Love is in full bloom with this delicate plant featuring heart-shaped blossoms and the phrase “Be My Valentine”, which create a wonderful Valentine’s Day card for your sweetheart!
One thing to keep in mind before we get started… this is merely a guide to assemble the dimensional accent in a way that resembles the pictured version. We encourage you to unleash your creativity and explore alternative layouts, add your own touches (such as inking, embossing, glitter, etc) and make this project reflect your own style or the future greeting card recipient’s personality.
Are you ready to bring this work of art to life? Let’s get started!
How to Assemble this Dimensional Paper Accent…
Things You’ll Need:
- Blooming Hearts set
- Liquid craft glue
We like using clear Elmer’s glue. - Craft tweezers
Additional Supplies (Optional):
These items are purely optional and simply allow you to take the design to the next level!
- Adhesive foam pieces for extra dimension
- Ink pads and brushes for shading
- Glitter
- Accents such as rhinestones, pearls, etc.
Important Notes:
*The colors and patterns of the pieces will vary from set to set based on paper availability.
*This set contains small pieces! Not intended for use by small children.
*Use ink pads and brushes to lightly shade the pieces in this set before assembling to give the finished design extra dimension.
Let’s Get Started!
Step 1:
For the plant, start by creasing each heart in half vertically so that it creates a 3-dimensional heart bloom. You can choose to fold it like a mountain to form a puffy-looking heart bloom, or you can fold it like a valley to form heart blooms that resemble butterfly wings.
Glue heart blooms at each tip of the green plant piece by placing a small dot of glue at the bottom point of the heart bloom. Press to adhere the bloom to the plant, but don’t flatten the heart bloom!
Step 2:
Place the “Be My Valentine” wording piece inside the wording outline piece, interlocking the delicate details of the two pieces together.
Glue the solid wording base piece to the back of the assembled wording outline pieces.
Step 3:
Glue the tiny wording filler pieces inside the empty spaces of the wording using the diagram pictured at the right.
Helpful tip: Use craft tweezers to make picking up and placing these small pieces a little bit easier!
Step 4:
Glue the assembled pieces to the front of your greeting card.
Voila! You’ve just assembled the Blooming Hearts paper accent. Add it to your handmade greeting card to create a truly one-of-a-kind item that is ready to be given or sent to friends and family. We hope you enjoyed the crafting time we shared today and encourage you to take a look at our many other dimensional paper accents which can be found on our Make It page as well as our Etsy shop.
Have a blessed day!
– MadeCreatively
MadeCreatively