An Early Valentine

I am working this weekend and my love will be out of town, so we are celebrating the holiday of lover's today! My sweetie brought me some luscious yummies from a latin bakery, and some beautiful flowers.  

 

Not to be outdone, I whipped up a little something for him, too! I started by ordering really cool custom M&Ms candies and stitching together a little heart softie.

 

Then I swiped a great card idea from another crafter, and got to work customizing it just for my special guy. I started by making the base card from plain card stock.  It is made from two 4"x4" square pieces and four 4"x5" pieces.  The extra inch on the 4x5s makes for one inch hinges attached to a base square.  The second square covers the seams from the hinges.

Once you have the basic card assembled, embellish with patterned papers, charms, photos, ribbons, and the perfect message.  The origami heart on the front of the card is glued down over the ribbon tie which holds it in place nicely.

 

  

  

  

 

 

Have you made a BLURB book yet?

The hubs and I just got our BLURB book delivered.  It's an annual keepsake I compiled from highlight photos of 2009.  70 full color pages and over 200 photos in a hardbound 12 x 12 book with full color graphics on the cover for a little over $70.  As much as I love my scrapbooks, they are very time consuming to create, and let's face it, EXPENSIVE.  I will keep scrap-booking as time and money allows, but you can't beat about a buck a page for archiving your family's memories in a library quality book. We are really pleased with the way it turned out!