Valentine's Day! $5 and Under Post

Even knowing the true history of the day, I LOVE having a day [officially] dedicated to love...I have long used my crafty powers for the Valentine's gifts and here are some of the things I have come up with:

For our first married Valentine's Day, I made my husband a modern take of the marriage certificate...

The Ingredients...

-Photo

-Photo editor

-Saying that reflects your view on love

Painted over a photo, added a border, and then the details of our wedding! Printed and framed it for under $5. For last year's Valentine's Day, we had a week of love since our six month milestone is the 7th and the 14th was a week day. I made framed map hearts that hang over my desk area, a dry erase board, a special breakfast, and a card...

The Ingredients... 

-Frames

-Computer & printer

-Scissors

-Glue stick

-Card stock

I found maps online for places where we met, married, and lived. Using a heart template I made, I traced hearts on the maps printed on card stock, cut down additional card stock to fit the super cute dollar store frames I found, and mounted the hearts to the card stock, let dry and framed them. Damage? $5.

 

The Ingredients...

-Frame

-Vintage clip-on earrings

-Dry erase markers

-Fine-ruled notebook paper

-Paper in color of choice to back notebook paper

I had seen some cute DIY dry erase boards and love boards for couples floating around on Pinterest, so I decided to try my hand at it...I personally did not like the look of actual notebook paper, so I made an 8x10 graphic in a photo editor, printed it, framed it, and added three vintage clip-on earrings from my personal collection, wrote 'I love you because...' In black dry erase marker and left a red one by the frame. It's nice to leave a love note, or find one. Damage? Less than $5.

The Ingredients (literally this time)...

-Bread 

-Eggs

-Heart-shaped cookie cutter

My husband introduced me to the breakfast known as man-on-a-raft, usually made by cutting a hole in bread with a small-mouthed glass. I used a cookie cutter in the shape of a heart instead to make a love-inspired breakfast for my sweet man. Damage? $3 for the cookie cutter that is painted red and adds a little splash of color in the kitchen when not being used.

My card was a spare map heart of Topsail Island with a "banner" of a love saying printed in a cute font on card stock mounted to a piece of, you got it, card stock! Damage? NONE.