{"id":41,"date":"2025-09-27T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:32:10","slug":"be-mine-valentine-the-art-of-the-handmade-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/27\/be-mine-valentine-the-art-of-the-handmade-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Mine, Valentine ~ The art of the handmade card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristi here.<\/p>

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By the time the Regency time period came around, sending letters to your special valentine was a firmly established tradition in England.<\/p>\n

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Handmade Valentine from 1816. Photo by Nancy Rosin, www.victoriantreasury.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While a few manufactured\u00a0valentines were finding their way into shops, mass-produced, pre-printed valentines similar to what we see today (minus the cartoon characters) didn\u2019t really make an appearance until the mid-1800s. Therefore, when our handsome heroes gave valentines to our heroines, they had to make them.<\/p>\n

You can check out an article about \u00a0antique valentines here.<\/a>\u00a0You can learn more about the particular valentine pictured at left\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I am a fan of the handmade valentine. I\u2019m a fan of the handmade anything, really. The personal time and thought mean a lot to me.<\/p>\n

My oldest daughter is in preschool this year which means she\u2019s going to have her first Valentine\u2019s party. Since I\u2019m making a deliberate attempt to make me and my family healthier this year, the last thing I want to do is send candy to 24 preschoolers and have the leftovers sitting around the house.\u00a0 I am also on a mission to clean out and organize my house so the second to last thing I want to do is send her to school with little pieces of meaningless, useless paper to go home and clutter up everyone else\u2019s houses.<\/p>\n

So we made valentines. I got on the handy, dandy internet and started looking for non-candy, non-pointless valentines and I found these.<\/p>\n

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My daughter holding her pencil valentines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See? They have a point.\u00a0 <enter big cheesy grin here><\/p>\n

I love these valentines! They are cheap, practical, and really easy for my daughter to put together herself. While the kids might not be excited about pink and purple pencils, I know there are some moms that will be happy to get something besides candy and cartoon characters.<\/p>\n

As a bonus, because I had to get this post ready, these valentines are actually done early! I won\u2019t have to stay up on the thirteenth taping construction paper flags to valentine themed pencils. My husband is so proud.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for some creative valentine ideas, check out Family Fun’s website<\/a>. They have a lot of ideas with and without candy. There are even ideas for teacher gifts and things like that.<\/p>\n

What about you? Do you make your valentines or buy them? What\u2019s the most creative valentine you\u2019ve ever seen?<\/p>\n

Originally posted 2012-02-08 07:00:00. <\/small><\/p>

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Kristi here. By the time the Regency time period came around, sending letters to your special valentine was a firmly established tradition in England. While a few manufactured\u00a0valentines were finding their way into shops, mass-produced, pre-printed valentines similar to what we see today (minus the cartoon characters) didn\u2019t really make an appearance until the mid-1800s. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","tag-craft","tag-valentines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}