Heart Day, part 2...

Me again. :) Here are some little mailboxes I filled with goodies for the boys (which, by the way, Micah's already made a considerable dent in). I'd planned on altering them with all kinds of pretty things but ran out of time and just stuck monograms on them and tied suckers to the flags with ribbon. Unsurprisingly, the boys were just as thrilled. :)

 

And here's my Valentine's layout for my sweet husband. Not overly mushy this year...hee hee. 

 

Yeah, it's not really what you expect to see from me but I had a lot of fun making it! :) Happy Heart Day, my love!

Okay, need to get these boys ready and out the door to our homeschool group Valentine's party...have a great day! 

Happy Heart Day!

Yay! I'm so proud of myself. In general, I'm not a hearts and flowers sort of gal. But, I actually *did* something for Valentine's Day this year...made these cute little bouquets for special girlfriends:

 

They were so easy and fun to make! (As a bonus, I used up a good bit of my button stash, though I still have plenty left, of course.) Thought it was a cute and different way to send flowers. :)

And. Aside from the 150 (plus 26 more after we realized we miscounted) Valentines the boys and I put together for them to give out, I managed to make a few of my own:

 

 

Okay, so they're not your typical Valentines, but I thought they were fun. :) (Drew the heart myself even!)

I have a couple other things, too, but don't have pictures ready...so will post those later this afternoon. In the meantime, Happy Valentine's Day to you!! Do you have any fun plans?

A few new layouts...

I meant to add this to my post earlier about completing a January Album in a Year layout. Here's mine for this year:

 

And two more I finished today:

 

 

It was a nice feeling to just create for the sake of creating these today...hoping to do more of that tomorrow. :) Hope you're having a great weekend!! 

A challenge...

Yo. It's February already! Did you know that? ;) Since January's over now, it's time for me to pester you about finishing your January ALBUM IN A YEAR layout. And, as luck would have it, I've got a couple "official" challenges going about this right now. One's through CK and you have until next Saturday morning. One's going on right now in the Two Peas Pub CHA in Spirit Day festivities (for those who don't know, CHA is a scrapbooking and paper crafts tradeshow that happens twice a year and is a big deal...I'd love to be there (it's in Anaheim right now and I'd go just for the warmer weather at this point, LOL)...for those of us who aren't, though, we're celebrating in spirit). Here are the links:

CK message board Weekend Challenge

2Ps CHA in Spirit Day predictions challenge

Hope you'll participate in one or both! 

The boys' Valentines...

So. With less than a week to go to Valentine's Day, the boys and I settled in to make their cards...all 150 of them. Yes. One. Hundred. Fifty.

(If you want an official breakdown, Noah's making 60, Asher's got 50 and Micah has 40 (though I think I'm going to need to make another dozen or so for him). They're for our homeschool group party, the boys' music classes, Noah's religious ed class/Asher's Sunday School class and cousins/friends.)

Asher (after the torture of having him sign his own name to store-bought ones last year) opted to direct me...he picked the stamps and colors and words and I just printed and cut and stamped stuff. Micah followed suit. Okay, I picked the words for his also but he really did pick the colors and stamp. (By the way, I couldn't bring myself to use my good Prism cardstock on these and am regretting it because Prism cardstock really does stamp better, but I was trying to use up this older cardstock I keep on hand for boys' projects and I'd bet good money that the kids receiving these won't give a hoot and will simply rip off the sucker.)

Noah, of course, was more, um, selective. He came up with the entire design (this is actually pared down from his original grand plans)...drew the robot for inside, picked the punch (seriously, after hitting four local stores looking at punches I ended up ordering this one online because it *had* to be this one...guess that's what one gets for having so many scrapbook goodies that your boys know manufacturers and styles/designs), punched all the hearts (great math lesson by the way...how many hearts needed and how many you could punch from a sheet of paper and, thus, how many pieces of paper you'd need to punch...), folded all the printed white cards, rounded the corners of the red rectangles (only two, mind you, and they had to be lined up just so) and adhered everything together. I just scanned and printed the robot (and added the text that he had to okay...went through a number of fonts before he was happy). Now that we've gotten this far, though, he's talking about adding more since he still has a few days.  Oy.

So. Here they are:

 

 
 

Amazingly enough, I'm actually a little ahead of the game this year and have my Valentine's mostly done as well. I'll wait to post them, though, until next week since certain people may be watching... ;) (It's killing me to wait, though! So proud of myself for doing some this year and think they're pretty original.) Also need to finish up the little mailboxes I'm making for the boys, which I'll post next week also. Did you make any Valentine's yet?