Adrian's Car Valentines Preview - FREE Printable Download!

Our son loves cars. Car was the second word he ever said. The first was dog. Mommy was about the 20th, much to my chagrin. Anyway, I decided that he could give out cars valentines this year.

I wanted to avoid giving out candy to his class, again. Every holiday we seem to come home with a bag full of candy from school and, given that we just finished the Halloween candy last week, I really did not want to contribute to the candy loot this year.

I was lucky that our local dollar store was selling sets of five cars for $1 and $3 later I had enough for his whole class (including one for him). Now I needed to figure out how to put them together or package them. I scoured Google and Pinterest and, let me tell you, there are so many ideas for car valentines! From cars placed in baggies, to glued cars to washi-taped cars (my favorite).

I was attracted to ones that featured tire tracks instead of a road, but the Pinterest ones mostly had you paint the tire tracks on. I knew that there had to be a free Photoshop or Illustrator brush for tire tracks out there! Took me about two seconds to find it (source). Here's what I came up with:

I used another one of my favorite fonts, a simple color scheme with his favorite color and I opted for tire tracks that were more squiggly than straight, more reminiscent of how my kid would "drive" his car. 

I left out my son's name from this version so you can download and customize it for free, if you'd like to. Honestly, as much as I'd love to charge for this download, there are so many other cute free ones out there that I'd feel like I was cheating you!

Now all I have to do is washi tape the dollar store cars to the tracks and hope Adrian doesn't want to keep them all for himself. I promise to show you the finished product soon!