Love Is In the Air!

Good Evening!  It's that time of year.  Christmas and winter holidays are over,,,,,,,and our minds turn to Valentines.  At least mine does!

I wanted to send them to a larger number than normal this year, so I knew they'd have to be quick and easy to put together. And this one is so fun, and yet so elegant too!

Here's the first one!

I just fell in love with these K and Company die cuts. So pretty, a touch of vintage and so easy to slap together. Some pretty papers, a bit of punching and a ribbon or two,,,,,,so easy!

Card Recipe:

Papers: K and Company
Die cuts: K and Company
Punches: Martha Stewart Doily Lace Punch
ribbons: Hobby Lobby

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed the card!  I'll have more in the coming days!

Happy Birthday, Hannah!

Good Afternoon! I hope you and yours have all had a lovely holiday season and a very happy new year!

I am so sorry for being gone so long,,,,,,,,,but I am finally feeling SO much better. I had a bit of catch up to do with my housework, and then there were holiday decorations to take down. But, I actually made several cards this week. I am so excited to share one of them with you today!

My youngest daughter celebrated a remarkable birthday yesterday! She is 21!  She's turned into such a lovely young lady, and I am so proud of her! It amazes me to think that all of my children are now old enough to vote, drink, and kill themselves for our country WITHOUT my permission LOL.  I am proud of all my children,,,,,,,,,all of whom have faced struggles to become the amazing people they are.

So, without further ado, my daughter's 21st birthday card.

Here's a close up of the focal point,,,,,

My focal point is made up of spellbinders layers and a Memory Box flourish,,,,,

The paper is all MME Lost and Found, both the Blush pad and Madison Avenue,,,,,I love how delicate and feminine this is,,just like my daughter!


Card Recipe:

Paper: MME Lost and Found Madison Avenue and Blush, plain white card stock
Stamps: Justrite Happy Everything kit
Ink: Versafine Onyx black
Dies: (from the bottom up) Spellbinders Floral Ovals,  Memory box elegant scrollwork (cut in two), spellbinders lacy ovals, spellbinders ovals large
ribbon, lace, velvet trim: Hobby Lobby
Pearls and flowers: Recollections from Michael's

I hope you enjoyed the card! And thanks to all of you who thought of me, checked on me, emailed me, etc. I am doing so much better,,,,,,,,the right meds in the right amounts have certainly given me my life back!

Happy New Year,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and Happy Birthday to my gorgeous daughter, Hannah!  I love you more than you'll ever know!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!!!

Good Morning!!!! I am so hoping you will join us this week for the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge, because I am so excited about it,,,,,,

one of my favorite types of cards, that frankly, I do not make often enough!

This week's challenge is,,,,,,,,,,

FANCY FOLDS!!!!!!!!!

Please make a card that is NOT the ordinary one side or top fold card! Come on, fancy it up a bit! You're that talented, and we know it!

Here's mine!

I made this card for a friend whom I love very much, and miss very much back home in Massachusetts. As you can see, it's an easel card, so easy to make, yet so fancy and pretty!

I cut the base of the card with Grand Labels 23 as well as the image out of the DCWV paper,,,,then I added an Inkadinkadoo stamp that said exactly what I wanted to say to my friend!

the larger roses are handmade with  spellbinders dies and the smaller roses are made with MFT rolled mini roses dies. I glued a button behind the roses to stop the front from sliding into the roses.

such an easy card! And I hope my friend likes it!

Thanks for looking,,,,,,,,,now get to it, because we KNOW how talented our friends are! Upload your Fancy Fold card to SCH and you might win a prize!!!!!!

So I screwed up,,,,,,,

Yep,,,big time. The birthday file I made a year or so ago that I thought was brilliant,,,,,,,,

isn't so brilliant if I misfile someone's birthday. Sigh.

Yep,,,,,filed a dear friend under December instead of November. I realized what had happened when I went digging for late December birthdays to make cards for. And found hers. Oh boy.

What's a girl to do???? Except maybe make the prettiest card she can and admit she's a dunce LOL.

So here you have it,,,,,,,yet again, some pretty MME paper (even when I TRY, I can't seem to stay away from it!), a nestie, a "sorry I missed your birthday" stamp. And three of the prettiest flowers I think I've ever made.

I've been playing around with rolled roses for a week or so, trying to get a specific look. And I think I finally got it. I've been asked twice already how to make them (it's so simple, it's ridiculous), so I'll see if I can't get a pictorial up here in the next few days. I wanted Spellbinders "spiral blossoms one", but at least until AFTER the holiday, anything that's 24 bucks is just going to have to wait. And I'm pretty happy with the way these turned out actually. Not sure I even want to spend 24 bucks for that flower now,,,,,,,,not when there's so many other dies I want,,,,,,,hm,,,,,,,

will have to think about that one LOL. Oh, and by the way,,,,,,,those leaves are really my poinsettia die,,,,cut in half LOL. I can't even leave the thing alone for birthday cards!

