Happy Valentines Day

Wishing you 

A Very Happy

Valentines

 Day

Full Moon, Flowers and Love Potion 31...

From the first day of January 2014 to the last, was one long "full moon"...one crazy mini drama after another. Throw in a extra mega drama and that's how the New Year started. I don't know if that is the way the next eleven months are going to go, or if  things can only get better.

All of a sudden it's time for Valentines Day. I had great plans for Valentines cards and tags...I managed to get two tags done...

I get to spend next week in the flower shop designing flowers for the big day. The week will be one big blur by the time we get to Friday. A florist job it to make other peoples holiday special. This is where I remind you all to CALL YOU LOCAL FLORIST for your floral needs.

My sweetheart has already giving me my Valentines gift...a large container of Baskin Robbins "Love Potion 31" ice cream...it's mental health survival food for the holiday.

The man knows the way to my heart!

Valentines, Tags and Sisters

We still have a few days of February left so I'm sure it's legal for me to post Valentines.  They are from my sisters. Ever year we make and exchange Valentine cards. 

This card was created by my Flagstaff Sister...I like the combination of the red and pink flourishes, blue background and yellow ribbon.

This fun Valentine was designed by my  Tucson Sister...a vintage BINGO card with red felt hearts. Notice the music background stamp.
The three of us have different styles so it's always fun to see what kind of Valentines they create.

I was so busy this year I didn't get a card made, but I did make Valentines tags and sign them on the back with "Happy Valentines Day" and sent them out. That counts...doesn't it?

That's what it's all about...

Valentines Day is all about glittered  hearts, bouquets flowers and white dove. Exchanging Valentine cards with friends and love ones and that very special someone. Getting all dressed up for a night out with a romantic dinner and some dancing. A gift of jewelry is always nice a nice touch

Oh yes...and chocolate, lots of chocolate!

Dancing through the Daises

This dainty little  girl is dancing through a back ground of pink daises,  blinged with Fruit Punch and Lime Green Stickles.

She is all dressed up in a blue frilly dress, that has been outlined with a glitter pen and Waterfall and Star Dust Stickles. She is carrying three gold hearts in her skirt. Handing from her hand are two red heart rhinestones.  The edges of the tag are inked with Spun Sugar Distress Ink

Upcycle, Re Purpose, and Valentines

As promised I have Valentines Day tags to share.
I love the charm of a 1900's Valentine postcard...hearts, flowers, cupids and ethereal photos of young ladies staring off in the distance. 

By cutting out the wonderful vintage image, layering it on a pink flower patterned paper... adding Fruit Punch and Star Dust Stickles, glitter pen, a bit of pink lace, Prima flower and a red heart rhinestone you get a "re purposed","upcycle" Valentine Tag.

If you listen very carefully you can hear what the young girl is saying...
"This is boring, why can't we go to the mall?"

Here comes another one!

Here we are two and a half weeks into the New Year and it's already time for another holiday... we have 27 days until VALENTINE'S DAY. True, it's not as big a deal as Christmas...but one that needs your attention anyway. Cards, candy, flowers, and decorations.

In honor of VALENTINE'S DAY I created three tags to teach at Scrapbook Barn. I have never gone for the traditional red and white color scheme...these tags are  a bit on the wild side.

I like the vintage look of the  Frances Brundage harlequin children images. The background of the tag is a collage created of different rubber stamps.

I have wanted to design a tag using a cup cake for a while now. Valentines Day was the perfect occasion. I asked my friend Wendy, and her husband Bill, owners of Leaky Shed Studios if they would create a chipboard die cut of a cup cake that could be covered with festive patterned paper  and embellishments. I used the Ranger Liquid Pearls in White Opal to frost the top of the cup cake and finished if off with a  large red heart rhinestone.

THANK YOU WENDY AND BILL!

The background of this Cupid tag was done using a Sizzix Embossing Folder and a mixture of 

Perfect Pearls and Distress ink re-inker...very shimmery. The Cupid was embellished with Stickles and hot pink rhinestones.

Let's face it...LIFE IS ONE DARN HOLIDAY AFTER ANOTHER!

