Valentine’s Day Card Ideas and Messages

Put a fresh spin on Valentine’s Day with this collection of Valentine’s Day card design ideas and messages. Plus, learn where you can purchase and send greeting cards and gifts together for around $5 each — postage included!

Make Your Own Personalized Valentine Cards

Approximately 190 million valentines are mailed out each year in the United States. While this number has yet to rival the number of birthday cards sent during the same time frame, it does provide undeniable proof that romantic love is still alive and well.
 
Are you ready to celebrate but need ideas for making homemade valentines? We have you covered with our large collection of design ideas for both cute and funny Valentine’s Day cards.
 
In addition, we also provide suggestions for Valentine’s Day card messages and quotes for the cards you buy! Personalize your greeting cards using handwritten fonts, your own custom photos, and a tuck in gift to make your valentine cards a unique gift experience.

Celebrating Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day has quite the macabre past. However, it evolved through the 14th and 15th centuries to become associated with romantic love. Handwritten valentines then later became an annual tradition 18th century England.
 
As the holiday became widespread throughout popular culture, it has grown into the custom we know and celebrate today. This includes giving romantic gifts of flowers, candy, and greeting cards as way to express love to someone special.
 
Keep reading to explore our wonderful selection of card design ideas along with suggestions on what you can write inside your Valentine’s Day cards. In addition, you’ll also find Valentine quotes that you can include in lieu of your own personal message. This is especially handy if your wordsmithing skills evade you on this particular holiday.

Valentine’s Day Card Ideas

These ideas for Valentine’s Day cards are perfect if you’re making your own homemade cards. Not only do these suggestions work well for DIY cards, but they also work great as messages inside blank cards with a decorative design.
 
Following are our best ideas for cute and funny cards for Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s Day Card Ideas for Him or Her (Couples)

Here are some DIY ideas for making homemade cards for a significant other or someone that you’re sweet on:

• Photo or illustration of Bob Ross accompanied by the phrase, “You make me want to paint happy little trees.”
• A cactus picture with the wording, “You make me thorny.“
• Phrasing that states, “I love your” followed by a picture or illustration of a hot dog or dachshund.
• “You’re one of a kind!” with an illustration of playing cards or a hand that’s difficult to win.
• “Our love was mint to be.” with a gift or photo of mints.
• A wild animal design with wording that states, “I’m wild about you, Valentine.”
• “You’re the bee’s knees.” With an illustration of bee’s knees.
• A card design with a dog that says, “You’re doggone cute.”
• “You’re purr-fect for me.” Accompanied by a photo of a cat.
• Illustration of donuts with the wording “I donut what I’d do without you.”
• “I love you s’more everyday.” With a s’mores graphic.
• “Will you brie my Valentine?” and a picture of a block of brie cheese.
• “You have olive my heart.” Accompanied by an olive jar illustration.
• A card design featuring apples with the words, “I love you a bushel and a peck.”
• “I’m nuts about you.” With a card picturing a squirrel with a nut.
• Pictures of hot peppers with the phrase “You’re so spicy, Valentine!”
• “You stole a pizza my heart.” And a picture of a pizza slice.
• A bee graphic with words that say, “Bee my valentine.”
• “You’re my everything!” followed by an illustration of an everything bagel.
• “You’re the sauce to my nuggets.” With a design showing chicken nuggets being dipped into sauce.
• An illustration of a dripping ice cream cone accompanied by the words, “You make me melt.”
• “Is your dad a baker? Because you’ve got great buns.” with a cinnamon buns graphic.
• “You’re my main squeeze.” Tied in with a juice box.
• For DIY Valentine’s Day gifts for him, you can combo jars or spices with printable “You spice up my life!” gift tags.
• You can also create love birds note cards like these and include a quote or message inside the card.

Card Ideas for Kids

Here are several cute ideas for greeting cards that you can make for kids for Valentine’s Day or that they can gift to one another:

• “You’re off the hook.” With gummy worms.
• “I chews you Valentine.” Combined with a card or mini gumball machine and chewing gum, like these DIY Valentines for kids.
• “I dig you, Valentine.” With a photo of or an actual toy shovel.
• Gift a pair of socks with a card that says, “We make a great pair.”

