These brightly colored eggs were dyed using packets of Kool-Aid instead of traditional egg dyes. Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes shares her process for experimenting with Kool-Aid and even includes some of pitfalls she encountered.

Dana of MADE shares how to whip up these fun split pea shamrocks for St. Patricks Day. She shows a whole handful of ways to use them as decor, accessories and even games for the kids!

Vickie Howell has two great projects to knit for St. Patrick's Day! You can make this quick and easy mitered knit shamrocks or dress up your favorite little one in these shamrock booties.

I really dig Allotrio's Instructable for this shared couples table!

A "table" for two made of felt and plywood. Find a partner in order to use it. It´s funny - and it works! Feel free to improve it, get inspired and make your own Valentines Day Partner Table design!

So quirky and awesome, and possibly excellent for a couples halloween costume!

If there ever is a day to do pink and dainty, it is today. To celebrate Valentine's day, I cut some hyacinth and a small blade of fern and created a little flower arrangement in a delicate tea cup. The addition of moss makes this cut arrangement look like a planted one. Now I just need to find a frilly lace doily to set it on! If you made something special to celebrate, let us know in the comments, and be sure to leave a photo in the CRAFT flickr pool!

CRAFT and Ilovetocreate present The Crafty Chica Love Shrine Challenge. This is the third in my series of three Love Shrine tutorials. Please join in the fun and create your own unique and personal shrine and add it to the challenge flickr pool. We have great prizes for the winners, but we all know the real prize is the love, right?

I live in the redwood forest. My home is a tiny cottage in a literal cloud forest. The ground is covered in vines and flowers, and there is wildlife all around me. I truly love my woodland wonderland. The lichen, bark and spring colors inspired this shrine, and I think it's my favorite yet.

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year celebrating the Year of the Tiger! It's a huge celebration across asian cultures and for me, it's all about family and memories of red paper of all sorts. In our house growing up, the festivities were centered around food -- an amazing feast filled with dish upon dish of Chinese favorites. It was also all about the red envelopes filled with money when I was a young. These red envelopes are a token of good luck and wealth. I remember being super excited about getting the red envelope from my grandpa every year because his were the best, of course. Lulu is modeling one such red envelope above.

My grandmother on my mom's side was an avid crafter. She enjoyed the art of paper cutting or "jian zhi" in Chinese (literally translates to "cut paper"). My grandmother passed away when I was a toddler and my mom saved most of her paper cuts. I would remember going through them as a child with my mom, holding up each delicate piece (some super tiny) and wondering how someone could actually make this!

This character above is "Fook", the Chinese character meaning wealth, used primarily for Chinese New Year. These paper cuts are usually made with thin red paper and the designs are typically Chinese characters with embellishments around or one of the 12 zodiac animals. [via La Vie est Belle]

See more Chinese paper art after the jump!

CRAFT and Ilovetocreate present The Crafty Chica Love Shrine Challenge. This is the second in my series of three Love Shrine tutorials. Please join in the fun and create your own unique and personal shrine and add it to the challenge flickr pool. We have great prizes for the winners, but we all know the real prize is the love, right?

My wedding was a casual picnic in the country. Modest and lovely. My husband's ring is steel with rubber grommet inlays. Mine is a dark green checkerboard-cut gem that looks like a cocktail ring. So, when I started collecting elements for my Wedding Love Shrine, I was suprised how I was drawn to a pallet of silver sparkles and diamond rings. But, I think it must have been The Crafty Chica speaking to me as my muse. I went with it. I poured on the glitter and love the result.

Mollie of Wild Olive shares her template for printing your own Valentine sticky notes.

You print out the page, and then place a sticky note in each square. (Make sure you center them really good.) Then you run the page through the printer again, and this time, it will print the heart and speech bubble right onto your Post-Its! (You can reuse the page to print more notes on...just add more sticky notes!)

Transform paper doilies into charming lacy Valentines with this tutorial from Handmade Hellos from our friends at Chronicle Books.

This light bulb Valentine over on Design*Sponge is just the thing for my sweetheart! He's obsessed with energy efficiency, so this seems like the perfect reuse for a defunct light bulb (which will be replaced with a CFL!) as well as a spark for some fun wordplay ("You're the Light of my Life"? "Wire You So Wonderful?"). I'm about half-way through the tutorial, and the Team Droid instructions for hollowing out a light bulb worked perfectly.

By Jessica Wilson

Have something small but lovely to give your valentine? Tuck it inside a wee paper heart, drop it into a jar full of love, and step back as your giftee goes gaga over it!

Christy at Instructables has a recipe for these delightful cranberry cookies, which appear to be perfect in every way:

Cranberry cookies make great Christmas cookies, but are also a great way to use up leftover fresh cranberries after the holidays. These are my favorite cranberry nut swirl cookies - they're well worth freezing cranberries so you can make them any time during the year!

These are great make-ahead cookies! You can freeze the rolled log indefinitely, then slice and bake the cookies whenever you like! Then as scooch would say, you're only 12 minutes away from fresh hot cookies!

Sneaky Valentine's Day mod: pinch the cylinder of dough on one side, and poke it in on the other before freezing it to make a heart-shaped cross-section. Delicious, and arguably romantic. ;)

Kristy of Craftastica makes a great point in her post about this fun Valentine gingerbread house she made with her children.

