Create Gorgeous Custom Valentine Card

Valentine Day is right around the corner and we all want to show our love and appreciation to our better half. Nothing shows your love better than a Custom Valentine Card. By making the Valentine card you show how much you care about them.

In this tutorial I am going to show how to design a custom Valentine card in Photoshop. The process takes about 20 to 30 minutes, and you will make something unique for someone unique!

Let’s get started

In Photoshop Open a New Document and name it Valentine Card

Go to File and select PLACE EMBEDDED, select the photo that you want to use, and resize it.

Add a new blank Layer, then go to Edit > Fill > and Select Pattern. In this example I used Colour Paper Pattern

Select Shape tool from the tool bar, I selected Custom Shape > Heart for this project. And create a Shape.

Select the Shape Layer and Pattern Layer And Make a group (By Holding Command key in Mac /Control Key in Windows and letter G), so both layers are in the Group.

Go to Layer > Layer Style > and select Blending Option to open the Layer Style Window

In Layer Style Window Locate the “Knockout” option > Click on drop down menu and select “Shallow”

Then reduce the “Fill Opacity” to your desire, you can make it 0, in this photo I liked it at 30%.

Almost There!

You are almost there! Add other styles to enhance your custom Valentine Card. I used different styles for mine, I used Stroke with Gradient colour and Bevel and Emboss.

Move the shape and/or the photo to match your design.

Add your text. Job Done!