Is and Always Will Be Yours

Hi folks

It's been a couple of weeks since my last post so I figure it's time to share the second card I have made so far this year. That's right - still no card-making! Quilting instead!

This is a card I made for my dearly beloved for Valentine's day. The image and sentiment are from Unity Stamp Co, the papers are from Close To My Heart.

As always, thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

Happy Valentine's Day folks!

Whether you are single or attached - hugs and kisses to everyone today! But extra hugs and kisses to my dearly beloved.

card details:

• finished size: 6x6 inches, black card stock base
• patterned paper: CTMH Heartstrings (retired)
• XOXO cut with CTMH Thin Cuts Die from Black Glitter card stock
• hearts cut with CTMH Basic Hearts Thin Cuts Die

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Happy Valentine's Day

Hi folks,

Just popping in to share the card I made for my sweetie for Valentine's Day.

Excuse the slightly wonky heart. In retrospect, there WAS an easier way to make this card. But I wanted the cut-outs and not layers - and I have a bad habit of NOT taping down my dies when I run them through the machine. So - shifting sometimes occurs and I didn't really notice it until after I was editing the photo. Oh well! One of these days I WILL learn.

card details:

• finished size: 6 x 6 inches, black card stock base
• patterned paper: CTMH "La Vie En Rose"
• stamped sentiment: CTMH "Beloved Bouquet" - January 2016 SOTM
• embellishments: CTMH White Enamel Gems

Challenges for this card:

• Simply Create Too #102: Love or Valentine's
• Come and Get it Challenges: Love is in the air

As always, thanks for stopping by!

For Valentine's Day

Hi folks,

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. Now that Valentine's Day has come and gone, I can share this year's projects.

Up first are a few Valentine's Day Treat Bags that I sent off with my dearly beloved on Friday night to his D&D group.

I had forgotten that I had ordered them from Close To My Heart and when I finally opened my most recent box of goodies I figured I had better put them to use. The one in front was for dearly beloved - the rest went to his pals. He was a REAL sweetie and also picked up flowers for their DM when he got mine on his way to their evening of fun. She's the only woman in their little nerd herd.


Since I didn't use the mushy, lovey dovey stickers from the treat bag kit on the kisses I put in the treat bags for his friends, I put them on the kisses in the jar on the left below for my sweetie. He also likes jujubes so I had picked up some of those as well and decorated a second jar.

I do a LOT of canning so there are always empty jars in the basement and these were a quick little project to fill and decorate. I used papers from the Heartstrings Paper Pack from Close To My Heart.


And finally, the card I made for my sweetie.

I thought about using one of my punny stamps from Unity (I have quite a few that I have not used yet) but I wanted to stick with my tradition of making a CAS card with a bit of elegance. I quite like how this one turned out. Red, black and a bit of bling.

card details:

• finished size: 6x6 inches, black cardstock base
• patterned paper: CTMH Heartstrings
• stamped sentiment: CTMH January Stamp of the Month - This Moment
• embellishments: black butcher's twine and adhesive gems from my stash
• the hearts were made with a Martha Stewart Punch

challenges for this card:

• Sister Act Card Challenge: Anything Goes
• Dare to be Sassy #268: Valentine's Day
• The Pink Elephant #285: Be My Valentine

As always, thanks for stopping by and, if you have a long weekend this weekend, I hope you have lots of fun tomorrow!

Sweet Pink Valentine

Hi folks, and now for the last Valentine's Day card - for my eldest niece

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, red card stock base
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye "Blush"
• sentiment: Verve "Hearts on Fire"
• Martha Stewart Confetti Hearts punch

challenges for this card:

• Craft your Passion #149: My Valentine
• Timeless Tuesday #207: Put your heart on it
• Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #202: From the heart

Thanks for stopping by and putting up with all the Valentine's day card posts today!

Q-Pid has her eye on you!

