Valentine’s Day - 5/15

valentine card Ideas

Valentine’s Day is next week and I just barely finished up the girl’s Valentine’s cards to give to their friends. I have seen some fun versions of these around the internet and decided to make theirs a bit more personal this year. So I am sharing with you some different valentine card ideas today.

There is not a lot too these Valentine’s ideas other than just simply taking a photograph of your child in front of a white wall if possible…in our case we used our garage door and then I was able to Photoshop the hinge lines out of the pictures.

For the youngest, I just took a picture of her in the snow in front of a rock. Busy backgrounds are not the best choice if you want to add some writing to your photo. Then just using my Photoshop Elements program I drew some hearts and added some simple heart shapes and some text.

I also created some Valentine Bag Toppers (which I originally saw on Martha Stewart) by placing one of the photographs onto a new blank creation that measured 3 inches x 5 inches to place on a candy baggie that measured 3 inches x 4.75 inches.

Then placing the photo on the bottom half, you fold the topper in half and then staple it onto your baggie of candy.

Fairly quick and easy and I think it makes a great little Valentine gift for their friends. My son did not want to have anything to do with these sorts of Valentines…and I can’t really blame him. He went for the standard Valentine’s in a box.

I attached some candy to each Valentine. On some we glued on some Dove chocolate and on the youngest we stuck suckers through the card by placing a small hole above and below her outstretched hand. This card has been circling the internet for a couple of years now and I finally made one. And I have to say, that it has been a big hit. She is so excited to hand them out to her pre-school friends this year!

This is the first year I have done anything other than the boxed Valentine’s. Do you do anything fun or special for your kids Valentine’s Day cards?

Need some other Valentine’s Day ideas? Check out some of these past posts:

Valentine Bingo Cards

Valentine Hand Prints

Hearts Yahtzee Game and Printables

Valentine Heart Suckers

Valentine Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

Valentine Candy Cane Heart Suckers

Valentine Heart Wax Paper

Valentine Heart Pancakes

Valentine Heart Felt Wreath

Valentine’s Day Candy Corn Bark

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February 10, 2012 · Filed under: Valentine's Day Tagged with classroom valentine ideas, personalized valentine's day cards, valentine's day, valentines cards, valentines day craft

Love Potion no. 9 Labels

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Things around here are starting to get put back together and I am making progress on getting my new office organized and the old one cleaned up. Our floors are in now and I can’t wait to share our progress with you. We still have quite a bit of work to do as far as the baseboards, some painting and etc.

So I have not been crafting much. But I did manage to make some fun printable Valentine’s Day Love Potion no. 9 Labels and/or tags.

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These are a really simple addition to a cute bottle filled with candy or your favorite drink.

I burned the edges of this label and colored the label with a brown crayon very lightly but darker around the edges to make it look like aged paper.

Or you can cut around the edges of the label and then glue it onto your container…a plastic test tube in this case to make it like a sticky label.

And, because I like sharing, I have made it available for you to download for your own purposes if you would like. I made them in brown or in white if you want to color them on your own. If you would like a different size you can simply choose to print them out at greater than 100% to make them bigger or smaller than 100% if you need them smaller.

To make the labels for the test tube I printed them at 75% of the original size. For the round glass container I printed them at 100%.

(*click on the links below to download the labels)

Love Potion no. 9 White Labels

Love Potion no. 9 Tan Labels

I would love to see if you end up using them and how!

Linking up here: Today’s Creative Blog

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February 3, 2012 · Filed under: Free Downloads, Valentine's Day Tagged with Valentine's Day Decor, valentines day, valentines day craft, valentines day gift, valentines day ideas, valentines day treat

Valentine Cookie Pops

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Valentine Cookie Pops on a stick? Yep! You know how much I like them. Here is a new Valentine version. But this time it is not an Oreo. These are sugar cookies…

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These are pretty easy to make and would be a fun little treat to leave someone special this Valentine’s Day.

We made them with our favorite soft Sour Cream Sugar Cookie Recipe. Then we cut the cookies into some fun Valentine’s Day cookie cutters…hearts, lips, and some X’s and O’s.

Then bake your cookies according to your recipe directions. And let them cool completely.

Then we melted some white chocolate. If you don’t have chocolate you can also use Almond Bark or Candi Quik. I poured a small amount onto one cookie that I turned onto it’s back. Place your sucker stick onto the melted chocolate and then add a little bit more chocolate on top of the stick. Then place another cookie on top.

Then to speed up the process, I popped them into the freezer for a couple of minutes. Then you can dip them into your melted chocolate. Instead of dipping I actually spoon the chocolate onto them as I turn the cookies at different angles to make sure that the entire cookie is covered on the front and back.

Add some sprinkles or some other fun edible embellishments. I did take a small heart cookie cutter and poured some melted Wilton’s Candy Melts into it to make some hearts to place onto the cookie pops too like the ones shown in the pictures below.