How to Make a Valentine Collage

Having a hard time expressing your feelings for your sweetheart? A valentine collage can be worth a thousand words.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Colored Card Stock
• Scissors
• Bottles Of Rubber Cement
• Postage Stamps
• Catalogs
• Glitter
• Felt-tip Pens
• Greeting Cards
• Glue Sticks
• Magazines
• Valentine Stickers
• Paper-edger Scissors
• Victoria Magazines
• Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion Magazines
• Envelopes

1. Think about the person you're sending the valentine to and the kind of message you want to send.

2. Browse through magazines and catalogs looking for pictures and words that convey your feelings.

3. Cut out the pictures and words you find.

4. Be creative in your cutting. Use scissors with decorative edges, called paper edgers, or cut pieces into heart shapes.

5. Arrange the cutouts on a blank greeting card or a piece of card stock that has been cut to the desired size and folded in half.

6. Try placing your cutouts in different ways. Overlap pieces or combine pictures and words in unique combinations.

7. Glue the pictures and words to the card with a glue stick or rubber cement once you have them arranged in a design you like.

8. Add glitter or valentine stickers to your design.

9. Use words cut out of a magazine to write a valentine greeting or poem on the inside of the card.

Tips & Warnings

• Cut out more pictures and words than you think you'll need. This will give you more flexibility in creating your design.

• Choose pictures from children's magazines for a child's valentine. Lingerie catalogs and women's magazines are good sources of pictures for romantic cards. "Victoria" and "Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion" magazines are full of beautiful pictures for traditional valentines.

• Rubber cement or a glue stick will work better than white glue for this project. White glue will cause magazine cutouts to warp and wrinkle.

• If using rubber cement, make sure you work in a well-ventilated area.