Phew! Are you tired of all the Valentine's day cards yet? This one is for another of my nieces.

card details:

• finished size: 5 x 5 inches, white card stock base, red card stock mats
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye Lime Twist "Life of the Party"
• stamped image: The Pixie Cottage "Q-Pid", coloured with Copic markers (E000, E00, R81, R83, R85, E21, E23, E25, E27, E29)
• sentiment: Verve "Love Notes"
• Spellbinders: Petite Ovals

challenges for this card:

• One Crazy Stamper February Challenge: Love
• One Stop Craft Challenge 215: Love is in the Air
• Card Crafters Circle 61: Love is in the Air
• Corrosive Challenge 167: Hearts and Flowers (hearts on her arrows and outfit, flowers on the paper!)

Thanks for stopping by!

Beary Sweet Valentine

Hi folks,

back with yet another Valentine's Day card - this one was for my nephew

card details:

• finished size: 5 x 5 inches, white card stock base/mats, red card stock mats
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye Lime Twist "Life of the Party"
• stamped image: The Pixie Cottage "I love you Beary Much", coloured with Copic Markers (E23, E25, E27, R81, R85, R00, colourless blender for the furry effect)
• sentiment: Verve "Love Notes"
• layout: Cupcake Crafts Challenge #229

additional challenges for this card:

• Cards for men #3: All My Love
• One Crazy Stamper February Challenge: Love
• Sentimental Sundays 141: Love is in the Air

Thanks for stopping by!

Even more hearts!

another Valentine's day card - for my brother and his fiancee

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, red card stock base
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye "Blush"
• stamps: Verve "Love Notes"
• Spellbinders: Hearts, Scalloped Hearts
• Martha Stewart Confetti Hearts punch

challenges for this card:

• The Pink Elephant 186: Love is in the Air
• Timeless Tuesday #207: Put your heart on it
• Craft your Passion 149: My Valentine
• Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #202: From the Heart

Valentine Wishes

Hi folks,

back with yet another Valentine's Day card - this one for my sister

inspired by this card by KellyBee

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, red card stock base
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye "Blush"
• stamps: Verve "Love Notes"
• seam binding and ribbon from my stash
• Spellbinders: Hearts, Scalloped Hearts

challenges for this card:

• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Hearts and Flowers
• Tuesday Throwdown #134: Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
• Clear it out challenge: Red/white and anything goes
• Corrosive Challenge 167: Hearts and Flowers

Thanks for stopping by!

Lots of hearts

Hi folks,

back again with another Valentine's Day card - this one for my parents.

I was inspired by this card on Pinterest.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, red card stock base
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye "Blush"
• stamps: Verve "With Love"
• red and white butcher's twine from Divine Twine
• Spellbinders dies: Hearts, Scalloped Hearts

challenges for this card:

• Dare to be Sassy #164: Red/Pink/White
• 365 Cards Day 44: Word Wednesday: Love
• Craft Creations Challenges #209: Love/Hearts
• Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge: Red/Pink/White (PWC245)
• One Crazy Stamper February Challenge: Love

Thanks for stopping by!

Hearts Galore

Hi folks!

(ETA: if you are looking for my Use it Tuesday post for March 12, please click through here)
You will have to forgive me and my flurry of Valentine's day cards that are about to be posted. I spent two nights this week making cards - four each night (a record for me) and I figure I will just go ahead and post them as time permits rather than drag them out over the next week.

This little cutie is for my youngest niece for Valentine's day.

card details:

• finished size: 5x5 inches, white card stock base, CTMH Cocoa card stock mats
• patterned paper: Echo Park Paper "Little Girl"
• stamped image: The Greeting Farm Wild Sprout "Daisy", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E30, E31, E33, E35, Y11, Y17, Y18, Y19)
• sentiment: Verve "Love Notes"
• Verve Charming Ovals dies
• yellow daisy flower brads from my stash
• layout: Sketch n Stash Challenge #107 (I dug through my paper stash and found this sweet heart print from Echo Park. I also raided my brad stash for those cute yellow flower brads - perfect for Daisy!)

challenges for this card:

• The Greeting Farm Retro-Fresh: Hearts Galore!
• Crazy 4 Challenges 172: Hearts but no red or pink
• One Crazy Stamper February Challenge: Love
• Corrosive Challenge #167: Hearts and Flowers
• Come and Get it Challenges: Show us your Heart
• Anyone for Anya: Hearts Hearts Hearts
• Use it Tuesday #49: Fasteners

Thanks for stopping by!

