{"id":15451,"date":"2021-02-12T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15451"},"modified":"2021-02-12T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T20:10:18","slug":"art-biz-with-liz-valentines-day-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/02\/12\/art-biz-with-liz-valentines-day-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Biz with Liz: Valentine&#8217;s Day Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Arts, Ink. readers! Last week, my blog post featured step-by-step instructions for making paper hearts. With just a few days left before Valentine&#8217;s Day, this week&#8217;s post will continue with the heart theme.<\/p>\n<p>With its increasingly high expectations and commercialized pressures, Valentine&#8217;s Day sometimes gets a bad rap; however, the\u00a0tradition of writing &#8220;valentines&#8221; as a means of showing\/encouraging love is a (mostly) untainted practice that I&#8217;m fond off. Card making, the craft of hand-making greeting cards, is also a pastime I enjoy. Birthday cards, &#8220;thinking of you&#8221; cards, you name it. Below are various paper hearts and cards that I&#8217;ve made this past week for my housemates, friends, and family members.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15465\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210211_152537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210211_152537.jpg 2761w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210211_152537-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210211_152537-768x781.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210211_152537-1007x1024.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210211_152537-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15463\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190624.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190624.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190624-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190624-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190624-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15466\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210212_135614-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210212_135614-1.jpg 3005w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210212_135614-1-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210212_135614-1-768x646.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210212_135614-1-1024x861.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15467\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190429-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190429-1.jpg 2850w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190429-1-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190429-1-768x819.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210210_190429-1-960x1024.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While these were made for Valentine&#8217;s Day, expressions of love are not reserved for holidays. If you have enough time, consider making your own card for a loved one.\u00a0I don&#8217;t have an extensive collection of art supplies with me here in Ann Arbor, but it&#8217;s possible to make remarkable creations with just construction paper and stick glue. Some tips? Feel free to reuse leftover paper scraps and various shapes, which are great for playing around with different designs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Arts, Ink. readers! Last week, my blog post featured step-by-step instructions for making paper hearts. With just a few days left before Valentine&#8217;s Day, this week&#8217;s post will continue with the heart theme. With its increasingly high expectations and commercialized pressures, Valentine&#8217;s Day sometimes gets a bad rap; however, the\u00a0tradition of writing &#8220;valentines&#8221; as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2196,"featured_media":13804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1488,1652,1650,1651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15471,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions\/15471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}