Alyice on January 21st, 2009

How To Make A Valentine’s Card

This year, I decided to make Valentine’s cards for family and friends. This Valentine’s Day card is for my sister-in-law, Merri. It represents her every growing family and the love they share with one another.

What I love about this painting is the vibrancy of the blue sky against the warmth of the red hearts. To me, the birds represent the flight of love. In other words, the birds represent our ability to take flight when it comes to love; to look beyond the other person’s issues and see the true heart of the person; to love without boundaries.

May this Valentine’s Day card remind you to take time out of your busy day to send a special note of love to the ones you care about—whether they live down the street, or many states away.

Supplies:

5 x7 paper
acrylic paints
small round sponge
paint brushes
scissors
torn pages from an old book
doily
dried wipes
glitter flakes
red tissue paper
Mod Podge or Golden Gac 100

To create this Valentine’s Day card, follow the instructions below:

Find a 5×7 inch paper. It could be anything you have lying around the house.
Pick several colors of paint and paint the background.
Sprinkle glitter flakes over the wet paint and let dry.
Use a small round sponge and make dots in the sky.
Tear up old papers and make a tree trunk out of the papers.
Use the torn paper to have the tree trunk extend to the end of the page, with a small piece extending up into the sky—for the bush base.
Glue a large doily in the open space.
Fold red tissue paper into an accordion then draw a half heart and cut it out. Unfold the pieces to discover several, same-sized hearts.
Glue the hearts to the painting—as leaves and ground flowers.
Sketch tiny birds on dried wipes, cut them out, and glue them to the painting.
Let the glue dry.
Paint the tree trunk, the bush, the birds, and the hearts.
Paint tiny hearts on the bush.
Write “love”, or some other word of endearment, in the center of the bush—surrounding the hearts and birds.
Write your recipient’s family names on the birds.
Frame.

Please note, I have torn book pages in the center of the bush. Looking at the image now, I wish I hadn’t done that as the torn papers take focus off the hearts and the birds.

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Nicki says:
Alyice – this is beautiful. Merri will love it.

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Posted at 8:00 pm January 24th, 2009
Alyice says:
Thanks Nicki!
Posted at 8:09 pm January 24th, 2009
Barb says:
Fantastic art Alyice.

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Posted at 2:09 pm January 25th, 2009
Alyice says:
Barb, thank you. Having seen your work, I am honored you thought the piece was nice.
Posted at 2:55 am January 26th, 2009

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