Love Birds Printable Valentine Card

How Tweet is this cute little Love Birds card which you can easily make for Valentine's Day? On this page, you'll find a free download for the cute little birdie graphic and also a step-by-step tutorial which shows you how to make your card.

The tutorial below shows you how to layer up your Valentine's card to make it nicely three dimensional. You could just print the image out once and stick it to your card. You can make it as easy or complex as you like. Hope you have lots of fun!

Images belong to the author of this article: Marie Williams Johnstone

Cut around the border of your Love Birds image (you can download this after the instructions) and stick it onto a blank card front. My card is around 6 by 4 inches when closed. You can easily make your own cards just by folding a piece of card and cutting to the size you want.

I don't like using glue when making cards, except for glitter glue which is used for the final decorative touches. Glue is too messy and it can quickly ruin a good card.

Double-sided tape is great. It gives a really neat finish for card making. I prefer the tape which comes on a roll with backing paper. Stick the tape around each side of the image and just peel back the backing paper on 4 corners as shown.

You can then turn the image over and line it up where you want it on your card front. Pat it down, then carefully pull away the backing paper to stick your image down perfectly. 

You could just leave it at that and just stick the image onto your card front for a super quick and flat card. Maybe add some stickers or glitter glue on top. 

Or you could build up the card and give it a 3D look by cutting out the birds from another print out and then stick them on top of the birds already on the card using 3D foam squares.

The love birds image I've designed is made to be layered and the birds are easy to cut out.

Pop some 3D foam to the back of the birds.

Pull away the backing paper from the 3D foam squares and carefully position the birds over the top of the birds on the front of your card.

With just a little extra work (or fun I should say) the card now has an added layer of interest to it.

I love making layered cards and part of the fun of crafting cards is choosing each part - adding papers, your main design, sentiments and embellishments - and then seeing how it all comes together at the end.

The wings of the love birds are easy to cut out too and also layer up using the 3D foam squares. You might need some smaller scissors to cut round these neatly.

If your foam squares are too big, you can cut them smaller before you take them off the backing sheet. I'm always cutting mine to size. You can also buy foam squares which are tiny ones often used for 3D decoupage. It's a great idea to have these foam stickers in a variety of sizes.

Stick the wings on top of the wings on your card and you've now got a gorgeously layered, hand crafted card. You can view my finished version at the top of this page. I added in a little ribbon bow which was stuck down with a mini glue dot and also some flat backed swarovski rhinestones for the bird eyes which were also stuck down with mini glue dots. I hope you've enjoyed reading my wizzles page today, thanks for your visit. These birdies would look cute as hanging ornaments too. Have fun!

If I double-click on my image on my Windows laptop, I get the option to print 4 of these images to a page which is the best size for me. And if I choose 3 copies, I get just 3 of these images on one sheet which is perfect.

You might have a better system for printing out images. Some people like to insert images into Word or Open Office which makes it easy to gauge the size. Or you might want to open it into an art package. As a .jpg file, it will work with a huge variety of programs.