It's What I Do...: Sparkle Makes the Heart Grow Fonder...

A few more Valentines...just some I made for my other kids. I found a neat website that has free! vintage images, so I just downloaded some of those and printed them out for cards. I was in a hurry, so I didn't make the images smaller, and ended up making fairly large Valentine cards (which isn't a huge deal, since I'm not mailing these guys).

These are really easy cards, that have a WOW effect just by adding glitter to the mat. It is best to glitter up the mats on like-colored cardstock (which I forgot to do this time, and it took so many coats of glitter to hide all the white paper)...it also is a good idea to do the glitter process the day before card assembly (to give the glue time to dry)...

Peter's card (5 x 7"):
SUPPLIES: Paper...Wild Cherry (PopTone); Glitter...Garnet (Martha Stewart); Misc...Embossed Floral Vines border sticker (K&Co.), red ribbon (stash)

Sophia's card ( 5.5 x 8")...
SUPPLIES: Paper...Rose Light (Prism), Solar White (Neenah); Ribbon...Pink Blush (PTI), Glitter...Rose Quartz (Martha Stewart); Ink...Pixe Dust on edge of border (Versamagic chalk); Misc...Lace Border punch (Martha Stewart), Wavy blade on my paper cutter

Finally, Anastasia's card...she LOVES yellow, and I found a vintage print that was yellow; too exciting!...
SUPPLIES (card size 5.25 x 7.5"): Paper...Sunflower Medium (Prism); Glitter...Yellow Barite (Martha Stewart); Ribbon...bridal ribbon Joann's)

They loved the sparkle. The layout of the cards is so basic and easy to put together, but by adding glitter, it makes it such a "Happy, Wow" card...

Okay, so today was Valentine's Day, and it being the weekend, seemed weird (we do more with it when it's during the week for some reason). I'm still kind of tired from surgery and wasn't sure what to do as far as celebrating goes. The kids made cards for everyone (including some stuffed animals), and people brought us dinner (with 2 desserts!). I wasn't sure what Ziggy wanted to do, since he is 15 now.

What he wanted most was to look through our Valentine collection, which is 2 boxes filled with different hearts (paper, wood, stone, boxes, etc). Hearts are his favorite shape, and even at 15, he still loves to took at them; so that's what he did...here's a photo of him looking at a heart book (I made it for him when he was 4 years old, and he still loves it)...