Valentine Cards and Gifts
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Creative Romantic Valentine Gifts and Cards
Valentine's Day gifts include lots more than greeting cards. Candy, flowers, perfume, apparel and jewelry are popular gifts for Valentine's Day - in fact, for many folks a Valentine card is only a small part of how they express and share their love on Valentine's Day.
You'll find many creative Valentine's Day cards, crafts and gifts in this lens - ideas for you to make a Valentine greeting card, craft a romantic gift, whip up dozens of beautiful paper hearts and flowers or cook up a delicious Sweet Treat for your family or true love on Valentine's Day.
And, if you have a geek love interest you'll find a great selection of Valentine gifts for geeks (male or female) in this lens, too.
Loving Tokens of True Affection - Hand Made Valentines
The Most Cherished Valentines Are Home Made
Whether you give your Valentine a card and a small box of chocolate or candy hearts, or go all out with flowers, a bottle of wine or an escape weekend for two, Valentine's Day is definitely the day to remember your sweetheart with a romantic gift and some one-on-one time. Valentine's Day is the one day time when everyone can show affection and love for another openly and simply - it really is a day that's all about love. Here are some quick resources for you to get started making your own Valentine cards, gifts and crafts.
Valentine Crafts on Squidoo - all kinds of Valentine crafts for kids and adults
Valentine Clip Art Collections - find all the best Valentine clip art on the web including many free Valentine's Day clip art collections
Valentine Coloring Fun on Squidoo - kids and adults love to color or use Valentine coloring pages for crafts.
Free Valentine Banners - Just the right Valentine clip art banners to use for a Squidoo lens or blog.
Last Minute Love - Printable Valentine Gift Coupons
Card store sold out? Strapped for cash? Give a gift coupon you can print right now.
- Free Print Valentine Gift Checks
- Free printable Valentine's Day gift checks, romantic love coupons in assorted sizes.
- Love Coupons For Valentine's Day
- Free printable Valentine coupons, 2 styles.
- Free Printable Valentine Love Coupons
- Printable Valentine love coupons ready to print and cut out for Valentine's Day:
Breakfast in Bed, Massage, Night Out, Blank to fill in your special gift. 2 sizes to choose from.
- Make Your Own Personalized Love Coupons
- Create Up To 6 Love Coupons, just fill out the form and print.
- Ferocious Flirting: Making Marriage Wonderful: Sweet Deal: Free Printable Valentine's Day Love Coupons
- Coupon books and love coupon links.
Chocolate - Valentine's Day Favorite
Many think this dark delight has aphrodisiac qualities ... worth a try!
Yummiest Chocolate Cake Ever - moist, rich, deliciously dark chocolate cake made from scratch!World's Best Home Made Fudge - This is a great lens - it won LOTD for good reason!Make a Chocolate Rose Bouquet - it's easy, and so sweet!Home Made Chocolate Truffles Chocolate Delights Promote Love
Say I Love You with Chocolate
Love Quotes, Poems, Word Art
Cupid-Inspired Creative Communications - Valentine Poems and Quotes
- Lovingyou.com: Love Quotes
- Searchable database of love quotes
- 'Top 10' Love Quotes and Quotations...
- The best of the best -- lots of love and romance categories to look over and find just the right sentiment.
- Valentine Clip Art
- Free Valentine clip art is available in many different styles - vintage, modern, elegant, playful, cartoonish or downright silly. Choose hearts, flowers, cupids, cute animals, lacey designs, borders, photographs, poetry and word art.
- Say I Love You in 100 Languages
- Translate I Love You into any language with over 100 translated for Valentine's Day or any romantic day.
Valentine Book Shop on Amazon
A Heart-thumping Romance Novel is Just the Right Gift for Valentine's Day
Valentine Cards to Make - Free Directions and Craft Patterns
Make a card to show your love.
Not crafty? No problem - if you have a printer you can find nice cards to print and fold. All you add is the personal touch of your message inside.
