Hey, want to give a card to your beloved one? Why not try to make it yourself? Here we go!

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Skill Level: This project is rated EASY to do.

What You Need

• White cardstock cut to 5 ½” x 8 1/2”
• Scraps of patterned pink paper
• Scrap of patterned brown paper
• Pink cardstock
• Black or brown fine-tip marker
• Adhesive such as double-sided sticky tape, glue stick, liquid glue or mini glue dots
• Scissors

What You Do

• Fold white cardstock in half.
• Use your scissors to freehand cut two teardrop-shaped pieces, about 2 inches long, from the pink patterned paper. These are the top wings of the butterfly.
• Use your scissors to freehand cut two more teardrop-shaped pieces, about 1.5 inches long, from the pink patterned paper. These are the bottom wings of the butterfly.
• Use your scissors to freehand cut a strip of brown patterned paper, about 2 ¼ inches long. Round one end and make the other end pointed. This is the body of your butterfly.
• Glue the teardrop pieces to the white cardstock, pointy side to the middle. Glue the body over top of the wings.
• Use the fine-tip marker to draw curly antennae.
• Stamp, write or print off “Sending you butterfly kisses on Valentine's Day!” on the pink cardstock. Cut out and glue to the white cardstock on an angle.

Helpful Hints

• Chose white cardstock with a bit of fleck pattern to it—it's more interesting than plain white cardstock.
• Keep an eye out for different sources of paper and cardstock. For example, the patterned paper of the butterfly is actually from a magazine ad (printed on a card like a magazine subscription card) that shows the new tweed patterns of a widely available pair of canvas tennis shoes.
• Thinner cardstock (which is also less expensive) tends to work better in home printers. Look for it at office supply stores.
• To give the feeling of a fluttering butterfly, choose a font that has the letters following a wave pattern, rather than a straight line.

Quick switch This card could easily be made into a birthday card by simply changing the message. Have fun experimenting with different paper colors too.

 

I tried to make chocolate... Guess what? It's easy to make you very own Valentine's chocolate too!

Prepare:
1. cooking chocolate (normal chocolate is okay too, though it might taste a bit strange)
2. plastic mould (heart shaped preferred)
3. other ingredients: pecans, almonds... whatever you like

Procedure:
1. Boil some hot water
2. Cut the chocolate into small pieces and put them into a bowl on top of the hot water (i.e. a water bath for the chocolate)
3. Stir the chocolate until it melts smoothly
4. Add in the ingredients you want to add! (this step is optional)
5. Pour the chocolate mix into plastic mould
6. Put the mould into the freezer
7. After the chocolate has fixed its shape, slowly move the mould so that the chocolate will drop out
8. And you've got your own Valentine's chocolate!

NOTE:
a) I tried putting the chocolate pieces into microwave, and it works fine, too! So you don't have to boil the water if you don't want to.
b) Freezing time is... variable... depends on what you put into the chocolate...

That's interesting! I'll try~~~~

But if you use cocoa powder to make chocolate, it'll be difficult to decide how much milk and sugar to add...

No no, don't use cocoa powder. Get some chocolate specifically for cooking...

Also, don't add too much milk, otherwise the chocolate doesn't fix.

Yea, it's easier to buy cooking chocolate and mould nowadays.