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Heart Pocket Book Box & Card

By: Karen Gibson
Rubber Roadsters
Advanced Stamping Team

Both these samples utilize the Heart Pocket technique. The Book Box is made in the same manner as the card. Simply prep the box first with cream acrylic paint.

Supplies:
Kissing stamp (Provo Craft)
Word stamp (Michael’s dollar bin)
Jet Black StazOn (Tsukineko)
Close to Cocoa cardstock for base; cut to size: 5 ½” x 5 ½” (Stampin’ Up!)
Basic Grey designer paper; cut to size 5 ¼” x 5 ¼”
Purely Pomegranate cardstock; cut to size: 3 5/8” x 5 ¼” (Stampin’ Up!)
Designer patterned paper for heart pocket
Vellum Cardstock   
Scrap of Sky Blue cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
Scrap of Pomegranate, white cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
Classic Dye Ink Pads (Stampin’ Up!):
    Purely Pomegranate
    Wiild Wasabi
    Close to Cocoa
    So Saffron
    Going Gray
Aqua Painter
Flat back pearl beads (Darice)
Lace paper dollies
Cuttlebug Machine and Embossing Plate (Provo Craft)
Mini Glue Dots (Zots)
Scotch Glue Stick (3M)

For the Book Box:
Paper Mache Book Box (Jo-Anne’s, Etc.)
Americana Cream Acrylic Paint (DecoArt)
Foam Brush

Instructions:

1.   Print out heart pattern. Cut one heart pocket from designer paper. Cut out another heart pocket ¼ inch smaller using cardstock weight vellum.

2.   Cut the “flaps” off the designer paper heart and glue them to the top of the vellum cardstock flaps.

3.   Cut lace from dollies and use a glue stick to attach to the designer paper flaps. Fold over the flaps and secure with mini glue dots. Apply glue stick to only the bottom edges of the vellum (the parts that will not be seen by the fold) and adhere to the larger bottom heart.

4.   Use lace again and glue to the back of the upper part of the larger heart.

5.   Glue the half pearl beads to the front of the pocket.

6.   Layer the Basic Grey designer paper to the base card. Select an embossing plate and run the Pomegranate cardstock through Cuttlebug. Center and attach this over the designer paper.

7.   Glue heart pocket to card.

8.   Stamp image onto white cardstock with Jet Black StazOn ink. Add color with dye inks using Aqua Painter and picking up a dye ink color of your choice. Clean Aqua Painter brush with water between colors.

9.   Layer stamped and colored image onto Pomegranate cardstock scrap and glue to heart pocket at an angle.

10. Stamp word image using Jet Black StazOn onto Sky Blue cardstock scrap and glue to card.

11. For the box, apply 2 coats of acrylic paint with a foam brush.  Allow paint to dry between coats.

12. When the final coat of paint has dried, attach a completed heart pocket card front to the front of the book box using the glue dots or a glue stick.

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