Valentine Card Making Recipes

Who doesn't love receiving a handmade Valentine card? It's the ultimate way to show how much you care. We've fallen in love with these Valentine card ideas, which use materials that we find inspiring this season, including twine, rubber stamps, ink pads, hole punches, adhesive pearls and gems to name a few. Happy Valentine's Day!

Love You Tiles

Materials:

A2 Luxe White Folded Card

A2 Paper Bag Envelope

Red Cover Paper

Paper Bag Cover Paper

Red & White Baker's Twine

Letter Set Rubber Stamps

Cranberry Color Box Ink Pad

Red Uniball Pen

Recipe Tips:

Cut several pieces of text paper bag for word game tile pieces.

Using letter set and cranberry ink – stamp out LOVE YOU.

Using red unibal pen fill in numbers in lower right corner.

Attached using tape runner to cut flat red card.

Attach red card to folded luxe card and tie with bakers twine to finish.

Pair with paper bag envelope.

You are Loved

Materials:

A6 Paper Bag Folded Card

A6 Persimmon Envelope

Persimmon Cover Paper

Fuchsia Cover Paper

Glitter Paper in Fuchsia, Silver & Purple

Multi Heart Punch

Pepeat Gem Heart Stickers

Silhouette Machine

Super Tape

Recipe Tips:

Silhouette cut on persimmon flat cards the phrase :YOU ARE LOVED.

Cut 3 strips of glitter paper – silver, fuchsia & purple and mount behind cut out.

Layer all onto a paper bag folded card.

Punch out Fuchsia hearts.

Add gem embellishments.

Pair with persimmon envelope.

Love & Hugs

Materials:

A6 Folded Beet Card

A6 Blossom Envelope

Poppy or

Papaya 2 1/2" Circle Stickers

Chocolate Text Paper

Poppy Text Paper

Persimmon Cover

Red & White Baker's Twine

Recipe Tips:

Trim beet folded card.

Cut out arms form poppy text.

Use stickers to create head on card.

Cut out hair from chocolate text and stick in place.

Tie baker’s twine around pigtails.

Cut out persimmon heart and stamp using glue pad, sprinkle with silver glitter.

Stick heart in place.

Layer arm on top of heart.

Accent with ric rac ribbon at bottom of card.

Draw eyes and mouth.

Pair with blossom envelope.

Lacey Valentine

Materials:

A7 Peacock Folded Card

A7 Persimmon Heart Card

A7 Superfine White Envelope

Superfine White Cover Paper

Scarlet Color Box Ink Pad

Clear Embossing Powder

VersaMark Watermark Ink Pad

Opaque White Embossing Powder

Adhesive Pearls

Happy Valentine's Day Stamp

Lace Starburst Rubber Stamp

Recipe Tips:

A7 persimmon die cut heart shape.

Using lace stamp and versamark pad – stamp twice off the edge of the heart.

Sprinkle with opaque white embossing powder & heat emboss with heat tool.

Stamp Happy valentine on superfine white square with scarlet ink.

Sprinkle with clear embossing powder and heat set using heat tool.

Attach square suing tape runner.

Finish lace stamps with pearl accents.

Pair with superfine white envelope.

Bear Hugs

Materials:

A2 Red Folded Card

A2 Strawberry Envelope

So In Love with Love 12x12 Paper

Red Cover Paper

Strawberry Cover Paper

Bear with Heart Rubber Stamp

VersaMark Watermark Ink Pad

Opaque White Embossing Powder

Red Uniball Pen

White Uniball Pen

Recipe Tips:

Cut 12x12 and layer onto folded red car with tape runner.

Using bear stamp with versamark pad on strawberry flat cover.

Emboss with opaque white powder & heat gun.

Layer onto red cover and attach to 12x12 using tape runner for each layer.

Fill in letters using red uniball pen.

Write in words with white uniball pen.

Pair with strawberry envelope.

Love Birds

Materials:

A2 Blossom Folded Card

A2 Red Envelope

Pool Cover Paper

Peacock Cover Paper

Red & White Baker’s Twine

Valentine Mini Clothespins

Heart Shapes Pack

White Uniball Pen

Foam Squares

Recipe Tips:

Cut birds from 12x12.

Layer onto peacock and cut out.

Attach to pool flat card with foam squares.

Wrap with bakers twine and attach to blossom folded card.

Attach heart die cuts with mini clothes pins.

Finish with a message in white Uniball pen.

Pair with red envelope

Fish Bubbles of Love

Materials:

Clover Cover Paper

Peacock A7 Flat Card

Persimmon 4 Bar Heart Card

Heart Shapes Pack

Eco-White Cover Paper

XO Rubber Stamp

Seaglass Color Box Ink Pad

Googly Eyes

1/8" Hole Punch

1/4" Hole Punch

Recipe Tips:

Use 4bar persimmon heart as body.

Use heart die cuts as fins and tail in fuchsia.

XO stamped in blue ink on eco-white and cut outline.

Hole punch circles for bubbles from eco-white using 1/4" and 1/8" hole punches.

Mount peacock flat card to clover 8 1/2 x 11" paper folded in half – then mount each of the heart shapes to create fish body using tape runner.

Add googley eye and your done.

Pair with pool A9 envelope.

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