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This year for Valentine’s Day Aaron hand delivered this lovely bouquet of flowers to my office. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture last week, but I think they still look great after nearly a week. Apparently he had been talking with Sarah from Saipua about the perfect arrangement, which included one of my favorite things, an old canning jar. It made me so happy sitting there on my desk that I decided to draw a few sketches.

I took my sketches and photocopied them so I could make some gocco prints. I got glitzy and used gold ink to print on craft paper postcards and cream and white notecards. I really love the way the gold looks on craft paper.

Last year I did a similar thing, but got super motivated and turned my sketches into plates for our letterpress. I ended up making little gift bags for my bridesmaids that included stationery, coasters, soap with imprints of the flowers and little bags to carry it all in. Whew, that tires me out just talking about it.