Elsie Robinson: Cute Valentine’s Cards

Hey everyone it’s Elsie here! With Valentine’s Day right around the corner I thought I would share some cute Valentine’s cards with you today.

If you know me, you’ll know how much I love anything with a pun, and so Valentine’s Day really is the perfect occasion to get a little punny with your crafts! Here are the two cards I made:

First off, I’ll start with the cute Octopus card. I used this cut file, but simplified the layers and didn’t cut the more intricate layers to keep things a little more simple.

However, to add more detail back onto the octopus I used a colour pencil and doodled some sketchy circles – this is such an easy way to customise your patterned papers to create exactly what you need!

I always like to mix and match my collections, especially when I create cards because it’s a great way to stash bust! For this card I combined the Take Me Away and Oh My Heart collections. I used a purple patterned paper for the Octopus’ body and a gold foiled chipboard heart tucked into one of the tentacles from Take Me Away.

And from the Oh My Heart sticker book I used the white alpha letters to create my sentiment: ‘You octopi my heart’. Haha!!

And because you knead some more punny card inspo… Here’s card no.2!

This card all started with this cut file and a pun about jam (as you do!). After cutting out and piecing together the jam jar cut file, I freehand drew and cut a slice of bread to place next to the jar!

I used papers from Oh My Heart to create the bread, jam and strawberries, except I couldn’t find a suitable brown paper to create the bread crust. Instead I used a combination of stitching and a little bit of watercolour to get the desired effect.

To create this card’s sentiment, I used the alpha stickers from Turn The Page to spell out the word ‘jam’ and placed it on the jam jar label. I think it’s always fun to incorporate your sentiment into the main design element of your card, that way your design is much more cohesive.

I used the cross-stitch rose paper from the Take Me Away 6×6 paper pad to create my background, and some of the crochet ribbon from Turn The Page for even more cutes-y texture!

I also had some spare fussy-cut butterflies and flowers from Turn The Page floating around on my desk, so I decided to use them up and by creating a few small clusters to finish up this card!

Thanks for stopping by everyone, I’ll be back very soon sharing some more Pink Paislee projects!

But in the meantime (apologies in advance for the second part of this sentence), I hope you have a Kraken Valentine’s you loafly lot! *walks away*