Valentine's Day is on Sunday, February 14
For the person you would make anything for: a photo of the two of you that glows, or a word only they understand poured as a candle, takes an evening of thought that a bunch of roses never shows.
Make it yourself
Each idea opens the tool that makes it, with a ready design to start from where there is one.
For your partner: a thin print of your favourite photo that only shows when a light shines through it.
Open the Photo lithophane toolFor the bedside table. A rigid two-part mold: clamp it, pour, and let it cool for 4 to 6 hours.
Open the Rigid box mold tool Ready-made: LOVE bubble letter candle moldFor the word only the two of you use. Type it, and the text sign designer builds a word-shaped candle to mold.
Open the Text sign toolFor a night in: drop one in a mug, pour hot milk over it, and it opens.
Open the Tray mold tool Ready-made: Heart hot chocolate bomb moldFor the letter you write by hand this year, pressed with a heart seal you printed.
Open the Custom stamps tool Ready-made: Heart wax seal stampFor their keys: the souvenir style, with their name under the heart.
Open the I love you keychain tool Ready-made: I love you keychainFor the table you set yourself: four big roses per tray, cast in food-safe silicone.
Open the Tray mold tool Ready-made: Rose ice cube mold24 designs · print times from 25 min
Candle wax
A puffy "LOVE" bubble letter candle, 160 mm long, from a rigid two-part print. Two wicks, no silicone.
Candle wax
A puffy heart candle, 80 mm wide: plump and rounded front and back, standing on a flat cut through its point. A rigid two-part print.
Ice
Four big rose ice cubes per tray. A food-safe silicone mold you make yourself, petals and all.
Sealing wax
A rose seen from above with two leaves, on a 28 mm wax seal stamp for invitations and letters.
The souvenir "I heart YOU" mark as a flat keychain: black, white and a raised red heart.
An "I heart MY WIFE" keychain in black, white and red. The husband classic, now on the car keys.
Candle wax
A 70 x 130 mm pillar candle with "LOVE" in raised letters in rows all round it. A rigid two-part print, no silicone.
Candle wax
A tall wavy candle with "self love" in raised script up the front, cast face down in a silicone mold you pour yourself.
Chocolate
Sixteen fluted bonbons per pour, from a food-safe silicone tray you make yourself.
Candle wax
A puffy "XOXO" bubble letter candle, 160 mm long, from a rigid two-part print. Two wicks, no silicone.
Sealing wax
A raised heart in a ring of dots: a 28 mm wax seal stamp for wedding invitations and love letters.
Five Valentine's cookie cutters with stamps: XO heart, love letter, heart and arrow, lips and a rose.
Clay
Scattered hearts of three sizes for Valentine's Day, weddings and gifts. Two depths, with little dots between.
Ice
Nine puffy heart ice cubes per tray. A food-safe silicone mold for Valentine's drinks.
Resin
A heart ring dish for resin, Jesmonite or concrete. Two per pour, from a silicone tray you make yourself.
Chocolate
Three heart cakesicles per batch, the stick in the point. A food-safe silicone mold for Valentine's and weddings.
Chocolate
Six puffy heart halves for heart hot chocolate bombs. A food-safe silicone mold for Valentine's Day.
Candle wax
A bubble heart candle, 98 mm wide: a pixel heart of round bubbles, two layers deep. A silicone mold from a printed shell.
Paper
with love inside a heart: an embosser for cards, gift tags and small-shop packaging.
Clay
Four Valentine earring cutters for polymer clay: a heart dangle, a heart stud, an X and an O.
Resin
Nine heart resin keychain blanks per pour, each with a hole for the key ring. Silicone you pour yourself.
The classic heart, with a comfortable top rim. For Valentine's, weddings and every birthday tray.
Candle wax
Six pillowy heart wax melts at a time, from a silicone tray you pour yourself.
A 110 mm honeycomb heart dish for rings and keys. Print it flat, warm it, press it into shape.
Timing
Valentine's Day is on Sunday, February 14, 2027. Start by Sunday, February 7 and every step below fits, with a spare evening for a second pour.
Short on time? These are printed and done the same day: The two of you as a lithophane, A love letter sealed in wax, An "I love" keychain with their name.
From under an hour for a cookie cutter to overnight for a palm-sized mold.
Only if the design is a silicone mold kit. Pour it once and let it cure: 4 to 24 hours.
Wax cools right through in 4 to 6 hours. Plaster opens in 30 to 60 minutes and dries in a day or two. Concrete wants at least 24 hours in the mold.
Paint, seal, scent or pack it, and keep one spare evening for a second pour.
Questions
Valentine's Day 2027 is on Sunday, February 14. Brazil (Dia dos Namorados): Saturday, June 12.
Anything on this page. A keychain, a wax seal stamp or a lithophane prints in an evening and is done. A candle from a rigid box mold needs a night to print and a few hours to pour and cool. Only the silicone designs want an extra night for the silicone to cure.
Type the word into the free text sign designer and set it to Candle. It builds the word as a solid master, and "Use in a mold generator" hands it to the rigid box mold, which makes the two printed halves you pour wax into.
Real chocolate needs tempering to set glossy and snap cleanly; compound coating or candy melts set without it. Either way, cast it in a food-safe platinum silicone mold made from the printed caster, never on the print itself, and chill it for 15 to 20 minutes.
It is a thin printed panel that is thick where the photo is dark and thin where it is light. Lit from behind, the picture appears. Print it in white PLA; standing the panel on its edge gives the finest detail.
Melt a puddle of sealing wax on the envelope, wait until it loses its shine, press the stamp in, count to five and lift straight up. Cooling the stamp on an ice cube between seals stops the wax sticking.