This year the girls and I decided to make gingerbread houses. Well, the holidays can sort of sneak up on a person, so we didn't make them until after Christmas. That got me thinking, why is gingerbread mostly for Christmas? I left off the green, went crazy with red and white, and viola, a cute little house we can leave up until February.

Brilliant! I made gingerbread houses for the first time this holiday season, and it was fun but still a bit overwhelming with all the other holiday goings-on. I love the idea of bringing gingerbread houses in to other holidays!

Tamara of Art, Adventures and a Toddler shows you how to make this felt monster Valentine.

Stitchcraft has a tutorial for a Valentine's Day card with attached tissue cozy that's perfect for this cold winter.

By Katie Goodman

Kids love to help decorate cookies! Special Valentine's Day cookies are a great way to celebrate at home and with friends. For a Valentine's Day cookie decorating party, the cookies and frosting can easily be made in advance. Then, set out the plates of cookies, bottles of frosting, and sprinkles for the kids to decorate. Hope you all have a Happy Valentine's Day this year!

Andrea of CraftyBitch created this lovebird Valentine headband for her daughter, and has shared the pattern for download on her blog. I love the touch of ric rac around the base of the headband.

Regina of Creative Kismet shares a tutorial for making these Be My Valentine bookmarks.

A few people are doing Valentine exchanges and I wanted do the same. I thought it would be fun to make something that you can use all year long, maybe as a marker for a project in your favorite sewing, art or craft book.

Such a great idea! I especially love the free form stitching.

By Ann Martin

Quilling, the coiling and shaping of narrow paper strips to create a design, has been around for years — hundreds, in fact. During the Renaissance, nuns and monks would roll gold-gilded paper remnants trimmed during the bookmaking process, and use them to decorate religious objects as an alternative to costly gold filigree. Quilling later became a pastime of 18th and 19th century young ladies in England, who would decorate tea caddies and pieces of furniture with paper filigree. The practice crossed the Atlantic with colonists, who added quilling to candle sconces and trays as home decorations.

In all of that time the process has remained very much the same, but quilling designs and specialty supplies have definitely caught up to the 21st century. Today some aficionados focus on making incredibly detailed 3-D figures, while others favor wall-sized museum installations. Perhaps quilling is best known, though, as a way of bringing personality to handmade cards.

The short list of necessities includes strips of lightweight paper, glue, and a tool with which to roll the paper — that's it! Even better, there's probably no need to shop for supplies before you try quilling, as a bamboo skewer, round toothpick, or even a cake tester from your kitchen drawer can serve as a substitute tool. Cut your own practice strips from a sheet of ordinary computer paper, using a paper cutter.

Many arts and crafts stores sell basic tools and packages of multicolor paper strips. Beautiful papers and other quilling supplies are available from online suppliers. Oh, and lastly, one requirement that's not available for purchase, but will also be needed, is a fair amount of patience. With a little practice, however, I can almost predict you'll find quilling to be creatively satisfying and fun.

The projects in this article feature the teardrop coil, but there are many other intriguing shapes to try — marquises, arrowheads, holly leaves, and all sorts of beautiful scrolls, just to name a few.

Read on for the full Quilling 101 and featured Valentine's Day project tutorials.

About the Author:

Ann Martin of all things paper is a quilling enthusiast who loves introducing the craft to others. She teaches, designs projects for books and magazines, and is especially hooked on making paper filigree jewelry.

I love this sweet and simple way to reuse old Valentine cards. Janna of Mustard Seeds shows how to sew them up in to a cute garland. [via Whip-Up]

The Chinese New Year is almost upon us, and you can celebrate the Year of the Tiger by whipping up some of these cool hand puppets made from cereal boxes. Tali of Growing Up Creative shows you how!

Chasity of Belle and Burger shares how to make these fabric Valentine books. She shares several great ideas for personalizing them and adding great embellishments.

Katie Sokoler of Color Me Katie is a constant source of fun and inspiration and colorful projects. Her latest DIY tutorial is for making a cute little blow-a-kiss flipbook so you can give your loved one a kiss to keep in his or her pocket at all times. Adorable!

I'm really into crafts that use natural materials. This twig heart project from Sweet Paul is simple, natural, and romantic. If you visit his site, be sure to click around. His projects are to die for, and he has many new developments.

It doesn't surprise me at all that these computer jargon, super geeky Valentines are sold out, but it does make me happy that there should be a new batch ready by Monday, just in time for you to get one to give to your nerd sweetie pie.

Here at CRAFT we were all trying to come up with some other, equally nerdy versions, mostly involving references to Star Wars, binary code, and HTML 5. What l33t <3 note can you come up with? [via BadderHomesandGardens]

We posted these two years ago on Make: Online, but I just can't get over these great scientist valentines from Ironic Sans. I really am "Sagan all my love" for them!

I've admired the felt applique work of Melissa from Checkout Girl for a while. Her portraits and artistic series are simply charming. She's just posted a tutorial on Sew, Mama, Sew for making this beautiful "Be My Bluebird" felt Valentine. I love the doily effect she created using a screw punch on the felt.