How to Make a Folded Heart Valentine Card
Happy Valentines Day everyone!
Valentines Day is one of my favourite holidays in the year! It’s just so lovely to send people cards and notes to tell them how much you love them, don’t you think?
This year, I decided to try something a little different and make some folded heart cards. Years ago my sister made me a card like this (out of neon yellow paper!). I thought it was so cute, so I thought I’d replicate them this year to give to people…but not in neon yellow! If you need a last minute card, this is a nice and simple one that only takes a few minutes. It is similar to origami, but since you cut the paper, I don’t think it truly counts as origami. Nevertheless, it is a cute design and only requires a rectangle of paper and a ribbon if you’d like to tie it shut…keep reading for how to!
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How to Make a Folded Heart Valentine Card
Step 1: All you’ll need for this card is a piece of paper that is twice as wide as it is tall- example 3” x 6”, 4” x 8” etc. You can make it as small or as large as you’d like! If you’re sending it in the mail, make sure you don’t make your card too big to fit in an envelope!
Step 2. Mark the centre of the paper. You don’t have to make a line all the way down like I have in the photo- a small tick at the top will be fine, since this will be the inside of the card!
Step 3. Fold one edge of the paper into the centre and crease
Step 4. Repeat with the other edge of the paper.
Step 5. Fold the bottom edge diagonally into the centre to form the bottom of the heart.
Step 6: Repeat on the other side, to finish forming the bottom of the heart.
Step 7: Take your ruler and mark where the middle of each side is. For example, this card is 3” wide, so I am marking at 3/4” and 2 1/4” .
Step 8: Fold the top edge diagonally where you have marked, to start creating the top of the heart.
Step 9: Repeat with the other side.
Step 10: Now fold down the flaps diagonally. You won’t be able to fold the back of the card yet, but we’ll do that in the next step! We will now cut where the dashed line is in the photo.
Step 11: Now that the back of the card has had a small cut, it will be able to fold diagonally to finish forming the top of the heart.
Step 12: Repeat on the other side.
Step 13: I had a hard time photographing this step, but open the card slightly and “pop” the folded parts inside out, so they are now folded inside the card.
Step 14: Now you are finished folding! Go along all the edges and crease them again, so you’ve got a nice crisp edge.
Step 15: If you’d like. You can tie a ribbon around the card to hold it shut. You could also seal it with a sticker (or a wax seal if you’ve got one!).
There you go: a quick, easy Valentine card to show someone you care!
Another special touch, is a matching envelope. I made these envelopes out of coordinating papers- they’ll add such a cheerful pop of colour in my friends’ mailboxes!
Do you like Valentines Day? What are your plans this year? Did you send cards or plan on giving cards to your friends?