Channin created a two for one card set using the positive and negative hearts she die cut from a panel created with floral layering stencils. A touch of ink blending and heat embossed sentiment finish off the designs beautifully. Visit the Hero Arts blog for a video tutorial.
When you think of Valentine’s Day icons I’m sure one of the first things most of us think of is a heart. It’s the symbol of love so of course it’s perfect for using on your handmade Valentine’s Day Cards. You can create a heart shaped card, it can be the large focal point of the design, use hearts to create backgrounds or as little accents around a scene. Hearts are so versatile and there are so many wonderful stamps, dies, stencils and other paper crafting products that feature them. So let’s take a look at some amazing card ideas that have lots of heart.
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There are lots of tiny hearts and some big heart balloons on this adorable card from Sindhura. These little stamped skunks are sharing their love in the clouds with a pretty blue ink blended and splattered background. Visit the My Favorite Things blog for a closer look.
This years Pantone color of the year is Peach Fuzz. Cathy was inspired to try it for a beautiful Valentine’s Day Card. She stenciled a heart background adding a heat embossed on vellum library card with die cut flower and sentiment. Watch a video tutorial on the CZ Designs blog.
Foiling gives any card such an elegant touch like these stunning cards from Emily. She also created a two-fer using the positive and negative of the foiled heart background. Over top she added die cut sentiments and beautiful red and metallic gold flowers. Learn more on the Altenew blog.
June used soft pastel colors of Copic markers to color in these yummy cupcake stamps that also feature love birds and lots of hearts. The scalloped oval and tiny heart background continues the soft touches on this sweet design. Visit the Pretty Pink Posh blog for all the details.
Masculine card ideas can be difficult but this fun frog card is perfect for guys of any age. The little stamped frogs are hopping for joy around a large die cut sentiment that features a big heart. There’s also a few glittery stenciled hearts on the background. Learn more at the Heffy Doodle blog.
Who doesn’t love pizza and a good pun!? These fun and funny shaped cards from Alicia use dies and stamps to create pizza shaped cards, there’s even a heart shaped one and check out the stamped envelopes that look like pizza boxes, so clever! Watch her video tutorial on the Taylored Expressions blog.
Teri used the new Smitten collections of pattern papers, stickers, dies and stamps from Photo Play to create these two stunning cards. I love the color combo of pink, red and teal, so pretty! I spotted these on her papierfetiche Instagram page.
Another thing that comes to mind with Valentine’s Day is sweet treats. This wonderful card from Amy uses tasty cupcake stamps from Pretty Pink Posh that she stamped on Kraft cardstock and colored with Copic markers. Visit the Amy Rysavy blog for a video tutorial.
This lovely design uses layering heart stamps that have a graphic, modern pattern with a gold die cut sentiment over top. Each layer of hearts is stamped in a different color, using a stamping platform helps as Laura will show you in her video tutorial on the Laura Fadora blog.
I hope you’ve been smitten by all these amazing card ideas and will create some Valentine’s Day card with lots of hearts!
-Heather
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we found on Amazon.
