Homemade Silk Screen Valentine's Day Cards

Silk printing is a great way to make a lot of Valentine's Day prints on your cards from one piece of art. You do need a large open work surface to create silkscreen art, but beyond that, the rest for the materials are generally affordable and easy to find at any art supply store.

I love these simple silkscreen printed Valentine's Day Cards because you can make a large number for them and give them away to all of your Valentine's.

You can find most for the supplies your will need to create silkscreen art at the local art supply store. If you do not have an art supply store in your city, then try visiting wwww.dickblick.com or www.pearlpaint.com. Their websites are awesome and they sell everything online that they sell in their retail stores.

To make your Silk Screen Printed Valentine's Day Cards you will need:
Solid colored fabric
Newspaper
Pre Made Silk-screen
Exacto Knife
Squeegee
Vellum
Pencil
Painter's tape
Design
Pre made blank card shapes or nice paper and envelopes

The first step is to draw the desired Valentine's Day design on vellum. You could also transfer your design by placing vellum over the Valentine's Day design and tracing it with a pencil. You can easily see through vellum by placing it on a lighted artist tables or even in a window when there is daylight outside to shine through.

I like to use a simple Valentine's Day shape like a heart or rose. You can complete these designs in two steps since there are two colors.

Now, if your Valentine's Day silk screen-printing card design is going to have more than one color then you will need to have more than one screen. Basically, you use one silk screen for each color. Beginners may find it easier to start out only making one color and one silk screen.

Now, if you are using multiple colors go ahead and draw out those screens as well. So, just to clarify, if you were doing a row of hearts in different colors you would cut out one screen that is each separate heart. The second screen should line up over the other two hearts, but only have the heart shape you are working on cut out of it.