Love Note for CutCardStock Valentine’s Day Blog Hop!

2/17/21 Top 3 Winner at Mod Squad Challenge!
2/19/21 Top 5 at Scrapping4fun Challenges!

Hi friends! A big giant WELCOME to the CutCardStock blog‘s Valentine’s Day Blog Hop going on February 6th and 7th – starting at 7:00 AM Central Time today and ending at 11:55 PM Central Time tomorrow! Affiliate links are used in this post at no cost to you. I really appreciate your support! SO COME HOP WITH US!

AND there is a $40 CutCardStock gift card up for grabs! Woo-hoo!

The winner will be randomly selected via number generator and announced on Monday, February 8th, on the CutCardstock blog and Facebook page! To be eligible for the $40 gift card, you must comment at each stop along the hop (good for ONE gift card entry) or upload a Valentine-themed project using CutCardStock products (good for TWO gift card entries). We would absolutely LOVE IT if you link up a project with us, PLUS it will increase your chances to win the gift card! ;)

To get your mojo going, here’s a pretty mood board with TONS of inspiration!

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Now, let me side-track you for a minute or three to share my clean and simple Valentine’s Day card featuring Classic Crest Solar White cardstock along with Pop-Tone Razzleberry cardstock and a few rolls of washi tape! This is a super simple design that came together pretty quickly!

I paired some new Valentine washi tape with some older washi tape that I had in my stash to create the diagonal panel on this card, and used Pop-Tone Razzleberry cardstock for the die cut and punched hearts.

Here is a quick tutorial showing you my process for making this awesome CAS card. I started by cutting a standard A2 size top-folding card base from Classic Crest Solar White 110# cardstock. I also cut an angled panel for the front (wide enough for four strips of washi tape), an inside panel and a narrow strip (wide enough for one strip of washi tape) for the inside panel, all from Classic Crest Solar White 80# cardstock. And I die cut two hearts from Pop-Tone Razzleberry cardstock.

I stamped the sentiment in pink ink in the lower right corner of the card base, adhered the angled panel, and then adhered the die cut hearts to the angled panel. I punched six tiny hearts from a scrap of the Pop-Tone Razzleberry cardstock and colored three of them with a pink alcohol marker to make them just a tad darker than the cardstock. I adhered a tiny punched heart to the center of the two die cut hearts and randomly placed three in the background.

For the inside, I adhered the washi tape strip to the narrow strip of cardstock, stamped the sentiment in pink ink and adhered two tiny punched hearts.

Sharing in the following challenges:
1. A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: #2-2021 – Anything Goes
2. Classic Design Challenge: #2 – Anything Goes
3. Jan’s Digi Stamps Challenge: February Anything Goes
4. Let’s Craft and Create: #168 – Anything Goes w/ optional Red, Pink and/or White
5. Mod Squad Challenge: All About Love
6. Moving Along With The Times: #127 – Valentines/Love
7. My Time To Craft: #450 – Love
8. Penny’s Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog: #489 – Anything Goes
9. Scrapping4fun Challenges: #185 – Wedding/Valentine/Friendship

CutCardStock products used:
Classic Crest Solar White 110# cardstock
Classic Crest Solar White 80# cardstock
Pop-Tone Razzleberry 65# cardstock

Other products used:
Stamps: Stampin’ Up Sealed With Love stamp set
Ink: Ranger picked raspberry archival ink, Nuvo alcohol marker- 453 (Paradise Pink)
Dies/Punches: Stampin’ Up Love Notes Framelits, Stampin’ Up Cookie Cutter punch (tiny heart)
Accessories: Bearly Art precision craft glue, Tombow Mono permanent adhesive, Eyelet Outlet Valentine’s Day washi tape, Stampin’ Up pink pattern washi tape, Me & My Big Ideas skinny glitter washi tape

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Okay, let’s get back to the hop! Here is the complete list of stops:

1. CutCardStock blog
2. Leslie >>> you’re here! <<<
3. Maureen
4. Judy VZ
5. Teri
6. Judy M
7. CutCardStock blog… C’mon, you know you want to link up! The linky tool is at the end of the post on the CutCardstock blog so that’s where you’ll want to head to link up your project – each upload is worth two entries for the gift card! Two entries per person!

You should have arrived here from the CutCardStock blog and your next stop is Maureen‘s blog! I hope you enjoy the hop and love all the gorgeous Valentine’s Day projects you’ll be seeing! If you get lost along the way or if you landed here in the middle of the hop somehow and want to join in the fun, be sure to head on over to the CutCardstock blog to read all the details and start from the beginning!

In closing, I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my Valentine’s Day card and you’re inspired to get crafty AND hop with us AND link up a Valentine-themed project! Be sure to check out all the awesome cardstock and other goodies at CutCardStock (adhesives, labels, stickers, pens, watercolors and ribbon to name a few). And head on over to the CutCardStock Facebook Page for more inspiration! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time!

Scrappy hugs,