Ellerie's Valentine's!

Ellerie's Valentine's!

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kiddo valentines using their paintings as a background

I am excited to share the Valentine's Day cards we are sending out this year (to our families and Ellerie's little friends!) This post is the fourth in my partnership with Canon USA and a project I was really looking forward to trying. I printed these on my Canon MG7520.

kiddo valentines using their paintings as a background

I really wanted to play with the paint idea we used for our Thanksgiving invites. I set Ellerie up with some red and pink paint and let her do her thing. We ended up with a sweet little painting that I took a photo of (though scanning would work well too).

using children's artwork to create simple valentines from elise blaha on Vimeo.

I recorded a six-minute video that shares my process for recoloring the painting and adding a photo and text to the top. It's simple enough and these concepts can be used for so many different digital projects.

After they were designed, I printed two to a page on semi-gloss photo paper at home on my

Canon MG7520.

I cropped them to 5x7 and then to give them a bit more heft, I backed each with some wrapping paper (picked up at the Target dollar spot). Super simple and a bit more exciting to receive in the mail. (I used a tape runner to attach my photos and paper). I also rounded the corners.

kiddo valentines using their paintings as a background

They have been tucked into envelopes, stamped (that "hello" stamp is by Whitney Rae Paper) and washi taped up and will be headed out the door early next week. Simple and sweet - my absolute favorite kind of project.

This post is sponsored by Canon USA. Project idea, opinions, words and photos are all my own. Artwork is Ellerie's.

Original article and pictures take eliseblaha.typepad.com site