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Share the LOVE this upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday and whip up a few of these handmade paper doily heart shaped valentine craft ideas!

How to Incorporate Paper Doilies in Your Valentine's Day Crafts

Welcome crafters! Are you feeling the love in the air? With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it’s time to get creative and sprinkle some romance into your crafts. And what better way to do that than by incorporating paper doilies?

These delicate, lacy wonders are not just for your grandmother’s table settings. In this blog post, we will take you on a journey through a world of clever and unique ways to use paper doilies in your crafts this Valentine’s Day season.

From stunning greeting cards to elegant gift wrapping ideas, we have got you covered. So grab your scissors, glue, and a stash of paper doilies, because it’s time to turn ordinary crafts into extraordinary expressions of love and creativity.

Get ready to be inspired and let your imagination run wild with these super quick ideas from us!

PAPER DOILY SNAIL CARD IDEA

PAPER DOILY SNAIL CARD IDEA

A handmade card highlights Paper Doily Crafts with a cute mouse crafted from a red paper doily, complete with a googly eye and heart-shaped nose. "Have a mice day!" and hearts decorate the card. @GLUETOMYCRAFTS appears at the bottom.

MOUSE CARD IDEA FOR KIDS

A charming handmade owl Valentine’s card featuring Paper Doily Crafts with a doily body, googly eyes, and paper shapes on blue paper. Red hearts and text read “I think you are a hoot!” @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS at the bottom.

PAPER DOILY OWL CARD IDEA – ADD LARGE WIGGLE EYES

A hand holds a blue sheet featuring a polar bear face made from a heart-shaped paper doily, googly eyes, and gray paper ears. Blue and white snowflake and heart accents are glued on—perfect inspiration for winter Paper Doily Crafts. Snowy trees are in the background.

PAPER DOILY WHITE POLAR BEAR CRAFT

PAPER DOILY ICE CREAM CONE CRAFT

PAPER DOILY ICE CREAM CONE CRAFT

A children’s book titled Penguin in Love and a handmade penguin craft with large googly eyes, orange beak, paper hands as wings, and a paper doily heart—perfect inspiration for adorable Paper Doily Crafts—displayed on patterned paper.

USE A PAPER DOILY FOR THIS PENGUIN CRAFT

A handmade Valentine’s card featuring Paper Doily Crafts: a bee made from paper, a gold doily heart, and a chocolate heart. Surrounded by hearts, “Bee Mine!” text, felt envelopes, and @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS at the bottom.

USE A GOLD PAPER DOILY TO MAKE A BEE

A handmade Valentines Day card features a butterfly made from a red handprint, a red circle for the head with googly eyes and antennae, gold paper doily crafts as wings, and the message you make my heart flutter!.

USE PAPER DOILIES FOR THIS BUTTERFLY KEEPSAKE

A handmade card with a butterfly crafted from red doilies and a craft stick on blue paper, surrounded by paper hearts. Perfect for fans of Paper Doily Crafts, it features the text "You make my heart flutter!" with pink and red decorations framing the card.

PAPER DOILY BUTTERFLY CRAFT IDEA

A handmade Valentine’s card featuring a pink snail crafted from paper, a heart-shaped doily shell, felt hearts, googly eyes, and “I ‘snailed’ it when I met you!”—a sweet Paper Doily Crafts idea decorated with drawn hearts and stickers.

PAPER DOILY SNAIL CARD IDEA

Two butterfly crafts, perfect for Paper Doily Crafts lovers, are made from painted clothespins and heart-shaped doilies. They rest on a purple background with pink yarn balls. One butterfly is white and pink; the other is red and pink. Text reads @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

PAPER DOILY AND CLOTHESPIN BUTTERFLIES

A BEARY CUTE CARD IDEA FOR VALENTINE'S DAY

A BEARY CUTE CARD IDEA FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

A pink card displays a flower made from six red heart-shaped doilies as petals, a gold glittery circle center, and green painted leaves. Perfect for Paper Doily Crafts lovers, with red yarn hearts in the corners and @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS at the bottom.

PAPER DOILY FLOWER CARD IDEA

A pink paper with red hearts and green leaves, perfect for charming Paper Doily Crafts.

