The Easiest Homemade Card for Valentine's Day..or Any Day!

As I've mentioned here, for the past few months, I’ve been contributing craft ideas to the incredible At Home section of The New York Times. Because we’re not all able to get to stores like we once did, they have asked me to create crafts where the newspaper itself is the starring art supply. For *today's* paper, I show a super easy technique for making collaged cards for Valentine’s Day or any day!

For these crafts, I often paint the newspaper, but this time, the photo editor asked me to use the newspaper as is. I was afraid I wouldn’t find enough colored areas…but I was wrong! (Tip: Try to save The Times’s At Home and Kids sections, which always have gorgeous colors and illustrations.)

You can trace drinking glasses, coins, or anything to make simple geometric shapes. Click over to the New York Times for the full how-to!

If you don’t want to sacrifice your crossword puzzle for a card, just make a copy first or print it out from the internet.

To make the balloon card, punch or cut circles and glue them down. Attach string with little dots of white glue. Cut a small triangle and glue it to cover the spot where the string meets the circle.

I hope you’ll try this simple card-making craft. Coming up with different arrangements and color palettes is addictive! Ans, as I mentioned in the Times, once you start collecting decorative pages to cut up, you’ll never look at a newspaper the same way again!