• Surprise your lover with a creative gift.happy couple image by Vasiliy Koval from Fotolia.com
  
  Show your love and affection for your lover by giving a personal gift from the heart in celebration of a birthday, anniversary or Valentine's Day. Personalized, creative gifts also work well as "just because I love you" gifts. Add personal touches by including your own handwriting or little mementos from your relationship, such as movie tickets, excerpts from love letters or train or plane tickets from visiting one another.
  
  

City Map

• Use a cream-colored paper like this to give your map an authentic appearance.antique brass compass over old map image by Nikolay Okhitin from Fotolia.com
  
  Draw a simple map of the city or cities in which you and your lover live. Use yellow or cream-colored paper and mark important places in the featured cities, such as the bowling alley where you spent your first date, the park where you had your first kiss, or the laundromat where you spend most of your Saturday afternoons together. Use stickers or hand-drawn icons to give the map a more personal touch. If you want to make the map look more authentic, mark latitude and longitude lines in brown ink or colored pencil. Then, burn the edges of the paper to lend the map an antique appearance. To deliver it, place it inside a clear bottle and seal the bottle with a cork, or roll it up like a scroll and wrap it in tissue paper.
  
  

Perfect Love Collage

• Include photos of yourself and your lover in a "Perfect Love" collage.couple-playing image by JulianMay.co.uk from Fotolia.com
  
  Choose a piece of scrapbook paper that features an attractive design and cut it to fit a picture frame. Print photos of yourself and your lover together and paste them in order from oldest to most recent around the edges of the paper. Use strips of paper in a complementary color to create a border around each photo. Write the date when or the place where each photo was taken above, below or next to each photo. Embellish the page with something indicative of an activity that you and your lover enjoy together. If you attend poetry readings together, include a few favorite verses in the collage. If you both enjoy fishing, add a clip art image of a fishing pole over a photo of your lover and write next to it, "What a great catch!" Use alphabet stickers or markers to title the page something like "Perfect Love" or "The History of Us."
  
  

Love Notes Box

• Include love letters in a transformed trinket box for a personalized gift.old love letter image by Rog999 from Fotolia.com
  
  Buy a plain, white jewelry or trinket box and take out any removable organizers so you are left with an empty box instead of one that has been divided into sections. Cover the inner lining of the box with scrapbook paper that features an attractive design, and glue the paper in place with fabric glue. At regular intervals, glue wallet-sized photos---trimmed, if necessary---of yourself and your lover inside the box, atop the scrapbook paper. Decorate the front of the box with both your names, joined together with a heart or an ampersand. Use alphabet stickers for this if you don't think your handwriting is suitable. Finally, hand-write love quotes on strips of paper, fold the papers and leave them inside the box, or fold love notes written from you to your lover---or vice versa---and leave those inside the box.