Foiling adds a touch of elegance and sparkle that makes any card extra special—perfect for Valentine’s Day! If you’ve been curious about working with foil in your card-making projects, you’re in for a treat. Foil can give your creations a professional, polished look, and it’s easier than you might think. A few tips for successful foiling include using the right adhesive (like a glue pen or double-sided tape), making sure your foil is smooth and wrinkle-free, and choosing contrasting colors to make your designs pop. In this roundup, we’ve gathered 17 gorgeous Valentine’s Day card ideas featuring foiling that will inspire your next craft session. Whether you’re a seasoned crafter or new to foiling, these cards will help you add a little extra shine to your Valentine’s greetings.
This beautiful card has loads of layers of foiling from the background, the outline of flowers and part of the sentiment. Visit the Lea Lawson blog for a tutorial.
Foiling has been a rising trend for awhile now, it can add some wonderful shimmer and shine to your cards. There are a quite a few ways to foil, one uses a special pen and an electronic die cutting machine or there’s also a hand held tool, one way uses pre-printed designs or an adhesive ink pad, another uses plates (similar to a solid die cutting plate) and a hot plate insert that works along with a manual die cutting machine, the other uses toner to adhere the foil and uses a laminator or something similar. There are other variations but you get the general idea 🙂 No matter which way foiling works best for you it’s really fun and effective!
I’ve rounded up some of my current favorite Valentine’s Day cards (that also work for lots of other occasions too) that use foil to get you inspired to give it a try if you haven’t already.
Underneath each photo will be a link to that project, many will have detailed instruction for making them. (please note each link may contain more than one project for 17+ designs).
I love how the foiling overlaps the die cut heart on this beautiful pink and gold tone design. Visit the Spellbinders blog for all the details.
These pretty pockets have tags that pull out, both of which are decorated with foiling, heat embossed stamping, a die cuts. I love the kraft and pink color combo! Visit the Ellen Hutson blog for a video tutorial.
Heat embossing and foiling combine for beautiful designs on 3 different cards that use most of the same products (it’s 3 for 1!). Visit the Pretty Pink Posh blog for directions.
This fun Z-Fold style card is all foil and cardstock for a quick and easy design. Check out the I Played with Paper Today blog for more info and a few other similar card designs.
This red, white and black collection of projects includes a foiled card, a treat tube and candy box. Learn all about it on the Therm O Web blog.
This adorable card feature a cute die cut bear with just a hint of foiling as part of the sentiment. Visit the I Love Doing All Things Crafty blog for more info.
This lovely cards use both the positive and negative left over foil to create two cards using one piece of foil. Head over to Bibi’s Cameron’s blog for more on this technique.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this foray into foiling! I’ve got a product review of the Glaminator Foiling Machine for even more inspiration, check it out by clicking here.
-Heather
You can shop some of the products used in a few of the cards:
Also check out the foiling supply section over at Therm O Web.
