Saying I love you for the 1st time....

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I feel ready to tell my boyfriendthat I love him. I have felt this way for sometime now. This weekend it will be his birthday, so we are spending the weekend together. I am not sure if what I plan to do is cute, or if people will say it is silly/not the way to go about it. Hallmark had a really cute mini card that I got and plan to use for his birthday card. On the front it says, "This is a small card..." and on the inside it says "...with a big I love you!" Is this cute? What do you all think? Should I physically say I love you before I give the card? (Fyi this will be the 1st time I tell a significant other that I love them. And we are long distance, but see each other practically every other weekend. We started dating in September)