Still Celebrating a Holiday of Love

My last post showed a card with a background of textured gold metallic paper.  Today's Valentines use the same gold paper, but now I've cut the paper into heart shapes. 

I used a freehand drawing to make a heart pattern on  scratch-paper.  I cut out that pattern and traced along its edges on the back-side of the gold textured paper.

With two larger heart patterns, I traced another pair of hearts onto red paper, cut them out, and glued them behind the gold hearts to create red outlines.  

Above:  To the right of the heart, I used a portion of my 6" x 6" stencil Swatton Flowers Version 1.

Above:  Around the heart, I used my 6" x 6" stencil Ivy Frame 6.  (This design also comes in a 9" x 12" stencil.)

The above greeting cards were made with 6" x 6" card blanks but since I can no longer find white cards of this size online, I'll eventually be changing to slightly smaller greeting cards.  My 6" x 6" stencils will still work, altho in some cases I'll be modifying them, either with scissors or with masking tape.  I'll also be using white cards that measure larger than 6" x 6".  All of the cards of this square shape, and approximate size, require additional postage for mailing.  I use two Forever stamps on each envelope.

In its entirety, Swatton Flowers Version 1 looks like this:

In creating today's Valentine shown at the top of this post, I used the right side of this stencil, masking off the rest with masking tape.

To scroll thru the pages of all my StencilGirl stencils, please start here.

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