hi it's me JD and welcome back to my
channel today we're making cards for our
boyfriend our spouses our significant
others just that special person in your
life first make sure you hit the
subscribe button and our first card will
be a mini messages card I have this
envelope dye which I used to cut out a
bunch of different envelopes out of some
watercolor cardstock and for each
envelope you fold in the sides and put
some adhesive over top and then fold up
the bottom don't worry about that little
slit in the back because I'm going to be
adhering these to a card front so it'll
work just like a regular envelope would
and I'm going to do this until I get all
my envelopes completed and then I'm
going to attach them to a card front and
they're going to contain a bunch of
messages but first I have to kind of put
pencil marks to help get my centering
down like you know if the envelopes are
centered from top to bottom and left to
right then I will put some adhesive on
the back of the envelope and then I will
start with the middle column to make
sure my centering is right so my sides
aren't too uneven I'm just kind of
eyeballing it you know not really taking
a lot of precise measurements because
even if it's a little off-center I can
always just trim it off to help fake the
centeredness yeah
after putting all of my envelopes on
there you can see that it has shifted to
the right I don't know how that happened
but again like I said no problem we're
just gonna bring in the trimmer and fake
it till we make it I'll also trim off
the a little bit up from the top and
bottom up because I'm going to put this
on a whole nother card front it's like
I'm building a whole nother foundation
and then I'm gonna erase all of the
pencil marks I had from before and I've
already heat emboss a sentiment and I
just took some copy paper and wrote some
fun little messages nothing too
extravagant but something to let my my
darling know that I'm thinking about him
when he gets a chance to open all of
these little mini envelopes this idea is
so cute I'm glad companies like make
like these two kind of send like 12
cards in one card I think Jennifer
McGuire did a video similar to this I
can link her video down below for you
and then I'm going to Center up my heat
emboss sentiment pop it up with some
foam squares and then attach my entire
card front onto a craft card foundation
then I'll pull out some scrap glitter
confetti from die set that I have and
I'm gonna use those to help seal all my
envelopes so all of my mini messages
don't fall out and this card is pretty
much complete the next card features
making a love checklist for your loved
one I saw this stamp set and I thought
it kind of looks like a checklist so I'm
going to use it as such when really the
stamp set just has a bunch of different
sentiments on it these sentiments are so
fun and I'm so glad that stamp companies
are you know getting a little
tongue-in-cheek they're getting a little
more modern and hip at the time like I
never thought I would see the day where
I got to stamp jay-z's name on my
handmade chart okay next I will put my
die-cut sentiment together I love when
dies have the shadow behind them I've
gotten to the point where I will only
buy word dies with a shadow behind it
just because it just emphasizes the
sentiment and gives it a nice background
especially if your background is busy
now I'm going to use some colored
pencils to mark in my little hand-drawn
check boxes as well and then I'm using a
micron pen to help outline the check
boxes I'll then adhere my word die-cut
to the top of my greeting card and then
I thought my card was missing something
like I have all these check boxes and
I'm normally not OCD but I felt like
being OCD so I decided to check off all
of the check boxes just to make sure my
recipient knows that I love them all of
these ways after that I just have to add
this to a note card and my card is
complete
another handmade card idea was to create
a heart chart I saw this die in my
crafty stash and I realized I have not
used it even though like it's been
sitting there for like two years now and
it's not Valentine's Day but I don't
care I'm going to use it now and just
the note I'm going to and I'll put my
husband's lunch or something just to let
him know I'm thinking about him after
running my note card through the
die-cutting machine with this dye I'm
left with some heart strings on the
front of my card and for some reason I
thought it resembled a pie chart so what
I'm doing is I'm tracing the outside of
the heart as well as the inside of the
heart and I'm going to be cutting some
of the strings out to resemble a pie
chart in the shape of a heart
I don't know why I decided to create a
pie chart is clearly like Valentine's
Day or love themed I like I don't really
even care for math that much anyway I
thought it resembled a pie chart so I'm
making in a pie chart I'm going to color
the inside of my note card according to
my pie chart because how this card is
going to work is that from the outside
you're like what is this and from the
inside then it'll give you some context
of like oh this is a heart chart a heart
pie chart I'm going to handwrite all of
the different categories for my heart
pie chart which includes crafts wine
chocolate and of course my husband
taking the largest chunk of the heart
and you can really customize any of the
categories to whatever your relationship
is I just thought it really added to the
handmade effect of this card so now I
have to go back in and cut all of the
heartstrings that I don't need I'm doing
this very carefully as I don't want to
snip off a string that I will need these
cards would also work for just thinking
of you cards or missing you cars or just
all-around loved cards we can celebrate
love any day of the year doesn't have to
be Valentine's Day they be also great
for anniversary cards as well or I'm
sorry cards because you forgot
anniversary cards but I digress
anyway I'm going to go back to the die
set and cut out a frame for the heart
just to clean up the edges of my heart
pie chart I'm going to add the same
frame to the front of my card and just
fill in fill in any spots I miss well I
colored I'm sure you guys have heard it
before I'm not the best color er the top
ways to hide your card making mistakes
it's either cut it off or cover it up
which is what I'm doing and then I will
add these same die cuts to the front of
my card to help clean up that and then
I'm going to take the edges of my
scissors and kind of sand down the edges
of the heart just to make things a
little bit cleaner a little bit sleeker
not like I manhandled this heart and
from the front it's like a you don't
really know what the cards about and
then you open the card up and you can
see the intent of the card and this card
is complete I hope you got some
inspiration for your next love card for
your loved ones as always guys I enjoy
making these cards I hope you keep
watching my videos and leaving me
comments down below I always do my best
to try and respond to each one I'll
catch in the next video guys thanks