Recycled Valentine’s Day Cards from Upcycled Magazines and Catalogs

Make my super cute recycled valentines cards for Valentine’s Day by upcyling magazines and catalogs. Just rip out red colors from catalogs and magazines and glue them onto paper. It’s an easy recycled magazine craft that looks really unique and cool when it’s finished. And I’ll tell you: Ripping paper is really satisfying.

Recycled valentines made from paper magazines and catalogs

I made a couple Valentine’s Day card variations, the one above with a collage front and white arrow, and a simple modern version with three punched hearts.

Easy recycled valentines craft idea for Valentine’s Day

Sometimes Chicago weather is my best crafting inspiration. It’s just too cold in Chicago to go to the craft store and buy cute Valentine’s Day stickers and markers so I’m making it work with what I home. I had fun making these recycled Christmas cards from magazines so I thought I’d give it a go for DIY Valentine’s Day cards too.

See also: 8 Easy Handmade Valentines To DIY >

Upcycled heart from torn paper

I especially love the collage heart up close. I’d love to try this technique to make a paper necklace of torn paper and Mod Podge, what do you think? These upcycled paper hearts would also look great bigger as a Valentine’s Day garland.

Kids can make these recycled valentines

And upcycling magazines into valentines is a great kid’s project too. Liam was obsessed with the glue stick…

…and my independent Elise made her own DIY collage Valentine’s Day cards.

How to make DIY Valentine Day’s Cards using Recycled Magazines

Step 1: Fold or cut white paper into your desired valentines card size

Cut or fold white cardstock paper to fit inside your envelope. I had this red envelope in my craft stash, so I cut my paper to fit it. However, if you have 5×7 envelopes then you can just fold the white cardstock paper in half to make a card.

Step 2: Tear colorful shapes from magazines and catalogs

Rip out red colors from catalogs and magazines. The J-Crew catalog had a ton of red this season.

Step 3: Glue torn paper onto the recycled Valentine’s Day card

Glue the torn pieces onto the white cardstock folded card. I like to use this purple disappearing glue stick so that you can see where the glue is and is not.

Step 4: Trim the sides of the card

Keep overlaying the torn pieces to make a collage. Let it dry completely, then trim up the overhanging torn edges so that the card is squared off. If you’d like to really hold down the torn pieces, you could add a layer of Mod Podge on top.

Step 5: Cut out an arrow for the card front

Cut out a cupid’s arrow from white cardstock paper and glue onto the front of the card.

Step 6: Optional – if you’d like to cover hearts then punch

If you’d like to make my Three Hearts Card then punch out hearts using a heart punch. I used red and glitter white, and then punched a heart from my torn magazine collage to make the third heart.

Be sure to pin my recycled valentines card idea from upcycled magazines and catalogs:

And see more easy Valentine’s Day craft projects.

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