Bullseye Valentine

I finally got my last Valentine done for this year, and then failed to get it posted!  Here's my Bullseye the Horse Valentine...

and I made him a wobbler!

Inside I used the writing feature for my sentiment:

The card base is from Cricut's "French Manor" and I added a scallop frame cut from "Gypsy Wanderings", a basic heart shape from the Design Space shapes and of course, Bullseye from "Toy Story".  This really came out cute and I had a lot of fun with him, especially after I added the googly eyes! 

Thanks for stopping by!  

I've entered this card here:

Bitten By The Bug 2 - licensed characters

Creative Craft Cottage -  #104 Love is all around

Li'l Patch of Crafty Friends - #76 anything goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge - #120 valentines or mums

Two More Valentines

I have a couple more valentines to share today. The first one is from Cricut's Intricate Cut Quotes and inside I used the writing feature.

This one is a simple scalloped heart card base with the Valentine Bear from Teddy Bear Parade

 Again, I used the writing feature on the inside.

One more to make and I'm done!

Word Collage Valentine

This card base and envelope are from Cricut's Valentine's Day cartridge.  I added a scalloped square, also a Cricut cut with the Valentine Day from Word Collage cut in red vinyl.  

The really small words in the word collage didn't come out well for me in the vinyl, so I didn't use the whole cut.  But I still achieved the look I was going for.

I've entered this card here:

Crafting With Dragonflies - Love/Romantic

Aud Sentiments- Valentine

Country View Challenges -Anything but cute

Whoopsie Daisy - Anything goes with option of Valentine

Creatalicious challenges - Anything goes; optional love/anniversary/thinking of you

Bitten By The Bug 2 - Valentine's Anything goes

Classic Design Team Open Challenge

Truckload of Valentines

I've made a few Valentine cards in the past couple of weeks, so I want to share them with you.  Here's a fun one I made using the dump truck from Cricut's Beep Beep cartridge:

I duplicated the card base, welded a square in the windshield to make it solid and duplicated that, flipped it and welded the those two pieces together to make the base.  I used the basic heart shape from Design Studio and the writing feature to make my "conversation hearts" and tucked them under the top layer.

I used my computer to print the sentiment on some clear sticker paper because I forgot to use the writing feature on the inside before I cut it out.

I really like how this one turned out, I think it's pretty cute!  

I've entered this card here:

 Bitten By The Bug 2 - Valentine for a child

Aud Sentiments - Valentine or Love sentiment

The Cuttin Divas - anything goes

"Rawr means I Love You"

It's Tuesday and that means another fun challenge at Tuesday Throwdown!  This week our them is the ever popular "Anything Goes" and our sponsor is.........(insert drumroll here).........


                           

Lawn Fawn sent us all some sweet stamps to work with and I got to use the cutest little dinosaur stamp set called "Rawr".

I've colored the little Dino with Spectrum Noir markers and cut him out.  The diecuts are Cricut cuts that worked perfectly with the stamp.  The twine is also a gift from our sponsor and was the inspiration for my color scheme.  The papers are all scrap pieces from my stash.  

This is the cute sentiment stamp that came with the set. 

I think this will be a perfect valentine for one of my Zebra Buddies!  

Thanks for stopping by and I sure hope to see you join us!  

I've entered this card here:

Aud Sentiments - anything goes
Cardz TV - anything goes
Crafting From The Heart - anything goes
Dream Valley Challenge - Love

"Owl" Love You Forever

Hi!!!  It's a beautiful February day as I'm typing this and I hope you are enjoying the weather wherever you are.  I have just a slight touch of Spring Fever, but I know it's too soon to work in my flower garden so I'm not suffering too much yet.  Wait until March!  Boy then I'll be wanting to get started and that's still too soon!

It's Tuesday, so we have a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown!  I love this theme --- "Heart Strings - show hearts and string/twine".  Our sponsor is the wonderful 

  and I had the privilege of picking out the digital set we got to work with this week.  I used "Love Owls" from the set to make my valentine.

I love how it turned out...just my own opinion!  :)

The background paper and the beaded swirls are both from The Paper Studio.  I cut the swirl in half and kind of reshaped it to fit my design.  The dotted ribbon is from American Crafts.  The image is colored with Spectrum Noir markers and cut out with a Spellbinders die, then mounted on a scalloped circle Cricut cut.  The heart doilie was the finishing touch I felt the card needed.  I played around for quite some time placing things before I decided on that!  

Thanks for stopping by and I sure hope you'll join us this week!  

Cutie Patootie Valentine!

This week at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday our theme is Anything Goes with the twist "Use a Doily".  We are sponsored this month by 

Stitchy Bear

I used this little cutie from Stitchy Bear for a valentine card:

 Isn't just so funny looking to be adorable?!?  The flower is an older one from my stash and the heart slide is from a kid's necklace that had been left in the lost and found at work for a really long time.

