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3d150: Heart Book

For today’s 3d Challenge, I thought I’d make a heart book. This is inspired by a similar sample I saw in the Heidi Swapp booth at CHA.

heart book

First, use heart templateto cut out 6 hearts from different papers. I used raspberry, pink and red. (Sorry for the blurry picture — I was using my iPhone.)

Cut your card base to 8.25 x 5.5. Score at 4 and 4.25.

Score card base as shown

Fold hearts in half. Add glue to one side and adhere to another heart. Be careful to line up your edges as closely as possible for a clean finished look. Hearts should fan out like the pages of an open book when done.

When pages are assembled, add glue to outside of heart and then position it as shown against the card’s “spine.” Close the card to adhere the heart shaped pages in place.

Once you’ve adhered the front of the heart pages to the cover of the card, repeat the process with the back.

Hearts should glue together and form a book.

Embellish front of card as desired. I used Friends ‘Til the End by PTI, and used this cardas my inspiration.

Inside view. I’m not quite done embellishing. Are we ever really done embellishing?

Hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial. Your challenge is to create a heart book of your own. I filled mine with reasons why I love my parents and am sending as their Valentine. What will you do with yours?

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Elenor Sandström on February 7, 2012 at 4:02pm

What a wonderful project! =)

Permalink Reply by Susanna Boyd on February 7, 2012 at 4:04pm

Thanks! I love it. I'm still jazzing up the inner pages, but it's really a fun and easy project.

Permalink Reply by Lynn in St. Louis on February 7, 2012 at 4:04pm

Awww....how very sweet This turned out GREAT!!!

Permalink Reply by Diana Auberle on February 7, 2012 at 4:24pm

How cute is that, a wonderful project. Thanks for the tutorial.

I hope to find time to try it out and be able to play along this wek. The hospital I work is a madhouseright now and work is exhausting. ( And I just have teenager to work with)

Permalink Reply by Susanna Boyd on February 7, 2012 at 5:06pm

Diana! Sounds so stressful! I highly recommend locking the door of your craft room and hiding there with a glass of wine...

Permalink Reply by Diana Auberle on February 8, 2012 at 3:25am

Susanna, that's a great idea and I must admit thought of someting like that, too... But elieve it or not, I love my job so I go there every day.

But I think i gonna make that project wih the kids.

Permalink Reply by Susanna Boyd on February 8, 2012 at 10:51am

One of my BFF's is a pediatric charge nurse. She loves it, but is becoming very jaded about parents!

Permalink Reply by loopylou on February 8, 2012 at 11:47am