Happy Valentine's Day (a little late).

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day. We didn't do much here. Both Chad and I really enjoy staying home and enjoying some quiet time on Valentine's Day. Chad worked most of the day so I prepared one of his favorite meals as a special treat and nice way to let him know how much I love him. :) We weren't going to give one another gifts but of course he treated me to a couple of new Le Crueset cookware pieces that I had been eyeing (they are RED so that is sort of Valentine's-ish, right?). And then there were these that were delivered in the morning. Gorgeous. :) (Payton got a half dozen pink roses from daddy, as well. She was on top of the world!)

I just wanted to share the kid's Valentine's that they gave to their classmates last Friday. I purchased these treat bags at Target and we filled them with candy and created bag toppers out of scrapping supplies I had lying around here.

The Sizzix Stampin' Up Bigz Top Note Die worked perfectly for the treat bag topper. We just cut them out of white cardstock and embossed them with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder before folding in half lengthwise and stapling to the top of the bag.

Then we punched scalloped circles out of scrap pieces of red and pink patterned papers and punched smaller circles from white cardstock to adhere in the center of the scalloped circle. We punched hearts using the Stampin' Up Heart to Heart punch and adhered them to each for a sweet accent and then the kids wrote on the tag before adhering them to each of the treat bags. :) Simple and easy.

And since I'm sharing all things love here today, the mid-month Garden went up at 2Peas today. :) Here's one of my shares for the 'love theme'. Sorry about the crummy scan. 

(c) Two Peas In A Bucket

HERE is a link for the supply list, etc.

The filmstrips are older Narratives, the journaling cards are Daisy D's, Stamps are all Stampin' Up, hearts all diecut using the Cuttlebug.

This layout is currently in a shadowbox frame in my living room so we can enjoy it throughout the Valentine's holiday. :)

Shimelle's Here, There & Everywhere 6 week online workshop went live today at 2Peas. I know I mentioned it before in THIS post but I am so, so excited about this class. As with all of Shimelle's classes, they are so well put together and thought out with fabulous PDF handouts, samples, downloads, message boards just for class participants and SO much more! If it fits into your budget, please consider playing along. It is such a fantastic journey!

I have lots of fun things to share this coming week, so check back if you get the chance!

xoxo

Comments

[Rhona]

I would have loved to be playing along in the class but as my husband's out of work at the moment it's going to have to be given a miss. I look forward to seeing any pages you might get to share later on. Love the valentines bags :)

[Machele]

Cute Valentine bags, Nichol! I wish I would have done something like that instead of the three hours we spent making iPod valentines. They were cute though. haha
I'm glad you had a nice Valentine's Day & even received some surprise presents!!

[Sandi N.]

Nichol

Love your Valentine's treats. They are well thought out and stylish.

Your layout is so pretty. My oldest DD was reading over my shoulder and loved your work too. She also pointed out you have a son her age...LOL

You do a great job on your blog!

Sandi N.

[erin]

hi nichol,

what a cute idea for lil treat baggie toppers:) i'll have to remember that for next year:) great way to use up those scraps!

happy valentines weekend!

erin

[Nikki M]

SO so cute. You have very lucky children and your husband is such a wonderful shopper! Can I give him my husband's e-mail address? ;) Love the owls! TFS.

[JanaMillen]

I'm so glad you had a fun day. Sounds wonderful!

[Mary MacAskill]

Cute layout! Lovin' all the little details :)