USE THE HEART SHAPES TO MAKE LADYBUGS

CIRCULAR PAPER DOILY DONUT CARD

CIRCULAR PAPER DOILY DONUT CARD

A Valentine’s Day gnome craft featuring a red polka dot triangle hat, a white paper doily heart beard, a red glitter heart nose, and surrounded by red yarn hearts and confetti. Perfect for fans of Paper Doily Crafts! @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

PAPER DOILY GNOME CARDS

A pink card featuring a bunny-shaped white lace heart doily, perfect for Paper Doily Crafts lovers. Googly eyes, white ears, and a red heart nose stand out amid heart stickers and red yarn balls. @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS is at the bottom.

BUNNY CARD IDEA FOR VALENTINE’S DAY AND EASTER

HEART SHAPED BALLERINA CARD IDEA

HEART SHAPED BALLERINA CARD IDEA

A handmade pink card with a bear face made from paper and a red heart doily—perfect for Paper Doily Crafts. With googly eyes and hearts, it says “Love you beary much!” Surrounded by books and red yarn pom-pom hearts.

A BEARY CUTE CARD IDEA FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

A pink Valentine’s card features a large red strawberry made from a paper doily, googly eyes, green paper leaves, heart stickers, and the playful message “Love you berry much!”—a sweet addition to any Paper Doily Crafts collection.

HEART SHAPED STRAWBERRY CARD IDEA

PAPER DOILY SUNSHINE CARD IDEA

PAPER DOILY SUNSHINE CARD IDEA

PAPER DOILY PENGUIN CARD IDEA FOR WINTER

PAPER DOILY PENGUIN CARD IDEA FOR WINTER

A handmade Valentines card with pink paper cupcakes, heart decorations, and the message “Have a sweet day!” is shown atop two children’s Valentine’s books—perfect inspiration for Paper Doily Crafts. The card features @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

USE CIRCULAR DOILIES FOR THIS CUPCAKE CARD IDEA

WATERMELON CARD IDEA

WATERMELON CARD IDEA

A handmade card with a red paper doily flower, heart-shaped gem center, and green stem, decorated with stars and hearts. Text reads: My love grows for you everyday! Bottom text: @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS. Perfect for paper doily crafts lovers!.

FLOWER VALENTINE’S DAY CARD IDEA

A handmade card highlights Paper Doily Crafts with a red heart-shaped doily, large googly eyes, and a gold-wrapped chocolate nose forming a cute fox face on a white and pink background. The username @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS appears at the bottom.

PAPER DOILY FOX CARD IDEA

A handmade Valentine’s card features a pink mouse design, googly eye, paper doily crafts, and heart shapes, placed next to a “Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse!” book and two red yarn hearts. @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS is at the bottom.

MOUSE CARD IDEA FOR KIDS

PAPER DOILY UNICORN CARD

PAPER DOILY UNICORN CARD

A handmade Valentine’s card reads “I love you un-cone-ditionally!” with a cone-shaped ice cream design crafted from a red paper doily, googly eyes, a smile, and heart stickers on purple paper—perfect inspiration for Paper Doily Crafts lovers.

ICE CREAM CRAFT IDEA FOR KIDS

A handmade Valentine’s card features a red heart-shaped doily fish—perfect for Paper Doily Crafts—with a googly eye on pink paper. The card says You’re a catch! and is surrounded by heart decorations, with a children’s book in the background.

GREAT CATCH FISH CARD IDEA

A pink card decorated with heart shapes, googly eyes, and a red paper doily heart with drawn crab claws reads “you are ‘claw-some’.” Behind it is a children’s book titled “I Turtley Love You”—a cute idea for Paper Doily Crafts.

CLAW-SOME VALENTINE CARD IDEA

A handmade craft featuring a light blue paper with a heart-shaped white doily as a vase, holding red and blue fingerprint flowers on green stems. The message reads, "Roses are red, violets are blue, I handmade these fingerprint flowers just for you!" The craft is surrounded by felt hearts, artificial flowers, and decorative butterflies, set against a patterned background. The watermark "@GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS" is visible.

FINGERPRINT RED AND BLUE FLOWER BOUQUET – USE A CIRCULAR PAPER DOILY CUT IN HALF FOR THE BOUQUET

A handmade Valentine’s card with “You make my heart float!” on pink paper. Perfect for Paper Doily Crafts lovers, it features a red heart doily balloon lifting a stick-figure in a paper basket, with red hearts and white clouds decorating the card.

HOT AIR BALLOON CARD IDEA

A Valentine’s Day gnome craft made with a red triangle hat, black antennae, a white paper beard, a red glitter heart nose, paper doily wings, and a popsicle stick frame. Perfect for fans of Paper Doily Crafts! @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS is written at the bottom.

