My Citrus hearts

It's been a while since I bought a craft magazine.  I used to buy them quite regularly and was bought a subscription to my favourite magazine many years ago. Nowadays, I don't buy them often as I have many craft materials and many designs in old magazines to look at.  

A few months ago, I was quite sad to discover my shed had leaked and totally wrecked most of my craft magazine stash but luckily there are a few still kicking around.

My favourite magazine is Papercraft Inspirations. They give you lots of different card designs, there's always a free gift  and my favourite section is the Quick cards section where you get about 15 designs that don't require loads of expensive resources and often make use of the templates they provide. (plus there are always free papers)

In one of my old magazines, there was this design for making a simple-looking cocktail card. 

It looks pretty identical to what I made.

As you can see, all that was needed was a white card blank and the paper colours and scissors and glue-stick. I used a jam jar and pringle lid to make the circle shapes (serendipitously the right sizes for going with my hearts) and I did use my x-cut heart punch.  

After I'd made them, I decided that I loved the heart citrus effect and wondered if I could use this idea for a different part where the citrus slice was the star of the show.

The x cut punch can be used to punch through funky-foam sheet so I made a lemon, lime and orange circle and then cut them in half to get more from my foam!

I sat and watched 'The Three Doctors' on DVD whilst making them. It was SO nice to finally see it after having read references to it for years. I bought it on DVD from Ebay.

For the background, I just drew tiny triangles with fineliner pens (measured) and then drew the groan-worthy sentiments freehand down the bottom.

On the whole, I was rather pleased with the design.

Funky foam and a simple heart punch are all you need for these (aside from the basics such as pens and card bases) and funky foam can be very cheap, sourced from Poundland as well as proper craft shops. My x-cut heart punch cost about £5 9 years ago and has more than paid for itself.

Linking with Daring Card Makers whose weekly challenge is Feeling Fruity this week and Creative Mondays with Claire Justine

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