How fun is it to get a card in the mail but how much more fun is it when the card is interactive and pops out with dangling hearts for a special friend for Valentine’s day!

Well, this card is the ticket! With the simple addition of a band of cardstock you can create a pop out feature to be able to hang your heart punches on!

Measurements:
BASE: Poppy Parade 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
scored at 4 1/4″
Poppy Parade 1 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored at 2 1/8″,
4 1/4″ and 6 3/8″
DSP (4) pieces cut to 1 3/8″ x 2″
(2) pieces cut to 1/2″ x 4″
(1) piece cut to 3 3/4″ x 5″
(1) cut to 3″ square
Basic White (1) piece cut to 4″ x 5 1/4″
(2) pieces cut to 4″ x 3 7/8″
scrap for the heart punches and the securing
band

Stamp in Poppy Parade ink four sets of hearts from the Country Bouquet stamp set and punch out the hearts saving the negative space paper for the next step.

Turn the negative space paper over and place the hearts back into the punched space upside down so they fit into the negative spaces. Clean off the double heart stamp and stick to the acrylic block upside down as if this was a reversible stamp, ink in Poppy Parade and stamp the backside of the punched out hearts. Because we will be mounting these onto string and they will be free floating and able to spin you want to adhere a reverse image to the backside so that it will be pretty if it spins – you could adhere a plain Basic White punched heart onto the backside but I wanted the heart to be stamped in color)

Using Tear N Tape secure a line of string or trim to the middle of the heart over the Tear N Tape and secure the other heart over the bottom heart.

Repeat the procedure for two smaller hearts.

Using a scrap of 1/4 – 1/2″ x 4″ strip of Basic white cardstock fold it in half and adhere Tear N Tape to the strip and placing the large heart at the fold and the two smaller hearts on either side secure them with the strip of Basic White Cardstock on the backside of the pop up strip of Poppy Parade cardstock.
On the front side of the Poppy Parade strip add the four sections of 1 3/8″ x 2″ of DSP.
Add Tear N Tape to the back of the 2 outside sections and removing the release paper of the Tear N Tape adhere each outer edge to the card edge.

Add the 3 7/8″ x 4″ pieces of Basic White cardstock to the inside bottom panels of the card base.
Add the 1/2″ x 4″ strip of DSP to each white inside section.
The inside of the card is complete!

Adhere the basic white layer to the card front.

Adhere the larger DSP piece to the White layer.

Stamp the sentiment in Poppy Parade ink to the lower right hand side of the 3″ square piece of DSP and adhere to the card front.

Pop up a large and small heart and add a smaller heart close to the sentiment on the 3″ square. Add 2022-2024 In Color Matte Decorative Dots to the card front and the card is complete. Ready to send out and create a little joy in a special friends life!

Go out today and create some art of your own – one stamp at a time – isn’t that what the joy of stamping is all about!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie