1. Make a little keepsake box for all your valentines by using a tissue box. Cover it with a plain brown paper bag, and decorate with your favorite stickers, glitter and stamps. Make sure to keep the opening in the box uncovered so all the valentines can fit in. This is great to take to school for any holiday parties or to keep around the house for family note exchanges.

• We use the Hello Kitty personalized stamp to decorate the box and valentines, $45.00, but that is just one of the many stamp options available at Expressionery.com

2. Everyone loves a few extra baked goods around the holidays. These Valentine’s gifts are easy to assemble, and let you share the love even after the last bite’s gone. Bake up a batch of your favorite sweet snacks. Drop them in a treat bag like these clear ones that show off all the yummy goodness inside. Then tie off with a ribbon and a recipe card as your gift tag.  

• The Sprinkles Recipe Cards can be personalized and come in a pack of 25 for $24.00 on Expressionery.com

• Make them extra special by putting them on a personalized plate for a fun presentation and a unique gift; plates $25 each

3. Make a heart wreath to celebrate the holiday. First, find a piece of cardboard and trace out a large heart, and then a smaller heart inside of it. Cut out the large heart, and then the smaller heart to get an open heart wreath (see picture 1). Next, get colored construction paper, a pencil and scissors. Trace out hands and hearts and carefully cut them out. Hands and hearts can be all different sizes and traced out on different colors of paper. Then glue all the hearts and hands onto the wreath to completely fill it. Once it is dry, turn over and glue down a loop of ribbon onto the back so it can be hung up (see picture 2). Once dry your Valentine’s Day wreath is complete and ready to display. You can make it extra special by writing valentine notes on the visible hands and hearts to give it a personal touch.

4. Encourage your children to write their own personal valentines with style. Have personalized flat cards ready for them to write and decorate with gel pens, stickers and glitter, The Expressionery flat cards are perfect for writing and decorating.

•  The pink border flat cards can be personalized by color and font, a pack of 25 for $24.00

• Attach family address labels to those being mailed out, the red border labels, a pack of 120 for $13.00

5. Are you a glitter queen? Pull out all your favorite glitter and craft supplies to decorate valentine’s day inspired folded notes to match your own personal style, like these floating heart folded notes that can be personalized with your name, font, and color choices; come in a set of 25 for $24.00

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