14 Days of Valentines

On February 1 I started what I’m calling “The 14 Days of Valentines” for my wife.

The idea came about when I was showing a friend of mine all of the Valentine’s Day samples I had made for my January club meeting (I’ll be posting those soon too), and I mentioned that now I just had to find enough people to send all those valentines to so they wouldn’t just sit around. She suggested I should give one to my wife each day leading up to Valentine’s Day (thanks Sheri!!). I decided I didn’t want to give her one of those cards each day because she had already seen them all and even helped me with some design ideas on some of them. I loved the idea but I wanted original projects that she hadn’t seen before so it would be more special. The problem with that is that my stamp studio is in our family office where my wife works from home as a medical transcriptionist so I couldn’t really create them down there without her seeing them.

My Digital Studio to the rescue!! I was able to create a card for each day and then print 4 to a page on Whisper White and cut them out. I made them all so they are just 4x4 notecards. I wrote a little message on the back of each one and left them for her each day before I left for work. I only made 10 notecards. The last 4 days are going to be something a little more special each day than the notecards. Starting on day 11 she will get a little box each day with treats in it. Day 11, 12, and 13 are all candy treats. On Valentine’s Day she will get an altered tin with a necklace inside that I made for her. I used the new Beveled Windowpanes in the Occasions Mini and my friend Patti’s idea (find it here) to make her a customized necklace. I hope she likes it! I figured this was a great way to see if she likes the size of the necklace, and if she does then I will buy her one of the Simply Adorned necklaces.

I wanted you to have the back story behind this project, but enough with the babbling already. Here is each of the 10 cards in order from day 1 to day 10. (I will post the boxes in my next post)

This has been a really fun project to do so far. My wife has really enjoyed it and is now chomping at the bit to find out what the next few days will bring. I’m really glad she has enjoyed it. We have already talked about compiling them all into a little mini album when it’s all done so our kids will be able to look back on them later.

I hope you’ve enjoyed looking at the projects. Please leave me a comment to let me know you were here and what you thought.

I do need to give credit to a few designers who inspired some of the design elements:

Corina Meyer, Connie Collins, Jennifer Holiday, Mary Fish, Laurie Zoellmer, Jodi Collins

Thank you for stopping by today and don’t forget to check back to see the gifts of the last 4 days!