With Valentine's Day fast approaching. I thought I'd show you five really cool ways to write an i-love-you message
The first way is really simple why not say it at breakfast I took some butter
Then coated the inside of this heart shaped cookie cutter with it. I
Placed it onto this cast-iron pan and poured in some pancake mixture
Yep, we're gonna start the day with heart-shaped pancakes
Once it's been cooking for a few minutes. You can lift off your cutter and turn it over to cook the other side
I got even more creative and make my own eye and you letters so I can serve up an i-love-you
pancake breakfast
Plot a lovely way to start the day
For this one, I'm going to make a little message for inside a match box
so take an empty match box and
remove the draw
next take a piece of paper
Draw on a heart shape small enough to fit inside the draw
And cut it out with scissors
Next I'm taking a red piece of paper drawing on an even smaller heart and cutting that out, too
You can see this one really is quite small I
Also cut off a tiny bit of foam which I'm going to glue onto the back of this heart like this
Then I'm adding a spot more glue to the back of that and sticking it to the center of our white heart
Make sure it's straight and you can see the foam dot lifts the red heart slightly off the white one
Next I used a pen to write the letters I and you then I added some glue to the matchbox straw
And stuck in place I
Took a matchstick cut off the head
And used some superglue to fix that in position underneath the heart
Then on a white scrap of paper are colored in my own flame cut it out and
With another blob of superglue I stuck it on to the end of the mouse
Finally I wrote a little message on some more paper
Cut it into a strip and folded it like a concertina I
Cut that part off
applied little flew and
Stuck that underneath the mat. It is a bit fiddly and I did find using tweezers helped
when it stuck on firmly
That's our message in a matchbox draw finished
Now we need to decorate the box. I
Cut a small piece of paper the size of the front
Then wrote on it to make it look like it's a mini package. I gave it a special delivery sticker a
To-and-from label
And added some Reds decoration
Then apply some glue to the top of the matchbox and stick on the label
When it's dry you can slide in the drawer
And that's our I love you message in a maps box complete
Put it down somewhere for them to find and when they open it
It'll be a really nice surprise for them
Another way to Surprise them is by making them a packet lunch
Give them a banana. But before you pack it you can take her sewing needle and
Carefully write a message down the side of the banana. Just scraping the skin
You could add a little drawing if you wanted to
Then pack it into their lunchbox
When they open it a few hours later
The message II wrote will really be standing out it becomes brown where you scrape to the skin
But the fruit inside will still be fine
To the next one. I'm taking a sheet of white paper drawing on a heart shape
And cutting it out
Then I'm placing it back on top of the paper
And coloring it in with a red pencil
Try to make sure the whole thing has been colored red
And when you're done you should be able to feel the waxy coloring pencil texture on it
Next you can write your message over the top
Then fold your heart over like this I started from the top then folded the bottom over last
It should look like this then
I wrote the just add water
Next take a plate pull on some water
And stand your note up against the plate ready for your loved one to find
When they come along and sit it on the water
They'll be in for a real surprise as the note magically unfolds yourself and reveals your message
Pretty cool, huh?
Having one waxy surface to the paper from the coloring pencils makes the paper want to return to its original shape when it gets wet
And the cool thing about this is
You can dry the note
Then reuse it again and again
For the last one I'm gonna make a really sweet message in a closed space
We need to take a strip of paper which is about as wide as this part of the peg
Cut it down in size
Then fold in half
Next we need to do two more folds, so they're at an angle
We want them to pretty much match the opening angle of the clothes peg
Then take your pens and
Write on whatever message you like but stay inside the two outer fold lines
To stick it to the peg. I hold it centrally with my tweezers
Then carefully add four small drops of superglue and making sure not to stick the notes together
Then take your peg place it inside line it up and close the peg again
After a few seconds, you can try it out open it up and you should be able to see your message
It's really cool, isn't it?
To finish it off. I took some more paper
Cut a piece to size just big enough to cover the end of the peg like this
Then I drew on an envelope design and sealed it with a loving kiss
Next I cut it in half
Applied some glue to the peg and stuck it in place
Make sure it's nicely lined up
And finally I wrote a message on the handle of the peg
Saying you've got mail
Leave it somewhere for your loved one and let them discover your hidden message
It really is sweet and of course you can write whatever you like I
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