2021 Homemade Valentine Card

It is my tradition to make a homemade valentine cards and remail them through Loveland Colorado. Loveland Colorado is my hometown. This year's I wanted to be funny. I don't usually do funny and I wanted it to be specifically Pacific Northwest themed. So Big Foot is was. I also made a few cards to send that had gnome and a snail. Naturally they were from our snail, Gary. I used my cricut maker to make these.

I actually came up with my Valentine Card idea on 12/31/2020. There is a bit of labor in these so started early to hit the remailing deadline is necessary.

Giant Heart Wreath

I am a BIG Damask Love fan. She has a tutorial on this giant heart wreath. I think this can best accomplished with using a cricut. However this is cutting craft so if you don't mind cutting out a bazillion leaves it is doabable. I am going to give a few more details than she did on her tutorial. I consider myself above average crafter but I am new to the cricut. I have a maker.

The flowers are made with the cricut. You will need a quiling tool to create them. Jennifer Maker has an excellent DIY quiling tool.

My husband ended up making me one. Jennifer also has some great you tube videos. The flowers I made are from the flower shoppe cartridge.

The heart is cut out from foam board. I used Christmas wrapping paper as a template.

Below is some of the build in progress. I did score the leaves so it the leaves don't look flat. Damask Love did too.

I even got a shout out from Damask Love. WOOT WOOT

Homemade Valentine Cards

I have a tradition of making homemade Valentine's. It is something I am about. My hometown is Loveland Colorado aka "The Sweetheart City".  My parents were married on Valentine's day.  I can't escape Valentine's if I tried. This is the time of year I contemplating what my next homemade Valentine is going to be.

Above is the card I made last year - 2019. My card is made with a cricut and stickers.

Here is some links to some other cards I have made

Gelliplate Print Valentine Card
Chalkboard Inspired Valentine
String Art Heart Valentine's
Continuous Line Valentine's
Stencil Valentine
Love Valentine

UNSOLICITED HOMEMADE CARD ADVICE

Sending good mail feels good. It doesn't need to be perfect. The thought does count. Adding a sticker or a stamp to a premade card counts. Don't do this if it stresses you out. THIS ISN'T A COMPETITION

100 Days of Creativity - Day 5

Today I was messing around drawing with my Cricut Maker that we got for our business.  I was using the draw function. The squirrel above is a cut pattern for the maker that I turned it into a drawing. I then colored it.  I am trying to explore the maker functions so we can use it better in our business. We have lots of creative ideas just not sure how to execute all of them. Here is a good tutorial I found at See Lindsay