This would add up to £48 and you could then choose the What I Love Stamp set as your free Sale-a-Bration item. 

The "Know what I love?" stamp is actually all one line, but even at its widest point my heart die was too narrow to fit it all on. Since the stamp is photopolymer (clear) if you're feeling ruthless you could snip it in two, in the gap between the "what" and "I". I could never bring myself to do such a thing though, so to get it to span 2 lines I masked off "I love?" with washi tape and inked & stamped "Know what". Then I cleaned the stamp and masked off "Know what" and inked up "I love?" and stamped it underneath. 

To make the card I used Kraft cardstock and used the large Framelit from the Project Life Cards and Labels Framlits to cut a 4"x6" card base. I scored along the long length at 2" and at 2 3/4". Then I layed the heart die with the centre point over the first score line, and ran it part waay through a die cutting machine so that just the first and last part of the heart cut. You can see the principle in this card and you should be left with a card base that looks like this - ready to decorate! (The closed size of the card is 4"x4 1/2".)

 Here's what I used:

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