Hello everyone. I am here today with a card that I seem to be needing a lot of these days; A Get Well Soon card.
I wanted to use some of my pretty spring papers from Memory Box to pull a get well card together. I also want to layer them up so I pulled out my Scallop Pinpoint Loving Heart Cutout Dies because the shape is an exact match (Memory Box did that on purpose) to the Get Well Soon Loving Heart Die.
To begin I selected one of the Spring Plaids from the Springtime Bouquet Paper Pack. Then I selected 3 additional sheets of paper from the Cottage Stripes and Dots Paper Pack in coordinating colors to the plaid. In this case, that was pastel blue stripe, pastel pink stripe, and pastel lavender stripe.
I stacked the 4 papers together and put a bit of low tack tape on each side to keep them lined up. Next, I took a wide piece of low tack tape and aligned the 4 Scallop Pinpoint Loving Heart dies inside the other until I had all four of them centered. First I cut the paid piece which would be my top layer.
Next, I removed the largest die and cut my Pastel Pink Paper with the three remaining dies, using the first cutout to make sure I had it aligned the same. Next, I removed the Plaid Paper and another die then used the pink cutout to line up my dies in the same spot and run it through my die cut machine. I did this until all four layers of the patterned paper were cut with a heart in the center. This gives you the stacked look that you see in the photo. At the bottom layer, I put a scrap of cardstock behind the smallest heart, so it appears that you actually have 5 layers. This is one reason that I chose the text weight of the patterned paper versus using thick cardstock. All of my cardstock is at least #110, so it would have been a lot hard to cut that many layers.
For the Get Well Soon loving Heart, I chose Gold Foiled cardstock. I was also able to cut some really small hearts from the scraps of that gold paper to add to the font of the card. I have a little group of dies that sits in a magnetic bowl on my desk that are all really tiny and I don't know the brand, but I love to use these little hearts on lots of cards, especially right now.
Because there are so many layers, be sure to use a heavyweight cardstock #110 or higher) for your card base. If you don't, it will just keep falling flat.
You could also add foam tape between each layer, but because my card is actually going into the mailbox, I kept my layers flat.
You could make some beautiful Easter Cards in this style. I just happened to need a Get Well Soon card today. I hope my design gives you ideas for creating your own version of whatever card you need today.
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