Friday, January 17, 2025

CIRCLE MY ROCK & ROLL HEART

For my final Heart Shaped card this week, I decided highlight the heart by giving it a circular "window" to hang in.


After die cutting the front window with the Stylish Shapes Die, I temporarily positioned the window over the cardstock that I was going to stamp the heart on.  This insured the heart was centered in the window.  Then I stamped it through the window opening using the Rock & Roll Technique.  


This quick & easy technique is an oldie but a goodie.  Just ink your stamp first with the lightest color of ink.  In my case this was Calypso Coral.  Then before stamping, "rock & roll" your stamp in a darker shade of ink like Petunia Pop to pick up some of the darker color around the edges.  This gives some added depth to the stamped image.  If you aren't familiar with this technique, you can watch a video that I created for Connect to Create over a year ago.  It might be old, but the tips are still good!


Before adhering the window over the heart image I embossed it with the Dotted Circles embossing folder and then tied a snippet of ribbon to the window.

The sentiment from Heart Shaped was stamped on Basic White cardstock and die cut with a die from the same bundle.

To add some more texture to the heart, I added a heart die cut from one of the Peach Pie 2024-2026 In-Color Designer Series Paper patterns. 


The little flowers and stems were also die cut with dies from the Heart Shaped Sale-A-Bration bundle and then adhered to the heart.

For all the details and step-by-step directions for today's card use this link to download a FREE TUTORIAL.


To make the inside pretty, after stamping the sentiment from Bee My Valentine, I stamped the Heart Shaped heart over it with Peach Pie ink.  A strip of the same In-Color DSP used for the heart die cut was added to the bottom of the Basic White.

If you would like more information on any of the products used, please click on the images below.  You will be taken to my Stampin' Up! store where you can learn more about the product and/or make a purchase.

If you have enjoyed this week's cards with the Heart Shaped stamp set and dies, it can be yours for free with a $120 purchase.  There are also several other beautiful Sale-A-Bration items to choose from.  Don't you just love this Sale-A-Bration promotion.  It comes only once a year, but for every $60 you spend on merchandise you get to choose something for free.

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