Valentine's Day Goodies

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day yesterday!

Mine was fabulous—although I spent half the day in meetings and in the office, I did manage to get home by 6 p.m or so and cuddle with my sweetheart a bit.

I wanted to share three Valentine projects with you. I would have liked to be so organized and on top of things that I could have posted these days ago so you could use them for your own Valentine’s Day gifts if you wanted. But that would have required me to get something done ahead of a deadline and . . . well, that’s just something I don’t do very often! (I can always dream, though, right?)

But I liked these projects and figured that if you did too, you could always either adapt the color palette and use these ideas for upcoming occasions when you needed gifts, or just remember them until next year.

The first gift is for Sterling, made from our new Petal Cone die. When I told Sterling I was going to show you the gifts, he got a little nervous and asked, “Are you going to show what was inside?” I assured him I wouldn’t. . . all you need to know is it was personal! You can tuck anything inside these fun new dies!

This next gift is for the grandchildren. I try to give them something for most major holidays. Inside the cello bag is a little candy (I’m not big on sugar highs in children!), a fortune cookie made from our new Love Impressions Specialty Designer Series paper, and those popular elastic bands bracelets (Valentine-themed).

Finally, I also try to give each of the girls some kind of home décor item, and somehow I thought that was good enough for the men in the family too! Silly me! Turns out that the husbands, while always gracious, didn’t realize those hand-stamped, home décor items were for them too! (smile)

So this year at least (I’m not promising to do this every year . . . just depends on time), there was a special Rice Krispy treat for the big boys! This treat is a family favorite—fill a funnel with marshmallow Rice Krispies and wrap it up in tin foil. For Valentine’s day, I added a fun little vellum greeting!

I’m finishing up the traditional home décor item for the girls, and will share that tomorrow, so stay tuned. . . .

Comments

[Christina]

Love the projects- thank you for sharing. You are always so inspiring. I can't wait to see your girls gifts. I'm glad to her at least one grandparents isn't big on sugar highs for children. My poor children- the day after Valentines day....next year, I'll just have to say no if too much candy shows up. (or Easter, etc!)

P.S. Can you share a picture of your Valentine's Hutch? I believe it is in the background of one of Shanna's pictures (with the shopping bags on the counter) and I'd love to see it!

[Jolie Ewens]

Shelli, I attended the Minneapolis Regional and I have to say I loved it. More personal than convention and the ideas were amazing. I did not get to visit with you personally, but wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it and how StampinUp! has changed. I became a demonstrator in 1999 and we had to call in, fax or mail our orders. Hard to even imagine that! I look forward to attending more Regionals and just wanted to let you know. Thanks for a great Saturday - and one well spent!

[suzanne treut]

enjoy reading your posts and still waiting to see the cool jacket find you mentioned in an earlier post:)

[Debbie Ware]

Shelli, thank you so much for taking the time to share your fabulous projects! The funnel for the Rice Krispy treat was brilliant. See you at the Boise Regional!

[Lynsay Mahon]

I LOVE the rice krispie treat! That is such a cool idea. I'm always looking for allergy friendly treats to share with the girls' classes (no eggs, dairy or nuts) and this would be adorable!

[Ronda Wade]

Happy Valentine's Day to you too! I'm sure you had many people to share the love with! I absolutely love the Rice krispie idea! I make those about once a week...simple and everyone loves them!
Thanks for sharing!
Love,
Ronda

[Scot Strehlow]

Hi Shelli ~ Thanks so much for sharing your creativity with all of us! The Valentine gifts are wonderful! First of all, I don't even know where you begin to find the time to do everything that you do! And, it always makes me feel better to know that there are others who are always working to beat the clock with their creative and thoughtful ideas! I am also very excited about the Rice Krispy (or even comparable cereal) treats in the funnel to shape into a big Hershey kiss - what an awesome idea!!! We all love chocolate, but it would be a great workshop project even to just have them add the stamped message coming out of the top! Hopefully I'll see you this spring when you schedule and attend a full-day Regional in Las Vegas (come on, it's so close, and we will give you a warm welcome!)! Otherwise, I guess I'll look forward to seeing you in SLC in July! Thanks again for ALL YOU DO to make SU! such an AMAZING company to represent!!!
Hugs,
Scot

[Twila Davis]

Thanks so much for sharing your Valentine porjects with us, hopefully I'll remember them next year. Love your petal cone project. I hope we'll be getting that glitter paper in more colors, soon? Please.

[Jan Hoyt]

What a cute idea, I had never thought to make a giant "Kiss" with marshmallow treats but I love it and will have to give that a try. Hopefully I will still remember it by Valentine's Day of next year! But it would be a cute anniversary gift as well....maybe there is hope for me to remember that since our anniversary is in a couple of months. Thanks for sharing...I love visiting your blog!