Decorating for Valentines & Sat Chat 1/11/25

Hi friends! Please disregard the fact that my shirt is inside out during this video. I noticed it hours after filming. Actually, I didn’t, one of my girls did. Such is life. Here’s this week’s Sat Chat!

I had some requests to share photos of my spectacular Valentine’s mantle display. Did I say spectacular? Well, it’s pretty good for me anyway. My family and I like it, and that’s all that matters. I hope it inspires you!

Other Stuff I mentioned in the chat:

• You can find a real-time lesson of the Valentine’s chocolate box painting (the one with the paper wrappers) in my Critique Club Membership group in the January 2025 section.

• 50% off 2024 Critique Club Archive *This purchase gives lifetime access to all 24 real-time narrated art lessons posted in Critique Club during 2024 for one low price *The regular price is $60, with coupon $30 *Use coupon code 2024 if the discount doesn’t appear automatically *Offer ends 2/1/25

• 50% off Critique Club bundle Volumes 1-6 *This class gives you lifetime access to all 144 real-time and narrated tutorials posted in Critique Club from January 2019 through December 2024 for one price. *Regular price $300, with discount $150 *Use coupon code 2024 if the discount doesn’t appear automatically *Offer ends 2/1 25

• Have you ever wanted to try Copic Sketch Markers? Well, you can try one for $1 (Shipping Included) through January 17th 2025! If you want to buy any sets you can save 25% off your order with the coupon code: FRUGAL25 here (Affiliate link) I think you can only get one marker for $1 and it is a random color. If you put more than one of the $1 markers in your cart it will say it can’t ship to you which makes sense because they would run out in a day LOL! This is a good way to see the quality without a big investment.

As far as the Copics go, I would recommend just getting the $1 and seeing how it lasts. I think Blick’s Copic prices are normally 24%-44% off MSRP so let’s see how the quality is on the new ones before getting too excited about saving 25% off list from the Copic website. I have started testing the sets they sent me and while I haven’t noticed any cracks in the caps (and the markers are performing well) I noticed the caps on the new markers are much looser than the ones on my 16-year-old ones so I will be curious to see if any are dry in 6 months. I don’t think you can go wrong trying one for $1 since it includes shipping tho. That’s all for me today. Have a great weekend and until next time happy crafting!

PS, I will post the Flower Fairy Card 2-hour craft along video tomorrow on my YouTube channel and hopefully here too!