You Make My Heart Pop Valentine Card

Benetta
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You Make My Heart Pop Valentine Card - finished card Use a lollipop as the focus point of a Valentine's card. Dress up the lollipop and add a heart that "pops" to make sure that your Cupid knows that he is the centre of your universe.

Total Time: 20 minutes

Yield: one card

Supplies:

11 x 5.4 inch rectangle cut from 12" x 12" red scrapbook cardstock
4.6 x 4.6 inch square cut from a sheet of ordinary white printer paper
red flat-sided lollipop
4 x 3 inch rectangle cut from white embossed net fabric
A6 size (4.1 x 5.8 in) piece cut from a white glitter foam sheet
blonde synthetic doll hair
pair of 5mm wiggle eyes
small piece of left-over red cardstock
15mm wide black self-adhesive decorative lace tape
Pilot silver marker pen
2.1 inch high heart-shaped cookie cutter
heart-shaped paper punch
needle and white thread
quick-drying craft glue (such as Bostik Clear)
clear sellotape
standard scissors
pencil
ruler

Steps:

Use the silver pen to draw squiggles all over the piece of white printer paper.

You Make My Heart Pop Valentine Card - use silver pen to draw squiggles on white printer paper

Score the red cardstock to create a card sized 5.4" x 5.4". With the fold at the top, centre and attach the piece of white printer paper to the front of the card.

You Make My Heart Pop Valentine Card - score red cardstock and with fold at top attach the white paper to center

Fold the cellophane around the lollipop towards the back of the lollipop and use sellotape to secure.

Valentine Card - fold wrapper to back of lollipop and secure with tape

Centre and glue the lollipop to the front of the card.

You Make My Heart Pop Valentine Card - center and glue lollipop to card

Thread one of the longer sides of the embossed net fabric with a tacking stitch, gather the frills together and glue the dress in place.

You Make My Heart Pop Valentine Card - gather the net fabric and glue dress to card

Use the cookie cutter to trace a heart onto the piece cut from the white glitter foam sheet, cut it out and glue it in place. Punch a heart from the left-over red cardstock and glue it on the white glitter foam heart to add the heart that "pops."