Hearts

This card is for challenge from Tuesday Throwdown to use hearts. I don't usually do a lot of Valentine cards but I have just had fun making them this year. I even had a "designer valentine" sale at my local Curves one morning. This is the one I saved out for my husband.

I used a black base card. The love DP is from Hobby Lobby. The doily is Martha Stewart. Nesties labels 8 for sentiment which was done on computer. I used a red star gel pen to trace around the embossed area of the label. The hearts are from a page of stickers I've had for a long time--probably because I don't ever make many valentines! You think?!

MoJo

Getting back in the groove. This is my third challenge this week. While blog hopping, I spotted a couple of cards made for this week's Mojo Monday challenge. I loved the design and wanted to give it a try.

The DPs are from Hobby Lobby. The stamp from bargain bin at Michaels. The scalloped circle is Martha Stewart.

Shiney

I have 2 cards to share for the Tuesday Throwdown challenge to use something shiny on a card. The first is for my 3 year old grandson who is just learning his letters. I added glitter glue to the V for sparkle.

The DP is Paper Studio purchased at Hobby Lobby. "Is for" are separate alphabet stamps.

The second is for DH.

The silver love charm is from Michael's (in the wedding dept.) The scallops are an EK punch. The sentiment is SU.

Wee Memories challenge "new". I have a new Big Shot so wanted to try several things with it. I'll admit I am totally casing a card by Laura that she entered in stamping411 design challenge this week. Here is the front:

And here is the inside:

I used craft cardstock base, glued on hearts cut with Cricut and then run it through Big Shot with Cuttlebug argyle IP. The shapes are Nesties scalloped ovals cut and embossed via Big Shot. Front stamp is Michael's $1 bin and the forever is Studio G. For a little more emphasis, I ran along the embossed edge of the white with a red star gel pen.

Another Colorful Valentine

This is my second card for the playdate cafe challenge 112. Click here to see the previous. I actually clicked on the wrong picture for the link to that one. Knew that as soon as I did it but couldn't grab it back.

The DP from Paper Studio has all those colors for the challenge. The red is from shimmer stack and green from scrap file. The EK scalloped punch looks like the tops of hearts lined up along each side. Heart stamp is $1 special from JoAnn's. The love sentiment and tag punch are both SU. I copied a verse from Card Maker Magazine (Jan 2012)for the inside:

"A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you."

Colorful Valentine

It is good to be back in the craft room. I have been away for awhile and really missed creating. I use the guest bedroom for crafting. Had to put away all of that paraphanalia for Thanksgiving so my 2 grandsons would have a place to sleep. Then we spent 10 days in St. Thomas & St. John. Sure hated to come back to the cold in Indiana. Now that Christmas is all set, I have time to myself to play.
The Playdate Cafe has this cool color combo inspiration picture for this week's challenge.

How fortunate that last week I purchased some valentine paper (The Paper Studio) in exactly these colors. So it was pretty easy to decide what to do for this challenge.

I used a white cardstock base, red from the Shimmer Stack by DCWV. The green is from scrap file. Sentiment is SU and the heart is $1 special from Michaels. Topped it off with red gem.

Masculine Christmas Card.

Tuesday Throwdown challenge is a "masculine Christmas card". I had to think about that for awhile to decide exactly what a "masculine" card would be. I had seen this image on a t-shirt recently and thought that it would be a cute card. Amazing where we crafters can get inpiration!

This little cutie sheep is inspired by a clip art but I decided it was close enough to a punched scalloped circle so that is what I used. I ran a black sharpie marker around the edge to give it definition. The face (cut from the clip art image) is traced on and colored with a flesh color pencil. The legs are free hand cut and taped to the back. The Santa hat is also copied from a clip art and paper pieced. It has clear glitter glue to the hat band and ball. The sentiment is computer generated and attached with green eyelets.

use a number

Papercraft Star challenge this week is using a number on a card. I made this cute/sweet card for a baby girl's 1st birthday:

Stamp: Inkadinkadoo

Number: cricut

DPs all from scrap file

See another cute/fun card with number here for any of your friends who claim to be 29--several times.

glitter & bling

mojo monday 211 sketch challenge:

My neighbor came over and asked me to make a birthday card for her granddaugher who like lots of sparkle and bling. I decided it would go well with the mojo sketch so here is my card:

That glitterty colorful DP is from the Butterflies and Blossoms stack by DCWV. Stamps: PTI (stems), TAC (flowers & sentiment). For added glitter, I added yellow glitter glue drops to center of flowers, silver dots on scalloped circle, traced the Happy Birthday with the rose star gel pen, and finally 2 small rhinestones on the butterfly which was cut from the DP. I use black jeweler's wire for butterfly antenna.





WMC72

Wee Memories challenge is anything, any Holiday. It is a little hard to think of Christmas and Snow when the temp is still in the 70s but I really need to get started on Christmas cards as I have a Craft Bazaar next month. So here is a Chritmas card:

A fairly quick and easy card to do. It is on white cardstock base. Punches: Martha Stewart. Stamps: The Angel Company. Snowman colored with colored pencils, frosted lace stickles to white snow parts, cotton ball to hat brim and tassel. I also used clear glitter gel on the snowflakes.

Okay, 1 down--many more to go.