Je t'aime

I know this looks almost like a closeup of the card I posted yesterday. While I was playing with my scalloped hearts the other day, I thought about taking the same idea and focusing on just the two hearts. I then remembered that I had this lovely scrolled sentiment from Paper Makeup Stamps that seemed to fit just perfectly beneath the heart so it was framed. I am tempted to try pulling out some of my other diecuts and seeing if I can get similar effects using apples, snowflakes or pumpkins. Maple leaves anyone?

Challenges this Card Meets:

Cards For Men - Anything Goes

Challenge Up Your Life - No Patterned Paper

Fab and Funky - Monochromatic

Papertake Weekly - Use Die Cuts

Truly Scrumptious - Use Pink

Falling In Love

Here's a card that was a happy accident. I used my smallest scalloped heart Nestie, thinking I'd do a grid pattern and they slide to the side of the card stock when I brushed the card by accident. I liked the idea of the cascading hearts and then rearranged them a bit more artistically. What a great way to used up some of my never ending raspberry Brazzil paper. The sentiment is from Gina K's Fanciful Tags set. It seems to be my go to set for sentiments these days. The base is Gina K's luxury white. It will make a nice card for DH.

Challenges This Card Meets:

Cards For Men - Anything Goes

Challenge Up Your Life - No Patterned Paper

Fab and Funky - Monochromatic

One Stop Craft - Bold and Bright

Papertake Weekly - Use Die Cuts

Truly Scrumptious - Use Pink

Simply Thanks

I was lucky enough to win some Smooch from Susan, aka LateBlossom, and wanted to send a thank you note for enabling me. I loved the gold so much, I ran out and bought red, green and blue for Christmas cards.

If you follow Susan's blog, you know that she is the queen of CAS and one-layer cards. I wanted something that hopefully she would like. I found it really intimidating actually since I love following her blog, before I realized that anyone would prefer a thank you card to nothing at all!

The base is Gina K's luxury white and the sentiment is from her Fancifal Tags set. The image is from Flourishes Mix and Match Mugs set. I masked the mug to add the flowers. I really need to use this set more often. I really do like it. The image was then coloured with Copics.

Challenges this Card Meets:

Challenge Up Your Life - no patterned paper

Charisma Cardz - Negative (or white) space

Do You Stack Up - Thank You

Back to School

Only a teacher would by an embossing folder about school, but I just love the fact that I had it on hand for this week's challenge at For Fun Challenges. We are getting ready to go back to school. Of course, I've been getting ready for weeks now! I think I'll give this card to welcome my new student teacher.

The image is a vintage school desk, from our sponsor this week, the Digi Doodle Shop. When I was a kid, I always wanted to sit in desks like these. I also wanted to use a fountain pen until I realized how aweful it is to use when left handed. I was so crushed to see all my careful work smeared.

Hope you will join us!

Additional Challenges this card meets:
Colour Create - blue, green, red and brown
Creative Inspirations - Back to School
Mark's Finest Papers - Emboss It
One Stop Craft - Bold and Bright
Tuesday Throwdown - Dimension and Texture

Summer ANTics

When I found out that this week's challenge at For Fun Challenges was watermelon, I was so excited to pull out this image. I don't use it enough. It's Stamping Up's Ladybug Picnic (retired). Actually, I'd had it for years and had never used it until this summer. But it was just perfect, especially when I saw this framed image from our sponsor at Meljen's. Don't they go perfectly? I did print the frame a bit smaller than the standard 4.25 * 5.5 inches but decided to run with it since it was such a nice size for the stamps. I wanted the stars in the corners to really look like buttons so I put a very thick layer of Diamond Glaze on top and left it to dry overnight with markers across the paper to try and prevent it from curling up. That seemed to work.

The winner this week will receive 4 images of their choice from Meljen's. There is a freebie from Meljen's if you don't have a watermelon image and you want to play that you can find here.

Hope you'll join us.

Welcome to Hogwartts

Can you tell I loved the Harry Potter series? This is my second post based on the books in less than a month. I couldn't help myself. When I saw this cute image from Digi My World, our sponsor this week, I just had to make a bookmark out of it. I know one of my students will love it come September.

This is a really scrappy project. The DP is from my Costco pack that I will never finish. The paper for Harry was a scrap. The foil stars were from the liner of a Christmas card. The eyelet was from a package being thrown out at my school since no one on staff had a tool to use them. (SCORE!) The ribbon was from an old wedding favour.

I'm sorry the photo looks a little small. It's because the bookmark is only a fraction larger than the bookmarks you buy in a bookstore. Boy was Harry hard to colour at that size! The stars were really a happy coincidence. I needed something to cover the orange streak I made when I dropped my orange copic when I was putting on the finishing touches of Headwig's beak and talons.

I do hope you'll join us at For Fun Challenges this week. Anything goes, my favourite topic!

Challenges this Card Meets: