Valentine Cards and Gifts

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Creative Romantic Gifts and Cards for Valentine's Day

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 crafts and gifts in this lens - ideas for you to make a Valentine card, craft a lovely gift, whip up dozens of beautiful paper hearts and flowers or even a cook up a delicious Sweet Treat for your family or true love on Valentine's Day.

Loving Tokens of True Affection - Hand Made Valentines 

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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.

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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 Personlized 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!

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You can buy chocolate candy, chocolate cupcakes, sensuous chocolate treats and sexy toys like edible chocolate body paints, plus all sorts of chocolate condiments to sprinkle on pancakes, ice cream and puddings. Or, you can make someone's heart stop or flutter with a simple but lucious delicious home made chocolate confection. Try these:

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 

Chocolate is a feel-good treat that's good for your heart (in moderate amounts). Treat your loved one and yourself to chocolate for Valentine's Day or any day ... show your love with chocolate.

Love Quotes, Poems, Word Art 

Cupid-Inspired Creative Communications - Valentine Poems and Quotes

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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.

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The simplest home made card can mean the most to the person who receives it. You can start with a blank card or just fold some nice paper, add bits of lace, pictures, dried flowers, ribbon - a meaningful poem or quote and even a bit of perfume to give it a boost. Buy or make an envelope to fit and then just enjoy your Valentine's reaction!

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 Card

How to Make Handmade Paper

How to Get a special Valentine Postmark on Your Greeting Cards

Romantic Valentine Clip Art - Free Download Blog 

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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 card
Key to My Heart by LizRevit
Design a notecard On Zazzle.com
Browse Major Holidays Cards

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 card
'Voodoo Valentine' Card by Articyn
greeting card At Zazzle
See more Events Holidays Greetings Cards

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

3D Valentines and Gifts - Think Outside the Envelope 

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Three dimensional Valentines, sweetheart greetings and creative gift ideas for Valentine's Day.
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.

Valentines You Can Personalize 

Thousands of cards and gifts, ready for your perfect sentiment.

Share The Love - Heart Felt Greetings and Comments 

Crafty Valentines Feedback

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Romantic Films for Valentine's Day 

Here's where you get to help me create a list of favorite films for Valentine's Day. Vote for your favorite or add a new one!

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Valentine Banners for Squidoo Lenses 

Free Valentine clip art banners

The lovely blue and yellow banners in this lens came from Valentine's Day Banners - check out all the different designs by talented artists who make Valentine clip art for free.

Wear Your Heart on Your - err, Body? 

CafePress Giftable Valentine Apparel

Astrological Signs - Love Horoscope 

Anti-Valentine's Day Crafts and Printables 

To those who don't like Valentine's Day ...

As deeply as many of us love and appreciate the Valentine's Day holiday with all its romance and traditions, there are some who do not enjoy the holiday. Nor do they appreciate all the attention it gets/pressure it exerts on single people or those who abhor commercialism.

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.

Valentine Crafts Lenses 

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I'm a romantic at heart - and I love crafts. Valentine's Day has been a favorite crafty time since I was a little kid making lace-trimmed hearts to ex... (more)

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