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The 8 by 8  1/4 inch boxes are made from recycled cereal box cardboard, plain paper, white card stock and fabric.

I covered these ones with fabric but you can use scrap booking paper, wall paper, or just make them out of colored card stock.

Make one for every Valentine in your life and fill them up with sweet stuff!

These fanciful, rather Victorian looking, cards are simple to make using plain paper.

I am delighted to share with you four of my favorite Valentine cards that are from about 1910 to 1920. 

These cute little cards are from the 1920 and each one of them has an element that you can move. These are in surprisingly good shape considering little fingers probably played with them a great deal.

The secret to their movement is that they are put together with very small split pins (also called round head fasteners). 

I have been looking for this small size and haven't been able to find them yet but the larger size split pin doesn't take away from the charm when you reproduce them.

Print these out on card stock they are wonderful to give as Valentine Cards, to use as tags or use in your Valentine displays.

Here is an idea if you are planning to give several people the same small gift.

I love to give out small little gifts and designed this gift box a few years ago. 

The box itself is easy to make from a single sheet of card stock and the wrapping paper is just printer paper with the word Enjoy printed on in script. 

A little bit of gold curling ribbon and a very simple card made from white printer paper finishes off the elegant presentation.

These are quick and easy to make and I now always keep a few on hand that I can use at the last minute. I have a printable pdf of both the box and the wrapping paper.

Regular paper will look nice but it doesn't have that sheen to it. Wrapping paper that is glossy rarely comes in white.

The secret is what it is made from. When you mix any type of chocolate with corn syrup you will get a pliable chocolate, called molding chocolate (and also known un-appetizingly as chocolate plastic)  that you can mold into almost anything. Better yet you can make this days ahead of time and it will keep beautifully. 

You don't need any fancy molds or special tools to make these roses, all it takes is a bit of time and practice. 

I always make way too much food when I have the family over (especially the sweets) and they are always delighted to take some home with them.