10 Cute Homemade Valentines Gifts For Your Special Someone

Why not use your creative skills and make a unique gift for your special someone this valentines. This will show your loved one that you have put a lot of effort into their gift. Below are 10 ideas that would make lovely gifts for valentines and are easy to make on a low budget.

1. Wall Art

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To make this lovely wall art all you will need is a piece of wood, red paint, white thread, nails and a hammer.

Step 1. Paint the piece of wood red

Step 2. Once the paint has dried, hammer the nails half way into the wood and line them up into a heart shape.

Step 3. Use the thread to weave in and out the nails, creating a heart.

2. Scrap Book

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A scrap book is a very thoughtful gift as you are creating a book of photos which show your most memorable moments with the person you love. This will show your valentine you really appreciate them.

Follow the link to find steps on making this scrap book

3. Mugs

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These his and her mugs are the perfect simple gift to make. Get two white plain mugs and marker pens to draw your design.

4. Candle Holders

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These cute candle holders are made from old food jars, which is a good way to recycle. A little bit of glitter, glue and ribbon will vamp up this old jar into a cute valentines gift. Once decorated place a tea light inside to give a pretty glow.

5. Cookies

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Everyone loves a sweet treat on valentines, why not make these valentines themed cookies.

Recipe

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2. Cream butter and sugars, once creamed, combine in the egg and vanilla.

3. Sift in the flour and salt. Mix together.

4. Roll out dough and cut into love heart shapes.

5. Put them in oven for 10 minutes until they are golden brown.

6. Leave to cool.

7. Decorate with icing

6. Bookmarks

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This bookmark is a creative design made from paint colour charts, with love hearts cut out and a piece of ribbon looped through the end. This would be a cute extra gift to give to a valentine that likes to read.

7. Pillow

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A pillow is a great gift as it is made from scratch and can be kept forever.

Step 1: Cut Fabric.

Step 2: Pin the seams of the fabric.

Step 3: Sew three ends of the fabric.

Step 4: Stuff the pillow.

Step 5: Finish Sewing.

Step 6: Cut heart shapes out of red felt and sew on to the pillow

8. Word Frame

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A word frame allows you to create any message and design of your choice, making it an extra special gift.

To create this valentines word frame follow instructions below:

Step 1. Print the quote on to an A4 piece of card.

Step 2. Cut out heart shapes out of red and pink tissue paper and stick on to card.

Step 3. Leave to dry.

Step 4. Place card into frame.

9. Sweetie Jar

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These homemade sweetie jars can be filled with any sweets of your choosing. This is an easy gift to make at home. You will need an old food jar, pink glass paint, red checkered fabric, love heart stencils, a tag, string and m&m sweets.

Step 1. Take your empty jar, place a heart stencil on the centre. Then paint the jar pink and leave to dry. Once dry take heart stencil off.

Step 2. Fill jar with m&m sweets.

Step 3. Use fabric to tie around the top of the jar and make a bow.

Step 4. Write a message on the tag.

Step 5. Pierce a small hole in tag and heart stencil. Then loop through the string and tie around the top of the jar.

10. Wine Glass

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All you need to create this gift is a plain wine glass and glass paints. Then you are set to paint a lovely valentines design onto the glass. This is a fairly quick and easy gift to make.