Send love to your favorite people with these DIY Valentine’s Day cards.
Kelsey Hansen
These gorgeous Valentine’s Day cards are easy to make and simple to customize.
Cute and Cozy Peek-a-Boo Cards
Using a loom, create a classic woven childhood craft.
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Select a pretty yarn and start weaving using the over-under method.
Attach the two layers with glue.
BFF Valentine
Carson Downing
The coloring craze comes to Valentines Day.
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Print, cut, and package batches of supersize stickers.
Include markers, crayons, or colored pencils to help your valentine be creative.
Separate and lay flat to dry.
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Fold a filter in half twice to form a triangle.
Fold one edge to the center; flip over and repeat with other edge to form a smaller triangle.
Cut a single petal shape from the triangle, leaving the point intact.
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Unfold and attach to cards with a dot of glue.
Make a Vellum Collage
Let your imagination run wild with this homemade valentine.
Customize plain white cards with sweet sayings or simple shapes to create a one-of-a-kind Valentine’s Day card.
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To make your card even more interesting, glue the center of your vellum cutout onto the card.
This allows petals, leaves, or hearts to flutter when the card is opened.
Stitch Up Something Sweet
This DIY valentine gets its design from embroidery floss.
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Start by choosing a festive color combination for your heavy cardstock and embroidery floss.
Download and print this template to use as a guide on where to poke holes in the cardstock.
Then connect the dots with your embroidery floss to produce a delicate flower or geometric heart.
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Once finished, use quick-setting glue or double-sided tape to adhere your design to a card.
Cute Candy Holders
Make an adorable easy Valentine card with a few simple supplies.
Pair patterned paper with a coordinating solid and use our easy template to get the folds just right!
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Pop in a lollipop and write a sweet greeting on the inside flap beforegiving them to your galentines.
To add a homemade twist, make smallValentine’s Day dessertsto add to the cards instead of store-bought candy.
Add a red envelope and your sweet sentiments will be ready to pop in the mail!
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Grease Pencil Valentine
Homemade Valentine’s Day cards are a cinch with this simple wax-resist technique.
Coat a paintbrush with a thin layer of watercolor paint, and lightly brush over the design.
Brush the whole card in stripes of color, or paint specific shapes over wax designs.
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Soda Think You’re Cute Card
Short on time?
Look to our punny printable to create this year’s Valentine’s Day cards.
See more of our favoritefree printable Valentinesto find one that’s perfect for a classroom gift exchange.
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Cookie Cutter Cards
Think outside the box with this year’s DIY Valentine’s Day card ideas.
Start with blank cards in various colors, and paint a large rectangle on the front with acrylic paint.
Color My World Valentines
Little love bugs will love this card and crayon pairing.
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See more of our favorite free printable Valentines to get even more inspiration.
The kids will love getting free reign to decorate their valentines as desired.
Trace the cutout onto 12x12-inch cardstock, cut out, then fold as indicated by the dotted lines.
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Make the Heart Accordion Valentine’s Day card:
Print the template onto plain paper and cut out.
On a piece of cardstock, draw and cut out a 5 1/2x12-inch rectangle.
Fold accordion-style along the short side (as indicated by the dotted lines).
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You should have six sections.
Place the template on the folded paper with the open side of the heart over the top fold.
Trace heart and cut out.
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On contrasting paper, trace a heart that’s slightly larger all around.
Glue to the back of the center heart on your accordion.
Make a matching envelope with a simple stitched heart and some decorative trim.
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Attach the inner card to the inside of the outer card using glue or double-stick tape.
Finish with mini clothespins and a bunch of patterned paper hearts.
Scratch-Off Hearts Card
This homemade scratch-off card gets creative with scratch-off date ideas for Valentine’s Day.
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Get the card template, and throw in in your date-night choices.
Find out how to make your own scratch-off material in a few simple steps, too.
To create a round card, fold a piece of cardstock in half and partially cut a circle.
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Emboss a large heart to add texture, then layer two cute birds on top.
For the banner, simply stamp letters onto a scrap of white cardstock.
The grass is trimmed patterned paper.
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Pretty Paper Poppies
Bright and cheery flowers last way past February 14th.
Download our free pattern and easy instructions to make these easy DIY Valentines.
See the rest of ourValentine’s Day cards with candyto get even more ideas!
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We love the idea of using materials you already have on hand.
Finish the card with a bow made of string.
Simply trace two connecting same-size hearts on a sheet of red or pink construction paper.
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Tape the paper to a red pencil and decorate with ribbon, baker’s twine, and stickers.
Fold-Out Photo Card
Make a personalized sentimental Valentine’s Day paper craft in minutes.
Cut a 3-inch strip from a piece of 12x12 paper and fold accordion-style to form a small booklet.
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Cut squares of black-and-white photos to fit on each flap; secure with glue.
This is the perfect valentine for Mom!
Paper Tassel Card
Embellish this year’s Valentine’s Day card with a DIY paper tassel.
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Hole punch one of the top corners of the card and loop the ribbon through.
At the top of your card, add a piece of white paper cut to resemble waves.
Embellish the card with punched hearts, fish, and a typed or printed message.
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Center a plain piece of cardstock with rounded corners on a patterned-paper card and attach.
Add your paper owl and a message.
Simple Signs
This card is cute, clever, and simple: perfect for creating multiple valentines!
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Kids will love tracing their own hands and cutting out the shapes on different colors of paper.
Robot Candy Bar Card
Who wouldn’t love a sweet robot-inspired valentine to celebrate the February holiday?
To make, use patterned paper to wrap a fun-size candy bar.
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Finish your robot by adding a head, arms, and legs cut from cardstock.
Use buttons, punches, and googly eyes to make the robot yours.
Use pinking shears to cut a scalloped border around red cardstock.
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Layer on a contrasting piece of paper and attach foil-wrapped chocolates with double-sided tape.
you’re free to also give these as chocolate bookmarks.
Clothespin Valentine
Jason Donnelly
Craft a homemade Valentine’s Day card with a cute play on words.
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see to it the note doesn’t fall off by taping the back of the heart to the card.
Triple Heart Card
Kim Cornelison
Triple the heart motifs with this simple DIY Valentine’s Day card.
Make a basic folded card, and cut three hearts out of colored paper.
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Mini Candy Bar Valentine
MARK S. PETERSON
Deck out a store-bought card with minichocolate bars.
Tape the mini candy bars to finish the card.
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