1 Feb 2017

Love is in the Air - Valentine Card with the FREE File

Love is in the Air Valentine's Plane Banner Card- FREE Silhouette file - by Janet Packer (Crafting Quine). Originally published on http://craftingquine.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/love-is-in-air-valentine-card-with-free.html


Hiya, Today I have made a Valentine's card using this week's FREE file from the Silhouette Design Store - the Love Is In The Air phrase, Design #176413.  I couldn't resist taking it up into the skies!

Love is in the Air Valentine's Plane Banner Card- FREE Silhouette file - by Janet Packer (Crafting Quine). Originally published on http://craftingquine.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/love-is-in-air-valentine-card-with-free.html

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
  • Silhouette CAMEO® orPortrait®
  • White Printable Cardstock
  • Grey Heavyweight Pearl Cardstock
  • Vellum
  • Card Adhesive
  • Adhesive Foam Pads
  • Glossy Accents or similar
  • Silhouette Adhesive Corrugated Paper
  • Love Is In The Air file download by Silhouette #176413
  • Amazing Plane by Echo Park file download #125012
  • Cloud Borders file downloads #2320 #173527



Here are my construction steps:
  1. Make a rectangular card base in grey heavy-weight pearl cardstock in the Silhouette Design software.
  2. Adhere a large rectangle of white corrugated paper to the card base.
  3. In the software set up a Print and Cut page and arrange the plane elements to fit into a white rectangle. Add coloured frames or strips as required.  Add cut lines to the outside of the rectangle.
  4. Ungroup the quote and rearrange it to follow the line of the banner.
  5. Copy the plane and banner and add cut lines around the outside.
  6. Print and then cut out the elements on your Silhouette.
  7. Cut cloud borders from vellum (I used regular and pearlised vellum).
  8. Adhere the rectangles to the card with card adhesive.
  9. Adhere the smaller elements to the card with adhesive foam pads.
  10. Adhere the vellum cloud pieces obscuring the adhesive behind decorative strips of card or tuck the ends under the rectangular pieces.
  11. Add some glossy accents to the hearts.
  12. Card complete!

This makes for a fun valentine card.  You can change out the colours or materials for a more masculine or feminine look.




The Love Is In The Air design is available free in the Silhouette Design store for one week from 30th January 2017.

Technical Alert !! For these photos I've been experiementing with a light box. I'm finding it difficult to getting a nice sharp focus. Apologies if this spoils your viewing. Do you ever have photo problems?

Challenges Entered:
Crafting By Designs - February Anything Goes
Crafty Creations Challenges - #334 February Anything Goes 
Glitter N' Sparkle - #226 Love is in the Air

7 comments:

Linda Simpson said...

This is gorgeous Janet!
Hugs
Linda xxx

Shabneez said...

Fab card Janet! Love the clouds......Shabneez x

Jackie T said...

Hi Janet this is a gorgeous card. I love it. Take care. Hugs Jackie

Barbara Bruder said...

This card is so cute. Love that you made it a longer card, perfect for the plane with a banner. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Creations Challenges for our latest challenge. We look forward to seeing more of your beautiful work. Hugs, Barbara { Crafty Creations Challenges }

Unknown said...

I love this card Janet, a fabulous idea for a Valentine card. Cathy x

Janet Packer said...

Thank YOU for that lovely welcome Barbara. I'm looking forward to joining in with more of your challenges.

Vic said...

Gorgeous card - really professional looking! Thanks for sharing your creativity with us this week at Glitter n Sparkle - Vic, DT x