Happy "HEART" day

I love to use hearts on my creations all year long but I still love February when we celebrate Valentines Day and our hearts turn to the thoughts of "hearts"!

Gotta share some cards with you...

This card was created to go with a color challenge over at Core'dinations. LOVE the gray with the pink and red. While the hearts make this card work for Valentines Day, I picked the sentiment "happily ever after" so that it also fit for a wedding card.

You might have guessed already, I have another new Martha Stewart punch. This lacey heart is fun and it made the perfect accent for my card.

My crosshatch design was done with a Score-Pal tool and a great piece of Core'dinations cardstock.

The silhouette image on this card is a stamp by Art Declassified. I love the look of silhouette images and this one is perfect for a "love" theme. (unfortunately I discovered that Art Declassified has gone out of business so I can't see where you can get these silhouette stamps)
The coolest thing is all the image needed was to be stamped with black ink.

Notice my accent using a border punch. I punched it in black and in white and put those together.

The black flourish design is cut from a piece of g.c.d. studios patterned paper and a few rhinestones were added to the flourish to add a little bling.

I have shown you the above card before but since it fits my theme for today, I thought you would like to see it again. The design on the cardstock comes on this piece of Jenni Bowlin embossed Core'dinations. All it takes is a little sanding.

The patterned paper, the ribbon and the little calendar spot are all by Jillibean Soup. The calendar spots are a fun way to accent a card.

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And I just had to share another photo.

This is another one from our outing on a recent rain day.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HAPPILY EVER AFTER card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Heart punch – Martha Stewart
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Score-Pal tool
Sandpaper
Fiskars corner rounder punch
Rhinestones – Creative Impressions
Rub-on greeting – Making Memories

VINTAGE COUPLE card
Materials:
Cardstock –Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned papers – Black on White/Cosette Collection/g.c.d. studios
Silhouette couple stamp – Art Declassified
Versamark black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stamp n Stuff
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc.
Corner punch – Papershapers/EK SuccessSandpaper

I ADORE YOU card
Materials:
Cardstock – Jenni Bowlin collection/Core’dinations
Patterned paper, ribbon and journaling sprout – Jillibean
Chalk stamp pads – Powder Puff/Quick Quotes
Rub-on words – Making MemoriesSandpaper

It is about LOVE

At the first of 2010, I mentioned I really didn't have any resolutions except to pick out one verse from the Bible each month to think on. You can have a verse a day or a special verse for the year, but I thought using an entire month to think on a verse would be a good thing and at the end of the year I would of course have 12 verses that were more special then before. I really like reading the Message Bible, so my verses are from that.

Here is my verse for February and fitting to that month, it has to do with LOVE. It just so happens that I am reading Corinthians right now.

But for right now...

we have three things to do...

Trust steadily in God,

hope unswervingly,

love extravagantly.

And the best of the three is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13 (Message Bible)

I have read the verses about what love is and what love isn't for many years but what got me in reading this this time through was that word "extravagantly". Isn't that pictureque? I LOVE a whole lot of people in my life and I try to show love to people I come in contact with because they are very special to God, but somehow doing it "extravagantly" look on a whole new meaning. That is like "chocolate covered with whipped cream" or something like that.

I also believe that these three things are possible when they are done together. I can't love on my own, I need to be steadily trusting God and I need to hope unswervingly. Then I have a strength that is not my own to love extravagantly.

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And here is a card to share. It was published awhile back in a Paper Crafts Magazine publication.

The invoice stamp is by Art Declassified. That is like one of those stamps you could use on about everything. The Flourish, heart and wings are by Crafty Secrets.

The flourish is accented with Tulip Glitter 3-D Fashion paint. I use that for added glitter because it adds some bling while still letting the underneath design show through plus I don't have glitter that is falling off. The wings are also coated that way and the heart has a coat of Aleene's Paper Glaze for a great, epoxy look.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Girly-Girl - All Boy!!!

My projects for today hit both ends of the spectrum - all girl or all boy!!!

This card uses some adorable stamps by Art Declassified! This photo looking stamp of the ballerina is just so Girly-Girl! I combined her with this wonderful, lace looking paper by KI Memories and a big, pink Tulle bow.

I stamped the image with a black stamp pad. She could be finished with just that but I added a little bit of color and bling. I watercolored the girl with watercolor crayons and a watercolor brush and added some Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip to parts of the image. I love this glitter because I can put it exactly where I want it and it always adds some bling while letting the underneath color still show through.

Then on to the All Boy part, this adorable photos of our grandson who is now 6 years old. These are some of my all time favorite photos of him because he loves to be outdoors and he just looks ALL BOY!

The little journaling piece was printed from the computer and then I used a journal punch to make it look like torn notebook paper.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

BABY TAKE A BOW card
Materials:
Cardstock – Bazzill swiss dots
Patterned papers – We R Memory Keepers and Bloom, Frosty Lace/KI Memories
Stamps – Aliases/Alice/Art Declassified
Ancient Page - Clearsnap
Watercolor markers and watercolor brush
Tulle and ribbon
Machine sewing
Rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc
Corner rounder punch – Round It All/Bind It All
Glitter Fashion 3-D paint – Tulip

ONE CUTE KID

Materials: Cardstock
Patterned paper – Quick Quotes
Powder Puff stamp pads – Quick Quotes
Orange puffy letters – American Crafts
Tiny letter stickers – Sticko
Aleene’s® Paper Glaze – Tulip
Chipboard dinosaur – BasicGrey
Brads – Karen Foster
Border punch – Stampin’ Up
Font – CK True Type

Want some YUM colors!?

I set out to meet a couple fun challenges this week and ended up with some pretty neat color combos.

This card was designed after Laura's Sketch #22 at 2 Sketches 4 you blog. I have this big package of amazing SEI prints so I wanted to pull out some more of those for cardmaking. These two prints are both sides of this one piece of paper.

I used some adorable stamps from a set by TJ Designs. These are great rubber stamps with a cling backing. Can you see that I stamped over the dot patterned paper? I used a line of music notes and stamped that in a color that matched the paper so the stamped images would be subtle.

You guessed it, my next card uses KW Werner Designs, Color Inspiration challenge #47. I always just melt when I see the colors she puts together for her challenges.

Can you also guess what I used for the foundation piece of my card? Right, a paint chip from the home improvement store. This particular kind of paint chip is cool because it comes with these little punched out squares. I just let those be a focal point and backed them with white cardstock.

The flowers I had that I wanted to place in those punched out squares were white so I sprayed them with Memories Mists sprays by Stewart Superior. It only took a quick squirt or two and they were a wonderful shade of orange. The stamps are by Art Declassified. I LOVE that fun and artsy circle design.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

EACH DAY… card
Materials:
Cardstock – Bazzill swiss dots
Patterned papers – Adirondack/Poppy/SEI
Stamps – Bird nest, greeting, notes and circle design – Song Birds set/TJ Designs
Ancient Page and Fluid Chalk stamp pads - Clearsnap
Pearl brad – Recollections
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Scallop border punch – EK Success
Scallop circle and circle punches – PaperShapers/EK Success

ALL MY LOVE card
Materials:
Cardstock – Prism
Paint chip from the home repair store
Stamps – Bisous/Kewel Frame/Art Declassified
Ancient Page - Clearsnap
Flowers – Petaloo
Memories Mists spray color – Stewart Superior
Rub-on words and phrases – Art Warehouse
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars
Ribbon