Heart Pop Up Card

Are you ready for a mini theme? You should be because it’s Valentine’s Day coming up and you’re gonna get one. We are doing a couple crafty posts in the lead up to Valentine’s Day so that you can create something sweet for a special someone in your life.

Today we are making our specialty, a card. It’s not just any card...it’s a heart pop up card. Does it get better than that?

We don’t let anything go to waste here so we are going to use some of the leftover hearts that we cut out last year for our heart wreath (see it here) and use them in this card.

It may look a bit complicated but this card is actually simple.

First off, pick a colour for your card and then choose some patterned paper and a shade of cardstock to compliment the pattern.

We chose a medium shade of pink for our card and then we went with a pink polka dotted pattern piece of paper and a dark red plain sheet of cardstock for our inside heart.

We’re not using any fancy cutter today (but you certainly could if you wanted), we’ve picked a 4 inch heart that we had left over from our wreath and are tracing that on the patterned paper and the red cardstock to create the pop up heart. Trace three patterned hearts and two red cardstock hearts.

We also traced a light pink heart the same size to put on the front, but more to come on that later.

Now fold all of the hearts in half except for the one on the front. For the pattern ones fold the pattern inwards.

Cut the card to the size you want. We’re using out usual 4 ¾ x 6 ¾ size card.

Glue the hearts together so that you have a “heart fan” when you’re done. Alternate the pattern and the cardstock.

Next stamp the layer for the outside. We have picked a cute love bird stamp that we are stamping in silver on the light pink heart.

We’re going to glue this to the centre of the card.

Now we are going to fill the excess space around the big heart with some smaller hearts in a variety of sizes. We had lots leftover smaller hearts so we used those and then we tried punching some tiny hearts out of our new sparkly sticky paper.

Lastly, we’re going to glue the fan heart inside along the inside crease. We decided that it needed something a little extra so we punched two hearts to go in opposite corners of the inside of the card.

Here's the finished product.