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12 Handmade Valentine’s Day Card Ideas

January 7, 2025 by Heather Holbrook

 

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

These cool cards from Laura are a throw back to the 70’s with groovy, colorful die cut letters that spell Love, backed with vellum. The background uses a wavy heart stenciled for ink blending and dry embossing. Watch her video tutorial on the Laura Fadora blog.

With the Winter Holidays over it’s now time to start thinking about Valentine’s Day projects. If you’re creating cards for your one true love, a batch for co-workers, helping your child make cards for class mates or for your bestie for Galentine’s Day you’re sure to find some inspiration in today’s post. We’re taking a look at some fresh, new Valentine’s Day cards hand made with stamping, dies and other paper crafting products, enjoy!

Beneath each photo you’ll find a link, click it for more details like tutorial, techniques and products used.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

Christy used new stamps from Lawn Fawn for this darling Panda Valentine. She used lots of pink with teal green for her color combo. I love the cute little envelopes and scalloped die cut circle for a soft touch. Check out her video tutorial on the Christy Gets Crafty blog.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

This sweet card from Kelly has a stenciled background with love and hearts. But the star of this design is the fold out center that uses a die to create a 3″ square that opens to reveal a fun coupon inside for a date. She used all new products from Hero Arts to create this design, visit the Hero Arts blog for more info.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

If it’s still Wintery where you live during Valentine’s Day you can have fun incorporating that into your Valentine cards. This fluffy Yeti holding a heart is a nice way to let a friend know how much you care about them. I love the little tree paper and the dry embossed background for added texture. Learn more at the Simon Says Stamp blog.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

If, like me, your significant other is a gamer then this card is perfect. This retro handheld game system with pull out game made with the base made from dies and stamped additions will delight anyone who loves video games! I spotted this on the caitlinannaleecards Instagram page.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

These yummy dipped strawberries make for a super sweet card design. The berries are cut from colored cardstocks with a stamped sentiment. The dip on the berries is cut from Brushed White cardstock that has a built in shine to add extra interest, it can also be colored on. Learn more at the Spellbinders blog.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

Here’s some more tasty cards, this time with die cut jars and puny coordinating stamped sentiments with sayings like “You’re my jam” and “I love you berry much”. These sweet new products are sure to put a smile on anyone’s face! Take a closer look at the Concord and 9th blog.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

This amazing easel card from Jennifer stands open on it own with a big bundle of heart shaped balloons. She letter pressed the balloons in black then used a coordinating stencil to color them in with ink pads, also adding glitter paste to some for a bit of sparkle. Learn more at the LDRS Creative blog.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

This pretty in pink card from Jeanne also has some pops of red too. She created a grid of small doilies with stamped images on circles with scalloped edges. There’s also a scalloped frame and pierced die background too. This is a great way to use lots of smaller stamps! Find out more at the Pretty Pink Posh blog.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

Send someone a card sealed with a kiss, well actually lots of them on a card covered in foiled lips. The black card base has fussy cut foiled kisses all over as well as a vellum die cut heart and foiled sentiment. Savannah breaks it all down on the Pink and Main blog. 

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

Three adorable stamped squirrel are playing and eating nuts around some die cut hearts on this cute card from Amanda. She created a tall slimline design adding heat embossed white sentiments on black strips spaced out down the card. Take a closer peek at the Sunny Studio blog.

12 Handmade Valentine's Day Card Ideas

Using stamps and puny sentiments inspired by Asian food like Sushi and Pho, Lidya made these darling tags. Add tags to a card front or a gift for Valentine’s Day. These products from Paperie Ink are perfect for any foodie! I came across her ideas on the Paperieink Instagram page.

I hope you’ve been inspired to create some sweet cards for Valentine’s Day with these terrific new products!

-Heather

You can shop some of our affiliate companies mentioned in this post:

Sunny Studio Stamps

Spellbinders

Hero Arts

You can find Lawn Fawn products here on Amazon and over at A Cherry On Top.

 

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