Happy Valentines Day (Cards + Crafts Overview)
Wishing you all lots of love in your life! To help you make / gift something creative, I’ve made an overview of our beautiful and fun Valentines: craft tutorials for Valentine gifts; free downloadable templates for wrapping and cards; handmade Valentine card instructions; sweet recipes; gift ideas; and more lovely things like this. Valentines: [...]
Valentine Hearts Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Cont’ from Cinnamon rolls in various heart shapes: a Valentines Idea. :: Recipe Valentine Hearts Cinnamon Rolls Recipe The Ingredients Dough: 1 cup lukewarm milk 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 packet dry yeast 2 eggs, room temperature 1/3 cup margarine or butter, melted 2 cups of (bread) flour Filling: 1/4 cup [...]
Delicious Valentine Hearts for Breakfast
Ohhh, yummm… ! Tell me a man who doesn’t like cinnamon rolls? You might like them also. Look at all these cinnamon rolls in heart shapes, enticing you to make them as these sweet mini-cakes make great ‘lovers breakfast’ for Valentines Day. Favorite cinnamon rolls made into a heart-shape form. Heart [...]
Fast Gift to Make
: Handmade Valentines Gifts are Best. This shirt folding board is a paper decoupage project I made years ago that I thought would make a fun scrapbooking Valentines gift for a person who has lots of shirts to fold … Like your dad, your husband, your papa?? And that is to make him [...]
TP Stamp Art = Valentines Card
something cool. So simple, even your 2-year-old can do it. Toilet Paper Roll Stamp Art! Toilet paper rolls make instant stamps. Besides stamping the obvious circle, it’s easy to fill each circle with hearts and flower stamps. Pretty!! Make your own Valentines Day card, Mothers day card, fathers day card, get-well card…. [...]
Gorgeous Hearts :: Free Printables
THAT LOVING HEART: 15 free darling heart designs to embellish just about anything. Enlarge them: to create a wall-decal/ furniture print stencil or bleach-dye them on t-shirts (gifts or keep). Keep ‘m small: to print in red and adorn that Valentine Card; to create loving embroidery patterns; or make into stamps. Or make a darling [...]
Valentine Heart Wreaths
Well-illustrated Tutorial To Make Rag Heart Wreaths as Valentines Gifts or Decoration By guest writer Lilana “Hello, Fine Art Craft Guild readers! I’m the “Lilly” in LOVD, Lilly Of the Valley Designs. I’m a hardly-at-home-stay-at-home wife and mom, retired rocket scientist, jewelry-maker, project seeker, and optimist do-gooder, and daily blogger at FeelLOVDeveryday. I [...]
Curly Grosgrain Ribbons for Valentines Day Wreaths
Something nifty today: Curly grosgrain ribbons! So cute! I happen to fancy doing this today. Besides making darling wreaths with them, curled grosgrain ribbons are ideal to embellish a bunch of creative projects I’m working on. You need them too? How to Curl Grosgrain Ribbons The traditional recipe of baking curls has [...]
Make a Recycled Dryer Sheet Envelope
Great Idea: Make your own envelopes for keepsakes from used dryer sheets. Jennifer from Sunny Vanilla executed this creative idea that was the brainchild of Paula Spahr. Let me show you her works of art: How to Make Your Own Envelopes Step-by-Step Tutorial Just a few steps to success for [...]
Valentine Greeting Cards
Love this pop-up card. Classy, simple. Love the color ~ not pink for a change, with a universal message that any lover will understand. Perfect. Best of all, it comes with a free template. You will need some precision scissors however to cut this perfectly, but if you do, you’ll have a stunning and [...]
Darling Valentine Flowers (Free Crochet Pattern)
To make my little niece feel special for Valentine’s Day, I crocheted some darling little flowers…. Materials Tiny bit of yarn (this is a wool-based blend) Crochet hook size used: 2.5 cm (which makes for tight flowers as the yarn asks for a size 3.5-4 hook) [...]
Love is .. Handmade Earrings
Love is… a pair of handmade crystal angel earrings for a girlfriend. Materials 2 long metal pins with eye 3 small pastel-colored glass crystals or other beads 2 angel charms 2 earring findings Step-by-step How to Make Angel Earrings 1. Open the loops at the ends of [...]
Free Printable Valentine Gift Box
Just gorgeous. So good, I wished I designed them myself. Hop on over to Skip to My lou for these free printables.
Valentines Day Gift Ideas
I often give my creativity a boost by just browsing through Etsy and Amazon. This is what I found by way of inspiration for Valentine’s Day. Let me know what inspires you, and I might just create a handmade version of it and create a tutorial for you. 10 Valentine’s Day [...]
