Show your friends and family how much you really love them by making them a handmade Valentine's Day card this year!
This project is pretty and fun to make (younger children may need some help).
Materials
- 8 ½” X 11” pink or white cardstock or construction paper
- Red cardstock and scrap paper
- Envelope
- Pencil
- Markers
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Glue and tape
- Stamps and ink (optional)
- Stickers, glitter or ribbon (optional)
Steps
- Cut pink cardstock in half (5 ½” X 8 ½”), fold in half to make card body.
- Fold scrap paper in half, and on folded side of paper draw half a heart (about 1 ½ inches).
- Cut out folded heart and unfold.
- Use heart template to trace six hearts onto the red paper and cut them out.
- Glue one heart to the middle of the front of the card and one heart to each of the four corners of the front of the card, set the sixth heart to the side.
- Continue to decorate the front of your card with stickers, glitter, ribbon or markers.
- Next using the leftover red paper cut out two strips (about half an inch by 7 inches”).
- Tape the strips together perpendicular to each other.
- Like an accordion, fold one strip of paper over the other and continue doing this until you reach the end and then tape them together again, this will be the “spring” to make your sixth heart pop-up out of the inside of your card.
- Inside your card tape the spring to the middle of the right side.
- Tape the heart to the end of the spring.
- Stamp or write a Valentine message to the inside of the card.
- Sign and date the back so that the person you give it to knows who made it!
Dawn Sorem teaches arts and crafts classes and she does private classes/parties for both children and adults. If you would like more information or to set up a time to have her do an art project for a group you can contact her at envelopcards@gmail.com. Dawn is also the owner and designer of Envelop Cards, you can view her latest designs and see a list of her upcoming classes at: www.envelopcards.com.
