Valentine’s Day is usually reserved for romantic partners, however, the love for your gal pals deserves to be celebrated too! Hosting a Galentine’s Girls Night with fun craft activities this year? We have some easy and affordable DIY gift and activity ideas sure to delight your girlies. Hold a night in and create a thoughtful craft & sip night they’ll remember with one-of-a-kind keepsakes for your besties to take home, or make your friends a surprise gift pack from the heart, either way, show your BFFs just how much they mean to you, make it with love and Cricut.
Check out these 5 easy to make custom Galentine’s Day DIYs using Kmart items ranging from $3 -$9. From the Galentine’s gang gift bags, to a personalised notebooks and trinket trays, picture frames and sunnies, all you need is a Cricut smart cutting machine, some smart vinyl, transfer tape, a weeding tool and scraper, and you are all set for a crafty girl’s night to remember. Make meaningful memories with your loved ones, and gifts to cherish for years to come!!
Personalised Trinket Trays
Heart trinket tray 3 pack only $5.50 from Kmart: https://www.kmart.com.au/product/3-pack-diy-ceramic-heart-trinket-trays-43337972/ . Kmart NZ $6: https://www.kmart.co.nz/product/3-pack-diy-ceramic-heart-trinket-trays-43337972/.
Keep them white or if you want to paint them use acrylic paint, and let them dry before applying vinyl.
Wood Heart Frames
A fun girls night DIY activity to do with your friends! Simply cut some vinyl decals on your cricut smart cutting machine, buy some frames and add a photo of your best friends or take them on the night with your instax, then decorate together to your hearts content! What a treasure. Make it now in design space click here.
Kmart Wood Heart Frames can be found here: Kmart AU $3 or Kmart NZ $3.50.
Heart Gift Bags
Create these cute gift bags for your BFFs in minutes. At only 62c per bag, these make for a great activity if you and your best gal pals want to decorate them at a girls night and take them home filled with all the things you’ve made together. Alternatively, you could personalise them and put some gifts in the bag for your gals to cherish as a nice surprise. Make them now in design space click here.
Kmart AU Heart Loot Bags pack of 8 only $5 and Kmart NZ $6.
Personalised Notebooks
Personalise these cute notebooks to gift friends anytime of year, or create a fun Galentine’s Day activity for your BFFs for under $5! Both a thoughtful and useful gift, with a fun fluffy heart pen to make it extra cute and show how much you care! Make them now in design space click here.
Kmart AU Notebooks $4 each Kmart NZ Notebooks $5 each
Kmart AU Pen $1 Kmart NZ Pen $2.
Measure your notebooks and click ‘customise’ to adjust the designs, add elements or images you like, and edit the fonts and names to suit your preferences. Make sure to attach or weld elements that need it. 
Click ‘make it’ and follow the prompts to load vinyl into your smart cutting machine. 
Once your designs are cut, use a weeding tool to remove the negative vinyl. 
Apply transfer tape to the design with a scraper burnish the surface so it adheres and carfully peel it away from the backing.. 
Line up design over your blank and apply to the notebook with the scraper and carefully peel back the transfer tape to reveal your design. 
Complete one of a kind gift for $5 under 5 minutes! Made with love and Cricut.
Personalised Heart Sunglasses
Buy these sunglasses from Kmart AU for $9 or Kmart NZ for $10.
These are the materials we used for these projects!
Inspired and ready to buy? You can find Cricut at the following local retailers…
In Australia: Big W, Harvey Norman, Officeworks, and Spotlight.
In New Zealand: Harvey Norman, Spotlight, and Warehouse Stationery.
