With love From Me to You

Today I wanted to make a sweet Valentine's Day card for one of my bff's.  Of course, nothing says BFF like an image from Crafter's Companion Humphrey collection.  I wanted to give her a card with a handmade gift, so I decided to use my Crafter's Companion Ultimate Crafter's Tool to measure and score a card with a detachable bookmark.


The Ultimate Tool

 After choosing my patterned cardstock for the card base, I cut a 6x12" piece.  Using the scoreboard labeled BOXER, and the end labeled Box Lid, I scored at #9 from one end.  After folding the card in, I scored again at #9.  The short piece leftover is folded into the card, forming a three fold card, with the piece on the right as your bookmark.

Since the patterned cardstock, which was a leftover piece from another card, was so nicely embellished itself, I decided not to go with additional layers on the front.  I stamped and colored (with Copics, since I only have the Reds & Pinks from the Spectrum Noir Marker collection) my Humphrey image, then cut the scallop oval shape with my Nestabilities die and my Epic Six.  I framed it with coordinating purple paper.

I also stamped the sentiment from the same set, "With Love from Me to You", and hand cut it into a heart shape.  Emberllishing the card front with ribbon, I placed my image and sentiment on top, adding a touch of ink on the edges and a little bling.

On the inside, I layered some coordinating patterned paper on the inside, and a stamped sentiment about friendship.  The adjacent card inside has a shaped white layer for writing a message, with a tiny bit of ink and some embellishment.  You can see in the photo that to the far right is the back of my handmade bookmark.






The bookmark offers the sentiment "Earth Laughs with Flowers" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and features two more stamps from Crafter's Companion, from the set Popcorn Bear "Thanks".  More ribbon at the top of the bookmark finishes off the handmade gift.


My card is being entered into the February Something Sweet Challenge at Crafter's Companion Challenge blog.  They are offering a sweet pize to one random winner!