His and Hers Love Cards

Welcome to World Card Making Day! Operation Write Home is having a blog hop to celebrate. Participants are to make a love-themed card, since we LOVE card-making. It also has to meet OWH guidelines. You can read more about their current requirements, in light of the drawdown in Afghanistan, here.

I decided, instead of just one card, why not make two, using the same design and just changing up the color scheme? So I chose this sketch by OWH, and created masculine & feminine love cards based on it:

I used two of Spellbinders' "Fascination" Cut-Fold-Tuck dies for the circle elements on both cards. The main requirement for these dies is to use double-sided paper, since the back shows when you fold the pieces down. For the feminine version, I used papers from My Mind's Eye's "Love Me" and Recollections "Valentine" 6x6" paper pads. In the masculine card, I used a pattern from the "Blue Floral" 6x6" pad by My Mind's Eye for the smaller piece, and another piece from my scrap stash (I believe it's by 7 Gypsies) for the large circle. After cutting & folding the die cuts, I ran them through my Xyron Creative Station to apply adhesive to the backs, and set them aside while I worked on the rest of each card front.

I chose a patterned paper for the main panel on each card from the same pads I'd used for the circle die cuts. I double-matted the one I chose for the masculine card with 2 shades of grey cardstock, and the feminine one with pink and burgundy.

I chose 2 different cream cardstocks for the main panel on each card. After marking where the matted patterned paper panel would go, I stamped the greeting from Hero Arts' "Year Round Sentiments" set on each, using Hero Arts mid-tone shadow inks in Red Royal for the feminine, and Navy for the masculine. On the feminine card, I matted this piece on the same pink & burgundy I'd used for the patterned paper panel. For the masculine, I first matted it on the lighter grey cardstock I'd used. Since I didn't have a big enough piece of the darker grey cardstock, I inked the front of a white A2 card base with Weathered Wood Distress ink to create my outer mat "layer." Finally, I adhered all the pieces together.

Thanks for stopping by! When you're ready to do more hopping, you can just return to the beginning.