These handmade Valentine’s Day cards are incredibly easy to make. You can apply the technique used to make them to any material: a business card, a heart-shaped piece of paper, a journal page — anything! All you need is an old toothbrush and a piece of junk mail or a magazine.
It’s already February 12th, which means Valentine’s Day is already creeping up on us. Again. Though it was a year ago, it seems like only yesterday that Hernán and I decided to go to the Mexican place in a strip mall to avoid the Valentine’s Day crowds. We run into the same dilemma every year: we don’t make a reservation, so we end up trying to guess where the other Valentine’s love birds won’t be going, and we go there. This generally leads us to a place with a less than ideal atmosphere and/or subpar food, but nevertheless we’re satisfied because we’ve made an attempt to celebrate the occasion.
Another Valentine’s Day tradition for us is the exchanging of cards. Granted, this exchange is one-sided {Hernán’s not a “card” kinda guy}, but after he reads how easy it is to make a handmade Valentine’s Day card, I fully expect a card this year. {I’m being serious, Hernán!}
These particular handmade Valentine’s Day cards are incredibly easy to make. And, really, you could apply this technique to any material: a business card, a heart-shaped piece of paper, a journal page — anything! All you need is the following:
Once you have assembled these supplies, you’ll lay the card on the magazine page and fold + crease the sides of the magazine page in so they are “hugging” the card. It will look like this:
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