• “Bee mine.” With toilet paper roll bees.
• “I’m crushing on you.” With a card picturing a soda can.
• A card illustration of an owl that states, “Whoo loves you?”
• “Olive you.” With a picture of olives on the card.
• Gift mini perfumes with printable valentines for kids that say, “You’re Scent-sational!”

Valentine’s Day Card Messages

Once you chosen a greeting card for your intended recipient, the question now becomes, what do I write inside?
 
Unless you have something really important to express to your recipient, you can keep your communication short and sweet. Following are some easy, one and two sentence ideas for what to write inside Valentine’s Day cards. Here are our favorite messages to use inside a valentine greeting card or gift note:
 

• You’re as awkward as a fork at a soup convention. But I still love you.
• Our love is like peanut butter and jelly.
• You give me butterflies.
• You’re the icing on my cake.
• You hold the key to my heart.
• You’re the apple of my eye.
• Be mine.
• I love you more than coffee.
• You’re my favorite. (Second only to wine!)
• There’s no love story like our love story.
• You’re the king to my queen. Happy Valentine’s Day.
• In a perfect world, I’d choose you over winning the lottery.
• You’re all I need in life. (Well, and an endless supply of wine and chocolate.)
• I’m sweet on you, Valentine.
• I shaved. Happy Valentine’s Day.
• I only have eyes for you.
• You take my breathe away.
• I may have stolen your fries, but you stole my heart.
• Te Amo.
• There is no end to this love.
• I love you more than tacos.
• Your love is magic.
• I’m sweet on you.
• Take to me to wonderland.
• You’re my one and only.
• Forever ever.
• You’re awesome sauce.
• Today’s the only day you’ll get me into a dress.
• Valentine’s Day is fake news.

What are some Popular Valentine quotes?

If you still can’t find the right sentiment to write inside your Valentine’s Day cards, you use a valentine quote instead. Here are some of our favorite quotes to use for Valentine’s Day:
 

• Life is the flower for which love is honey. — Victor Hugo
• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. — David Viscott
• If I know what love is, it is because of you. — Hermann Hesse
• Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. — Franklin P. Jones
• You are my greatest adventure. — Mr. Incredible
• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. — Charles Me. Schulz
• Falling in love is so hard on the knees. — Aerosmith
• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. — Audrey Hepburn
• There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. — Jane Austen
• Your flaws are perfect for the heart that’s meant to love you. – Trent Shelton
• You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
• Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. – Katharine Lee Bates
• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin

·      It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. – Laurence J. Peter, Educator
·      Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January. – Jim Gaffigan

• What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. – Pearl Bailey
• This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls. – Aberjhani

·      And suddenly all the love songs were about you. – Unknown
·      Where there is love there is life. – Mahatma Gandhi
·      Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Brontë
·      The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
·      Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.  – Maya Angelou
·      Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·      Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way. – Aberjhani
·      Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. – Audre Lorde
·      Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. – Nicholas Sparks
·      A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman
·      Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery
·      Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. — Robert Heinlein
·      Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly. – Rose Franken
·      Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves- alone we find it with another. – Thomas Merton

• You stole my heart, but I’ll let you keep it. – Anonymous

Where to Buy Valentine’s Day Cards Online

Obviously, we can’t all be Pinterest stars. So, if making homemade Valentine’s Day cards surpasses your skill set (or you simply don’t have the time) we have the perfect solution!
Minute Mail Gifts specializes in greeting cards and gifts. Not only does this unique greeting card service allow you to upload and personalize cards with your own photos and text, but we also mail the cards for you along with a gift!

Choose from blue or black ink for your handwritten message as part of the personalization. You can also select up to two photos to be printed inside your personalized Valentine’s Day cards. Then pull it all together by selecting a small keepsake gift. Minute Mail gifts will then professionally print your design and Valentine’s Day message inside and mail it, along with a tuck in gift, to your recipient on the date you select.

Not only is this online greeting card service an affordable way to mail cards and gifts together this Valentine’s Day, it’s also fast and user-friendly! Get started today.