Semi-Homemade Valentines

Those of you who follow me on Twitter knew we were up to this yesterday -- semi-homemade Valentine's Day cards. Last year, the gifted and talented Brooke Reynolds of inchmark, provided a PDF for templates of half-drawn portraits -- the kids color in details, such as eyes, freckles, glasses, hair -- and I've been looking forward to handing them off to the girls ever since. (You may remember Brooke -- she was the design genius behind the supremely popular DALS post "Rules of Dinner.") If you're scrambling to put together the classroom cards tonight, I promise you this will take you less time than it would to get in the car, drive to CVS, then address and stuff the storebought cards. And the kids will have fun doing it. We even made one for the dog.