Heart Bouquet Cards
What you'll need:
- White cardboard
- Tissue paper
- Page from a newspaper
- Black crayon
- Scissors
- Glue
- Ribbon
How to make it:
Make the base of your card by folding a piece of paper in half. Starting at the folded edge, cut a half heart shape out so when your card is opened it creates a full heart. Using a black crayon or piece of drawing charcoal, sketch a few lines on the front of your card, starting near the point at the bottom and fanning out toward the sides at the top. These will be the stems of our flowers.
Next, cut some heart shapes out of a few different colors of tissue paper. These are going to be the petals and leaves of your flowers. You can use many different colors and cut varied sizes as we did, or use one or two colors in similar sizes. Experiment with making flower shapes out of layering different heart shapes – there are endless combinations. Once you have your flowers arranged the way you'd like, glue the petals down onto the tops of your stems. To create a 3-D effect, try gluing only half of the heart onto the paper. Add some green leaves by cutting hearts in half and gluing them to the stem lines or around the petals.
Just like a fresh cut bouquet from the market, we're going to give ours a newspaper wrapping. Cut a couple of triangles out of a piece of newspaper and glue them, one overlapping the other, to the bottom of your card. Trim any excess from the edges. To finish the bouquet, grab a piece of ribbon or twine and glue a strip horizontally across the newspaper wrapping. You can criss-cross a couple of strips to look like wrapped twine or add a bow as if your bouquet has been tied up with a ribbon. Trim any excess from the edges.
Conversation Hearts BFFs
What you'll need:
- White cardboard
- Colour cardboard
- Scrap cardboard
- Scissors
- Pipe cleaners
- Glue
How to make it:
On the coloured cardboard, draw out hearts and these short sayings: BFF, UR CUTE, WICKED COOL, HUG ME, LOVE U, XOXO. Leave some of the hearts blank too. Cut out the hearts that you're going to use. Trace the large heart body and 2 small heart feet onto a piece of scrap cardboard. Cut out with craft scissors, then glue the hearts on using a glue stick.
Gather 2 pipe cleaners and cut them both two-thirds of the way across the length to create 2 legs that are 2/3 of the original length and 2 arms that are 1/3 of the original length. Fold your pipe cleaner leg pieces in half, twist a few times, then bend at the bottom to create a small foot. Hot glue the pipe cleaner foot to your cardboard heart feet with the points of the cardboard hearts facing toward the back. Curl up the ends of your pipe cleaner arms a couple of times to create a small ball that will be the hands. Gently push the legs and arms into the corrugated cardboard at the bottom and sides. Add a few dots of hot glue to secure them so you can move your arms and legs. If you'd like, you can glue the blank heart templates to the back of your conversation hearts to finish them.
Pop Out Heart Cards
What you'll need:
- Coloured cardboard
- Scrapbooking paper
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Glue
How to make it:
Pick 4 pieces of paper: 3 pieces of coordinating coloured cardboard and 1 piece of scrapbook paper. Take the piece of scrapbook paper, fold it, and draw half of a heart at the fold. We folded ours in at about 8cm but our heart was only drawn out to about 5cm wide. Take a full piece of the card stock and fold it in half lengthwise. Cut it down to a square. Open up the card and place it face down on the table. Place your first heart face down on top of the card with the spines aligned. Trace around it with your pencil.
Fold the card stock and cut around the heart leaving a small section on each side of the heart attached to the card. Gently fold the heart inward to the inside of the card. Trace the heart on a flat (not folded) piece of card stock and cut it out. Now you can glue your first adorable heart over the heart attached to the card. Take your 4th piece of paper, cut it down to the size of the card, and glue it to the outside of the cut heart card. This just finishes off the card and makes it neater and cooler and prettier and all that good stuff.