Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!  Hope you have had a great day.  It was a busy one, but good, here.  The boys really enjoyed their classroom Valentine's exchanges -- they came home and spent a good bit of time looking over their "haul" and figuring out which candies to eat first! 

I wanted to share with you what we created for each boy's class.  For my little guy, we used a sweet stamp set called Blowing Kisses.  Here's the card:

The image was stamped in Basic Black ink on watercolor paper, and then I used watercolor pencils and blender pen to color it.  I made the bubbles sparkle by covering them with Crystal Effects and Dazzling Diamonds glitter. 

The watercolor paper was layered onto Bashful Blue card stock, and then onto a Red Riding Hood base, which had been rolled with the Language of Love wheel from the Occasions Mini.  We live in a very international area, and I had to have this wheel when I saw it because it has love in so many different languages, that would be great fun to use on the boys' Valentines.

We had also created a fun sailing ship holder for his Valentines, using a tissue box and an idea from the February issue of Family Fun magazine -- here's a look at that:

The tissue box, er, I mean ship, was covered with Whisper White and Basic Black cardstock strips, and I used rolled up Basic Black strips for the smokestacks.  The ribbon/trim is Riding Hood Red taffeta from a past Holiday Mini.  The portholes are black circles, which Timothy decorated with heart stickers.  And, the water was created using a circle punch along the top of a strip of Marina Mist.

For my second grader's card, we created something a bit more interactive.  He really liked the idea of a spinner card using the new Take a Spin set.  Here's one of his cards:

This card uses a Real Red base, and the wheel was stamped three times -- once in Real Red ink, once in Tangerine Tango, and finally in Rich Razzleberry.  I then cut out the Tangerine and Razzleberry pieces I wanted to add to the spinner and "paper pieced" them on.  There's a circle of the new Red glitter paper in the center, and I added punched pieces of the Red Glitter Paper to the ends of the spinner.  While I was making these, I tried to take a video with my method for attaching the spinner so it will spin smoothly.  Once I figure out how to edit and upload the video, I'll try to post it here.  Fingers crossed I can make it work!

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

- Michelle