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Valentine’s Day DIY – Eraser Heart Prints

February 5, 2013

Patterned valentines DIY from Cotton & Flax

Riffing off my other eraser printing DIY project, which uses a new pencil eraser to make cute polka dotted gift wrap, I thought I’d take that DIY a little further for Valentine’s Day. I love using stamps to make patterned gift wrap or cards, and carving your own heart stamp is super easy!

DIY Supplies

Here’s what you’ll need:

  1. Varied cards or papers
  2. Envelopes
  3. Stamp pad
  4. Carving tools (I use an x-acto knife and a small printmaking carving tool)
  5. One brand new pencil with an eraser, one pencil to draw with

eraser

Start by drawing a little heart on the unused eraser. This will be your guide as you carve.

carved eraser

Proceed by carefully (and I mean CAREFULLY! I don’t want anyone getting hurt!) cutting around the edge of your drawing, and cutting away the edges. It’s very easy to accidentally lob off the whole eraser if you’re going too fast, so take your time. Watch out for your fingers, those x-acto knives are sharp!

Valentine's Day DIY from Cotton & Flax

All that’s left to do is stamp! I used a black stamp pad, but you could use any color. I would love to do this project using neon pink ink. You can go super simple, just stamping a single tiny heart on the card or envelope, or you can go wild!

valentines from Cotton & Flax

I made a few different versions, one of which I am sending to my sister. I made her address label using some of the leftover paper! Hope you’re inspired to send a sweet snail mail valentine to someone you love.

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  1. Margaret Haas

    February 5, 2013 at 9:45 am

    so cute! I love the variations you came up with. is that a pink paper pastries pencil?

    • erin dollar

      February 5, 2013 at 9:51 am

      It is a Paper Pastries pencil!! I thought it was perfectly pink for Valentine’s day 🙂

  2. Iveth

    January 21, 2014 at 8:50 am

    Lovely!! xx

  3. KatelynnRachelle

    February 3, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    Very creative. I love crafts that I have all the materials for!

  4. Olga

    February 12, 2014 at 2:32 am

    I love this! I will show this great diy with my readers this friday and send everybody to your blog!

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