A Pinterest Perfect Valentine's Day!

Hey everyone just wanted to update the blog with how my Valentine's went. I always tend to embrace Valentine's day regardless of my lack of a significant other. A day whose main theme is not only commercial but revolves around hearts, candy and cakes?? Heck yes I'm going to celebrate it!!

Me and my friends threw a little Valentine's day party before going out to watch the ever-so romantic "Die Hard" sequel in the theater. Let me admit this first, I am total Pinterest addict and I wanted to share with you some of the wonderful tips and tricks I found through Pinterest that I used in my party!

First off I made these cute little Valentine's gift baskets for my friends. It was filled with chocolates, sugar wafers, and cookies I baked in the shape of hearts. I even dipped some of the sugar wafers in some red melting chocolate and covered them in Valentine's themed sprinkles an idea I pinned from Craft-O-Maniac from http://www.craft-o-maniac.com/2013/01/valentine-cookies.html

After showering each other with gifts we did our planned craft which was creating memory jars. This is an idea that I have seen on Pinterest a lot. Find a jar. Decorate it. And fill it with little slips of paper with memories written on them. Fill it up and open it up at the end of the year! Basically an overly simplified, personalized and pretty journal jar!

The jars we bought at dollar tree. Paper and stickers from Joanns and HobbyLobby. The finished products all came out really cute and different from each other. 

This was the one my best friend and fellow blogger KaraKreative made!! So elegant!

We all get together for Christmas and exchange gifts so we'll have to open up our jars and share our favorite memories with each other then! Last came dinner. I picked two great recipes I found on Pinterest a baked rigatoni and heart shaped dinner rolls. The dinner rolls were a huge hit.

 

The recipe for the Valentine's Dinner rolls can be found here: http://www.rhodesbread.com/recipes/print_recipe/2051 and the recipe for the Rigatoni I got off SkinnyMom here: http://skinnymom.com/2012/02/05/skinny-rigatoni/?_szp=120432&_szi=3 The pasta was made with ground turkey yum yum!!

 

We had such a fabulous Valentine's day! I honestly have the best friends on the entire planet because no matter what we do we always have a blast doing it! For more of my favorite pins you can always follow me on Pinterest @nerdycupcakes. Hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day and have a safe weekend!

Cute Little Monster Valentine's!!

Hey everyone!! February seems to be flying by as Valentine's Day, this Thursday, quickly approaches!! Since I'm a Graphic Designer and Illustrator I feel it is practically my duty to create my very own custom Valentine's Cards FREE for you to print and put a smile on someone's face!!

Seeing that a lot of people find my blog by searching for illustrations of cute little monsters, this year, I decided to revisit the concept and bring you "Monster Valentine's Cards!!"

 
They're fluffy, slimy and even scaly and ready to express their love and admiration!!  Don't be scared!! These little guys won't bite. All you need is a printer and some scissors to and you're on your way to handing out some creepy fun to your friends, family, classmates and maybe even your secret crush on that special day, February the 14th!!

There are 8 total per sheet, download the PDF and start printing by clicking on this link: http://violet-ink.com/Printables/MonsterValentineCards.pdf

Don't forget to change your printer settings to "LANDSCAPE" so it prints correctly!! This is our third annual set of Valentine's cards. Itty bitty monsters not your thing?? Two years I also created Lady Gaga themed Valentine's card. Hungry for something else?? Last year's cards were all about Breakfast Time!!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!

Breakfast Valentine's Cards!

Hey everyone!! Tomorrow is Valentine's day and that means today is a great day to unveil some newly made FREE Valentine's cards, just for you!! This is the second time that I have done something like this. Last year's Valentine's cards were Lady Gaga themed and to-date have over 360 page views, my 9TH most popular post of all time, woohoo!!

Well this year I decided to create cards of one of my OTHER favorite things; food!

More specifically breakfast food!

There's waffles, eggs, toast, oatmeal, OJ all your favorite breakfast item accompanied with sweet little Valentine's day themed sayings! Feel free to print these and hand them out to friends, family, classmates and maybe even your secret crush on that special day, February the 14th!!

There are seven total per sheet, download the PDF and start printing by clicking on this link:
http://violet-ink.com/Printables/BreakfastValentines.pdf

Hope everyone has a great day tomorrow!

Website Makeover is FINALLY completed!

Hey everyone! Just updated the blog with a small tid-bit of news. Violet Ink Design is finally finished being remodeled! All the pages are fully functional and portfolio pieces are completely updated.

I am by no means a web designer so the work seemed to take me FOREVERRR. The front page is up to date just in time for Valentine's day!

My biggest project was completely re-doing the portfolio section. Violet Ink Design has really grown from back in 2009. It used to have only ONE section for freelance work. That section filled up quick; something had to be done. Now you can choose from 3 different categories of work I have compiled including my famous portraits!

Not only that but my personal photo needed a BIT of an update:

I have nothing but high hopes for my business to continue growing. Stay tuned for more artwork and updates!!

Lady Gaga Printable Valentines

Hey everyone! I have been pretty much dead in the water in regards to keeping up with my online presence. I was really sick and had brontosaurus or bronchitis however you spell that! But I have returned, triumphantly with a lovely gift for you all!

Valentine's is coming up! You pick up a box of Valentine's at Wal-mart for 5.00 dollars or so or just print them from your computer (or your library's computer, or your mom's computer, etc) for free! My gift to you is a set of 8 printable Valentine's...

LADY GAGA THEMED!!

She just released a sneak peak of her newest song, Born this Way this week. If you haven't heard it yet, check it out below. And if you don't know me, I am a fan of the Lady Gaga. And this wasn't the first time drawing her either. So what more perfect way to celebrate the song and Valentine's day by combining both elements!!

Image from Starpulse

There are eight unique Valentine's in total. You can down the PDF version by clicking on this link:
http://violet-ink.com/Printables/GagaValentines_final.pdf



Click play to listen to the song if you haven't heard it yet, enjoy, print the valentines and have a great Valentine's day!