Card toppers make card making really easy and with the topper on it’s own you can make lovely cards but with a few simple additions you can make a really stylish card that looks great but doesn’t take up too much time when you need a card quickly.

What you need to make this card:

1. White A6 card blank
2. Rose With Silver LOVE Topper (Large)
3. Velvet 10mm Ribbon – Red
4. Mini 8mm Puffy Material Hearts – Silver
5. ‘Be My Valentine!’ Die-cut Banner
6. Red Stickles Glitter Glue
   
7. Plain White Card Insert OR Valentine’s Day Printed Card Insert
8. Hi-Tack Original All Purpose Very Sticky Glue
9. 6mm Double sided sticky tape

Directions:

Cut a length of the red velvet ribbon about 2-3cm longer than the height of the card blank. Apply a strip of 6mm double sided sticky tape along the whole length of the ribbon and then stick the ribbon to the left hand side of the card blank leaving a small white border on the the left hand side of the card and sticking the ends over the top and bottom of the inside of the card.

Apply more double sided sticky tape to all four edges of the rose card topper and stick this to the top of the card blank to the right of the ribbon.

Use the very sticky craft glue to stick several mini silver padded material hearts to the velvet red ribbon border ensuring that they are evenly spaced.

Use more craft glue to stick the ‘Be My Valentine!’ banner to the bottom of the card on the right of the ribbon border at an angle as shown in the picture.

Glue two more mini silver padded material hearts to the card above the left hand side of the banner and two more below the bottom right hand side of the banner.

Use the red stickles glitter glue to fill in a heart shape in the centre of the bottom red heart on the card topper and leave card flat for the glitter glue to dry.

Finally, once the glitter glue is fully dry, open the card up, fold the paper insert you are going to use into half and use double sided sticky tape to attach it to the inside of the card blank. This then covers over the ends of the red velvet ribbon that you stuck earlier.

Card idea by Janine.

One basic topper design with many colour scheme variations! These toppers are really easy to make on a large scale and so are perfect for wedding stationery. Make matching Wedding, Evening, Order of Service, Thank You cards and even Menus by using these toppers on pearlised card blanks with appropriate wedding banners. If you don’t want to use the idea for wedding cards then they will work very well for Valentine’s cards as well. Pictured here are two finished cards using a couple of the toppers, further down are pictures of 12 variations of the topper.

These are the various items used to make these toppers:

1. Woodware super duper square punch
2. Woodware super square punch
3. Pearlised gold & cream card
4. Dark Red Handmade Mulberry Paper
5. Dark Red With Gold Threads Mulberry Tissue Paper
6. Modern Hearts Burgundy
7. Modern Hearts Gold
8. Craft glue and/or Sticky foam pads

Obviously not all of the above items are used on every topper, simply select the card/paper and heart colour of your choice to suit your wedding stationery colour scheme.

Use the super duper square and super square craft punches to punch out backing squares from the card/paper types you have chosen.

Important Tip: If you have chosen Mulberry tissue paper for one or both of your backing layer squares, do not try to punch through it as it is as the punch will not cut through it cleanly and it may tear as it is too thin. Simply place the sheet of Mulberry tissue paper between two sheets of ordinary plain paper like printer paper and then punch through all of the layers for a clean cut.

Once you have punched all of your squares layer the smaller super squares on top of the larger super duper squares and secure them either with craft glue or with sticky foam pads for a raised 3D look.

Stick the heart of the colour of your choice onto the centre of the two squares again using craft glue or sticky foam pads.

Shown below are some suggested colour choices within the dark red, gold and ivory colour scheme that we have chosen here. Click on each picture for a larger view and a description of the card/paper types and all colours used.

Look out for Silver Modern Heart Toppers coming soon.

Topper/Card Ideas by Janine