I had a pleasurable field trip on Saturday with Dear Reader, Annski.
We went to the 'new' My Heart's Fancy, which is now (almost) exclusively a rubber stamp art store.
I made a little Valentine at the make-it-and-take-it and bought a few new sheets of paper, some very lovely ribbon, and some new color.
I also saw many old friends/students/customers from my days teaching classes at another rubber stamp art store.
I'm afraid the trip also stoked my paper-cutting fire; I spent an hour or so in my studio Monday night going a little bit heart crazy.
I made a few patterns from some old manila file folders and coated one side with restickable glue.
I know I've said it before, but I just looove me some restickable glue stick.
I wanted to cut about a million paper hearts, but I didn't want to trace a million paper hearts, so I just stuck the patterns right to the decorative paper with that wonderful restickable stuff.
Depending on its thickness, I layered two or three pieces of decorative paper and just held on tight while I cut around the patterns.
I had a very large pile of paper hearts on my desk in no time at all.
I dazzled some of them up with a bit of glitter.
I cut some hearts from these black and white and leopard print papers because I want to make some fancy shmancy Valentines using these beautiful feathers (in honor of my Chicken-Raising Seester's ill-fated guinea hens):
Now I have all these wonderful parts to Valentines...
...but no matter how many times I tell them to, they just won't pull themselves together.
So.
If you're not too busy...
Could you come over here and take care of that for me?
Thanks.