Catherine create this darling interactive card with a stamped bear holding a heart shaped box. When you open the “lid” it reveals sweet chocolate dipped strawberries. I love all the lacy details she added and the stenciled heart background! Learn more at the Lawn Fawn blog.
Sure, flowers and jewelry are great for Valentine’s Day but let’s face it, most of us are in it for the chocolate and candy, am I right? 🙂 If you love sweets then this tasty group of handmade cards might be right up your alley. Using dies and stamps you can create delicious Valentine’s Day cards featuring all kinds of yummy candy, drinks and food that will put a smile on your sweethearts face (and maybe make them a little hungry too).
Below each photo you’ll find a link, click it for more details like products used, tutorials and techniques.
Svitlana used a bold pink and teal color combo for her yummy card. There’s a stenciled candy background and glass jars filled with candy created with heat embossing and stenciling for the color. She also used pearls to highlight the candy in the front jar. Find directions on the Altenew blog.
Oh my gosh, how adorable are this cupcake cards from Emily?! She used die to design her puppy inspired cakes adding some ink blending to the cardstock for dimension and glitter and metallic papers for some shimmer and shine. There’s also lacy die cut edges and heat embossed sentiments. Find all the details at the Pretty Pink Posh blog.
Cheer Valentine’s Day with a Cocktail or Mocktail created with glass dies filled with pretty ink blended colors, with “ice” sequins and die cut hearts inside and garnished with fruit. There’s also heat embossed, stamped or ink blended backgrounds on the three different cards too. All the details are on the Spellbinders blog.
This card is perfect for the one who enjoys creating the sweets themselves. The die cut vintage cabinet sits in front of a dry embossed wall and is filled with baking bowls, tools and jars full of baked goods and lots of little hearts scattered around. I love how some of the doors open and close and the bright pinks Bobbi used. Visit the Honey Bee blog for all the info.
This delicious card from Amy R. is filled with goodies like candies, a cupcake and a cake pop with soft tones of creamy colors, pops of red and lots of pretty gold from heat embossing, gems and die cutting metallic gold paper. Watch her video tutorial on the Prairie Paper and Ink blog.
This sweet guy has not only candy but flowers for his true love too. Sabrina used a darling stamp in front of a fun die cut background with an open heart shape cut from white cardstock with rust red ink added on the bottom. There’s also a fun sentiment with elements cut from gold paper and heat embossing. Take a closer look at the CC Designs blog.
Yummy stamped chocolate Bon Bons sit over a pretty diagonal die cut pink heart frame background for this card, notice how Diane filled some hearts with red too. I love how the frame leaves space for a stamped sentiment. Learn more at the Newton’s Nook blog.
Meg has a Valentine Card with the perfect combo: coffee and doughnuts! She used lots of reds and pinks to color the stamped background and the adorable stamped girl . There’s also a vellum panel with heat embossed sentiment too. Take a closer peek on The Greeting Farm blog.
This spicey card from Erika uses stamped candy hearts over a colorful splattered and smooshed ink background for a vibrant design. She also heat embossed the sentiment in black on vellum so the background still shows thorough. Find all the details at the Strangely Creative blog.
This tasty card is shaped like a chocolate bar complete with foil and paper wrappers. The blue and brown color combo makes it perfect for a masculine Valentine’s Day card design. I spotted this in Creating Blessings gallery at The Stamps of Life.
This delicious doughnut card was designed using layering dies that allow you to cut the base and layers of icing and toppings from colored cardstock for loads of different styles. There’s also a stamped icing background, tiny heart pattern paper and heat embossed sentiment. Learn more at the Kittie’s Love Crafting blog.
I hope you’re not too hungry after checking out all these yummy Valentine Day cards, there’s still time to go create some yourself.
-Heather
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