Two Quick Valentine Projects

With Valentine's Day around the corner, company expected, book club and Cork Poppers coming, I had a few creative tasks to complete. (Actually, more than a few but that's another story.)

First, some invitations to our Cork Poppers event with the wines of Italy. My supplies included purchased cards as a base, ribbon, the Xyron 150 sticker-maker, hearts (from my stash, cut from various punches), pen and glue stick along with the message for the invitation.

I started by running my ribbon through the Xyron and then adding it to the edge of the card. (If you work with ribbon on paper, I can't recommend this enough.)



Then using the glue stick I adhered a heart to the center of the front of the card.

I had printed out the invitation in the three-column mode and trimmed them. I added this to the inside panel.

Then I embellished around the invitation to spruce it up a bit and wrote a message, asking guests to bring a valentine to share.

Back to the front -- with my Pitt brush pen I added the "We" and "Wine" around the heart! Good to go!

The second project was super-simple. I found a wooden cut-out of the word "Love" on sale at Michael's.

Using paint I already had, I painted it red.

Then I added buttons from my stash to give it a "marquee" look.

Here's the finished piece on my mantle, along with some very vintage valentines, including postcards from my collection and a few that my dad sent to his mom and that had either been sent to or from me.

And just a couple of valentines, just for you!

          

And a couple more!

               

I've only just begun. What's next? Heart cookies? Flowers?

We'll see! (And yes, I love you all to the moon and back!)

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