Last year, Phyllis Macaluso gave us a beautiful Matchbook Valentine’s Day card concept. This year, she’s keeping things simple with an elegant four-step calligraphy Valentine tutorial. For this card, you’ll simply fold, cut, and embellish to make a Valentine that’s classy but quick!
1. Fold + Trace
First, cut a piece of black cardstock to 10″ x 6.5″ (25.4 cm x 16.5 cm). Then, fold the cardstock in half to make a card (you can run a bone folder along the edge for a crisp crease). Next, print and cut out Phyllis’s heart template and line up its edge with the center of the card. Finish up this step by using a white pencil to trace around the template.
2. Cut
Now, cut around the outline of the heart. Relegate your cutting to the front of the card: there’s no need to make any cuts on the back!
3. Make a Draft
Once you’ve cut out the card, use your white mechanical pencil to freehand draw a heart within your heart cutout. Then, open the card, and draw a rounded rectangle near the inside edges of the card.
4. Add Ink
You decide exactly what happens for this next step! To finish up your card, you’ll add embellishments to the heart and rectangle outlines that you just drew. You can also write a message or a person’s name in the middle of the card. It’s best to use a pretty metallic ink (like Finetec) or white ink for this step.
Once you’re happy with how your card looks, erase the pencil guidelines and fold the card. For a beautiful Valentine’s Day duo, you can make a heart embellishment on the envelope that you’re using to send the card, too. (Phyllis included medium-sized heart templates in her printable for this purpose!)
We’re cutting it close to Valentine’s Day (Sunday, February 14th), so I hope that this quick card tutorial serves you well! If you’d like to explore other Valentine’s Day greeting concepts — including Phyllis’ tutorial from last year — you can take a look at the Valentine’s Day category on the TPK blog. Thanks so much to Phyllis for this simple calligraphy Valentine concept, and thank you for reading!
Warmly,
You are so creative and inspirational for the people like me! I love to have a try with your video tutorials. This card design makes me amazed since I did it this year in February! By profession, I work at this https://www.napervillefence.com/vinyl-fence site and help people with fence installation services! Thanks for sharing this post with us.
Stunning artwork from Phyllis! I like the card design and the texts on it especially the golden color ink and its lighting effect. I always love creating handcrafting gifts for others though I am a professional writer specialized in healthy food topics (you can visit my recent writing on the difference between pasteurized and homogenized milk at https://gradesfixer.com/free-essay-examples/difference-between-pasteurized-and-homogenized-milk/ for some free essay examples, topic ideas, inspiration, and guidelines). By the way, thanks for this post that inspires us to have a try to create by hands!
It’s my pleasure! Thank you for sharing. 🙂
I love your blog and appreciate the time and effort to create contents, write, and take photos. I especially love the tutorials. This Valentine card from Phyllis is stunning and inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you for your kind words, and I’m so happy to hear that! It’s my pleasure. 🙂
This is beautiful! I was looking for a last-minute Valentine’s Day card idea, and will be making this tonight!
Yay! I’m sure it’ll turn out beautifully! 🙂
Stunning! I love how this simple tutorial can be used for truly simple designs or taken to the next level…and thanks for thinking ahead with the medium template for the envelope!
Yes, exactly! And it’s my pleasure, I’m so happy you enjoyed! 🙂
What a gorgeous card. Any idea what kind of ink Phyllis used for the multicolor effect? Maybe it was in the post, but I missed it…
Thanks in advance!
Yes! She uses metallic watercolors from The Creative Kinds on Etsy. 🙂