Good Sunday morning! I hope your weekend has gone well so far. I was able to spend a good part of my day yesterday in the studio and hopefully will be able to do the same today. Of course, around this house you never know when all hell make break loose. I haven’t seen the oldest daughter in 3 days – she may have already moved and forgot to tell me. I know she forgot to take her stereo, because the alarm went off again this morning. As I laid in bed to the sounds of BA BOOM BA BOOM BA BOOM, I envisioned once again how I will be able to make that room mine and what I could do with the furniture she has left behind.

Oh the anticipation of it all! While waiting for my move, I had to clean my current space so I could at least stamp. I truly thought that the transition would move along a little faster than it has, and wasn’t too worried about my space. Well, now that it is clean and organized – I have the need to stamp. So yesterday I did get quite a bit done. I ended up stamping at least one Valentine’s Day card and got a few Easter ready to go. It occurred to me last Tuesday night that Easter was early this year and then I started to panic. But, Valentine’s Day is first and I have only one card done – hmmmmmm, guess I need to play a little more today.

Now I know this is not the typical Valentine’s Day card, but when I saw this image of the chili peppers and had the sentiment Hot Stuff right in front of me, I couldn’t resist. I found a heart background in my stash and poof – an instant humorous Valentine!

I colored the image of the chili’s with Copic Markers, and used my Blender pen to draw out some of the color where the highlight marks are. Now this is funny, I wanted to put a little glaze over the highlighted areas, and did I grab my glaze pen – NOPE, I got the glitter stardust pen instead. How could I be so stupid? Anyhoo, I finished up the card by stamping my background and coloring the sentiment. I decided to sponge all the edges with distress ink and raised both the chili image and sentiment on mounting tape. Now if I only had someone to send this card too!

Stamps: Rubbernecker Southwest Collection 288-04 Chilis and Sentiment Collection 145-06 Hot Stuff Sentiment; and Stamp Oasis Background Collection 1129 SO Heart Backgroud from Rubbernecker Stamp Company

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Kraft, Burgundy

Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black, Tim Holtz Vintage Photo and Aged Mahogany Distress Inks

Accessories: Copic Markers, Tsukineko Sponge Dauber, Ribbon, Brads, Mounting Tape, Sakura Stardust Glitter Pen

All products above, except the Copics markers, can be found at Rubbernecker Stamp Company. Don’t forget that Rubbernecker is running a special – for every $50 spent on stamp purchases, you will get one free. You can find out all the details by visiting the Rubbernecker home page.

Now, if you are still with me, cause I know this is starting to be a very long post, I have some Tawdry Treats. The stamps are compliments of Rubbernecker Stamp Company and the ribbon is from my own personal stash.

To win these fabulous Tawdry Treats, leave me a comment. Tell me all about the most memorable Valentine’s Day gift you ever received. Believe it or not, mine is an address book that my aunt gave me when I was about 10 years old. I can even remember that it was wrapped in very colorful tissue paper. I felt like such a big shot with my own personal address book. I will pick the winner on the morning on Tuesday, January 15.