Viva La Verve February Week 1

Hi folks,

for my first Viva La Verve card for February, I made a Valentine's day card for my sweetie. I figure it is only appropriate that I post it to my blog ON Valentine's Day.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye. I deliberately cut the J'Adore paper so that the phrase would be framed perfectly in the layout.
• stamps: Verve "Love Notes"
• Verve "Wavy Hearts" die

challenges for this card:

• Cards for Men #3: All My Love
• Card Crafter's Circle #61: Love is in the Air/Valentine
• Daring Cardmakers: Love is in the Air
• One Stop Craft Challenge #215: Love is in the Air
• Bugaboo Theme Challenge: Affairs of the Heart

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Valentine's Day with Yumi

Hi folks (if you are here for my SCRS post, please scroll down or click through here)

Well, I have had a busy couple of nights this week getting a few Valentine's Day cards made so there will actually be posts on the old blogarooni for the new few days or so. All about sharing the love!

Up first is a card I made for one of my nieces.

card details:

• finished size: 5x5 inches white card stock base, red card stock mat
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye
• stamped image: Yumi & Fumi (just the Yumi part of the stamp), coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E23, E25, E27, E29, R85, BG10, BG11)
• sentiment: Verve "Love Notes"
• Spellbinders: Hearts, Scalloped Hearts

challenges for this card:

• Yumi & Fumi Challenge #9: Dies or Punches
• Dare to Be Sassy #163: Have a Heart
• Dutch Dare Challenge 203: Be Mine
• Cute Card Thursday 255: Love Struck
• One Crazy Stamper February Challenge: Love
• Card Crafter's Circle #61: Love is in the Air/Valentine

Thanks for stopping by!

Viva La Verve January 2013 - Week 5

Hi folks,

well my goal to make three cards for each of the weekly Viva La Verve Challenges didn't quite get past the second sketch of the year. For the last three sketches, I only found time to make one card for each sketch. So far anyways - but who knows? Maybe I will miraculously find time tomorrow night! But I doubt it.

Anyways, this is my card for the Week 5 sketch

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, black card stock base, red card stock mat
• patterned paper: Martha Stewart Valentine's mat stack I picked up last year (or maybe the year before that?)
• stamps: Verve "Hearts on Fire". The central heart is actually a bigger heart from the set that I stamped twice onto the patterned paper and cut out. The first one to cover the smaller heart that is actually in the flourish and the second one is popped up with dimensional foam.
• bling it on: there are 19 wee little pearls on this card. 18 of them on the ends of curlicues on the flourish and then one more that I coloured with my R39 Copic marker to do the "I" in Valentine's.

additional challenges for this card:

• Hiding In My Craftroom #82: Valentine's Day
• Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown #132: Bling it on
• Shopping Our Stash #87: Valentine's, Hearts, Red, Love, Etc
• Simon Says Anything Goes

Sweet Stop Sketch #144

Hi folks,

back with the last of this year's Valentine's Day cards.

card details:

• finished size: 5.5 x 5.5 inches, CTMH Chocolate card stock base
• stamped image: Simply Anya from The Greeting Farm, coloured with Copic markers (E0000, E000, E00, E01, E93, E21, E23, E25, E27, E29, YR02, YG41)
• patterned papers: My Mind's Eye Be Loved
• layout: Sweet Stop Sketch #144

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a fabulous day!

TGF Friday Spy Day

Hi folks,

So are you sick of all my TGF Valentine's Day cards yet? What can I say? Between us, dearly beloved and I have eleven nieces and nephews and I find that I love using TGF stamps for their cards. Ten of them are getting TGF Valentine's this year - the eldest got a PWCO Valentine.

Here's another one for our youngest nephew.

If you are familiar with this Ian from the Dress Up set (now retired), you will notice that he isn't wearing his skully shirt. I punched out three tiny little hearts with a MS Heart Confetti punch and used them to cover it up. I thought the hearts were a better choice than a skull for a Valentine's Day card.

card details:

• finished size: 5.5 x 5.5 inches, CTMH Chocolate card stock base
• stamped image: Ian from the TGF Dress Up set (now retired), coloured with Copic Markers (E0000, E000, E00, E01, E93, YG21, YG23, YG25, E59 - I can't remember his hair colours but if I find where I wrote them down I will update this post).
• patterned papers: Bo Bunny Persuasion (down to my last few scraps on this paper).
• sentiment: Verve Love Notes
• layout: TGF Farm Fresh Challenge Friday Spyday #19
• Martha Stewart Heart Confetti punch

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you are having a great day!

February 2012 SFYTT

Hi folks,

back again with ANOTHER Valentine's Day card - I promise there aren't THAT many more left to show you.

For this one I used the February 2012 Sketch For You To Try

and here's my take on it:

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, CTMH Chocolate Cardstock base
• stamped image: Fairy Chloe from The Greeting Farm (mine is the original rubber version but you can get this image as part of a clear set now). Coloured with Copic Markers E000, E00, E01, E93, R0000, R81, R83, R85, E30, E31, E33, E35, E37, E39) and some sparkly wing highlights with my Sakura Clear Star Gelly Roll Pen
• patterned papers: Bo Bunny Crazy Love, edges are distressed with my scissors
• the small and large hearts are Cuttlebug die cuts
• embroidery floss was used to stitch the hearts to the side panel.

additional challenges for this card:

• TGF Farm Fresh Challenge: Monday Funday #19 - Stitching

Hope you are all having a lovely day so far! We will be off to our niece Ava's birthday party today - I can't believe she is TWO years old today. Where has the time gone? I'll be posting her birthday card sometime in the next couple of days....

TGF SCS Sketch Challenge #2

Hi folks,

well, I procrastinated again and am just getting my card for last Saturday's TGF Sketch Challenge over on SCS.

here's the sketch:

and the card I made:

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, CTMH Tulip cardstock base
• stamped image: I believe the name of the set is Dress Up from TGF (it's retired now). Coloured with Copic Markers (E0000, E000, E00, E01, E93, E30, E31, E55, R20, R21, R22, R27)
• patterned papers: Bo Bunny Love Bandit
• Martha Stewart Heart Loops Border Punch

additional challenges for this card:

• Raise the Bar #91: Chocolate and Roses
• Card Crafter's Circle Challenge #9: Valentine

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are having a great day!

CPS 5th Anniversary - Day 8 Sketch

Hi folks,

back again today with another of this year's Valentine's. This one is for my sister. Fairly clean and simple.

card details:

• finished size: 5.5 x 5.5 inches, CTMH Chocolate Card stock
• patterned papers: Martha Stewart Key and Heart Mat Stack
• sentiment: Verve Love Notes
• Verve Jotted Heart die cut, Martha Stewart Border Punch
• Stampin' Up adhesive rhinestones
• layout: CPS 5th Anniversary Day 8 Sketch

additional challenges for this card

• Tuesday Throwdown #84: Be My Valentine
• Simon Says Challenge: Love is in the Air

Hope you are all having a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by.

CPS 5th Anniversay - Day 5 Sketch

Hi folks,

back again with ANOTHER of the Valentine's Day cards for one of our nephews. You know what that means - it's another card featuring an image from The Greeting Farm.

Yes -  it's the same image I used for one of our other nephews, coloured exactly the same - though I prefer the way the hair on this one turned. Funny how you can colour muliple images at the same time and they still turn out differently.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, CTMH  Chocolate Card Stock
• stamped image: Wild Sprout Paul from the Roll Call Set by The Greeting Farm, coloured with Copic Markers (E0000, E000, E00, E01, E93, E30, E31, E55, R20, R24, R27, R29, E47)
• patterned papers: more of my hoarded Bo Bunny Crazy Love from a couple of years ago.
• sentiment: CTMH Seasonal Celebrations
• Cuttlebug 2-Step Heart Die and Martha Stewart Heart Confetti punch
• layout: CPS 5th Anniversary Day 5 sketch

challenges for this card:

• 365 cards: Day 344 Marvelous Markers
• Shopping our Stash #38: Hearts, Valentine's and/or lace
• Papertake Weekly challenge: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by -  hope you have a wonderful day!