This is a tutorial about making a Valentine’s Day Pop-Up Card. The card will also make use of the rubber stamps we carved in the basic to stamp carving tutorial. This fully hand crafted project will definitely leave your partner impressed when he/she sees the completed card.

Materials Needed

1. 12″ x 12″ paper (for your card)
2. medium paper doily
3. red , cream and pink coloured paper
4. your handmade rubber stamps
5. ink pad (satin red and vintage sephia)
6. scissors
7. tracing paper
8. pencil
9. glue
10. 1-1/2″ circle punch
11. 2″ scallop punch

Instructions

Step 1

Cut out a heart shape from the cream coloured paper.

Step 2

Randomly stamp the candy stamp and chocolate bar stamp on the heart shape cream paper.

Step 3

Stick the heart shape cream paper onto a red colour paper.

Step 4

Cut out the red colour paper according to the outline of the heart shape, leaving a gap of about 5mm.

Step 5

Stamp the love stamp onto another cream coloured paper. Then punch it out using the 1-1/2″ circle punch.

Step 6

Using the 2″ scallop punch, punch out a piece of red coloured paper.

Step 7

Stick the love circle onto the 2″ scallop flower. Then stick them onto the heart we made in step 4.

Step 8

Take out your 12″ x 12″ paper. Fold into half. Then half again to form a 6″ x 6″ card.

Step 9

Open up the paper, flip over to the back. Draw an arc in the middle fold of where your card opens. This arc will form the heart when it is cut out.

Step 10

Cut along the arc. Do not cut the whole heart shape out.

Step 11

Bend the paper from the edge of the arc to the centre of the card. Score along that line to make a crease.

Step 12

Use your tracing paper, trace the half a heart out.

Step 13

Fold the red paper into half and place the tracing paper over and scratch to transfer the half a heart image onto the red paper. Then cut out the heart from the red paper. This heart will be the same size as the pop up heart on your card.

Step 14

Fold the card back into shape. Now you can push the centre heart out and you will start to see your pop up heart.

Step 15

Now you can stick the red heart onto the card, overlapping the pop up part. Always fold the card and make sure it can close properly.

Step 16

Cut out a smaller heart from the red paper.

Step 17

To make the spiral, take the cream paper, draw a circle of diameter about half the size of the big heart. Then draw a spiral in the circle and cut out the spiral.

Step 18

Stick the outer end of the spiral to the inside of the big heart.

Step 19

Stick the centre of the spiral onto the small heart. You can choose to leave the spiral dangling or you can stick the small heart to the side of the card.

Step 20

Lastly, for the front of the card, stick the paper doily on the card. Then stick the heart we made in step 7.

That’s all folks!