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PUNCHING, INKING

Valentine’s for men

Men seem notoriously hard to craft cards for. However, these cards have details
aplenty with men in mind but with leaving lots of white space in the design
Designed by
Keren Baker so they are still contemporary and could even be unisex too.

How to attach your punched hearts
What do I need?
A C
For all cards
White, red, pearlescent silver &
turquoise card
Basic Essentials Circle die set by
TOP TIP!
Tonic Studios
Love Notes stamp set by Clearly Use a wet glue
Besotted Stamps when attaching
Metallic Silver Super Fine & Primary Ebony the hearts as
Superfine WOW! Embossing Powder this allows for
Embroidery thread you to move Punch, score and fold the hearts Glue a folded heart under the thread
Heart & Cross punch by Fiskars in different colours. and then glue a matching coloured
Red Apple, Indigo Batik & Aqua Splash Nuvo the hearts into
Aqua Flow pens by Tonic Studios place more heart on top of the thread so the
White gelly roll pen easily. thread is sandwiched together.
Black fine liner pen
Red & white twine B C

Wrap some thread onto a piece The filled hearts are ready to use in
of spare card and secure the ends your project.
with washi tape.

TOP TIP! Love
Use substantial card or
watercolour card when Create a 10.5x16.5cm white card
adding watercolour to your 1 blank. Trim a slightly smaller piece of
projects. Thinner card will red card. Die-cut a partial circle from the
left-hand side of the red panel.
simply warp. If your card
does warp a little, weight it Stamp and heat emboss in black the
overnight to help flatten it. 2 ‘love’ sentiment onto the white panel.

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