RS#50 and Twin Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day, for reals!  I feel like I've been making Valentines for months and months and prolly you feel like I have been making them that long, too!  I just love the love, turtles and doves.

 

My DDIL came over yesterday and dropped off the granddog, otherwise known to a lot of you as the Grand Duke.  We get to dog-sit as the family is taking off on a long weekend away, otherwise known as "President's Day Weekend" here in the States.  I'll be sharing pictures of his royalness in the coming days.  We love having him.  He loves coming here to the Old Folks' Home.

 

She also dropped off these adorable Valentines made for me and Mister Papa by our adorable twinkle grandsons:

 

Adam

 

Henry

Aren't they cute?  The Valentines are, too.  She got the internet somewhere off the idea ~ that is to say, well, you know what I mean.  To make them, you focus the camera on the outstretched hand of the person and then just pop the lolly through two holes in the photo so it looks like the person is actually holding the pop.  It's like 3-D, dude!  (If you know who came up with this clever idea, let me know so I can edit this and add the credit.)

 

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I am done making Valentines for 2013, but while all that yummy pink and red paper was still piled high on my desk, I made a card for this week's happy sketch (#50) at Retro Sketches,

using some fun Penny Black Stickeroos.

I used a SU! Impression Plate called Harlequin for the first time, to mimic the "x" hatches on the sticker band.  Then I lightly pressed a Brilliance "Moonlight White" ink pad over the impressions to highlight the design.  That was a little nerve wracking, coz I could've dropped the pad, splat, that's that.  BTW, again, why the silent letter?  And why do we still use that expression anyway?  Nerve-(w)racking.  The last time nerves were literally (w)racked was in medieval days before epidurals.  I prefer the modern:  "I only have one nerve left and you're getting on it."

 

But, hey, hey, hey, is that any way to talk on The Day of Love?!  I don't think so!

 

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Go forth, be loved, especially love yourself, and enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy your day.   LITS!

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Paper:  PTI white; unknown

  polka dot

Stamp:  Hero Arts "Good Alphabet"

Ink:  Brilliance moonlight white;

  SU! melon mambo

Penny Black Stickeroos

SU! (Sizzix) Harlequin IP

Bling from stash