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Try This Heart Card Craft With Stuff You Already Have!
Aug 6, 2025
Join me for 30 days of mixed media card making! In this video, learn how to make a heart themed card with simple materials. This tutorial teaches you how to make a handmade card that anyone would love to receive using supplies you probably already have.
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Hi, welcome to 30 mixed media cards in
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30 days. So, this little series is going
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to show you 30 cards that you can make
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at home. You don't need to be a
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specialist card maker and you don't need
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lots of fancy equipment. You can adapt
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what I've done to suit what you want.
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And if there's anywhere you need
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anything I've printed off, you'll be
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able to get it free. So, we're going to
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start today by making this card here.
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Okay? Nice and simple. Thing that's
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printed off, you can get free from me.
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So, don't worry. So, let's get started.
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All you need to start is a piece of
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card. Now, this is actually card blank,
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but it's just a piece of card folded in
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half. And when mine's folded in half,
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it's 7 in tall by 5 in wide, which is
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quite a standard size. And then you're
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going to want some tissue paper. Now,
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you can see mine's quite funky. That
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didn't come like that. It was an
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accident. Um, if you want yours to get
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all nice pretty colors and all mixed
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like that, get it a little bit wet in
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the pack with the other colors and you
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get some sort of rainbow effect. Um, but
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obviously that's just a happy accident.
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So, all you really want to do is cut out
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a piece of your tissue paper that's the
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same size as your card. Now, I'm going
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to have my tissue paper sticking out
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around the heart on the front. So, I'm
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making it as big as the card front. If
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you don't want it to stick out around
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the edge, you want a tidier finish, just
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cut it a little bit smaller so that
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you'll never see it. Just needs to be
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big enough to go behind the heart.
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And then just stick it to the front.
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Now, I'm just using an ordinary glue
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stick. And I'm not going to worry about
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wrinkles. I just think it adds to the
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effect. If you want it really smooth,
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make sure you start right in the center.
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Smooth it out and take a lot of care.
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You'll see I'm just going to plon it on,
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push it down flat, and not worry about
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wrinkles. I'm not even worried if it's
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not stuck right to the edge. It's just a
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little bit more texture in my opinion.
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And there you go. You can see from the
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back, you can't see it and it's just
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covering the front. Now, the heart I
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talked about, I have got one that you
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can download for free. There's a link in
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the description below and on the screen
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or you can just find a heart template
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from anywhere to be honest. Don't worry
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about it. I haven't put any markings on
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this card because I didn't want to
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restrict you with the size of your card.
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So, just measure the size of your card
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and then draw that rectangle around your
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heart. Again, if you want to make it
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smaller, you can do, but I'm just going
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to certainly to start with make it the
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size of the card. I'm not doing anything
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fancy. I'm just marking it up and then
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drawing those lines in. If you use a
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card or paper cutter, you want to make
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sure your lines go right to the edge of
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the page. I'm going to use scissors for
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my cutting out because to me, this
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series is all about making cards if you
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don't normally. You don't need to have
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all the fancy equipment. If you've got
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it, great. If you haven't, you can still
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follow along and make them. And that's
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the idea.
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So then just cut that out and then try
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it on your card and see if you're happy
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with it. At this point, of course, you
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can still cut it down some more.
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What you can't do is glue it back on.
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So, if you're enjoying this video and
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enjoying making your card, please give
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me a thumbs up below because it really
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does help it spread to more people and
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then try that on there. Now, I've got a
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little bit of red poking out around the
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edges, but not really enough.
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So, what I might do is cut the card down
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a little bit. But also, we now need to
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cut that heart out. The best way to do
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this is with a cutting board and a craft
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knife, and you'll get a really good
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edge. But assuming you haven't got that,
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just get your little scissors
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and cut round as carefully as you can.
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Now you see I've tried three different
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pairs of scissors and I'm on these
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little tiny precision ones. I'm also
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leaving some of the black line on. You
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could make sure you cut it all off for a
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nice clean edge. I rather like the
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effect of a bit of the black, so I'm
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making sure some stays on. It's all
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about being creative and making your own
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personal choices.
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So, I'll just tidy that up a little bit
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and then that can stick on there now. A
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little bit of damage. But, I mean, I
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don't want to turn it over to hide the
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black anyway, but I'm just showing that
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you could do. But, as I say, I would
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like a little bit more of the red around
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the edge. So, I'm just going to
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draw a line on it and cut it off. And
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you'll see I haven't measured it
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accurately. I've just cut a strip off
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the bottom.
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And then we can glue that on.
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So, just make sure I'm happy. Yes. I
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just like that hint of red around the
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edge.
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Again, I'm just going to use an ordinary
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glue stick and just glue that down nice
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and flat.
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Just make sure you get your glue stick
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all the way to your edges because you
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don't want it catching and peeling up at
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the edges. You'll see that I'm working
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on a piece of paper underneath and that
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is purely so that I can take the glue
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right out to the edge and I don't then
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have to scrub it all off my table.
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So, let's stick that down.
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And it's coming together. And you could
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finish there. But if you'd like to put a
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greeting on the front, you can find one
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from anywhere or you can use one of
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mine. Obviously, you could embellish the
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front with other things as well. It's
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entirely up to you. But this here uh is
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a selection of greetings that I've made
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that you can use. You can print off.
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They're free. You can see there's a link
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on the screen and a link in the
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description below and you can just go
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and get those and use those if you want
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to. And I'm going to use one of those.
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I'm going to use you're amazing. And
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what I tend to do is use these little
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foam pads just to raise it up off the
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surface because it just looks so good.
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Um, if you haven't got any, you can
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always get some easily from any craft
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shop or stationers or you can just put
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it on with the glue stick like you did
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the others. So, I hope you've enjoyed
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this card and I hope you're looking
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forward to the next video which if it's
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live will be on the screen now. and
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happy card making.
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