A card that comes from the heart: 14 DIY card suggestions for your Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is approaching and you will probably be looking for a gift and a card for your loved one. There are many products available for this in shops: bouquets of flowers of all types, potted plants, jewelry, delicious sweets and chocolates, and more.
But if you want something truly unique, why not simply make a DIY Valentine's card where you express your love for your partner? All you need is paper, pens, colored pencils, markers or craft paints and cardboard. The personalization of your card will be sure to touch your beloved's heart.
Whether it's for your partner, your best friend, a sibling, a child or your parents, check out these 14 wonderful suggestions for unique, DIY Valentine's cards:
1. You give me wings
Convey your love with a group of heart-shaped balloons that demonstrate how high your loved one makes you fly. Use beads and small plastic hearts to make your card even brighter.
2. Witty
Tutorial via hellowonderful.co
Use humor with a soft card in which cute sheep wittily communicate your love with a play on words. Use colored cotton balls for their fleece.
3. Valentine's Day scratch cards
Why not make a cute scratch card for your loved one? Simply apply some adhesive tape over the writing on your card and apply a mixture of 2 parts acrylic paint and one part dishwashing liquid for the scratchable masking. Now, you have a cute and fun Valentine's Day scratch card.
4. Surprise card
Make a heart-shaped card using origami and put a sweet surprise for your loved one inside.
5. Pop-up card
Tutoria via The Little Crafties/YouTube
All you need is some colored paper and cardboard, some markers and your imagination to make wonderful, pop-up cards.
6. You've got mail
Make a felt envelope into which you can insert your DIY card. Feel free to express your feelings of love.
7. A cascade of hearts
Create a three-dimensional picture with a cascade of hearts representing the love you feel.
8. A warm, woolen heart
Use some colored wool thread to decorate your romantic, warm Valentine's card. It will warm the heart of your loved one.
9. A jar of cute felt hearts
Tutorial via janicecreates.com
Make a bunch of small felt hearts that represent your love and put them into a jar-shaped card.
10. Vintage cards
Tutorial via tuttiguardanolenuvole.blogspot.com
Make romantic, vintage Valentine's cards using scrap: use colored crepe paper to create the hearts.
11. A cup of love?
Tutorial via stamcutpaste.blogspot.com
Make a cute card for your loved one with a teapot full of love.
12. Romantic cats
Design two romantic cats to stick to your card by rolling up some colored paper.
13. A perfect match
Tutorial via thatswhatchesaid.net
Two jigsaw puzzle pieces are sometimes worth more than a thousand words.
14. Pixel art
Make a wonderful pop-up card in pixel art-style for an original and creative Valentine's Day gift.
Which of these cards will you choose for your Valentine's Day?