Hearts, Glitter and Lace

While everyone was busy working on Christmas decorations and cards...I was creating Valentines Tags so I could get ahead of the holidays. I displayed the tags at the "Christmas" Heirloom Tags class. I used 8 inch tags so there is a lot of room to create on...The McCall image is from Suzee Que...the combination of black, red and white are "in" colors for Valentines.

This little vintage cherub with glitter paper flourish and Prima flower is more of a juxtaposition Valentine.

I really like this plaid heart with a few poises tucked in a beaded lime green ribbon...aqua and hot pink are a great color combination for Valentines Day.

I will be teaching tag classes at Scrapbook Barn this Thursday and again on Wednesday the 19th.

The next "tag" holiday...St. Patrick's Day!

A Short Busy Month

Yes, yes, I know I haven't blogged in over a week...and I have heard the complaints! For a short month February was very busy. I did some holiday designing for a local flower shop. Valentines is such a big flower holiday, shops call in "holiday help". I had never worked with the other designers...but we all knew some of the same people...so that was fun. As soon as Valentines was over I brought out the box marked "tax stuff"...must get all that organized...not fun.
Mom stopped by and spent the night on her way back from Tucson to Flagstaff...and all that snow! The grand kids spent the night...that's always an adventure. And Tucson Sister (and my niece) came up for an afternoon.
The exciting part of the whole month was starting my new job at Scrapbook Barn.

All the ladies there have been great help breaking in the "newbie"...
Each day has been different from the other...which makes it fun and interesting. I started just after CHA, so I get to see...and put out, all the wonderful new scrapbook products...I want it all!
I will start teaching my Heritage Scrapbooking Class in March. The first class will be Friday the 12th of March 4:30 to 6:30. This is the class with all the information you need to get your ancestors out of the shoe box and into a Heritage Album. You can call Scrapbook Barn to sign up. Friday the 26th of March 4:30 to 6:30 is the Heritage Scrapbook Workshop. Bring the project you are working on ...learn a technique, and receive some coaching to help move your project along.
March is already looking like it will be another busy month.

One last Valentine

The flowers on the table are still fresh...there is a few chocolates left in the heart shape candy box...so it's not too late for one last Valentine.
My mom had asked if I would make a card using this photo of her sister Mary, as a child, sitting in a bushel basket. Mom thought it would make a great Valentine. I had already started working on the "bird" card, but I told her I would give it a try.
So this year I sent out two Valentines...some received the Victorian Bird Valentine ...and some received Aunt Mary sitting in a bushel basket...with the text..."I love you a bushel and a peck...a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck".
Aunt Mary, who lives in Texas, called to thank me for the Valentine...and to tell me she was honored to be on one of my cards.
THANK YOU AUNT MARY for sharing the picture with me!

Be My Valentine

Happy Valentines Day!

The Valentine card I sent out this year was made using this fun image that heyjupiter21 shared at Flickr. The bird was too fun to pass up! He is backed with part of a pink paper doily and some pink vellum that has been deckle trimmed. Once again I used the magic pen and Stickels to highlight and outline the bird and his rider. The heart in the middle of the daisy is a red glitter-y brad.

Another One!

Every year for Valentines, my sisters and I exchange handcrafted cards. It is always fun to see what creative cards we can come up with...we all have different design styles. Last post was the card from Flagstaff Sister...Today I received this Valentine from my Tucson Sister. The colors are very festive!
Thank you TS!

First Valentine

I got my first Valentine card in the mail today. This is from my Flagstaff Sister. It's kinda hard to see from the photo...there are red heart watermarks on the red background...

Pretty cool hun... Thank you FS!

The first of three...

This time I made three projects with my Mystic Paper Design Team kit...
This card is made from the reverse side of the tiny off white hearts Pink Paislee Love Potion patterned paper. When we picked this paper out for the kit I really didn't pay much attention to the opposite side...this red with the "lacey" print screamed Valentines Day. I cut a heart shape out of the MF "Paige" patterned paper...and outlined it with Stickels...lace was gathered and adhered on back the heart. The pink flowers are made from pink lace found off the "ribbon wall" at Mystic Paper and a red glittery brads are from Pink Paislee's Bella Brads...all topped off with a Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Cuts.
I have two other projects to share with you...
while you are waiting...click on over to Sheri, Jenna and Holly's blogs and check out the fun projects they created.

