Just in case you need a kit for some LOVE layouts! 
This is a couple years old, but, hey…it’s free.
I’d love to see how you use it, so post a link if you want!
Here’s the download link: http://www.aprilanderton.com/AAnderton_VivaValentino.zip
I love reminding Ken that he let me wait around all day on Valentine’s Day in 1998 *thinking* I was going to get a ring that day, only to go home empty handed and thoroughly confused. The next day he proposed. Who proposes on the day AFTER? My husband. Good thing he’s cute!
Obviously we aren’t big on frilly fluff for Valentine’s day – or any other holiday, for that matter. But I did happen to have a big chunk of dark chocolate in the cupboard and strawberries in the fridge. Kelsey and I made a bunch of chocolate covered goodness to show our love (maybe just of chocolate). We covered Ken’s with whipped cream (who doesn’t like chocolate? My husband.) and we all had a yummy after church snack. I grabbed my phone and snapped a few bad shots for a layout. Some high contrast adjustments and creative cropping made for a half way decent page!
And…in case you have some sweet shots that need a great digital collection to match, I’m adding my kits back into the shop slowly! The Viva Valentino Collection is up and it’s only $2 for the rest of the month of LOVE!
You might not think wanting a seriously cool LEATHER bed…yes, I said LEATHER, would be a problem, but besides convincing my husband it would be SO worth it, there’s the little problem of trying not to buy anything until we close on this house. And then there might be the big problem of not being able to afford anything ever again after we close on this house. So, wanting a $1200 LEATHER…yes, I said LEATHER, bed is a bit of a problem for me. I could attempt a DIY cheap-o-copy of an upholstered headboard, but I’ve seen, caressed and smelled the real thing and I would not be appeased. Here’s a quick camera-phone pic of the bed at the outlet. It’s a lovely sage green and is about half of the original price.
So, to keep myself from using the credit card with the $0 balance I hurried and put some cheap art up on the wall. My interior design professor would not be impressed, but it was an emergency. Now, if I buy that bed, I will have wasted $60 on these IKEA frames and 1.5 hours of my precious time. Not to mention my use of actual tools. Nope…can’t do it now. What’s done is done. Nail holes have been placed and three pieces of Basic Grey scrapbook paper have been sacrificed so, I’m committed.
Here are a couple of before and after pics just to give you an idea of how awesome this bed would – oh, sorry, I mean how blank the wall was above my bed and how lovely it looks now with my $60 solution (the papers were courtesy of BG so I’m not counting those) to my $1200 problem.
The wall is actually this tan color but it’s washed out in the before photo.
The only thing I wonder is, if you get what you pay for…
Bon Appetit Kit – Celeste Rockwood Jones (pclayers.com)
