DIY Valentine's Day Cards | by Michele Baratta

Hi everyone, it's Michelle Barada and welcome to Bella Branch TV. Today I have a really great DIY for Valentine's Day. I'm going to show you how to make cards using all kinds of stuff like ribbons and the biggest thing that I used was paint swatches from the paint store. Like I got mine at Home Depot and those are free. So I think you guys will love this DIY for Valentine's Day and really these cards can be for anyone. They could be for your boyfriend, a husband, your girlfriend, a friend, whoever, really anybody. So I hope you guys like the DIY. So let's get started. What you'll need for this project are paint swatches, glue, washi tape, scissors, a hole punch and a heart hole punch. First you're gonna take your paint swatches and you get them in all different colors and shades and then you're gonna take your heart hole punch. Now you could cut them out by hand but really the hole punch is great and I got mine at Michaels and you're gonna take your swatches and you're gonna start cutting out different heart swatches. All the cards we're making today are an eight and a half by eleven piece of paper or cardstock cut in half which makes it eight and a half by five and a half. Now you're gonna take the hearts that you've punched out with your your heart punch and you're gonna lay them across the top of your card and you're laying them down from the darkest color to the lightest color of the hues that you pick. So pink, sage, lavender, yellow. So you can see they're dark at the top and then lighter at the bottom. Next you're going to measure the front of the card which comes to five and a half by four and a quarter. Then you're gonna take that number and subtract about a half an inch all the way around which would be five by three and three quarters and you're gonna make a rectangle from the white cardstock and that's gonna be inserted inside the black card so you can write your Valentine note. Then you're gonna take your washi tape and instead of gluing the white cardstock into the inside I'm gonna just secure it on each corner with a little piece of the washi tape. It makes it look really cool and more stylish. Then you're gonna write your note. Happy Valentine's Day. Now card number two, the cute little pom-pom and sequence heart card. First you're gonna cut and fold an eight and a half inch by five and a half inch piece of cardstock. Then you're gonna take some glue and you're gonna draw a heart at the top. Next you're gonna choose what ribbon or sequence you're gonna use for your heart. I chose a purple, a light purple sequence and you can just get this at a fabric store and you're gonna gently place that around the glue. Super easy to do this and when you get to the bottom of the heart you're just gonna snip it off and if any sequence came off you could just put them right back on because the glue is still wet. Now we're gonna decide what do we want at the bottom. Do we want these cute pink pom-poms? Do we want a row of daisies? I think I would like to have the pom-poms. I think that's the cutest choice. So you're gonna take some glue and you're gonna put a bead of the glue right across the bottom part of your card. Then you're gonna take the pom-poms and you're gonna place that right along and then you're gonna trim the excess. Now we're gonna write Happy Valentine's Day. So I put happy at the top and Valentine's Day at the bottom. Here's card number three. You are the key to my heart. Start by cutting and folding an eight and a half inch by five inch piece of cardstock and then you can gather a little key that I got from Michaels and then take one of your swatches. I picked a pale pink and draw a heart on it. The reason I'm drawing a heart and not using the punch is because I want the heart to be bigger. After you cut that out you're gonna add some glue to the back and then you're gonna glue it to the top of your card. Next you're gonna put the key on a piece of string or twine. I used a little red and white striped twine and then you're going to decide where the center is of that heart and then mark where you want to put the hole punch and that's gonna go through both pieces of the fold. Take the twine and wrap it around the card and leaving the top part of the twine a little longer than the bottom that's underneath. Put the key in the center of the heart and now tie a knot around the key. Put a dab of glue at the top of the heart and put the key right on top. Now you could use hot glue if you wanted but I just use the regular glue. Now at the top of the card write you are and at the bottom you're gonna write to my heart because it's gonna say you are the key to my heart. Now it's time to close your card. Take the bottom twine and put it through the punch hole and then put the top twine around going under and then pulling it through the punch hole and then tie it in a bow and you're done. And of course before you tie this shut you're gonna put a beautiful note inside for your valentine. Last but not least card number four. Cut and fold an eight and a half inch by five and a half inch card stock. Now take some red and white twine you could use any kind of ribbon really but I'm using a red and white twine and I'm going to put that across the top of the card leaving a little extra on the side. Taking my washi tape and I'm gonna put that in the corner. Then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna flip it over and I'm gonna kind of hang it so it's a hanging twine and put the washi tape on the other side. Now I'm gonna take some glue and I'm gonna glue this first heart in the center. Then I'm gonna glue a heart on either side of that center heart. Then all you have left is to write I love you at the bottom. I hope you guys love today's DIY. I really like doing this one and I have a lot of Valentine cards now to give away. Also I'm gonna do a giveaway for you guys for all my viewers that watch and subscribe and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give away a little care package of ribbons and all kinds of little things that you can you know sequence all kinds of stuff that you guys would love to add to your craft box. Some of the things I used in the cards today and I use them throughout other DIYs all the time. In fact the next DIY that I'm doing that I'm gonna post in a couple days also is gonna be using some of these ribbons. So all you guys have to do is subscribe give me a thumbs up and write why you love my channel because I would love to hear what you guys love about watching my channel. It means a lot to me and until next time bye. And be sure to check out some of my other DIYs for Valentine's Day. You can make a piece of artwork with dimensional hearts using paint swatches or a DIY love necklace or it could be any name you want really on the necklace. Thanks for watching!