Making Valentines

 We have a bit of family history making cards----many of our grandchildren make their own Valentines.  We were with some as they were brainstorming ideas.  Davis wanted baseball, Brett snakes but Libby was having a hard time so was looking at Pinterest ideas.

I knew I needed to kick it up a notch for the grandkids after I got home. I like for the cards to be different, personalized, but I wasn't feeling great.  So, they all had the same sentiment on the front (although decorated differently):  "Roses are red, Violets are blue" (all deliberately fancy and schmaltzy)

 Eli's ended with "Legos and Minecraft get built, By someone like you."  Anna's "Odd Squad or Frozen, We love you."

 Sam's: "Bugs like dirt and mud, And so do you"  Silas's:  "Ants are little and so are you."

 Libby:  "Selena doesn't need Bieber, And neither do you."  Davis:  "Hazel likes to toot, and so do you"

 Roman: "Frogs like water, and so do you." Brett:  "Turtles are silly, And so are you."

Not a lot of creativity here, but the sentiment is "Grandpa and Grandma love you!"

Valentines for Grandchildren

I know I'm not as skilled as my sister or my daughters with card making, but my grandchildren don't seem to mind. No, the inside does NOT say, "a handful. . . ."
That never even crossed my mind---I always intended it to say "hand-some!"
OK, the hearts above are added to hide the tear marks because I couldn't get the "N"s placed quite right.
But, come on---don't I get points for creatively using my alphabet stickers?
Yeeees, I ran out of room for the "g" and decided to use the apostrophe. . .
Actually, I think Eli's is the best one from an artistic stand-point.

No, I don't think Libby is "into" texting, but I thought maybe she could recognize the letters and number.
Libby's was my first one I made---I hadn't gotten the creative juices up to speed yet.
I came up with this for Davis. . .well, because Davis loves the word "toot". So, looking through my stickers for a horn, I found all of these German stickers and the pretzel alphabet. . .just lucky, I guess.
I'm a little embarrassed about Brett's which is why it is last. Using all of the animal stickers seemed like a good idea---then I added the snakes. . .
but, I think the message got lost with all the animals covering the letters. Then, the heart wasn't big enough, so I thought I'd draw a bigger one. . . .
I am just hoping my grandchildren cherish Grandma's attempts at art and can smile some day like I do with the note below from my grandparents on a Valentine "Hope you look over the spelling." It couldn't have been easy for my grandparents to send a note to their granddaughter the English major, but I cherish their notes---mispelled words and all.