Card Making Craft Ideas - Bright & Fun 'Beloved'

Card Making Craft Ideas

Bright & Fun 'Beloved'

You'll find lots of card making craft ideas on this site. But not many are quite as bright as this little design!

How cute is this card?

Full of vibrant color, this fun card really makes an impression.

You can use it to send to any loved-one. Sure you can send it to your 'other half', but this card making craft idea is not just for Valentine's day! Send it to anyone who you love - your daughter, parent, grandparent and so forth. It's great to send at any time of the year to say 'I Love You!'

And the great news is that every piece of decorated paper on this card is made from the printable Sweetie Pie Bumper-Sized eKit. So if you like this card and have a few basic card supplies, you can download the printable 'Sweetie Pie' Valentine card making kit and get started within minutes!

Here are the instructions for a card making craft idea like this one...

Difficulty Level: An intermediate card making craft idea.

To make this card you will need the printable Sweetie Pie Bumper-Sized eKit, which can be found here...

You Will Need:

• White card blank 6" x 6" square
• White photocopying paper
• Bright green card stock
• Sheets 1, 6, 7 and 8 from the '10-beloved' folder from the Printable Sweetie Pie Bumper-Sized Card Making eKit here...
• Cutting mat, scissors, ruler and craft knife
• Craft glue and double-sided tape
• Foam pads
• Green ribbon
• Purple ink and green ink
• Glitter glue or sparkly gel pen
• 4 white pearls or buttons

1. Print it! Open up the '10-beloved' folder from the Printable Sweetie Pie Bumper-Sized eKit [the what?].
1. Print sheets 7 and 8 onto photocopying paper.
2. Print sheets 1 and 6 onto white card.
2. Cut it!
   
1. Cut a square 14cm x 14cm from the bright green card stock.
2. Cut 2 squares from sheet 7 and 2 squares from sheet 8, both 6cm x 6cm.
3. Cut 2 'beloved' sentiments from sheet 1.
4. Cut 1 with the petal edging and 1 without the petal edging.
5. Cut 2 medium green hearts and 2 medium red hearts from sheet 6.
3. Ink it! Ink all the edges of the cut pink squares, red hearts and beloved sentiments with the purple ink pad, and ink the green squares and the two green hearts with the green ink pad.
4. Stick it! Stick the small squares evenly spaced so there is a border showing to the green square piece of card stock.
5. Attach ribbon!
   
1. Attach a piece of the green ribbon down the center of the square and secure at the back.
2. Attach another piece of the green ribbon across the center and secure at the back.
3. Taking a smaller piece of the same ribbon tie a small knot onto the left hand side of the ribbon which has just been secured across the center.
6. Layer it! Layer the 'beloved' sentiment without the petal edging onto the 'beloved' sentiment with the petal edging using foam pads.
7. Stick it!
   
1. Stick the 'beloved' sentiment off to the right of the square using foam pads to raise it slightly.
2. Stick the whole square to the white card stock using double-sided tape.
3. Stick the pink and green hearts as shown to each corner using foam pads.
4. Stick the 4 white pearls or buttons to the card as shown using some craft glue.
8. Glitter it! Glitter the hearts in the corners with glitter glue or sparkly gel pen.

And your card is finished! Card making craft ideas are plentiful but we think this one is bursting with such vibrancy that it's bound to bring a little sunshine to anyone's day!