Valentines Day swap....

Today I wanted to share the ornaments I made

for the Valentines Day swap

over at

Indulge Your Shelf

I really wanted to use items I already had

These hearts were an amazing deal at .09 cents !

However they were bright red and stark white....

So I decided to age them.

I used brown paint and smudged with my fingers to age the white wood...

Then I painted the red felt pink and sprinkled with a bit of glitter...

I decided I wanted to write the word LOVE all over it to add a little something to it...

Then I added the little silver crown to the top center...

For the opposite side I used lots of  different scrap paper

stickers and stamps.

I used the same brown to shade everything and give it that "aged" look

and some dimension to the images.

I ended up using the Queen Elizabeth stamps on every one I made.

I purchased them last summer at a store in WVA.

They sold me a whole shoebox of stamps someone had collected 

some date all the way back to the turn of the century!

From all over the world too!

I thought Elizabeth went well with the theme.

 I decided to make each one a different color

to make them unique.

SO sorry this absent minded mommy

forgot to at least include a note saying they were from me!

SO if you see yours..

now you know who made it!

I also made a Valentines Day card...

but oops..

forgot to photograph it before I packaged it all up

nice and pretty and then didn't want to tear it apart!!

Thanks again to Laurie for taking my photos so I could at least

show you what I made!

Tomorrow I'll share what I received.

SOOOO gorgeous!