LOVE BUG GNOME CRAFT IDEA

MELTED SNOWMAN CARD CRAFT IDEA FOR KIDS

MELTED SNOWMAN CARD IDEA FOR KIDS

PAPER DOILY HEDGEHOG CARD IDEA FOR WINTER

PAPER DOILY HEDGEHOG CARD IDEA

A flat lay of a Valentine's Day craft featuring fish made from heart-shaped paper doilies and cutouts in shades of red, pink, and purple. The fish are decorated with googly eyes and rhinestone mouths. Surrounding the craft are materials like Elmer's glue, heart-shaped rhinestones, and bowls of paper hearts and googly eyes. The scene is set on a blue background with a "Glued To My Crafts" watermark.

PAPER DOILY FISH FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

A flat lay of a Valentine's Day craft featuring a pink paper with the phrase "Nuts about you!" written in black marker. The craft includes heart-shaped paper doilies and miniature fluted paper cups arranged to resemble acorns, with glitter accents. Surrounding the craft are additional materials like Elmer's glue, markers, and extra doilies. The scene is set on a dark surface with a "Glued To My Crafts" watermark.

PAPER HEART DOILY NUTS ABOUT YOU ACORN CARD IDEA

A handmade Valentine's card features a red caterpillar made from stickers on a pink heart doily—perfect inspiration for valentine's day craft ideas for kids, with markers, glue, red stickers, and the book Love, Escargot nearby.

PAPER DOILY SNAIL CARD IDEA – USE DOT STICKERS FOR THE BODY

A Valentine’s Day craft featuring a butterfly made from a craft stick and red heart doilies, surrounded by felt hearts and mini envelopes on pastel paper—one of the sweetest Valentine’s Day craft ideas for kids! The text reads, “You make my heart flutter!”.

USE DOILIES TO MAKE A BUTTERFLY – YOU MAKE MY HEART FLUTTER

A handmade Valentine’s card with a paper hand holding a bag containing a red heart-shaped fish, surrounded by felt hearts. The card says You won my heart! 2021 and has the Instagram handle @GLUETOMYCRAFTS.

THIS WAS A WILD IDEA I HAD BUT IT’S A HEART SHAPED FISH AND THE CARD SAYS “YOU WON MY HEART!”

A handmade flower craft, perfect for valentine's day craft ideas for kids, with a white doily heart and yellow center, a green paper stem, and a handprint leaf that says, “Thank you for helping me blossom!” on a dark background.

USE A WHITE PAPER HEART SHAPE TO MAKE A DAISY FLOWER – JUST COLOR IN THE CENTER WITH A YELLOW MARKER

Three butterfly crafts made from white heart-shaped paper doilies for wings and pink doilies for bodies, arranged on a purple background. The butterflies have drawn antennae and googly eyes or heart-shaped stickers. Surrounding the craft are a glue bottle, marker, extra doilies, and a sticker reading "Glued To My Crafts." The image is branded with "@GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS."

POTATO MASHER STAMPED BUTTERFLIES – WE USED HEART DOILIES FOR THEIR WINGS

Two paper bag puppets decorated as bees with googly eyes, smiling mouths, colored antennae, and accented with Paper Doily Crafts. One bee has pink accents; the other has black stripes. They rest on blue and decorated paper backgrounds.

USE PAPER BAGS AND HEART DOILIES TO MAKE BUTTERFLY AND BEE PUPPETS

A handmade card showcases three paper handprints in red, pink, and blue arranged as flowers with green stems, nestled in a paper doily cone—a charming example of Paper Doily Crafts—against a light blue background. Text at bottom reads @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

HANDPRINT FLOWER BOUQUET – USE A CIRCULAR PAPER DOILY FOLDED INTO A TRIANGLE SHAPE TO MAKE THE “HOLDER”

A bee craft made from a yellow popsicle stick with black stripes, googly eyes, black antennae, and white paper doily wings sits on a mint tray—perfect inspiration for easy Paper Doily Crafts.

POPSICLE STICK AND HEART DOILY BEE PUPPET

Three butterfly paper doily crafts made from colored popsicle sticks, paper doilies, and gold glittered paper are arranged on patterned blue paper. Each butterfly has a smiling face and cute antennae. @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

HEART DOILIES AND JUMBO CRAFT STICKS COME TOGETHER TO MAKE THESE LOVE BUGS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

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We hope you found something in our quick roundup! Happy crafting, and happy Valentine’s Day!

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