Today is Valentine's Day - the day of love. Last night I finally finished a project for my love.
It's a mini-book of love quotes. I created it for my February 15 Design Team challenge project at Colorful Creations new challenge blog. The challenge was to be inspired by 'LOVE'.
And without further ado...here it is:
I hope you enjoyed this fun little project. (and I sure hope that Michael will like it even more!) I know I struggled with it...I find it much easier to work in a large size like 12x12 than a small one like this 4x4. I did enjoy all the different touches I was able to use though - ribbon, fun trims, stickers, rhinestones, die cuts, punches, washi tape, buttons and more, oh and the SEI With All My Heart collection.
I am also entering this project in the SEI Lifestyle Blogspot Rustic Valentine challenge, Fussy and Fancy Friday Be My Valentine challenge #107, and Word Art Wednesday #119 Anything Goes.
Hope that your Valentine's Day has been awesome! Stop back again over the weekend as I hope to have more inspiration for you.
Today I created a card for the SEI Lifestyle Blog Cozy Winter Inspiration challenge. The challenge was to create a card, layout or other project using the following photo combination for inspiration.
We had some snow a few weeks back and I had some perfect photos of snowy trees but they still have not been developed and I am currently without wheels and could not get them done so I decided to create a card.
I took the window on the shed, snow and the reindeer head as my inspiration. Here is what I came up with:
What a rough time I had of it. I was happy to use my Martha Stewart Punch all over punch as I have had it for quite some time and haven't had an opportunity to use it yet. I also have had this Reindeer die for a long time also unused so it was perfect for this challenge. I layered the card and added the sentiment and the reindeer. That is when the trouble started. Some of the glue from the reindeer left a smudge on the cardstock. This is where all the glitter on everything and the white paint came in. I tried cleaning the smudges, erasing them, inking them. There was still a telltale smudge of glue so then I decided to do a bit of paint dabbing. That still didn't quite do it for me and I spotted this little container of silver sparkles on my desk. Out came the glue stick again and I added some sparkle until I was satisfied. I then chose my sentiment of 'Peace' which gave me the opportunity to also enter it in the Colorful Creations Say It With Words December challenge, added it to the tag, found some silver ribbon and done!
Hope you have enjoyed this, and are enjoying this great holiday week! I'll be back tomorrow with more as being without wheels and I will be spending the weekend housebound.
Thanks for stopping by!
All I got done tonite was one card. I was looking forward to going to an all day crop tomorrow in Marland but my scrapping buddy has the flu and my throat is pretty raw and I've been sneezing like crazy all day. So instead we will both be home nursing our illnesses and hopefully at least doing a tad of creating. I really enjoyed using the inspiration photo from the SEI Lifestyle blog along with Sketch #DS127 from Deconstructing Jen and some twine for challenge #146 at Party Time Tuesday, Colorful Creations Creative Card Challenge and T is for Twine at The Alphabet Challenge Blog.
Here is the Inspiration photo:
From the inspiration photo I chose to use the colors (and the SEI On the Coast collection). The colors in this range of papers was simply perfect for this challenge. And then I mimiced the crab with a fussy cut flower that I inked the undersides of with Distress Ink in Ripe Persimmon. Next I fussy cut a leaf to resemble the top of the pineapple. I kept both of these only tacked in their centers to give dimension. Last I looped twine all around the sides and added a twine tied button to the flower center and stamped the sentiment 'HELLO' at the bottom
And here is the Sketch:
Here is my Card:
I forgot that I am blog hopping in the morning so I am off to make another creation before I head off to bed! Please stop by again later and hop along - there are prizes!