The inside sentiment is 3 different Studio G stamps.

Your turn!  Head over to The Outlawz Twisted Thursday, check out the other great projects there and enter for a chance at some great prizes  Be sure to enter your project in the inlinkz also!

"Roses Are Red, Dear, Violets Are Blue..."

"Angels in Heaven, know I love you.  Know I love you dear, know I love you.  Angels in Heaven know I love you!"  Did you know that is the 2nd verse of "Down In The Valley"?  I think I learned it when I was a kid but had forgotten it.  When I think of it now, in my head I hear that great big prisoner in the movie "Green Mile" (I think) singing it.  He had a beautiful voice and that was such a touching scene. 

Anyway......it's Tuesday Throwdown day!  Our theme is "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue" and we are sponsored by Simply B Stamps.    Boy!  She has some awesome stuff!  I was honored to get to use her "My Funky Valentine Betty" and here's what I created:

 I did a lot of practicing on this girl before I got her colored good enough to use!  I colored 3 images before I got the clothes right and 2 more trying to get the hair right!  But in the end, I'm very happy with this card!

Supplies:

Digi- Simply B Staamps "My Funky Valentine Betty"
Image mounted on Spellbinders Die
Markers - Spectrum Noir
Label - Lacy Labels (stretched and sized with Gypsy)
Gems - Studio G
Ribbon and Rose in my stash (from yard sales!)
Feathers - gifted to me
Glossy Accents (on her eyes)
Ink - Stampin' Up

There you go and thanks for stopping by!  Now head over to Tuesday Throwdown and check out all the beautiful inspiration there and then join us!


I'm entering this card here:

Open Minded Crafting - show some love
Polka Doodles - Love Is In The Air
ABC Challenge - E for embellish (feathers, gems, ribbon, rosette)
Digi Galore - valentine
Kaboodle Doodles - For my sweetheart
More Than Favors - valentine
Catch The Bug - Love
Fantabulous Cricut - Love
Oldie But A Goodie - valentine (stash-rosette & feathers)
Whoopsi Daisy - use a sentiment
Craftitude - valentines
Cut It Up - valentines
Love To Create - use red
My Craft Spot - sketch

You Roped My Heart

Welcome to my blog for the first challenge of the year at My Sheri Crafts!  Sheri herself has set the challenge for us this time and the theme is "Delightful Digis" - use a digital stamp on your project.  

I found this cute little cowboy in free coloring pages and I've looked and looked for him and can't find him again!  I colored him with Spectrum Noir markers.

I pulled out my Cricut markers and printed the sentiment with the Wild West cartridge.  I haven't used them in a long time!  The heart was cut out with Lovestruck cartridge and inked.   Added a little ribbon and a little bling and I was done!

Thanks for stopping by!  Please head over to My Sheri Crafts and see all the great inspiration there and join in the fun!  We have a new blog award button and it's awesome!!!

I've entered this card here:

Aud Sentiments - use any sentiment
Craftitude - Anything goes or ribbons & pearls
Die Cuttin' Divas - Out with the Old, In with the New (Old-ribbon, papers; New-digi, black bling, Cricut markers haven't been used in over 6 months)
Pile It On - Holidays/Celebrations
Polka Doodles - For the Boys
The Stamping Boutique - Valentines
Alphabet Challenge - Y for Young
Jo's Scrapshack - It's a Love Thing
Simply Create, Too - Valentines
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz - It's a Boy Thing
Little Miss Muffet - fussy cutting

Bee My Honey!

Hi!  It's Team A's turn over at Tuesday Throwdown and this week our theme is "Wild About You" and we need to use stripes.  Our sponsor is Lawn Fawn and we were blessed to receive a stamp of our choice to use on our project.  I used this fun Honeycomb background stamp from the "Interlocking Backdrops" set for my stripes  in my project.  

 I stamped the "honeycomb" again on another piece of paper then printed my sentiment on it.  I used George and Basic Shapes cartridge to cut the tag and made my jump ring with some gold wire.  

These bees are from "The Cutting Cafe", colored with Spectrum Noir and I added theses fun googly eyes.  

The inside sentiment is cut with the Holiday Cakes cartridge.

    There you go!  Now I hope you'll come on over and join in the "Wild About You" fun!


This card entered here:

Craftitude - anything goes or ribbons & pearls
Pile It On - Holidays/Celebrations
LEJ Designs - anything goes
Card Mania - anything goes
Imagination Crafts - anything goes

Teddy Bear Heart Shaped Card

Hi!  Glad you stopped by 'cause it's time for another fun challenge over at Creative Craft Challenges!

  This we we are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish and our theme is "Hugs and Kisses".  Here's my fun card

I created the card base on my Gypsy by welding the shadow cut of a  heart shape from the Lovestruck cartridge.  The patterned paper layer is the base cut of the same heart cut.  The paper is from The Paper Studio.

This cute digi is from Robyn's Fetish, colored with my Spectrum Noir pens.  I was really please with how he turned out, considering this was my first attempt at coloring an animal!

And look!  He wobbles!!  I've tried several times to make an action wobble, but they've never turned out just real great.  This one actually worked!  He sits level, moves freely and...well...everything he was supposed to do!

So now it's your turn!  Gather up your lovey-dovey papers, digis, die cuts, etc. and join us!  Head on over to Creative Craft Challenges and check out all the wonderful DT inspiration, then link up your project!  Anxious to meet you there!



This card entered here:

My Paper Crafting.com - It's all about the hearts
Fantabulous Cricut - Queen of Hearts
More Than Favors - Valentine's Day
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Valentine
The Crafter's Cafe - Love/Friendship

Quilled Valentine for My Sheri Crafts #103

Happy Saturday!  I hope you are having a great weekend!  Welcome to another My Sheri Crafts Challenge!  This week we are celebrating Valentine's Day, "showing some love to the ones we love"!

I started this card with a scrap that I had cut a heart out of for another project (cut with George & Basic shapes).  It grew from there!

If you've followed by blog much, you know I've just learned quilling lately.  Flowers seem to be the thing I've practiced on most, so I thought I better use some of them! 

 The fun heart paper is from The Paper Studio.  The flourish is a Ornamental Iron cut, but I trimmed off the bottom part of it. 

The sentiment font is Pooh Font, sized and welded with my Gypsy.  These flowers on the inside are some quilled stickers I've had in my stash for a looooong time!

I don't know why, but it seemed like I really struggled with valentine cards this year.  I put this one together, but was stuck as far as a sentiment.  So I let it sit for a couple of days, then went back and the sentiment came so easy!  Now, if that will just work for the other card I've started, I'll have all 3 grandkid's cards made!

Your turn!  Start showing some love and share your valentine's with us over at My Sheri Crafts!  Be sure to check out the fantastic inspiration of the rest of the team!

This card entered here:

Crafty Calendar - Love & Marriage

My Time to Craft - Love is in the air

Cut it Up - Love is in the air

Die Cuttin Divas - anything goes

Flutter by Wednesday - Open (include fairy or butterfly)

More Than Favors - Valentine's Day

 

Pretty Valentine

Hellooooo!  I hope you have had a good weekend.  We are settled in and waiting on the snow and ice they are predicting for us early in the nmorning. Wonder what it's going to be like tomorrow?    

It's been a full week since I've posted a project of any kind!  We are right in the middle of our Upward Basketball and Cheerleading program at work.  This year I'm not only working all day each Saturday, but I'm Cheerleading director, so every Thursday night is tied up with cheer practice, too.  But it's so worth it!  This is a great program where each week we get to share Jesus with over 160 kids! 

This afternoon I got to spend a little time crafting and finished up a couple of cards I started Friday.  One of them is for my DT post for My Sheri Crafts which will go up Saturday.  Here's the other one:

The hearts are a Martha Stewart border punch, the lable is a cut installed on the Imagine.  I cut it twice, once at 2" and once at 2.10".   "Love" is from Lovestruck 2010" at 1 1/2".   

This is a 5 1/2 x 7 card, the background is cut from a scrap of deep maroon foil paper.  This is really beautiful paper with a nice shine.  The strip behind the lable is also a scrap of the foil paper. 

I pop dotted the the lable and used another foil strip to detail the inside and that's it!  I didn't do any inking on this card because I wanted it to have that sharp, crisp look.  I'm really pleased with the results and hope to enter it into a few challenges.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a really blessed week!

Entered Here:

Fantabulous Cricut - Included a heart

Do You Stack Up - Love

My Craft Spot - Valentine

Polka Doodles - Quick & simple valentines

Scrappy Moms - Terrific Tuesday, hearts

Tiny Valentine

Hello and Happy Friday night to you!  Thanks so much for stopping by!  I finally got to spend some time in my craft room this afternoon and got a few projects made. 

The challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut is "Valentiny Cards", measuring 3x3.  I had also seen another challenge with easel cards.  I've never tried either of those before so I decided to combine them!  So here is my tiny Easel style Valentine Card!

 Isn't that just cute?  It's so little!  

This tag cut is preloaded on the Imagine.  I cut it once at 1" and 1" at 1.1", then pop-dotted it to hold the "easel".

The papers are both from The Paper Studio and the heart sticker is one that has been in my stash since I first started scrapbooking.

I so appreciate you coming by.  Be sure to check back about noon Saturday to see the new challenge at My Sheri Crafts!

I'm entering this card here:

Fantabulous Cricut - Valentiny Cards

Die Cut Divas - Anything Goes

Do You Stack Up - Anything Goes

Wacky Wednesday - Love Is In The Air