Living a Fullmer Life: Valentine's Day

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Feb 14

Boston and I dropping off dinner to Scott at school. He was very busy and we dropped off lunch and dinner to him, I was being an extra nice wife since it was valentines day.

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope everyone has a wonderful day full of tons of love!

My hubby and I celebrated valentine's on Friday night. We left our baby boy with his first non-family babysitter and enjoyed a valentines dinner! It was so nice to get out on a date... first date we have been on in Regina since we moved here back in September. Babysitters are limited when you don't know anyone and well no one has a job in this household :) A really nice girl from Scott's program has been begging him for months to babysit and we took her up on her offer!

I thought I would share my first attempt back at scrapbooking. It has been probably 6 years (other than a my guestbook wedding album and a few other special projects). I made this valentine's day cards for the grandparents and while I was at it, I decided to scrapbook Boston's very first scrapbook page. I mostly used scraps I had to do the cards and the page. I don't think I will ever get through my huge pile of new paper at this rate!

I have been working hard these last few weeks on planning, creating and shopping for my son's first birthday party. His party isn't till April, but my friends sons birthday is in March and we are planning the same party and just sharing everything and splitting the cost! I can't wait to post the parties once they all happen!

V-Day Photoshoot

Done with his vday photoshoot

See a few more photo here.

Will You Be My Valentine?

I saw these frames this week in the Michael's flyer and went and bought two for only $1.50 each!

First I painted the back and sides white.

Next I found scrap paper that worked perfectly. (My mom bought me some random packs of scrapbook accessories and cut up paper at a garage sale in Edmonton and all this paper was in the packs... good find mom!) After cutting the paper to just fit to the outside of the frame, I than used spray adhesive to glued the paper onto the wood.

Taking my knife I cut off excess paper and also cutting the heart out. At this point I realized I forgot to paint the inside of the heart... had to do this really carefully since I didn't want to get any paint on the paper.

I used sandpaper and lightly sanded down the edges of the frame and inside of the heart. *Make sure to move down with the sandpaper and not up. This step will fix any uneven cutting that happened especially in the heart. See a picture of this step here.

I look my embellishments (found them at Michael's this week and used a coupon) and mounted them on cardboard using spray adhesive to give it strength.

I than Mod Podged the front and sides of the frame and the front of the embellishments. I wanted to make sure they had the same finish as the paper on the frame.

Next I had to pick from my small selection of ribbon, the perfect match (okay this is a huge selection... I have an addition). I glued down the ribbon using glue dots. I also took some craft glue that dries clear and added a small amount of glue to the cut edges of the ribbon to help prevent fraying.

Lastly I applied tons of these sticky lifter things (no idea what they are called) and raised the embellishments from the frame just slightly to give it some dimension.

Here are the finished frames! The first one is for my house and the second one is for who Boston wants to ask to be his Valentine... she should be receiving it in the mail shortly :)

Valentines Free Printables

***Updated - Added new free printables at the bottom!!!***
I am in love with all the talented ladies out in the blogging world and their Free Stuff! I wanted to share the great finds I found for valentines day (and there are still tons more, leave a comment if you know of another great v-day freebie)!

Todays Fabulous Finds - Valentine Subway Art

(Picture from Today's Fabulous Finds)

This lady does new subway art for every season, holiday and month.

Becky Higgins - Love One Another

(Picture from Becky's Website)

I printed one of each for myself at Walmart and sent a copy for my mom to her Walmart. They look amazing!

Vintage Holiday Craft - Vintage Kids Valentine Cards