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Bleeding Tissue Paper Valentines
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How to Make Tissue Paper Valentines

Use our free heart templates to make personalized Valentine's Day cards. You’ll definitely heart how colourful these tissue paper valentines are and how fun they are to make!
Active Time30 minutes
Drying Time3 hours
Total Time3 hours 30 minutes
Yield: 2 tissue paper valentines
Author: Debbie Chapman
Cost: $1

Equipment

Materials

Instructions

Step 1: Find what you need

  • Gather your supplies and materials.
    Tissue Paper Valentines Supplies

Step 2: Prepare the heart shapes

  • Print one of our FREE heart templates on cardstock (find the link in the materials list above).
    Tissue Paper Valentines
  • Cut out the heart shapes.
    Tissue Paper Valentines
  • Draw Valentine's Day designs on both of the heart templates with a white oil pastel. You can draw hearts, simple words, or make the valentine look like a lacy doily.
    (If your hearts still have a bit of a black outline from cutting them out, be sure to draw on the other side.)
    Tissue Paper Valentines

Step 3: Add bleeding tissue paper to the hearts

  • Spray water on the heart template. It will curl up a bit, but you can easily press it flat again.
    Tissue Paper Valentines
  • Cut strips of bleeding tissue paper, enough to cover the heart. Here we used multiple shades of red, but you can also use different colours.
    Tissue Paper Valentines
  • Place a piece of tissue paper down on the damp paper.
    Tissue Paper Valentines
  • Spray a bit more water on top to flatten the tissue paper and keep it in place.
    Tissue Paper Valentines
  • Repeat, adding tissue paper until there's no white showing and you're happy with the design.
    Make sure the tissue paper is flat on the heart and is really saturated.
    Tissue Paper Valentines
  • You can also cut smaller pieces of tissue paper in many colours.
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  • Place these tissue paper pieces onto the second heart, spraying more water after every few pieces.
    Tissue Paper Valentines

Step 4: Allow to dry

  • Allow the tissue paper and cardstock to dry.
    You can also carefully lift the papers onto paper towel to soak up some of the water, helping them to dry more quickly.
    Tissue Paper Valentines
  • Remove the tissue paper (if it's completely dry it will slide right off) and see your design emerge!
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  • Repeat with the second heart.
    If you make a design with smaller pieces of tissue paper, the cardstock tends to get more wet, so be careful removing the paper. The cardstock itself may still be damp, and more prone to tearing.
    Tissue Paper Valentines
  • Your tissue paper valentines are complete!
    Tissue Paper Valentines

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Notes

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