Happy Happy Birthday, Miss. Melanie!

Happy Birthday Melanie!

Disclaimer: This is an early happy birthday as her birthday is on Sunday

(Thought the song was appropriate :)


Wow, look at SOME of the great things we love and have 

experienced together...

We have shoved a lot of momentous occasions 

into the past 2+ years.

Some we wish we could go back and relive over and over...

and some we're thankful we tried, but it's cool if we never do it again...

and some, well, we wished we never experienced. 

But, here we are! 

Still kicking and doing the best we can at this whole life thing.

I am proud to call you my best friend.

You know, they say a person's friends are a reflection 
of the person themselves.

So, I've decided, based on my choice of you...

I'm a pretty amazing person ;)

Or probably, really really lucky!

Happy Birthday BFF!

HINT
of the day:


You know what I just love... 
Chipboard!
I should say, it's the thing I most pick up and purchase the most...
although, not the item I use the most. 
Most of the time I just end up being intimidated by the 
blank 'canvas' and it remains in my 
'chipboard' box, admired, but rarely used. 
BUT, In the last 
year I made a promise to stop buying and start using. 
This promise has found it's way to my biggest stash of unused items... 
Thats right, my chipboard.


Sooooooo, long story short... and to my hint of the day:
My favorite kind of chipboard 
is the kind that already comes with adhesive on the back. 
Not because it's  easier to stick the chipboard ON to things, 
But, because it's easier to add things on the chipboard.
Like GLITTER! (my personal favorite!)
The brown (crown like) glitter piece on my layout above... 
was really a piece from Basic Grey's christmas ornament line. (last years)
I cut the ornament (snowflake as the case may be) in half...
poured brown glitter on the sticky side... 
and poof... practically the cutest layout I have ever done. 

Remembering the Old.... Loving the New!

Just a brief reminder that all of my old postings, 

including all of my work before today

are posted in my old blog:

http://nicoleheartspaper.wordpress.com

Thanks for your understanding

in my transition period!

New House for a New Blog

At Last!

Fancy new blog, check!

My very own domain... One Sweet Romance, check!

Beautiful new slideshow of my projects, check!

Still slightly, if not completely, confused about how this all works, check!

Welcome, welcome, welcome... all of the 3 people who have been following

my humble little blog, http://nicoleheartspaper.wordpress.com ...

Finally, I have a cyber home worthy of my art...

And, it wasn't so hard to do!

Please! Feel free to ask how you can do anything you see

here on my blog.

Odds are, I tried it 857 ways before I got it right ...

Without anything further...

My first official post here at

One Sweet Romance...

I thought it only fitting that my first post on this

blog be a version of my last post on my old blog... only this post

would be Better!

This house is so cute, don'tcha think?

I bought the box from Michaels and used lots of odds and ends

from my never ending room to make it

how you see it.

HINT 

of the day:

One of my most favorite 'must haves' in my craft room

is floral supplies...

Like floral tape, wire, wire cutters, foam...

So many embellishments are really based from these few items.

Did you notice the 'cherry tree' on the back of my house?

So so so easy to make with a few

flowers ( you know you have a ton of)

floral wire and tape.

Prima has a new line of embellishments that look

like flowers on a stem.. beautiful

BUT..

$$$$$$

You can make the SAME thing in minutes using

a few dollars worth of floral supplies...

and flowers you already own!

Nothing is better than using what you have already bought!

Try it! Tell me about it! And ask me if you need help with it!

Well, here's to an amazing start to an amazing blog with lots of followers,

well, maybe just my husband...

Here's to my husband...the muse for

One Sweet Romance!