This is one of my favorite cards I made for this Valentine’s Day.  I like that it has a lot of layers.

Supplies:

• VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Bug Stamp (mine came from the 50 cent bin at Pat Catan’s)
• Red Card Stock
• White Card Blank 4 by 5 inches
• Pink Card Stock
• Color Box Pigment Stamp Pad in Cranberry
• Background Stamp (Stampendous)
• Scrap cardstock or paper
• Border paper punch of your choice
• ribbon
• Staz-On Stamp Pad in Black

Cut the red cardstock to 3 by 4 inches. Lay it down on the scrap paper or card stock and randomly stamp the bug onto the cardstock with the VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad. A Watermark stamp pad doesn’t add color to your cardstock, all it does is make the original color darker.  As you see below all of the bugs are still red but they are a darker red.

Be sure to stamp some of the bugs off the edge. My bugs all face the same direction but you could make yours going every which way if you’d like.

Because I’m impatient for the ink to dry I held the carstock with a pinch type clothes pin and dried it with my heat gun.

Cut the pink card stock to 3 by 4 1/2 inches.  Punch one end with a border punch.

Using the background stamp (the one I used is “Fleurdy Stripe” by Claire Hampton), stamp the bottom right hand corner of the card front with the Cranberry Ink.

Time to put it all together… Tape the pink cardstock under the red with just the punched edge showing on the left hand side.  Stamp another bug on the red cardstock with black Staz-On.  Cut the ribbon in half and tie it in a knot.  Take it around to the back of the pink and red cardstock and tape in place.  Tape this to the face of the card blank.

Write or stamp “Love Bug”, or any other sentiment,  in the lower left hand corner.