St. Valentine's Day & More

Valentine's Day was this Saturday and although I did not have my internship I had a painting Onestroke Open house at JoAnn Fabrics. The two hours of the open house flew by, but I think it was because I was talking to the knitting instructor next to me so much. During those two hours I was able to paint a rose canvas and a mini stool, have a look.


I told the knitting instructor next to me that I was embarassed to sign my name to this stool because I did not realize how fast the time had gone. I finished basecoating it and when I looked at the clock I only had 10 minutes to paint the flowers on the stool. I did end up finishing it in 10 minutes, but it is a bit sloppy.


Now onto Valentine's Day, when I saw this Valentine gift made on Martha last year I knew that it would be a wonderful token of affection to give. I wanted my gift to Brian to be more about the time and thought spent taken to create the gift than money spent. This Valentine took a while to create and my fingers were sore from cutting out the intricate detail but it came out very beautiful. Here are the steps of me making the gift.

Here is the template.


Finally after about an hour and a half I finished cutting out all of the details.


This view is not too impressive


But here is the unfolded heart...


Here is the heart glued onto the background which has the names of each cut out flower and their symbolic meaning such as "Lily of the Valley - Sensitivity"


Now you know that for us Martha fans that glitter is like a drug. This Valentine is to be displayed in a specimen box that is usually used to hold specimen bugs or foliage. I loved the idea but it was missing the jazz hands that is known as glitter, I glittered a plain piece of cardstock with ruby red glitter and then used pins to affix the heart into the specimen box.


And here it is all finished...


Here is the card that I made to go along with Brian's gift.


Brian's dad did not have any plans for Valentine's Day so we asked him to be our Valentine. We took him out to a nice dinner and I made him a card.


Internship was okay this week, Connie (my supervisor) was out of town in Texas and I really missed her guidance. Here are a few of the creations that I made.

Monsters


Dogs


Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes