Watercolor Valentine Card Ideas for Beginners

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These watercolor Valentine card ideas are so simple and easy to make. These cards are so easy to make, no matter your skill level. Tell your loved ones they’re important to you with these sweet Valentine’s cards.

If you’re new to watercolor, you might want to check out these watercolor tutorials first.

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I had so much fun creating these Valentine’s cards. I love the simplicity that allows you to add as many details as desired.

Watercolor Valentine Card Ideas for Beginners

Supplies Needed:

• Watercolor Cards or Paper to make cards
• Watercolor Paint
• Liquid Watercolors
• Metallic Watercolors
• Watercolor Brushes
• Washi Tape (Doesn’t rip paper)
• Col-Erase Pencil (Doesn’t smudge and is easy to erase)

Notes About Supplies:

Liquid Watercolor

I love using liquid watercolors when I want a more vibrant effect. They work great in a wet-on-wet technique because they’re so concentrated. I love how they mix and create a fun texture.

They can be used with regular watercolor paint, which I did for the last card.

By the way, this paint lasts forever. I’ve had my set for over seven years and still have them.

If you don’t have liquid watercolors, use regular watercolor paint.

Metallic Watercolor

I’m obsessed with adding metallic watercolor details to everything lately. The set I linked is so much fun to play with, and the paint is very vibrant. A lot of metallic paint isn’t visible on its own, but this paint works great.

A Few Words of Encouragement

Grid of Hearts

I used pink, red, and purple, but you can use any color combination you want.

1. Draw hearts in a grid of 3×3. You can measure and be specific, but I just eyed it.
2. Fill each heart with a color.
3. While the paint is wet, drop in a few drops of another color.
4. Alternate colors.
5. Let the paint dry.
6. Erase any spare pencil marks.

Heart with Small Gold Hearts

1. Draw a large heart in the center of the card.
2. Paint the heart with clean water.
3. Drop paint onto the water and let the paint spread. (This is a wet-on-wet technique.)
4. Add more colors.
5. Mix colors as needed.
6. Let the paint dry completely.
7. Paint tiny gold stars over the heart.

Negative Space “LOVE” Card

1. Draw “LOVE” on the card. You can also write out the letters and paint around them.
2. Tape the card down.
3. Fill the negative space with water.
4. Drop color into the water.
5. Add more colors.
6. As you work, try to keep a wet edge.
7. Continue until you finish the whole area.
8. Let the paint dry.
9. Add metallic details to the edges of the letters.

Negative Space Oval with Words

1. Draw out an oval. (I traced a jar twice and connected the arcs with straight lines.)
2. Write your message in the center of the card. I wrote Happy Valentine’s Day.
3. If desired, add a heart and a flower.
4. Tape the card down.
5. Fill the area around the oval with clean water.
6. Drop color into the water.
7. Blend colors as desired.
8. Fill the entire area with color.
9. Let the paint dry.
10. Paint in the details. I added simple lettering to the message.
11. My flower is just kind of a blobby rose (rose tutorial) with leaves (leaf tutorial). And I painted a heart.
12. Add details in metallic paint if desired.
13. Stray pencil marks can be erased after the paint dries.

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