For this year's Valentine's day, on top of the presents that I've bought my boyfriend, I'm planning an extra surprise. I'm preparing 10 little envelopes containing thoughtful little presents, statements of things I love about him and a few other little ideas.
I haven't quite decided how I'm going to present them to him yet but my current thought is to plan a film or episode of our favourite tv program to watch and then edit it so that it pauses 10 times and a question about our relationship comes on the screen. The answer will then be one of the numbers written on the envelopes, which if he answers the question correctly, he'll be able to open. Easy?!
I think that I should probably give you some concrete ideas now, so that you can go off and make your own. So what I'll do is show you the ones I've already made and then talk you through them. If you don't know where to find blank pre-made cards then you can buy them in lots of card and craft shops and these ones are from The Works.
Starting from the middle card on the left and working clockwise in a spiral pattern...
- The card with the ribbon around the top that says 'All my love' has one of the things I love about him written inside.
- The next card has a heart shape cut out, surrounded by shiny diamantes. Behind the cut out heart shape I've put red tissue paper. Inside is an instruction to hold the card up to the light and then says something about him that makes my heart glow (along the lines of how good he is to me and looks after me!).
- The calendar and 'folder' contains 365 kisses (scanned lipstick kisses) which are each individually dated and are to be stuck onto the calendar. Next year I'm planning to make a collage of them all to hang up on the wall. This is more of a girl to guy gift but you could just write 'X' for a kiss or draw hugs and do the same.
- The next card has lots of 0s and 1s written on it which if you haven't worked out already is binary code. It says 'I Love You'. The bottom of the card then suggests that he opens the card to read the translation from binary. Inside is an 'I Love You' banner that will be posted on next week's blog.
- Next is a card that says 'You're a (diamond) boyfriend' and inside has a picture of us. I've then cut him out and in the space where he would have been I've written 'You complete my picture' so that he can place his half of the photo back into the whole (how cheesy!). If you didn't want to do this, you could perhaps just frame a picture of you two and give that to her instead.
- The next card has a glitter heart on the front and has one of the things I love about him written inside. I'm also planning to make some jelly heart sweets to go with the 'you make my heart turn to jelly' which is written inside. Making your own jelly hearts is a little ambitious so alternatively you could buy a bag of haribo and take out all of the hearts or change the phrase to 'you make my heart melt' and buy her some chocolate hearts.
- Finally this card says 'You (rock) my world' with a stone of lapis lazuli. Inside I've written about the properties of lapis which include love, protection, power and healing. There are lots of alternatives out there so you should be able to find one that you think she'll love that has some equally meaningful properties.
There are lots of things you could write in the cards, and even more if you're going for cheesy! So think about why you love her or what's great about you two and then try and think about a little present that symbolises that. Then all you have to do is put the idea and the present into a card and you're done!
What I'm really hoping that you do after reading this blog is get inspired to make your own series of cards which will show your girlfriend how much you love her and even make her laugh (if you go for the cheesy ones like me!). If you don't want to go all the way to 10 cards, why not at least make her one card to go with one of her presents?
Love from lila xx
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