Personal Valentine Gifts
Simple inspiring heart desk gift set. 100% Recycled. Sometimes simplest is best: this easy-to-make Valentine Gift is great. Paper Craft How-To (Step-by-step instructions) 1. The tall box: cut a rectangular cookie box at an angle, as in the picture. First cut the lowest side, then the diagonally-cut side, then the top side [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Well, now that the day is finally there: Happy Valentine’s Day And Happy Chinese New Year to you all! (image: Valentine Cards Garland)
Wrapping Up Gifts with Unusual Recyclables
I wrote this post with bulk Valentine’s day gift wrapping in mind. However, then I realized that gift wrapping with unusual recyclables is something to do AT ALL TIMES. Green gift wrapping is not only good for the environment, it’s good for the soul. Creativity soars and whimsy emerges. It is amazing what you can [...]
9 Alternatives to Long Stemmed Roses for Valentines
I just wrote a little something for the folks of ezine, offering some original alternatives to classic long stemmed roses as a Valentine’s Day gift. I referred to the many paper craft ideas featured here on the blog, such as stamping and stenciling with roses & hearts. As well, I hinted to some ideas that [...]
Original Valentine Cards
Oh, the pressure of Valentine, year after year…. Most men dread the day or rather the implied obligation, I think. Looking beyond the social obligation, however, I think all want to do something kind and ideally, we’re all looking for some real originality? Something really NON-frilly, yet romantic? This is tough to find this, [...]
How to Cut a Paper Heart Doily
Who said a doily has to be round? Want a heart instead & wonder how to cut a paper heart doily? Easy. Just do as you’d normally do with a circular paper doily. Step-by-Step Paper Doily Making Tutorial 1. Fold a rectangular piece of paper over (resulting 2 long rectangular blocks). Cut the outside [...]
Valentine Friendship Bracelet Cuff – Kids Upcycling
Over the weekend, my niece and I designed some novel friendship bracelets for herself and her buddies, to hand out on Valentine’s Day. Which little girl would not like to get one of these from her friend? Anyhow, it’s another demonstration of the infinite number of lovely things one can make from recycled toilet paper [...]
Wooden Heart Frame
Sunday and … nothing to do??? Well, you don’t need to bring the ‘Cat in the Hat’ in the house for entertainment. You can just embellish a wooden heart frame. What you’ll need for this Valentine frame: Foam hearts sequins white glue a picture of yourself, a lovely photography, or some Valentine verses [...]
Free Hip Valentine Twitter Backgrounds
Free Twitter backgrounds for Valentine’s Day, a whole hand full of them, as designed by Alma Loveland at Olli bird. Here are my 3 favorites. I particularly dig the middle one; very free, very whimsical. Like them? Right-click to download. Easy. Also suitable as blog, website or computer screen backgrounds. Other Valentine Day [...]
Let’s Design a 3D Butterfly ‘Painting’
We all know the symbolic meaning of butterflies to be Spring and transformation. Well, I feel for me, Spring, as well as Transformation is in the air. When butterflies flutter in your belly, you’re in love. Such lovely symbolism… I thought today to craft a lesson plan tutorial for classroom use. Needless to say, [...]
Download Free Love Book Template for Scrapbooking
Yep. You get to create your own book of love…. That is: you can use it as a Valentines Book with love verses, lovely Baby Album for photos, or Affirmation Book with notes. No matter how you’ll use it, I ‘m sharing with you the ‘how to’ for a craft a lovely scrapbook project! I [...]
Handmade Valentine Cards Ideas
Need to whip up an easy Valentine greeting card, or clean and simple stamped note cards? Good. What I want to show to day is how easy it is to make lovely cards with minimal tools. Easy Valentine Craft These rubber stamped cards with hearts, squares & rectangles will do the trick for you. [...]
Handmade Valentine Card for Friends
Ah, Valentine’s Day’s coming, and as I now live far from some of my North American friends, I better start early making some lovely cards. Yesterday I took the Scrapbooking books, tools and tootles out and look what I found that I had: a lovely illustrated tutorial on How to scrapbook a Friendship card. [...]
Valentine Cards for Kids: i.e. The Entire Class!
“You’re such a sweetie”, it reads. I am asking all moms: ‘What’s not to love about this?’ All you have to do is print these Valentines and add the names of 20 kids. Done. I am dedicating this free downloadable to all moms who are being jumped upon, at the last minute, by some other [...]
Paper Art Inspiration ~ Yulia Brodskaya
Quilling Artist Yulia brodskaya Inspires Me Today. She is a London-based but Russia-born graphic designer & illustrator. Of late, Yulia has been real popular with advertising agencies and the media, who have shown loads of her work. If you live in London, no doubt you will have seen the gorgeous commercials she has created. She [...]
3 Valentine Cards: Easy, Intermediate & Advanced
Easy Valentine’s Day Card ‘K. It does not get any easier than this: print this free Valentine’s Day card template here that I have just designed for you, add any text you like and send it of. Done. Free Valentine Card Template The card reads ‘i love you’. Click the image to access the enlargement [...]
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