Hope you enjoyed the post,,,,,,,,,again, have a LOVELY Christmas, Hanukkah or whatever it is that you celebrate! And thanks for looking!

Beauty and the Beast!!!!!

Good morning, scrappy friends!!!!!

Well, here you have it,,,,,,Beauty and the Beast,,,,,,

The beast is the current state of my bathroom,,,,,E gads, it's disgusting! The previous owners had let the tub leak for months, and it created issues with the floor. they "fixed" the problem poorly, and it was a YEAR before we figured it out,,,we haven't used the tub in over a year, so it's going to be WONDERFUL to get a brand new bathroom,,,,,,,,until then,,,,THIS is my view LOL. As you can see, they are in the midst of tearing the flooring out,,,

In addition to this disgusting disaster, I have a card today that I finished last night (no WAY I'll be scrapping today with power tools and bath tubs tromping through my livingroom,,,,,

It's my mother's birthday in less than a week, so I need to get this baby in the mail. I'll also be entering this into the Penny Black and More challenge HERE! for a happy birthday card. In this challenge, you may use any stamp you'd like, but NO digi images.

I've used a fiskar's sentiment stamp from the Happy Birthday kit, and stamped it onto MME paper with versafine black onyx ink. some matting, a few gorgeous flowers made with my Create a Rose die out of this stunning MME paper (aren't you all glad it's NOT a poinsettia? LOL), a bow, some ribbon and a fancy corner embelly and it's' DONE. I hope my mother likes it,,,,

Happy Birthday, Mom. I love you!!!!!

Let Them Eat Cake!!!!!!!

Of course, that was before she lost her head LOL!

I so enjoyed the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge I did the other day, I decided to do another! You should really go by and see this challenge! It's so much fun, and you are allowed to enter 3 times every challenge,,,,,,,this week's theme is TRASH TO VINTAGE/SHABBY CHIC TREASURE! you can find the challenge HERE!

So for this project, I chose the cardboard packaging that came with my LaBlanche stamps,,,,I had several such packaging that I thought just too pretty to toss in the trash, and so therefore, decided to use it for this project.

I've cut out the picture of Marie Antoinette in Labels 4, second to the largest,,,,and one of the packaging I cut with the largest labels 4 to nest behind the image. I cut another fancy shape from my cricut with some pink and white scraps,,and then mounted the entire thing onto one of the packaging, framing with an old black frame I had sitting around the house. A bit of lace, some pearls, a butterfly bow from blush satin ribbon,,,,,,,,,,some primas, a pink and white pearl stick pin and a few feathers, and really, this project was too simple. And I have no idea what to do with it LOL,,,,,,,but I think it's pretty, so I'll think of something!

I hope you enjoyed looking, and thanks so much for coming,,,,,I appreciate it far more than you know!

A No Copic Card,,,,,,,and 2 copics (I just can't help myself!)

Good Morning! I promised I would have a no copics card today, and I do! This ADORABLE purse card is made with a top note shape and topped with a lacy ovals shape for the closing flap,,,,,,,,isn't it cute?? I made it into a gift card holder by simply popping it up on pop dots so there's room behind it for a gift card. I finished the handle off with a string of pearls,,,,,,,,,and made the flower easily with the center of one of my spellbinders (lacey doily motifs) and topped it with some buttons.

It's made for the weekly card challenge over at Scrapbook.com, so pop over there to the card forum because Michelle has tons of great cards, a new one every week,,,,,,pop in and out as you like, it's very low pressure!

I made the sentiment on my computer and cut it out with my Happy Everything Kit! The paper is Recollections Christmas line,,, And it's all ready for a Christmas gift card!


I also have two copic cards to share today,,,,,,I tell you, I think I have fallen in love with MICE LOL,,,,,,,I can't wait to go back to work so that I can afford to buy some house mouse stamps! They are just the cutest,,

but these lovlies are from Elizabeth Dulemba again,,,she's most generous with her coloring pages for card makers,,,,,,,you can find her adorable images and information about her books at WWW.Dulemba.com.

paper is scraps,,i do see some Graphic 45 christmas paper there,,,,,,,and some scraps from the Recollections Christmas line,,,,,,,bows are hand dyed seam binding and regular old sheer ribbon (that makes such nice fluffy bows!) Again, I used spellbinders to make the frames and matting,,,,,,

the brown mouse is framed with the postage stamps and I've cut out the middle to make the frame with classic squares large. It makes such CUTE FRAMES! The mice watching Santa fly across the moon is cut out with labels 3.

I just love my nesties! AND my copics!

I do hope you enjoyed, and thanks for looking! I'll be back later in the week with more!