Valentine's Day Cupid!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm back!   I'm starting 2020 with my birthday month.  I know it has been some time, but due to a medical condition I found myself out of commission for some time.  That being said...I hope that you are as excited about Valentine's Day as I am.   This weekend I'm heading to a craft event with a bunch of ladies and it really was just a crop and craft, but we decided to make some items for trading.  

That will be for a latter post though.  First I will be walking you through how to make this cute little number!

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Supplies

• 5 x 5" Card Base 
• Baby Blue or sky print Card Stock 4.5 x 4.5"
• White Cardstock
• Pink Printed Cardstock
• Cupid Stamp Set (Clearly Besotted)
• 1/4" Double Sided Tape
• Dies (listed below) or Die Cutting Machine
• Polk-a-dot Embossing Folder

• Light Pink Cardstock
• Baker's Twine in red/pink
• Foam Square
• Foam Tape
• Glue
• Scissors
• Copic Markers / Artist Markers
• Pearl Embellishment

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Image Coloring

Once you have all your supplies ready, you can start by coloring in your images.  I like to do this first so that I can focus totally just coloring and fussy cutting (if you have the die set for your images, even better).

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Skin:

I like starting with the skin tones first.  I always lay down my lightest color first in order to saturate the paper for blending.

E000  Pale Fruit Pink
E11  Barley Beige
E13  Light Suntan
E93  Tea Rose

I always end my coloring with by blending again with my lightest color.  In this case the E000.

Wings:

To begin, I used the lightest color sparsely and leaving some white areas As I wanted white wings for the cupid, but wanted some details.

E81  Ivory
W1  Warm Gray No. 1
​W4  Warm Gray No. 4

For the wings, I did not end with blending at the end.  I wanted there to be some harsh lines to create more definition.  

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Toga:

I think I just wanted to say "Toga" since its not so often that I get to use it! LOL!!!

For this I will go back to saturating my color section with the lightest, creating definition and depth with the other colors, then blending it back out with the lightest. 

RV000  Pale Purple
RV10  Pale Pink
RV11  Pink
RV34  Dark Pink

Mail:

For this you will not have to blend out, but you will color in envelopes with you base color fully, with the exception of the one in the cupid's hand.  For that I feathered in the lightest color from the edges, leaving a strip of white. 

Heart: 
R83  Rose Mist

Envelopes:
BG10  Cool Shadow
BG11  Moon White
BG13  Mint Green

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Hair:

Usually for the hair, I like to use a combination of Copics and Prismacolor Pencils, but I decided to go simple on this since I was pressed for time.  I still used three varying colors to add shadows to the hair though.

Y11  Pale Yellow
Y15  Cadmium Yellow
Y26  Mustard

Once you have all your coloring done, cut out all of your images using dies or by fussy cutting. 

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Card Construction

First off, I used various images from the Cricut shop.  I love using my machine for making projects, but I know that a log of you like to use dies for your paper crafts due to the nice cuts made.  

Second, you can use your dies for this project as I didn't use any specific dies and you may have them all in your stash! 

Dies:

• 2" Banner (Light Pink Printed Paper)
• 1 1/2" Heart (Dark Pink Gingham Paper)
• 1/2" Heart (Light Pink Paper)
• 4" Scallop Square (White Paper & Embossed w/ folder)

As you can see there are not a lot of dies involved.  For the Sky printed background paper, you can simply use a paper trimmer to the desired size.   As for the those that are using a die cutting machine, you will easily be able to find and use all of these items in your system library.

Once you have all of your cuts ready, start assembly.

** If you are making multiples, then make an assembly line by adding all your tapes, foam adhesives, etc first. 

Start by using glue or double sided tape to lay down the sky printed background.  I like using double sided tape to speed up the process and so that my background doesn't warp when adhering. 

Tape Hack:  

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I wanted to add a dash more color and a different aspect to the card so I used twine that had red, pink and white in it.  I tied this around the card with a bow on the right side of the card.

**Don't forget to emboss with the polk-a-dot folder

Next, add double sided foam to the back of your the white scalloped square.  Just to give it some height to the project.   ​

​This will go over the twine as well. 

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It's time to start adding in the die cuts.
Lets start with the banner.  Use foam mounting tape to adhere this to the upper left side of the card. 

**Note, Once I cut my banner die, I used the scalloped square die at the top of my banner so that it would align perfectly with the square. 

Glue the smaller heart to the larger heart with a slight turn to the heart.  Not perfectly straight.  Once you have those glue together, you will add foam tape to the back of the larger heart and a foam square to the back of the light pink heart.  Because we used foam tape on the banner as well the foam square will help with the height variance.  Once you have adhered the heart duo to the upper portion of the banner, you will add the pearl embellishment on the smaller heart.

For the sentiment I used one from the stamp set on a light pink strip, trimmed it down close to the sentiment and created a fishtail banner for it as well.  I glued this down directly to the white background.  Next I used foam squared to adhere the cupid and mail to the lower right of the card, just above the twine bow.

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I hope that you found this tutorial fun to make and your next project.  Until next time.

XOXO - Heartcraftpaper