Hugs & Kisses

Hello everyone! We are heading into a new week and today I was able to get some crafting done in order to fulfill some design team work and participate in some challenges. I have found that I really enjoy the sketches over at Skipping Stones and so this card is one that I made. Later this week I HAVE to show you my craft table- I can't imagine how I can function in there but there is ALOT of pink on it. I just love it. So stop on back later for just pink love and in the meantime, have a great time.

PS; the paper is a sweet little MS paper pad I just bought... so cute and I will be using it for another project over the next week.

Hearts Galore!

Well here I am again, back with another Valentine's Day card! Have you started making yours? I have made more than I need believe me, but I am enjoying making them. It seems like I lost my mojo for a bit but once I pulled out all the pinks and red....... it all came back!

PS: the little chipboard buttons is Jenni Bowlin.

Heidi

Special Valentine

Happy Friday! Oh yes, I am thrilled for the weekend, well I will be after a full day of work and a long drive home. But either way- looking forward to it.

This little "package" was made to hold a little stamp for a friend- I wanted to package the stamp a little special for her. The heart which unfortunately no matter how I took the picture did not come out the way I wanted is actually 3 hearts punched, folded and then glued together for a 3D heart. I just love them. Anyways, have a great weekend!

Heidi

Happy Valentine's Day

I totally forgot to post this card, wishing you all a Happy Valentine's Day!

Black Valentine?

Ok, so those who have frequented my blog know that I am always contending with the male testosterone in my home (even the darned cats are male!). Now I am not complaining because, well I am princess/queen or so I like to think and tell them. I do have alot of pink and they know if they want to make me smile- bring me something in PINK, it works like a charm each time. So anyways....... I am always tryng to make that masculine card and then I show DH or Ds and they roll their eyes, "Uh, why did you add that ribbon or that button- men don't want ribbon or buttons on their cards." As you can see here I added a button, there is even some baker's twine (will they even know that? Or will it be ribbon to them?). And yes, I did put those darned hearts on their card, for heaven sakes it is VALENTINE's day!!! But this card is no frilly, the embossing is masculine, the colors of gray and black can't get anymore drab: even the hearts are black! The sentiment is the least non sentimental as I could go without stumping them on what the card was for, right? The cherry cobbler ink looks so dark it almost looks black. So- I am very proud of my masculine, non frilly, Valentine's for the testosterone drivin' family members in my house. What do you think?

PS: ok, so I mailed a V'day package to DS in college, yep- I did it. I put the filagree hearts on the outside of the box..... but they WERE in black and gray. I don't think anyone will notice. Tee hee....

Have a great Friday all!

Challenges: Flourishes: buttons, SimonSays Stamp & Show: embossing, Papertake: heart, Raise the bar: Valentine- Not pink/red

Hearts and Flowers

Hello and happy hump day! Today's card is one that I challenged myself to make something that I had not done before. And that would be.......... the florette in the middle of the card. I had seen these on a few cards and so I wanted to give them a try. This is actually like 1/2 of one though: so next one will be a full one! The DSP is stampin up and look- the grey again! Luvin' it! I also got the sizzix hearts and am using it to cut fabric, felt, paper- I am making hearts like crazy over here! Oh and the banner- are these the rage or what? And I just made it myself- since I can't get my hands on the nesties banner dies till next month. But figured, it turned out good enough! Oh, off I go! Have a good day!

Challenges:

Bunny Zoey: Love is in the air!

Creative Cottage: Words of love: no image

Pixie Cottage: ribbon

ABCToysandCrafts: colors

Valentine Collage

Hello Everyone! Today's card is what I would kind of call a collage and I took inspiration from Julee over on Mojo monday. She made an absolutely beautiful card the other day and it had hearts and pink/red/kraft and I was just in awe over it. So I pulled out my stuff and this is what I came up with. Now I did not do the CASE justice but like the collage feeling of it. The bigger red heart was punched with SU punch and then I used crackle paint and rock candy covering on it so it is crackled and shiny. This card is a 5x5 square!

My Love

Ah- the colors on this card just make me feel happy and full of LOVE! Don't you? I also got to put my new little nestabilities to good use. So to pull it together, I used the K&Co Valentine pack, the hearts are one side and the polka dots are the other side. The edges of the pack are all die cut so I didn't have to do anything special with them. They are really cute too! The pink trim is a basic grey border pack that I have had for years and forgotten about. The red heart was punched with SU heart punch and then a MS punch heart on the inside, added a little white signo pen and wha-la! The smaller pink heart is inked with Verve and cut out: covered with hard rock candy (tim holtz).

Be Mine

Happy Hump Day! Wednesday's always give me a boost to get me to the weekend! I have been trying to use up some of my stash of papers and this little print is one of them, the little polka dot is the opposite side of the paper. I started out using one of the Verve sketches and then it just went way off course so I thought let me make something for the DIVA DARE challenge going on, a card for a little special someone. I pulled out my heart doillies and the SU punch and went to rearranging over and over. I spent way to much time on positioning and colors for this card but I think that I finally got it to the point that I was content with the outcome. My little banner (inspired by the new nestabilities coming out!) was hand made.

Smilin' Valentine!!

