Make Your Own Valentine Card

Make Your Own Valentine Card

'You're Gorgeous' In Caramel And Red!

If you want to make your own valentine card then you've come to the right place. All you need are basic card making supplies - we've got everything else for you to get started!

You'll find the free card making instructions below.

And you can even get the patterned papers, hearts, and the motif for this card design and get started right now. Why? Because they're all from a printable kit!

You see, 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 how to make your own valentine card like this one...

Difficulty Level: An intermediate Valentine greeting card 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
• 4 sheets white paper
• Sheets 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 17 from the '25-ur-gorge' folder in the Printable Sweetie Pie Bumper-Sized Card Making Kit here...
• Brown ribbon
• Brown gel pen
• 4 brown, 2 pink and 2 cream pearls or gems
• Double-sided tape or craft glue
• Scissors and cutting mat
• Craft knife and ruler or paper trimmer

1. Print it out! Open up the '25-ur-gorge' folder in the Printable Sweetie Pie Bumper-Sized eKit [the what?].
1. Print sheets 5, 7, 10 and 17 onto paper.
2. Print sheets 1 and 3 onto white card stock.
2. Cut it!
   
   
   1. Cut a piece from sheet 5 slightly smaller than the card blank.
   2. Cut a piece from sheet 17 slightly smaller than the above piece.
3. Stick it! Stick the pink heart paper from sheet 17 to the brown paper from sheet 5 using double-sided tape.
4. Attach ribbon! Wrap the piece of brown ribbon around the layered sheet near the bottom and secure at the back.
5. Stick it! Attach the whole sheet to the card blank using double-sided tape.
6. Cut it!
   
1. Cut a rectangle from sheet 10.
2. Cut a slightly smaller rectangle from sheet 7.
3. Stick the smaller rectangle on top of the larger one using double-sided tape.
4. Cut out 2 cream and brown sentiments from sheet 1.
5. Stick one on top of the other with foam pads.
6. Cut out 3 large brown hearts and 3 large pink hearts from sheet 3.
7. Stick it!
   
1. Stick the rectangles to the centre of the card as shown.
2. Stick the sentiments on top of the rectangles using foam pads.
3. Stick the hearts along part of the ribbon using foam pads. Overlap them as shown.
4. Stick 4 brown pearls or gems to each corner of the sentiment.
5. Stick 2 cream pearls or gems to the black hearts as shown.
6. Stick the pink gems to the ribbon as shown.
   
8. Decorate it! Using the brown gel pen add a doodled border and some faux stitching as shown.

And you're finished!

That's how to make your own valentine card! It's bright. It's colorful. It's modern. It's masculine. We think your Valentine will love it!