Sweet Heart Cup Valentine with a Ruffled Ribbon

One of my customers requested a tutorial on how to put together a Sweet Heart Cup Card.  I was happy to oblige!

Card base is Whisper White 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, folded in half.  Also cut in WW a 3 x 3 inch piece and a 5 x 3 3/4 inch piece.
You will also need the following:
Real Red card stock: 5 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches
Basic Black card stock:  3 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches
Real Red polka dot paper from Brights Patterns Designer Series Paper Stack:  2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches

 Punch the 3 x 3 whisper white piece by putting it all the way down into the punch and center it.

Put the cup inside the punched heart opening you just made. Fill the treat cup and remove the adhesive backing.

 Apply the polka dot piece over the heart cup.  Apply a thin layer of Mono Adhesive around the edge of the Whisper White back.

 Holding the cup and steadying the card edge adhere to Basic Black piece.

 Apply Sticky Strip around the outside of the heart starting in the cleavage as shown above.

 Fray at least 1/2 inch of Real Red Satin ribbon.

 Find a fiber in the middle of the fray to start pulling.  As you pull the fiber, the ribbon will gather.  Just continue to pull that same fiber out and push and gather the ribbon until you get the length you need. This fiber is really strong, you do not need to be gentle, just patient, as this process can take a little bit of time. (Keep measuring it around the heart cup.  Make sure you have at least 1 inch extra length of gathered ribbon.

Trim one end of the ribbon. Remove the red adhesive backing from the Sticky Strip and adhere the gathered ribbon around the heart cup.  I began adding the ribbon to the spot on the heart where I knew I wanted to add a bow.

Trim the second end of the gathered ribbon where the ends meet, so you have a nice finished look.
I tied the bow separately and adhered it with a mini glue dot.  Finish stamping and layering the card as shown in the sample, or anyway you want.  Ink used is Real Red, Pretty in Pink, and Staz On Jet Black.  Stamp Sets used are I {heart} hearts, Perfect Punches, and Filled With Love.  Punches used were Full Heart Extra Large, 1 3/8 x 5/8 Oval Large, Scallop Oval Extra-Large, Heart small, and 2 x 1 3/8 Oval Extra-Large.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Kelly

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Are these too cute, or what?? This tutorial was sent to me from Tami White, Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator. She sent out a Holiday Helper e-mail last week with this project and I think they are so adorable. I'm sending one to each of my niece and nephew for Christmas. Hope they enjoy. Tami's instructions said to use the scallop circle die cut for the Big Shot and I don't have that die, so I manipulated my digital cutting program to create this scalloped circle. It's about 2 1/2 inches wide. I was able to then punch the appropriate 1 3/4 inch SU circle punch for the window for the Sweet Treat Cups to fit through and again used the digital cutting machine to cut out 2 1/4 inch circles for the back so my marshmallows didn't fall out.

To create these, you just seal a Stampin Up Whisper White Medium envelope and then cut off 1 1/2 inches of one of the side ends. You use the part you cut off to apply your hat parts to and this will then slide over the large part of the envelope to act as the lid. When you crimp the envelope, it makes it smaller, so the part you cut off will have no problem sliding over the whole thing. The dimensions of the hat pieces are 2 x 3 3/4 inches and 1 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches. The eyes were made with Stampin Up 3/4" circle punch and 1/2" circle punches. Paper used was basic black, pumpkin pie, bashful blue, real red and glorious green. I also used a white gel pen, a Stampin Write black journal pen and Stampin Pastels (Real Red) and a Stampin Sponge to create the rosy cheeks.

The flower is the Stampin Up 5-petal flower punch, the leaves are Stampin Up Little Leaves Sizzlits die and the snow flake is from the Stampin Up Sizzlits 4 pack dies, Snowflakes set #2. The Stampin Up ribbon is the 3/4" Polka-dot grosgrain ribbon and the 1/4" Real Red grosgrain ribbon.

The stamped Merry Christmas image is from the Four the Holidays stamp set found in the Holiday Mini Catalog (good only until January 4th, 2010)

Please let me know if you have any questions about this project. I'm happy to provide more detail.

Thanks for looking!

Kelly