Flipping through the February 2009 issue of Martha Stewart Living, I saw a playing-card Valentine project that involved glassine or vellum envelopes and a laser or ink-jet printer, all dependent on the smudge factor and too much formatting for me to call it a quick afternoon project. Also, I drop off cards at nursing homes to give out and I thought that even Martha’s regular size playing card might be difficult for that audience to read.
Adapting the project to what supplies I have on hand, I pulled out a deck of mini playing cards (I used to give them away with udandi shop orders - aw, the good old days!), red cardstock and ribbon. I opened Word, created a 5″x8.5″ document, typed Martha’s sentiments in the lower right corner and printed. Then, I took the cards with hearts and a couple cards from another suit and arranged them on the fronts. I scored and folded the cards in half. I finished the fronts with ribbon and stamped ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ inside.
Sentiments:
I’m Betting You’ll Be My Valentine
We’re Two of a Kind!
You Suit Me!
You are an Ace!
King of My Heart
Queen of My Heart
I ran out of red cardstock before I ran out of heart cards so I need to see what other cardstock I can fish out.
With one month until Valentine’s Day, here are my 2005 cards and 2006 cards but do not ask me why I did not upload 2007 or 2008 :shrug:
If you're new here, you may enjoy getting udandi & the craft of money via RSS feed or email Thanks for visiting!
PDF 
{ 2 trackbacks }
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
Totally adorable & such a great idea. Really love that you also drop off cards at nursing homes… so sweet!
Deana’s last blog post..In the know…
Congratulations! This blog post was featured in the latest Carnival at http://www.craftcritique.com We would love it if you’d let YOUR blog readers know too… you know, share the love! Happy Valentine’s Day! Craft Critique loves you!
Have you ever considered adding more videos to your blog posts to maintain the readers more entertained? I mean I just study via the entire article of yours and it was very good but since I’m a lot more of a visual learner,I discovered that to be a lot more useful well let me know how it turns out! I love what you guys are always up too. This kind of clever function and reporting! Maintain up the great functions men I’ve additional you men to my blogroll. This is an excellent post thanks for sharing this informative information.. I’ll visit your blog frequently for some latest post.