Cardmaking: Heartbeat Cut with Cricut

For today's project, I use a single heart, cut on the Cricut cutter, to declare my love for someone special. Some string and a couple of strips of coordinating paper is all that I need to make this dramatic card successful. I do add a small gel sticker at the bottom of the card as well. This is done so that I can avoid adding complex wording, letting the image speak for itself.

This is the layout that I cut on the Cricut Expression 2.

Feed the sheet into the machine.

Remove the backing and cutouts from the cutting sheet.

These are all of the shapes that I cut with the above layout.

I start with an A4 sheet of black cardboard.

I fold this in half to serve as a card.

I then draw a random heartbeat on the cover of the card, using Tombow glue.

I lay string down on the glue line.

I apply 3-D squares to the back of a heart, cut with the Cricut.

I stick this down over the string. I also stick a line of coordinating paper at the bottom of the card.

Another strip of coordinating paper is stuck to the bottom of the card.

One more strip of paper is stuck to the top of the card.

Lastly, I stick a gel sticker to the bottom of the card.

You can watch a short compilation video of the steps shared above, on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Dy50BuJEcYc

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