Artsy Albums Scrapbook Album and Page Layout Kits by Traci Penrod: Valentine's Day Project with Tutorial

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Valentine's Day Project with Tutorial

Hi friends! Today, I have a cute Valentine's Day gift set to share with you. It's great for the upcoming holiday for a friend, co-worker, classmate or a babysitter. It would even make a "sweet" hostess gift if you're going to someone's house that evening. I made this project for Lori Whitlock's blog a while back but I never shared the tutorial here on my blog, soooo... here it is!

In this project, I used double-sided adhesive. Which ... is so fun to play with. It makes adding glitter, flocking powder, embossing powder or other decorative materials to your project quick and easy.

I knew I wanted to use glitter on my gift set so I started with the shape that I wanted to have the glitter on. I chose one of Lori’s cute new heart designs and resized it to fit my card front. (All cutting files links are below.)

Next, I opened my Cut Settings window and changed the setting to Double-Sided Adhesive, changed the paper size to 8 1/2 x 11 in page settings, loaded the adhesive into my CAMEO and hit cut.

After cutting out the adhesive material, I set that aside so that I could cut a white background heart to apply the double-sided adhesive to. I could have just applied the shape directly to my card, but I wanted the heart to pop up from the card with foam tape, so I needed a background. I wanted the background to be solid, so

I needed to remove the lines. To do this, I had to release the compound path by right-clicking and choosing Release Compound Path.

Now I was able to go in and delete the striped areas of the shape and cut out a simple white heart background. Before cutting, I made sure to go back into cut settings and change the setting to cardstock.

Now that I had two hearts cut out, I just needed to peel the yellow backing off of the double-sided adhesive and apply the striped heart to my white card stock background shape.

Next, I carefully peeled off the top white layer of the double-sided adhesive and applied red glitter. I wanted to make sure it was covered well, so I pressed the glitter down onto the adhesive before shaking off the excess.

I repeated these steps for the glitter word “Kisses” on my treat bag topper too. In order to have space for “Kisses”, I deleted the heart that comes on Lori’s cute purse treat bag topper. I also created two internal offsets for the front of this piece so that I could layer matching papers to the front.