Jeanne Winter's printable Udaman Candy Bar Wrappers are perfect for your man!

Little Miso shares her lovely card.

Rubber Punkin has these Valentines with awesome graphics

These little cuties are from Style Crush

I am loving Secret Agent Josephine's cute animal Valentines.

Vintage Holiday Crafts have these free vintage Valentines. Visit the site and click on a picture to download a larger individual Valentine.

Hotcakes has some cute Valentines that can be colored.

Also check out her printable love coupons.

mmmcrafts shares these adorable would you be mine Valentines.

Zakka Life has these cool rockin' Valentine wrappers for suckers.

Cottage Industrialist shares her  fun rocket Valentines.

and if you need some pretty gift tags Paper Glitter can fix you up with these

and these.

Or Living Locurto has these fun tags that fasten to the top of a sandwich bag. She also has matching Valentines.

I hope you liked these free Valentine printables!

Check out last year's round-up of free Valentines.

You might also be interested in making a Lollipop Lily Valentine, Butterfly Valentine or a Ladybug Valentine.

More ways to celebrate Valentine's Day can be found here.

or melted candy coating.

Supplies:

Candy coating
pencil pops
valentine pencils
plastic bags
ribbon
candy mold (mold need to have a place for the plastic pencil pop, see picture)

Directions:

Place plastic pencil pops into mold.

Melt candy coating slowly in microwave.  It is important to not overheat as it will scorch. I used about 38 candy disks to fill the mold of six frogs. Fill molds.

Gently tap mold to make sure there are no air bubbles and candy coating has completely filled the mold.

Allow to completely cool and harden. Remove from molds.

Place small plastic bag over candy from and tie with a ribbon.  Labels can be made by downloading tag, printing on paper, cutting them out and wrapping around pencil and fastening with glue stick.

You are 'Toad'ally awesome tag download

The same molds could be used to make gummi frogs. How about placing some in a baggie and stapling a tag to the top. Learn how to make Homemade Gummi Candy here.

You are 'toad'ally awesome plastic bag topper (fits most ziploc type bags)

LorAnn Oils is offering 15% off all orders. You will find pencil pops, molds and flavorings! Use coupon code candy.

We used red and white card-stock along with brads(metal paper fasteners), 4 1/2 " square of black tissue paper, Tootsie Pops and wiggly eyes. Yes, black brads would have been easier, but I couldn't find them anywhere. So we colored ours with a sharpie marker and it worked perfect!

If you want to make some ladybug valentines, here is the download for the body and wings.

Ladybug Valentine - Body

Ladybug Valentines - Wings

We placed a little glue stick around the bottom of the wrapper and wrapped the black tissue paper around the sucker.  Next we attached the wings to the body with the brads, then hot glued the ladybug to the sucker.

Finished!

You might be interested in these Valentine ideas.

Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket Valentines

Printable Butterfly Valentines

Whirly Gig Printable Valentines

Printable Lollipop Lily Valentine

Printable Be Mine Garland Valentine

Loads of other ways to celebrate Valentine's Day can be found here.

Today lets link up some fun Valentines---

Here is a darling one from Emily.  You can visit her site for a free download to make the tag!

So link up your  Valentines and next week lets link up your favorite quick and simple meal! You know your best stand by when you are out of time and ideas!

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Print the download on white paper sacks to make the most darling DIY Valentine Goody Bags.

These DIY Brownie Bags make the perfect packaging for heart shaped brownies.

And for the apple of your eye a little DIY Sweetie Pie box to hold an apple hand pie.

...such sweet goodies.  Enjoy!

We took our empty food boxes and cut out hearts.  The Cricut made quick work of the cutting, however scissors work great! For the Cricut we used a deep cut blade set to 5 with maximum pressure. This will vary with the box weight and how sharp the blade is. We cut one heart from the Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge at 5 inches. Use center cut so when it is finished it will go back to the center of the heart and you can cut another heart inside. We cut our next heart at 2 1/4 and then again at 2. This allows the heart inside to move when hanging. (Remove the 2 1/4 inch heart)

Sew through the hearts with sewing machine set on long stitch length. Leave plenty of thread at starting point for hanging.

Spread glue onto cardboard

Sprinkle with glitter. Allow to dry and repeat on back.

We did try to cut a 7 inch heart with two hearts inside (in background of third picture above). Because of our technique (excessive glue and glitter) the 7 inch heart would not hang straight.

Once my daughter was finished and the hearts were mostly dry, I placed them between parchment paper and sat a book on top for awhile to flatten them.

