Multiple Uses from 1 Design - this one is a Valentine!

Do you have a favorite card design that you use over and over? Isn't it great when you can get multiple uses out of one lay-out. Just change the color or the sentiment. Check out another ornament/vase card here.

I find this happening with the ornament punch and using it as a vase. Its so easy to turn the ornament into a vase by cutting off the pointy bottom.

I do like to jazz things up, so . . .

• We embossed both the white strip and the vase with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder. 
• We added a 1/8" Black Taffeta Ribbon bow
• Used the Curly Label Punch as the layer for the sentiment.
• I also put a self-stick Rhinestone in the vase as an  afterthought - I liked it.

We did this card at the January Stamp-a-Stack.  In January we made this as a "Thinking of You" card.

Then I thought about using it again as a Valentine and putting hearts in place of the flowers. It was fun, but the Calypso Coral seemed like the wrong color for Valentine's Day. 

So then I used Red Glimmer Paper - and WOW! Now the card really pops.

 

Do you send Valentine cards? Keep watching this blog, I'll be posting photos of the Valentines we made last week.

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--Katie