Valentine Crafts and Cards on Squidoo - Lots of links to free cards, easy to make decorations, gifts and ideas for romantic and family Valentine crafts.Diamond Heart Be My Valentine Cards - two cards on a sheet, a heart shaped diamond that glitters best printed on photo paper.Valentine Card Designer - Choose a picture, add your text, select a font, then print for free. Easy to use with beautiful photos and nice fonts.How to Make a Scented Greeting CardHow to Make Handmade PaperHow to Get a special Valentine Postmark on Your Greeting Cards
Valentine's Day Cards History
The first Valentine's Day greeting cards
The custom of expressing one's love and sentimental feelings for a sweetheart on Valentine's Day began in the Middle Ages. Poetry, song and letters were the original way to "send" a Valentine to a lover.
The oldest known paper Valentine card dates to the fifteenth century; it is housed in the British Museum.
The practice of sending cards for Valentine's Day grew steadily in popularity throughout Europe and around 1800 the first commercial Valentine cards appeared.
In the mid-1800's the first mechanical Valentines, cards with moving parts, cards with pop-ups and fancy trims such as paper honeycombs appeared.
Until the advent of the penny post, however, most Valentine greeting cards were hand-delivered. Today, Valentine's Day is the second most popular holiday for mailing greeting cards, just behind Christmas.
Key to My Heart by LizRevit
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Valentines were originally expressions of love - frilly, romantic folded small works of art, decorated with poetry and symbols of affection including cupid, hearts, flowers and lace. Today those same pictorial elements remain popular, however many cards come in humorous or fanciful designs, especially cards for children. Bears, cats, dogs, monsters and pictures of sweet treats are popular Valentine themes today.
And, for those who find the whole idea of Valentine's Day repugnant or commercial, there are now many 'anti-Valentine' greeting cards, posters and apparel available.
'Voodoo Valentine' Card by Articyn
greeting card At Zazzle
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Kiddie Valentines and Embellishments
Stickers, stamps, paper and glue, for kids to say I Love You
- Kids Print and Cut Animal Valentines
- Kids printable Valentine cards clip art graphics of cute animals.
- Printable Valentines Day Cards
- Free Valentine's Day cards to print
- 35 Printable Valentine Pages
- A big lovely list of printable Valentine resources - 35 printable Valentine pages to print and share.
3D Valentines and Valentine's Day Gifts - Think Outside the Envelope
- Heartfelt Gift Ideas - It's the little things that count
- Lots of heart-inspired Valentines to make.
- Exploding Scrapbook Box - Box of Love
- A beautiful crafty way to give a photo album or wrap up a little love token.
- Natural Home Made Spa Gifts: Bath Salts and Fizzy Bath Powders for Budget Aromatherapy
- Home made bath salts and bath powders are non-allergenic, safe to use and cost pennies to make for Valentine's Day. Use her favorite perfume to add a bit of scent.
- Tiny Valentine Treat in One Hour, Free Valentine's Day Sewing Projects
- Tiny Valentine Treat in One Hour, Free Valentine's Day Sewing Projects
- Romantic Table Settings-Heart Shaped Napkin
- How to do a heart shaped napkin fold.
- Valentine Postmarks for Greeting Cards
- How to get a special Valentine postmark on your Valentine's Day cards.
- Chocolate-Covered February in Hershey, PA - A Month-Long Celebration
- What better place to celebrate our love of chocolate than at a month-long celebration of chocolate in Hershey PA. Events include themed chocolate meals, cooking and decorating with chocolate, chocolate demonstrations, kids activities, decadent dessert specials - eat, bathe, indulge in chocolate.
- Table for Two Romantic Valentine Setting
- Craft a romantic table - make a lovely ice bucket, centerpiece, table runner, menu, napkins and napkin rings.
- Mr. Picassohead Valentine Maker
- Create an online Valentine with MrPicassoHead
- Be My Valentine Pizza
- Food and Love, the perfect match
- Oh So Crafty: Little Valentine Note
- These are quick and easy to make. Simply cut out a heart, and fold as illustrated, tucking the pointy tail end, into the curved opening.
- Candy heart with strawberries food craft
- Easy to make edible fruit arrangement - romantic, sweet, YUMMY
- Make a Candy Valentine Heart Wreath
- Learn how to make cute candy hearts that make a great Valentine's gift!