If you are looking for more ways to dress your house up for Valentine's Day try this  Valentine doormat, make some fun painted soaps for your bathroom, decorate with these stain glass hearts or make an inexpensive heart wreath.

Supplies for 1 wreath

1 metal hanger

12" X width of  burlap (my burlap was about 50" wide)

glue gun

a rotary cutter to make cutting the strips easier

dental floss

Instructions

Cut 3 - 4" X about 50" burlap strips. Sew these three pieces together, so you have one long strip. To gather the burlap, machine zig zag stitch over dental floss.  I used red cinnamon flavored floss so it wouldn't show, even though it looks white in the picture. Pull the floss and gather the burlap.

Bend 1 wire hanger into a heart shape.

Adjust gathers to fit around frame, cutting off any extra that isn't needed. Hot glue to wire frame. I used clear fishing line to hang, but a pretty white bow would be nice.

If you want a no sew method, Craftaholics Anonymous gathered the burlap by threading it about every three inches or so right onto the wire Hanger.

I had everything I needed in my stash --tea towels ( from IKEA left over from another project), Heat N Bond Lite, bits of fabric, ribbon and trim.

To make the applique I drew  hearts on the paper side of the Heat n' Bond lite. Next, iron it to the WRONG side of the fabric. (If appliqueing a letter or number it must be drawn in reverse on the paper.)

Cut out the hearts.

Peel the paper from the fabric hearts. There will be a layer of glue on the backs of the hearts.

Stack up the hearts and iron to the tea towel. Stitch around the edges. After washing the edges might start to fray. If this is not okay, go around the edges with Fray Check.

Sew trim across the bottom of the towel.

Don't want to applique? Sewing a ribbon across the bottom of the towel is another simple way to dress it up.

If you want to learn more about applique check out this tutorial on simple monogram appliques. Reverse applique is another great technique that can be used to dress up a birthday crown.

I have tried not to think about it, actually keeping myself quite busy, but thoughts keep coming back. The complete devastation in Haiti is overwhelming. The pictures on the news of the blood flowing down the street made my heart hurt and my stomach ache.  I feel so powerless and have tried to ignore those nagging feelings to do something. So today I am frivolously baking again but today trying to make it worthy.

Soule Mama I think said it best -

"The most important thing, I think, is to do something - in whatever way is right for you! Don't be overwhelmed by the choices, or misled by your seeming 'smallness' - light a candle, sew a blanket, send a dollar...whatever it may be. It matters." --Amanda Soule

Please consider doing something --anything!

To say thank you for your generosity, Steph at the DailyDigi and I have a special gift for you. Send me an email and tell me that you have made a contribution to a charity of your choice (no amount too small) and we will e-mail you a special download for printable heart cupcake toppers, printable cupcake wrappers, printable valentine papers and also digital files that you can manipulate.

Individually we might seem small and powerless, but together we are big! Together we can make a difference! So for every mommy without their baby today, for the babies without mommies, for everyone that lost all that was important to them, for everyone that lived through the terror.... --- lets just try to do something. Together in our little gestures we can show love, share kindness, provide comfort and give hope!

Devil's Food Cupcakes with Cream Filling and Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting

Make your favorite chocolate cupcakes or prepare purchased cake mix. Let cupcakes cool.

Creme Filling

1 - 7 oz container marshmallow cream

1/2 cup softened butter

1/3 cup powder sugar

1 tablespoon water

1/4 teaspoon salt

With electric mixer beat ingredients together until fluffy. Add in a few drops of red food coloring if you like pink filling like we do!

Attach a large tip to pastry bag and fill with cream. Insert tip into cupcake and fill until cupcake slightly expands.

Ganache Frosting

12 oz semisweet chocolate chips

1 cup heavy cream (must be heavy cream -- half and half will not work)

Place chocolate chips into a bowl and pour cream over the top. Heat in microwave until chips are soft.  Allow mixture to sit a minute to continue melting the chips. Stir well. Let mixture come to room temperature.  With electric mixer beat until fluffy. Fill pastry bag with large star tip and pipe onto cupcakes.

Enough frosting and filling for 12-15 cupcakes depending on your frosting and filling style.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere! Four out of five people live in poverty.

If you feel you can't contribute financially, consider donating something you have made to Craft Hope to help raise money.

If you are one of the sweet families selling Hot Chocolate for Haiti, maybe whip up some cupcakes with the toppers and wrappers to sell along with your hot chocolate!

It all matters!