LOVE

The Mystic Paper design team had the month of December off. With the next big holiday in mind...Valentines Day...Jennifer and I put together the January design team kits with the theme of "LOVE".
I got Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Cuts...with a Victorian look. Two sheets of Pink Paislee patterned paper ..."Bow and Arrow", blue with tiny white hearts and "Love Potion", distressed white with tiny white hearts. A sheet of Melissa Frances patterned paper..."Paige", pink on pink dots. Also in the kit is a fun sheet of K&Company embossed paper..."Cut and Paste Chocolate Lover".
A "springy green" lace and a couple of small wooden hearts.

Hearts, lace, chocolate and vintage looking Victorian images...looks like Valentines to me! Now what to do with all these fun treasures?

Oh By The Way...

Jennifer has had some requests for me to teach my

Heritage Scrapbook class again. This is the beginning class to get you organized, how to copying old photos, what to do with ephemera and the answers to many more questions you may have. You will receive a note book full of information to get you started on your family history.

This class is the 15th of January 4:30 to 6:30. You can call

Mystic Paper to sign up.

Pink Over Load

Happy Valentines Day

I went in to a pink overload on this card...pink card stock, pink petal patterned paper, red heart (how did that get in there?) misted with Tattered Angels Vintage Pink Glimmer mist, pink organza embellished with sparkles....

zig zag stitched with sliver thread onto the papers, pink silk flower with a pink gem brad...also misted with glimmer mist and pink braided ribbon accented with sliver.

Too much pink?

Cupids and Hearts

When mom was here last week she brought me a present from Tucson. She found these 2 cupids in a Thrift shop and knew I was looking for valentine decorations. I cut out a pink petal heart for the two day dreamers to sit on and Mom used a pink heart crown I had from another project to add some bling to the display.
This is the Valentines Day Card I designed for 2007.
The patterned paper is from Melissa Frances, the pink heart brad is Heidi Swapp,Tattered Rose distress ink and some little pink puffy hearts.

Just like being back in 3rd grade

My Valentine cards are finished, signed, addressed and have lovely 42 cent first-class "heart" stamps in the upper right hand corner of the envelopes...all that is left to do is get them in the mail box.

I made this retro valentine in 2005. These remind me of the valentines we gave out when I was a kid in elementary school. I think each member of the class made "mail boxes" out of empty Kleenex boxes, covered in red and white construction paper and crepe paper...we were altering way back then and didn't even know it!

I scanned, copied, cut out and then backed the retro valentines with chip board. Dry brushing the blank card with a light blue paint I then stamped places the dry brush missed with a text background and different heart stamps which created my own patterned paper. The yellow velum heart in the corner provides another layer of hearts in the background. The retro Valentine was mounted with foam tape to make the image stand out.

My grand kids will pass out to their classmates Valentines that represent Corporate created Icons like Barbie, Pirates of the Caribbean, Hello Kitty and Superman. They some how don't seem as innocent as the ones I remember as a kid.

Valentines Day prep

I got called in to working extra days this week at the flower shop. The preparation to get ready for Valentines Day is nuts. If you every want to see organized chaos, visit the workroom of a flower shop the week of Valentines, just stay against the wall or you will get run over.

I have been making Valentines Cards...yup, lots of pink! I am about finished with those and in the meantime I'll post some of my past Valentine cards until the "big unveiling" of this years. But remember just like the Christmas cards...they do improve over the years. This is one of the first Valentines Day cards that I made. I used a vintage Valentine post card, scanned and printed. The darker red background had the look of a handmade paper that had been covered with lacquer.

The 7 Gypsies are still in the sack waiting for me to come and play.

On the road with 7 Gypsies

Good grief how the heck have I gone almost a week without blogging?!?
I must have had a very busy week.

I did go and visit Mystic Paper this week. Our fearless Design Team leader Sheri was there making up our kits for the month of February. She has me taking a trip with the 7 Gypsies. Four pieces of their luxurious paper, a yard of MP lavender ribbon and the instructions to make a 12x12 layout.


With Valentines Day (week for me) rapidly approaching at the flower shop, I better get my self in gear to have it turned in on time. As always Sheri probably has hers finished and on to other fabulous creations. She just finished a Vintage Valentines Book. Click on over to her blog and take a look...it's too cool.