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Chocolate Rosebud Kisses

Chocolate Rosebud Kisses

Here’s how to make your Valentine a beautiful bouquet of chocolate rosebud kisses. Once you’ve made one or two of the cellophane wrapped roses, you’ll be able to make the entire bouquet quite quickly. The main supplies are Hershey kisses, red cellophane, chenille stems and green florist’s wrap - all of which are [...]

Knitted Washcloth with Blue Dog Motif

Knitted Washcloth with Blue Dog Motif

This Peek A Blue Knitted Washcloth Pattern, featuring a blue dog motif, caught my eye at the LilKnitofThisandThat blog of designer Melanie Thompson. She has released the pattern under a creative commons license, so I was able to add it to our free knitting pattern section.
Melanie has other free knitting patterns available on this [...]

Homemade Valentine Cards

Homemade Valentine Cards

Tissue Paper Valentine Cards are easy to make - just cut designs from red tissue paper, in much the same way as you would make paper snowflakes, incorporating lots of heart shapes as you go along.
We also have directions for four different Homemade Valentine Cards made from card stock, gingham scrapbooking paper - [...]

Hearts and Crafts

Hearts and Crafts

Hearts and crafts go hand in hand for Valentine’s Day, and our new Romantic Papered Hearts project is a lovely one to try - the basic supplies are styrofoam hearts, a little moss and ribbon, plus pretty scrapbooking papers.
The kids will enjoy making easy Heart Shaped Critters from craft fun foam or Heart Stake Plant [...]

Valentine Craft Ideas

Valentine Craft Ideas

Although we have a section dedicated solely to Valentine Crafts on AllFreeCrafts, there are many projects found in other sections that would work wonderfully for Valentine’s Day.  Here are a few suggestions:
Romantic Candle Crafts
Stud a candle with rhinestones, turn a wine bottle into a candle, make a highball hurricane candle or an ivy bowl candle [...]