Easy Valentine's Day Card

Since I am still on maternity leave and hardly ever get out of the house I decided that it would be the easiest (and also most personal) if I made my fiance' a card this year for Valentine's Day! 

I'm not the kind of person that usually does a lot of stamping but I was recently at Michael's Craft Store and saw these little stamp pads for $1.00 a piece so I ended up buying a bunch of them. I figured something would come up in the future where I could use them!

This project is so easy and gives you a lot of creative freedom, it's definitely a craft you could have your kids help you with for Valentine's Day, Fathers Day, Mother's Day or whatever holiday you choose!

Materials:

4-6 stamp pads of different colors

1 blank card

1 envelope

2 pencils (at least) with new erasers

1 pen of any color

1 knife or razor

This is the most difficult part of the whole project. Draw a heart in the eraser with the tip of your knife. Once you have the outline of a heart that you like, cut into the eraser the shape of the heart. This creates a neat little heart stamp.

Next I sketched the outline of a heart onto my blank card very lightly with a pencil.

  

Using the heart stamp that I made and the red ink pad I stamped some hearts everywhere.

Continuing with a regular eraser I alternated different colors all over inside of the heart I drew. Once it started to look more like a heart shape I erased the outline.

I filled it in a little more until I was satisfied... Then I came up with a nifty little saying to put on the card...

My daughter even helped me by giving me her tiny footprint! I'm so happy with the way this card turned out and my fiance absolutely loved it! 


I hope I've inspired you to create your own stamps and cards for special occasions. Be sure to show me what you've come up with!