Heartcraft Paper Gemma Valentine's Card

Hi everyone,

Today I am showing you my third creation that I made for Heartcraft Paper design team to show you all! Click on each image for a much larger and clearer view. 😊

Ok...so I know it isn't Valentine's Day but I've had this idea in my head that wouldn't go away, I just had to make the real life version and it is PERFECT for your loved ones whether it be friends or family and is possibly also a fan of a certain book and movie series. 😜.

Now lets see how I made it!

First I grabbed one piece of Neenah 110lb Classic Crest Solar White cardstock and cut it down to 8 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches with my Tim Holtz Maxi Trimmer and folded it in half while using my Teflon Bone Folder to make it fold nicely, this will be my card base. I then chose the digital stamp I wanted to use "Gemma" and cropped and resized it to about 3 3/4 inches wide by 2 3/4 inches tall on Word document and then printed it onto some X-Press It Blending Card so I could use my Copic markers.
After a couple of days of letting the ink set on the X-Press It Blending Card I grabbed the following Copic markers to colour in "Gemma" image (C3, C5, C7, B99, G29, Y17, YG67, R29, R32, R59, E18, E21, E29, E35, E37, E41 and E51). I then used a refillable black ink Copic Multiliner SP pen in the size 0.3mm to add some details to her tie.

I usually use my Brother Scan N Cut to do all the cutting out of images but it could not recognise the "Gemma" image so I had to carefully and slowly fussy cut by hand with scissors which I am terrible at due to having the shakes from my health and medication.

I used this awesome book background pattern digital scrapbook paper that is sold by WickedSpiritFashion on Etsy which you can find HERE. The file is a PDF, so I went to a free website that could convert PDF's to JPG's then opened up the image in a Word document and resized it to 5 inches by 6 inches so when I go to cut it down for my card base it leaves me with a bit extra to work with just in case I make a mistake. I ended up cutting it down to 5 1/4 inches by 3 9/16 inches.

I had this cute sentiment idea and created it myself with the help of a free downloadable font and image. I cropped and sized it to 2.75 inches wide and 1.67 tall in Word and then printed it onto some X-Press It Blending Card. I used my Sizzix Big Shot to cut the "You're my favourite chapter, Always" sentiment with My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX Set 2 die (1 7/8" x 3 1/8").

I then found some 6x6 inch Lawn Fawn patterned paper in my craft room that would make a perfect carpet for "Gemma" to read on. I cut this down to 5 1/4 inches by 1/2 an inch.

I adhered all of the elements onto the card base with Tombow Mono Liquid Glue.
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And that's a wrap for my third creation for Heartcraft Paper Design Team!
Feel free to let me know what you think of this project in the comments below. 😊

- Ri