Love Greeting Card

From LoveToKnow Crafts

Whether you’re creating a special Valentine’s Day card, celebrating your wedding anniversary, or simply reminding your significant other how much you care, a handmade love greeting card makes a thoughtful keepsake.

A one-of-a-kind greeting card is a great way to show your love.

Making a Handmade Greeting Card

Making a greeting card with a romantic theme is just like making any other handmade card. Choose supplies that suit both the theme of the card and your recipient’s unique sense of style. For example:

Rubber stamped text in a script font makes any card look special.
Embossing adds an elegant look to romantic greeting cards.
Ribbon and vellum make great accents for cards with a romantic theme.
Flowers are just as pretty on handmade cards as they are in real life.
A photo of you and your significant other is guaranteed to turn an ordinary card into a treasured keepsake.

Supplies for card making can be found at large craft stores such as Hobby Lobby, Joann Crafts, or Michaels Crafts. You can also shop online at:

Quotes for Love Greeting Cards

Although it’s best to simply write from the heart on your handmade greeting cards, sometimes it’s difficult to put your feelings into words. However, using a famous quotation on the front of your love greeting card is an easy way to help overcome writer’s block. For example:

“Love transforms; it simultaneously makes us larger and limits and limits our possibilities. It changes our history even as it breaks a new path through the present.” --Michael Dorrius
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” --Robert Frost
“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” --Franklin P. Jones
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” --Plato
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” --Voltaire
“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” --Thomas Trahern
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” --Jean Anouilh
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” --Helen Keller
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” --Janos Arany
“There is no instinct like that of the heart.” --Lord Byron
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” –Aristotle
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” –Thoreau
“Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.” --Thornton Wilder
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” --1 Corinthians 13:4-7

For more great love quotes and sayings for your handmade greeting cards, check out the following helpful websites:

Sample Projects

If you’re having trouble coming up with a suitable design for your love greeting card, consider making a card based on one of the following project ideas: