Rubber stamping is creating art. At Velenintes Day you can create beautiful art with you kids. Stamping with clear hobby rubber stamps allows you to relax and enjoy yourself as you inspire and capture creative moments with your kids. Valentines Day cards area great way for kids to learn to express their hidden creativity.

Valentines Day rubber stamping projects don't need to be just about making cards. There are many other ways that clear rubber stamps can be used to create fabulous romantic gifts and scrapbook pages.

Card Making Tips

• Intensity and choice of colors will set the mood for your card making crafts. Bright colors of red and orange are great for friends and loved ones while more pastel colors are better for a more romantic card for couples
• You can hand sign your card with a fun fingerprint outlined with a heart. Add glitter if your wish.
• Choose a romantic scene (perhaps tropical) and secure it to your card. You can learn how to make your own scenes by visiting our stamping blog. Stamp hearts and flowers around the scene to finish the card.
  

SCRAPBOOK PAGE IDEAS

• Use squirrels on your page and embellish a "NUTS about You" theme. The Birch Buddies clear stamp set is ideal as it includes squirrels, chipmunks and trees.  The Fall Swirls clear stamps set features some nuts that could easily be stamped into piles of acorns or scattered nuts on the ground.
• Use ribbons, lace and flowers to create a floral victorian theme that highlights the theme "Always and Forever". Ribbon and Borders clear rubber stamps can be used to add stamped ribbon elements with coordinating backgrounds. The Love Stitch clear rubber stamp set features a stitched eyelet border that can easily be stamped to create a lacey background or edge.;
• Stamp a large heart and use it to create a heart shaped frame for photo's on your page. Use the theme "Framed for Love". Add hearts randomly around the page. The Light Heart Clear stamp set features a large heart with some coordinating smaller ones or you could use hearts from the Sweetheart Collection. These stamps feature medium sized hearts and would be ideal for including lots of photos on a page.

BASIC VALENTINES PAGE MAKING TIPS

1. Pick a fun Valentines title. Choose something that you relate to and that inspires your creative juices. There are many titles to choose from in the 1500+ FREE page Toppers document - a free download for anyone who is interested in new ideas.
2.  Create a vintage theme with lots of lace and floral designs
3. Add a pocket to your kids pages to hold their favorite valentines from their friends
4. Take photo's of the valentines day gifts you receive or that you make. This serves as a wonderful way to preserve something that might be otherwise bulky and difficult to store.
5. Decorate with old valentines day cards. You can cut out images you like or create a collage background with your old Valentines day cards.
6. Use Valentines gift wrap as a fun backdrop for you page. The metallic gift wrap can create an especially stunning page.
7. Journal in a heart shape what Valentines day means to you. Embellish with some of your favorite Valentines memories - such as red roses, candy, etc
8. Use your clear rubber stamps to add roses and hearts on Valentine pages to create a more romantic theme.