Happy Monday!
This weekend I was determine to get down to business and work on my January Verve sketch over on SCS. It really is a good one but I will say that cock eyed element threw me for a loop. Typically I can work with it but not sure if it was the double ribbon or what.

The hearts are made with the SU heart punch, PTI ribbon, button and library card stamp. I found the white lace trim in my stash and just folded it in half to give it a little vintage feel.

Have a fabulous week!

Hot Pink

Geesh, Where have I been? I know, it has been since Wednesday that I posted! Well last night- I was at the Kid Rock 40th Birthday BASH! Yep, me........... I must be honest and say it is my first Kid concert but we had a great time and he really did put on a fabulous show and had alot of guests join him. A real Detroit birthday bash for the Kid!

I have no excusefor not posting in some time so I am hoping this hot little number will make up for it. I used some of my retired SU cardstock and to be honest, they are not pinks that I really care for. They strike me as to bright and bold so I have always had a hard time using them but putting them with black- well it just seemed so natural. It was a little DARE I had for myself to use them. This card is one I am entering in the DIVA DARE challenge.
Heidi

challenge: bunny zoe

Give em some love!

Ah............. hello everyone. So glad that you stopped on over. Today I got to use my brand new pad of DSP. It is double sided and it coordinates which I love- it seems so many companies are making them so they don't match well, which is disappointing. So I got to finally work on the Mojo Monday challenge and this is what I came up with. I went with a Valentine card since I do want to send them out this year. I guess I am getting a little addicted to this theme, so cute and yummy! (no I am not eating them.... ) Have a wonderful day!

Challenge; Bunny zoe

Valentine Fun

BEARLY....... SIMPLE

Today's card is for the Just Cute Bear Challenge, we had to make a card using a bear and it had to be a simple/clean card. I always think of these cards as no fuss cards and to be honest, I enjoy them now and then. The image is a Penny Black image, cupic bear. All I did is stamp it with momento on cream cardstock, colored it with my copics and added the sentiment. Done! I hope that you will stop back again soon!

Heidi

LOVE

Today, another very quick post! Happy Valentine's Day!! I hope that you are all having a fabulously romantic day. I am in Mexico......... so romance or not- I am enjoying my day. (wink). This is another card that I made with the vintage Valentine Tag sheet and covered with the crackle candy- that stuff is darned fun to use and easy. I wanted the card to be plain and vintage so I kept it very simple. But it portrays the message I wanted!

LOVE- Heidi

True Heart

I am so bummed that I took these photographs and they looked fine on the camera, then I mailed them off. Well now I post them and you can't really tell what the heart says! The main sentiment says True Heart and is a tag set that I bought- it has a bunch of old vintage tags and such. I used TH clear crackle candy on it and then went with a simple red and kraft paper. It is embossed with the hearts folder.

Have wonderful day!

Much Love

WOW- ok, so did you watch the Superbowl game? I think it is the first time I have ever watched the entire game! It was definately a great game, well matched and fun. I am thrilled that the Saints won, the people of N.O. needed that I think after the last few years. Now don't get me wrong, I like P.M. and would have rooted for him had it been anyone else.

I am back at it,
making little Valentine treats for family and friends. I needed a few to take to the Super Bowl party so these were some quickies I made up so that we would have a little "sweets" on hand. I made this little pack from just eyeballing the package of candy I had made. THey are basically 2in tall by 2 in wide and then there is a little flap that I folded over and decorate. Easy Peasy I tell you. I think that the hardest part was getting my circle and scallop to match. :)

Don't forget about the One World One Heart event going on right now. I have a give away, remember that sweet book I showed you a couple weeks ago? Check out the post HERE for a chance to win it!

Well that is it for today- enjoy!
Heidi

Smooshy

Giggling........ that title is the only thing I could think of when I looked at this little bear with his heart pillow. It looks so squishy and smooshy doesn't it? I saw pillows like that at Target, have you seen them? They are like 4 feet! I love them.

This is an image that my friend Tammi sent to me around the holidays and I thought well he is a holiday bear but why can't he be a Valentine holiday bear? Well you know how some of us are- just gotta mess with things. So he is a little Valentine bear but I went with a non traditional Valentine saying because, well.............. honestly I have enough Valentine cards and not enough people to send them to! This DSP went so well with the SU curry and razzleberry didn't it?

Hope you are all staying warm!

Vintage Valentine

Doesn't this have a nice little hint of vintage to it? I made this for a Verve challenge to use chipboard. And I have a fair amount of it but never use it....... so I used two of them on this card which I covered with some glittery misting. I kept the sentiment simple, a digi given away by Verve as well. I just like the feel of it I guess.

Hope you have a great weekend.......... get to using your chipboard!

Heidi

Pitter Patter Valentine

Hello and here I am again with another pink card. I apologize but between my love of the color and then Valentine's day what can I say. Plus this is a piece of DSP that I had and wanted to use it up (you may see it again in the next week or so too!) But this sketch is Mercy's Tuesday sketch and I have really been trying to join these ladies and keep my mojo going. This weather is so cold, I have not left my home in 5 days- but that means I just want to laze around and sleep in my heated bed. LOL! Well and I don't know what I will do with all these Valentine cards b/c I don't usually send or give any and my boys are too old to take em to school and too young to give them to the "girl friends yet). So who knows.......... hope you like them though!