A Valentine for my Valentine

Hi y'all!
I hope you had a romantic Valentine's Day!
I whipped up a little something special for Willy on Wednesday night (nothing like the last minute!) after I was inspired by the challenge over at the Scrapbook Boutique Blog. The inspiration pic was a plate of 9 mini cupcakes and I instantly thought of an idea of how I could translate that into a Valentine's Card for Willy! I have so many "love" themed stamps, but I rarely pull them out and use them, so this was the perfect opportunity.
So this is what I came up with:

I cut nine 1-inch squares from different patterned papers and stamped on some (the flamingos, hearts on strings, Feb 14 and the tree of hearts are all from Stampin Up) and then I just used some patterned paper scraps I have in my stash for the other squares. I corner rounded only 2 corners on each square and stuck them down into a "leaf" sorta pattern. I mounted it on real red card with a layer of white and basic grey. I was THRILLED with how it turned out!! {High Five!} I love it when my hands produce pretty much the picture that is in my mind! LOL!
I also made Willy a jar of Gummy Worms with a tag on the jar that says "Hooked on you". Perfect for my Fisherman! Thanks go out to Alicia for emailing on that idea to me from Pinterest! Boy I love Pinterest!

So here is my Valentine with his Valentines!!

He was a little disappointed that he didn't have anything for me and I said that was ok, just to send me a pic of him and Jai while I was at work. Well at Midday he called me at work and told me to go up to reception, and there he was with a bunch of roses, a beautiful card and some chocolate for me! {hearts rising from head!} How sweet of him to drive the 25 mins to work to bring me the roses, when he had to turn around and come back again at 4pm anyway! What a sweetie {smoochies!}
Happy Friday!
:) C

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I hope you got a Valentine's from your Valentine! I did {kisses Willy!} Will surprised me at lunch today with a bunch of roses. It was so sweet! He had them hidden behind his back and I thought the look on his face was pain and he was rubbing his back, but he was just trying to get the flowers all the way around his back without me seeing them til he was up close! LOL! I made Will this Valentine's card this morning (he was still sleeping cos he's working 4pm-4am for the next 4 days! Poor Willy!) I used a new set from Stampin Up's current Mini Catalogue. It's called Love something, but seeing as I'm upstairs and the set and mini catalogue are downstairs you'll have to look it up if you want more info (sorry, but stairs are tiring at 1:45am!) Those Flamingo's are just the sweetest! They, along with the tree with heart shaped leaves, which I stamped on the inside, are the reason why I bought that set, I love them {heart!}
As we were both working tonight we dolled ourselves up and had our Valentine's Dinner last night, and went to "Prague" at Pott's Point which is a Czech Restaurant. I had Pork Knuckle and Will had Pork Neck with sauerkraut (which he doesn't like so I helped him with that!) and a pork sausage. It's delicious food and a really different place for us to go. It was lovely! After we had eaten dinner and we were on our way back to the car we passed a garden that had some paintings dumped in between the plants. Now Will has been after a painting for a while, checking out etsy, markets and any op shops we pass but as yet hadn't found anything that he likes. And yet there, amongst the bushes and dirt, in the misty rain, stood a painting that was worthy of bringing home. Will dived into the garden and emerged with a giant grin and this painting.... Which is actually quite cool! We quickly returned to our car, giggling at Will's "garden art". Will did say he was a little disappointed that it doesn't have the signature of the painter on it, (yet he wasn't disappointed that he had to scratch off a couple of clumps of dirt before he hung it- LOL!) But I'm pretty sure he's quite proud of his Valentine's find!
I hope you had a great Valentine's Day too!
:) C