Valentine Memories for Scrapbooking and Faith-Booking

If you cherish the Valentine's Day cards you receive from loved ones, friends, or classmates, you can creatively reuse them, transferring beautiful hearts and beloved sentiments onto scrapbook or faith-book pages. Instead of filing away all those treasured Valentine cards, trim around important messages, scripture, hearts, and flowers to position alongside your scrapbooking photos.

Valentine Scrapbooking Supplies and Papers

The only supplies you will need in addition to your normal scrapbooking papers, and tools, are possibly a heart shaped doily or two, as well as the cards you receive on Valentine's Day. Cut out beautiful hearts, flowers, calligraphy poems and handwritten sentiments from the Valentine cards you receive, and piece together Victorian-looking background papers.

It is also easy to make your own retro background print papers. Make red and white polka-dot papers, using red ink pens for pin-dots, or red felt makers for larger dots, straight onto a sheet of white copy paper. Kids can color in large polka dots and hearts with a single red crayon, to create their own interesting, Valentine scrapbooking papers.

Heart Framed Sweetheart Scrapbook Photos

Most Valentine cards have a large heart on the front which can be cut out and used as a frame for a special picture of you and your sweetheart. Either cut out an opening inside the frame with an exacta knife, or (preferably) cut the photo into the shape of a heart, circle, or oval, and paste directly onto the heart cut-out.

Paste this framed, sweetheart photo directly onto your retro red and white polka dot paper, adding a few heart-shaped doilies angled in, on either side. Place cut-out card notes and sentiments onto the doilies, and glue in place.

Classmate's Valentine Remembrance Page

Build an eye-popping collage of classroom cartoon-character Valentines to use as a background paper. Classmate photos can then be cut into heart shapes and added over the collage, remembering to label and date photos with the school year.

Valentine's from special class friends can be mounted onto homemade heart- dotted background papers, with best-friend photos included. Church friends' photos and Valentine exchanges can also be displayed in this manner, including scriptural references and labels.

Victorian Celebratory Faith-Booking

Cutting out hearts and flowers off Valentine cards, it's possible to create Victorian-inspired patchwork papers (as referred to above) for elegant Baptism, Communion, and Confirmation faith-book background pages. Event photos, scriptural references, and dates are all that's needed to memorialize these special faith-affirming occasions.

Allow the Valentine cards you receive to be the inspiration for your scrapbooking and faith-booking pages. These lovely cards are simply too beautiful and meaningful to toss, when you could be turning them into remembrance pages for your family.