Ditch those cheesy store-bought cards, and learn How to Make 3D Valentines Day Cards your friends and family will LOVE receiving on Valentine’s Day!
How to Make 3-D Photo Valentine’s Day Cards
So listen up… I’ve got the CUTEST Valentine’s Day project to share with you today!
I’m going to show you How to Make 3D Valentines Day Cards!
Frugal friends (and sisters) Brooke and Seasyn, shared these photos with me of the adorable Valentine’s Day cards they made. Aren’t they adorable?
They wanted to share this fun idea with you too, so you could make your own!
Seriously… these will be the CUTEST Valentine’s Day Cards you ever give!! People go crazy over these!
So are you ready to learn how to make them? They’re so EASY!
Here’s what you’ll do…
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Even though these look professional, they’re such a cinch to make!
In this first card… you can see how the original photo was taken with balloons.
To create a 3-D effect, the balloons were simply covered with a chocolate candy heart that was glued on ~ how cute is that?!?
In this second example, I love the depth and reaching effect.
Don’t you just want to reach back out and grab those lollipops?
These homemade Valentine Cards are actually SO easy to make!
Keep reading for simple step-by-step instructions so you can make some this year, too…
How to Make 3D Valentine Cards
Here’s what you’ll do…
1. For the 3-D effect, have your child put their hand into a fist, and hold it straight out towards you. Then make the fist and hand your focal point of the picture.
2. For the Drifting Away effect, have your child hold some helium-filled balloons… you can even have them reaching up, or lifting one leg off the ground like they’re floating away.
3. Print your photos (these were printed 2×3 size)
4. For the 3-D Valentine, use an Xacto knife to cut a small slit at the top and bottom of the hand on the photo, then insert your lollipop (these pretty, swirly heart ones came from Walmart).
5. For the Drifting Away Valentine, simply tape or hot glue a wrapped chocolate heart over the balloons.
There you have it… easy and so seriously CUTE!
Thanks again to frugal friends Brooke & Seasyn for sharing these fun Valentine’s Day Card ideas!!
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Stacy Fox says
Very awesome idea…
June Santivasci says
These are the cutest valentines I ever saw. Thanks for sharing such a creative, fun , and cute idea. Frugal girls has given me alot of great ideas, coupons, and freebies, I love it! Thanks again for such a great website!
Charlotte Gracer says
Pure genius! I skipped holiday cards this year because I had just gotten out of the hospital, so now I can do adorable V-day cards instead. Now the trick is to get my 3 kids to hold their fists together so I don’t have to insert 3 lollipops per card.
Jill says
You can have all 3 kids hold a white pipe or stick of some sort, a PVC pipe or broom handle would be great. Use this as the stick for the lollipop and cut above the highest hand and below the lowest hand and insert the lollipop.
Molly Green says
What a cute idea! I love it!
Brooke says
I’m so glad others are finding this as fun as *I* did! My daughter had fun posing for this card and her preschool teacher still has it displayed in her office! 🙂
Cheryl says
Thank you! I was trying to come up with something new to do as Valentine’s Cards from my students to their parents, but my poor cold-infested brain wasn’t coming up with anything! I am totally doing this now!
Jules says
Very cute! I love, love this idea! Thanks for sharing!!! :o)
Alicia says
I totally love this idea.
Stacy says
These are too cute!!! Thanks for sharing!