Happy Valentine's Day

 Hi everyone. Happy Valentine's Day.   

I'm not a big one for actually celebrating Valentine's Day, but I must say I love the shape of hearts and making Valentine themed pages. 

Today I send you Valentine Greetings.

I received a gift at Christmas in the red with white polka dot paper you see as my background. I thought it would make great art paper so I saved it. It was  folded and taped, but  I ripped  it  into bits and then glued  those bits down to my watercolor paper  with matte medium to make this background. I like the little white spaces. I wanted it to look worn like a much loved hand made card.

 To glam it up a bit for Valentine's Day, I took some silver glitter glue  and smeared it across the page. That's my addition for Valerie's  Heavy Metal challenge at Art Journal Journey. You can see some silver micro-dots here and there in the background.

The big red heart is a piece of paper doily that was left over after I cut it apart and used most of the inside designs on other projects. I added white to it with a paint pen to help it stand out a bit better.. The other items are bits from my stash, and the letters for the word love are from some ancient rub ons. 

Last fall I was going through some boxes in the attic and besides finding  a few Sizzix dies, I also found this box with some packages of partially used up rub ons.  I think what must have happened is when I cleaned out my studio a few years back, I was on the fence whether to get rid of these items or whether I wanted to keep them. I often start maybe boxes when I clean, and these were my maybes. I put them away in the attic to get them out of the way, and  I forgot about them until I went exploring in the attic this past fall.   Why else would I put a box of rub-ons and some dies into the attic?  (I am sure you might think of many reasons-smile).  I wasn't sure the rub ons even worked anymore because I used them back in the late 90's and early 2000's when I did more scrapbooking. I gave them a try, and sure enough, they sill worked great. It was a nice find.

Hope your weekend is going well. And enjoy the rest of it.