Here’s a quick-and-easy Valentine’s Day craft. With these simple instructions, you can make a cute heart card that folds into an envelope. These heart envelopes are perfect for Valentine’s Day cards. You could also use a heart envelope to send a lunchbox note for your child, or sneak one onto your hubby’s pillow with a note.

To make a heart envelope, you will just need paper and scissors. A thinner paper folds much more easily than card stock; try wrapping paper, construction paper, scrapbooking paper, colored copy paper or origami paper.

DIY Heart Envelope Card

1. First, cut out a heart shape from the paper. I made a stencil by cutting half a heart out of a piece of scratch paper. The heart will fold up into a much smaller envelope, so if you want a decent sized envelope, make the heart as big as you can.

Write your message on the blank side of the paper.

2. Fold each side of the heart in about 1/3 of the way. Make sure your fold is straight up and down, or your rectangular envelope will look more like a trapezoid.

3. Now, fold the top of the heart down.

4. Turn the heart upside down and fold the pointed edge of the heart over the other folds, making the envelope flap.