Paper Niche February Kit

Loved this kit, it has some of my favorite manufactures of paper in it, like Simple Stories and Basic Grey. Lots of Valentine goodies in this one! So for this month I made an album, a stationary box filled with 6 cards, 6 mini note cards,  6 tags, two layouts, an easal card, and I still had some paper left over!

First up is the album I made using the Simple Stories paper that came in our kit. The base of my album is coin envelopes that you purchase at your local office supply store. I covered these with the paper and made some hinges out of card stock to hold it all together. My plan is for each envelope to be a month of the year so that I can stick a picture or two and some journaling in there every month and it the end of this year it will be a mini year in review album.

Here's a photo of the front and back

Here are some of the inside pages, I made tags that pull out of the pages as well

Ok, so here's the stationary box I made. It may just look like an ordinary box but wait till you see the inside!

It holds six full size cards, six mini note cards, and six gift tags. Along with a mini notebook to jot down birth-dates and etc and a pocket for your stamps. This would make a great gift to give someone.

OK, next up is the two layouts I made in honor of Valentines day this month

Here are some close up shots

And finally another Valentine Day easel  card

I hope I inspired you for Valentines Day. Don't forget to check out the Paper Niche to see what the other designers created!

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Valentine Glitter Cups

So for Valentines I made more glitter cups. I bought the small foam cups from the grocery store and made those for the kids classmates. Then I did the big ones for the Teachers. If you want to know how to do these just check out my Tutorial that I did for Halloween Glitter Cups!







And for the little glitter cups I put those in cellophane bags so it would be easier for the kids to carry to school.

I also made some valentine mussy tussy's . . . .





Now there are several different ways to make mussy tussy's but I found this tutorial to be the best or should I say easiest!

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Valentines Wrap Up!

I had an awesome Valentine's Day . . . actually we celebrated Valentines day Friday the 13th because Jerry had to fly out to New Orleans on Saturday (I'll elaborate on that in a min.). Me and the kids were up late Thursday night making gifts and filling out valentine cards for school the next day. JJ didn't tell me till the day of that he had to decorate a valentine box for school and they were gonna have a contest to see who's was the best. So we worked really hard on this metal lunch pail for him. He was so excited he said "Mama I feel it in my soul, I'm gonna win!"
Well, he didn't win, but he seemed ok about it said that the prize was no big deal just a chocolate heart! But I found out later his teacher thought the pail was so nice she assumed we had bought it! He didn't tell her he MADE it, ok so "we" made it but still! LOL








So my day (Friday) started out with me waking the kids up with there valentine gifts, I got Summer earrings and the boys I got them techdecks. Then later on in the day Jerry surprised me with these beautiful flowers . . . .



Then that night we went to Ruth Chris's Steak house to eat and before we left he got me some more gifts . . . . some earrings and a gold and diamond bangle bracelet. But he never leaves Summer out either he had one of those Vermont teddy Bear's delivered to her and he got her some earrings too! She's gonna be hard pressed to ever find a guy that treats her as good as her Daddy does!





So Jerry was supposed to be in New Orleans for appointments on Sunday and Monday, but because we've been going back and forth trying to figure out what to do with my grandmother he offered to go ahead a day and have a sit down talk with my grandpa and lay it all out for him on what's got to be done for my grandmother. The only flight he could get into New Orleans was 5AM so after taking me out the night before he had to get up before dawn catch a plane to New Orleans drive to Miss. (3 hours) and meet with my grandpa. It turns out my grandpa seems to be on the same page as us. But I told Jerry that out of all the things he gave me for Valentines that was the sweetest gift! It meant a lot to me!

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