Vintage Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Yesterday, I was in the big city to do some shopping, get a new cell phone, get a hair cut and have a fun lunch with Eric. Well, Friday the 13th reared it's ugly head and on our way to the restaurant, Eric rear ended another lady's car!! It was kind of ugly as I witnessed it all about three cars behind. Everyone was okay, but not the vehicles. Eric's ribs are a little sore today from the seat belt restraint. We didn't get to have our nice dinner though so we'll have to have a rain check on that. Soooo today, we're just going to take it easy, go to a few basketball games, watch the KU/K-State BB game on tv and then watch some movies that the girls wanted to rent. I have a Pecan Strawberry Cake that I'm going to make later. We'll invite my folks over for dessert and call it a day.

I have a few vintage Valentines to show you. I had the circle embellishments made from a while back so all I had to do was prepare the card bases. I wanted my Valentines to be a little smaller than a regular A2 size card so I pared them down to a 3-1/2" x 4-1/4" card. I threw all these together in less than an hour one day before I headed out to sub. I utilized a lot of supplies from my Valentine Inspiration Station, including fun ribbon from Archivers, plus My Mind's Eye and Basic Grey Valentine paper.

My circular embellishments use hearts from Papertrey's Heart Prints. The sentiment is also from Heart Prints, my go to set for Valentines. The base cards are cut from Kraft cardstock and the edges are inked with Fresh Snow ink.

These were FUN to make because they came together so quickly and used such fun colors. They look fresh but also vintage to me. I passed these out to friends and family and also stuck a few in the mail...probably late but that's the way it goes sometimes. Hope you all have a LOVELY day!!