This beautiful card from Charlene uses a heart shape for a wonderful shaker card for Valentine’s Day. There’s layers of die cut flowers springing from an envelope and a stamped sentiment too. Notice how she kept to a color theme of red, white and pink to keep it cohesive. Watch her video tutorial at the Hero Arts blog.
This Valentine’s Day give your love your heart, in the form of a card. Hearts are an enduring symbol of true love and are easy to incorporate into your creations. You can make a heart shaped card, or it could be a large die cut heart as the focal point or tiny stamped hearts to create a card background. Hearts are the go to icon for Valentine design and beyond, like anniversaries and weddings too. So, let’s get inspired and take a look at cards that have lots of heart for Valentine’s Day.
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This darling card is filled with die cut open hearts backed with text pattern papers in different colors. There’s also a sweet stamped little bear holding a flower. I love the sentiment that starts on the outside and finishes inside the card. I spotted this idea on the My Favorite Things Instagram page.
This pretty vintage inspired card from Carol has an amazing background with an ombre inked panel that’s also been stamped with hearts as well as stenciled with hearts and glitter paste. The sweet Queen of Hearts girl is stamped and colored with Copic Markers. Find all the details on the Honey Bee Stamps blog.
Hearts can also be for your BFF like this adorable Yeti and Penguin card from Jenn. She used dies for her card, adding some inking for extra color. There’s lots of hearts in the swag banners, balloons and with the stamped sentiment too. Take a closer peek at the Lawn Fawn blog.
Shemaine created two cards with loads of shine and shimmer by using foiling, some of the foil even has glitter! She incorporated the trendy faux postage style and I love all the texture and colors she used! Find more info at the Therm O Web blog.
Bibi created a stunning two-fer set of cards by stamping and coloring a bunch of flowers, using the coordinating stencil to color them and then die cutting out the center with a heart. She then used the “frame” with a glittery die cut heart and the “negative” heart shape for another card. Learn more at the Altenew blog.
The new Hands Full Of Love dies create the popular gesture of creating a heart with your hands along with sweet die and stamped sentiments. perfect for many different occasions. Learn more at Concord and 9th.
This beautiful bouquet of balloons are die cut and filled with layering stamps of flowers in pretty pink inks and a stamped sentiment. Behind is a die cut vellum cloud and the background is filled with tiny stenciled hearts and polka dots. Find step by step directions at the Papertrey Ink blog.
This totally adorable trio of cards from Marine feature 3 stamped critters, a panda, polar bear and bunny that are each able to hold items in there hands like gifts, flowers and hearts. There’s tiny hearts in the envelopes and scattered over the stamped crisscross border too. I love how she kept each card mostly monochromatic! Find all the details at the Sunny Studio blog.
This clean and simple card design from Julissa has three geometric stamped, staggered blocks in red with a printed sentiment and die cut heart. The layers of rectangles of kraft cardstock and red vellum add color, frame the stamping and pull the eye towards the center. Take a closer look at the Unity Stamps blog.
This super sweet card from Brenda has a tiny heart background, vellum die cut heart a cute stamped bunny couple and heat embossed sentiment. Notice how she backed the vellum with polka dot paper and added hand drawn “stitching” the match the die cut “stitching” around the outer edges. I came across her card on her My Paper Cut Creations Instagram page.
This Key to My Heart card from Emily is absolutely stunning! She stamped and heat embossed in white on red cardstock, coloring the images with colored pencil. She then die cut the detailed stamp and backed it with scalloped heart layer. I love the deep, rich, dark reds she used! Find out more on the Emily Midgett blog.
I hope you’ve been inspired to add a little heart to your Valentine’s Day cards this year!
-Heather
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