- Make a Paper Rose Bouquet
- Cut hearts and leaves from crepe paper, shape and attach to floral wire to craft a bouquet of gorgeous paper roses for your love on Valentine's Day.
- A Romantic Breakfast in Bed
- Whether it's Mimosas, Cappucino and Croissants; Scrambled Eggs, Coffee and Sausage; Heart-Shaped Cinnamon and Raisin Waffles with warm Maple Syrup or Lemon Curd Crepes with a Grand Marnier - Orange Marmalade Sauce, doesn't matter in the least. When your loved one surprises you with a romantic breakf
- Aunt Peaches: Delicate Wax Doily Valentines from Scented Candle Stubs
- Fabulously easy and lovely sweet smalleing 3D valentines made with paper doily hearts and scented candle leftovers
Share The Love - Heart Felt Greetings and Comments
Crafty Valentines Feedback
XXOO from Pastiche - Squidooers, please rate this lens if you like it. Please take a minute to show some love - leave a Valentine greeting here in this guestbook!
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10thingz
Jan 19, 2012 @ 12:02 am | delete
- Great ideas!
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suzyjahi Feb 6, 2011 @ 3:09 pm | delete
- GREAT LENS
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kizzam Feb 10, 2010 @ 9:27 am | delete
- very informative! thanks!
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dhreyn Feb 2, 2010 @ 7:26 pm | delete
- I learned a lot from your lens. I will use it like a reference guide for the clipart sources and crafts. I love the ice bucket and table runners for the romantic table setting! Thanks for a great lens. Please visit Top Valentine Gift Ideas for a less "crafty" gift-giving lens.
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KonaGirl
Jan 31, 2010 @ 7:00 pm | delete
- This is a wonderful lens that is so full of ideas! I especially appreciated the link to "make your own coupons". Very cool. 5 stars for you! I joined your fan club, added you to my faves and lensrolled you to my Romantic Breakfast in Bed lens. I'll be back to check out some more as I haven't read what's happening below yet. Thanks bunches!
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Anti-Valentine's Day Crafts and Printables
To those who don't like Valentine's Day ...
Those who oppose Valentine's Day and its trappings now have the results of their own success to consider: Anti-Valentine's Day has become almost as big as Valentine's Day!
- Have an Un-Happy Valentine's Day - Free Printable Fun for Everyone
- Jilted and Scorned stationery to make Anti-Valentine's Day cards or gift tags.
- Be My Anti-Valentine
- BE MY ANTI-VLENTINE - Valentine's Day is like herpes: just when you think its gone for good, it rears its ugly head once more. No wonder some people prefer to call it VD.
- Be My Anti-Valentine
- The advertisers have cranked up their engines, the planes are full of flowers from Africa and South America (what is the carbon footprint of this holiday?) , the Ivory Coast Blood Chocolate is being shipped out in anticipation ...
- Black Heart Anti Valentines Day Contest Roundup
- Truly creative winners of the black heart anti-Valentine's Day contest.
- Throw an Anti-Valentine's Day Party
- The rules for an anti-Valentine bash, plus lots of ideas for refreshments and entertainment. No using the V or L words!
- Valentine's Day - It's Not Just for Couples
- Find ways to express care and love for family and friends on Valentine's Day - it's not just a day for heightened romance and couples.
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- Loving Tokens of True Affection - Hand Made Valentines
- Last Minute Love - Printable Valentine Gift Coupons
- Chocolate - Valentine's Day Favorite
- Chocolate Delights Promote Love
- Love Quotes, Poems, Word Art
- Valentine Book Shop on Amazon
- Valentine Cards to Make - Free Directions and Craft Patterns
- Valentine Bliss - Love for Sale at Zazzle
- Valentine's Day Cards History
- Kiddie Valentines and Embellishments
- 3D Valentines and Valentine's Day Gifts - Think Outside the Envelope
- Valentines You Can Personalize
- Share The Love - Heart Felt Greetings and Comments
- Romantic Films for Valentine's Day
- Anti-Valentine's Day Crafts and Printables
- Tweets to You - Follow Me
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