Rick Adkins : ladybugs

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you the super cute card that I made as my January Thank You Cards. I used the From My Heart Specialty Designer Series Paper and the super cute and fun Little Ladybug Stamp Set to create my cards. The Designer Series Paper features foil accents and the Little Ladybug stamp set is a Saleabration Host Set (which can only be earned with a qualifying order or party of $300 or more. Here's a look at my card.

I started off by cutting all my card bases into 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 and then scored them at 4 1/4 to make a standard A2 card base. Once I had all the card bases done with my Real Red Cardstock I then cut my Designer Series Paper. The Designer Series paper was cut at 4 x 5 1/4 and I attached them to the front of the card bases with a little liquid glue.

I only made ten of this design because I have found that after that many of the same thing I am bored with that design and ready to move on to something else. So after putting my paper on the card bases I cut out some stitched nested labels and stamped my ladybugs and colored them with Real Red Stampin' Blends.

After all the coloring was complete I attached them to the card fronts using Multipurpose Liquid Glue. I then punched out the two different heart designs on the the designer series paper using the Heart Punch Pack which are part of the Heartfelt Bundle. I stamped my sentiment on the scalloped heart in Real Red Ink before punching each one out.

So after all the punching I had enough hearts to do all my cards. So I laid them all out to look at them and see if I needed anything else for my cards.

Once I had everything laid out and looked at everything I decided that it needed another heart, but I didn't want a large one. I thought that the smaller heart would work just great and not over power the card but add to it. So I pulled out my Dog Builder Punch and the scraps from the larger hearts and went around and punched out enough of the smaller ones to make my cards. The heart in the dog punch is the perfect size to do the small ones and it almost fit the red little heart in the design above.

After everything was put together I decided that the large hearts needed to be popped up well the scalloped one anyway. So I attached the regular heart with liquid glue and used a couple stampin' dimensionals on the scalloped heart with my sentiment. I attached the small dog punch heart with a mini glue dot.