Hugs and Kisses Card

January 19, 2012 3:16 am Peg R Cardmaking, Holidays, Paper Crafts, Projects, Valentine's Day

By Cardmaking & Scrapbook Layout Contributor, Peg from the blog Peg’s Crafting Corner.

I am often blowing kisses and sending hugs to my wonderful husband so when I saw the Hot Lips paper by Bo Bunny it just seemed perfect for me to use to make a card. No matter if it’s Valentine’s Day or just a normal day you, too, can throw the one you love a hug and blow them a kiss with this fun card that surely says, “I love you”.

Supplies used on this project:

Purple, Pink and Green Cardstock
Bo Bunny 6 x 6 Smoochable Paper Pad- Hot Lips and Lovin You X’s & O’s were used from the pad for this project
Base Camp Cricut Cartridge
Cricut Die Cutting Machine
Martha Stewart Deckle Blade Rotary Tool
Xyron Create A Sticker
Heart Punch
1/8″ 3D Mini Adhesive Dots
Martha Stewart Travel Trimmer
Favorite Tape Runner

Begin by cutting a 5″ wide by 10″ long card base from the purple cardstock and fold in half to create a 5″ x 5″ card.

Cut a 4 ½” x 4 ½” piece of the Hot Lips paper from the Bo Bunny Paper Pad and using the Deckle Blade Rotary Tool trim off approximately ¼” of the top and bottom of the paper. Next, adhere it to the cardstock with the tape runner.

Put a piece of the Bo Bunny X’s and O’s paper from the Smoochable Paper Pad on your Cricut cutting mat. Place the Base Camp Cricut cart in the machine and set the cut size to ¾”. Press the “Shift Lock” key as shown in the picture below. Press the corresponding keys to spell the word, “SWAK” and press “cut” to begin cutting. You will need to cut this out twice. The easiest way to do this is to use the “Quantity” key on the Cricut. Press is and use the “+” key to set the number of times to cut each letter to “2″.

Next, using the same steps above and pressing the “Shadow” key as shown in the picture below cut the word two more times-once from purple cardstock and once from pink cardstock. Make sure to turn off the “quantity” feature before cutting since you will be cutting these from different colors of cardstock. Notice how the “Shadow” feature has made each letter fatter than the first time it was cut?

Now run the letters cut from the X’s and O’s paper from the Bo Bunny Pad through the Xyron Create A Sticker and adhere them to the purple and pink cardstock letters.

Punch several hearts from the green and pink cardstock using the heart punch. Adhere them and the words to the front of the card with the Mini Adhesive Dots. You can stack 2 of the dots on top of each other and place them on the hearts so they stand off the card further than the letters to create another layer on the card. Tuck 3 hearts behind the patterned paper on the top for more fun using the tape runner to adhere them.

You now have a card that will allow you to send hugs and kisses to the one you love!

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