For my daughter's first Valentines Day school party, I was way too ambitious. Trying to be super mom, I designed an adorable card. It had lots of gorgeous pieces that had to be assembled by hand. I was sure we'd have a wonderful time making them.

Well, we did have a wonderful time, but she lost interest after the first few. I ended up making most of them myself. Lesson learned: keep it simple!

It's been some years since that first batch of valentines, and I now have two daughters. We still make handmade cards, and the kids actually do most of the making. My youngest likes to paint hers.

I went a little crazy with the paper punches, and punched out enough pieces to make kits and listed them in my etsy shop.