Heart 2 Heart Challenges Guestie - True Love

Excited to be guesting again this week over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges!  This week it's all about True Love and here's what I made:

I mean, yeah, I love my hubby!  But... Nom Nom... I also love pizza... lol!  So here's to both of them!  I used some old CTMH Fundamentals for the background and had the doilies in my stash.

  I threw this one together along with the other cards today for our Office Valentine Party ... we're doing some Make N Takes and I spent Sunday cutting lots of background papers, hearts, and sentiment banners so they'll have lots of options to choose from.  And today's cards are my samples.

I love this cute pizza image and sentiment from Close To My Heart's To The Moon stamp set!!  I added a squiggly line for the cheese line because I felt the need to have some sauce peeking out.  I'm telling you... I'm very picky about my pizza... even when it's just a stamp.... gotta have enough sauce!

Oh!  And here's a reminder about the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge for February!  Nom Nom!  Be sure to play along!

So for this one, I wanted to have one card with no image so everyone at the party knew they didn't have to stamp and color an image... they could make a cute card just with some sentiments I cut on my Cricut and a few sequins and glittery hearts... BUT then there was this cutie pie from Little Acres Creations From The Pack stamp set.. and I just had to... I mean... look at him!!

I'm entering this one into the Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge #320-321!  You should check this one out!

I'd be giving him Hugs & Kisses all day long!!

For this one I used some old CTMH Fundamentals for the background again and that cactus is from an oldie but goodie, CTMH Stuck On You stamp set.. 

With this one I'm also playing along with the Simon Says Stamp It Must Be Love Wednesday Challenge and the Outlawz Tickled Pink Twisted Thursday Challenge!

Any chance to use green and pink together along with tiny heart paper and a doily...lol!

I also made this backdrop for some fun photos during the party.   It was a busy day!!

So thanks for stopping by today!  Hope you'll play along over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges!  You have all month to play along with all of the weekly challenges.  Check it out!

Joining Graciellie Design For Some Coffee Lovin'!

It's finally here!  Today is the day for this awesome collaboration between Graciellie Design and the Coffee Loving Cardmakers!  And I think you are going to love this new set that we were so lucky to have a chance to play with!

You should have arrived here from Kerry's blog!  And if you get lost along the way, you can always head on back to the Graciellie Design blog where you will find the entire list for this hop!

Here is what I've created for you today:

If you're familiar at all with Gracie's images, you know that they are always beautiful... the florals, the sentiments, the fonts, and this one is no exception!  It was perfect to use with some of my favorite colors including gold and pink.

And I love my black and white with some gold and some pink... throw in a little bright yellow and green and my eyes dance.

And the beautiful sentiments on this one!  I printed them all out in different sizes and decided on this one and cut it using a heart die and colored it with the same Copic markers I used for the flowers.

And secondly:

These images and sentiment screamed to be made into a Coffee Lovin' Valentine!   I used a shaving cream background that I made a while ago and embossed using white distressed embossing powder and gold glitter embossing powder.  And those flowers in red!!

Well, you've probably already seen these flowers look great in every color.. but the red... 

And speaking of red, I took some of those sentiments I printed on my laser printer and foiled them ... this one I printed on vellum and used red glitter foil...

I'm playing along with the Simon Says Stamp It Must Be Love Wednesday Challenge as well as the Outlawz Twisted Thursday with a Twist of Tickled Pink Challenges.

So happy you stopped by to see me!  Leave me some love here and at all of your stops along the way as you hop and you'll have a chance to win one of two $10 gift certificates!  Winners will be announced on February 17th!

Now you'll want to head on over to Robyn's place to see what she has in store for you!

Unity Stamp Company Black & White Valentine Challenge

Over at Unity Show & Tell Group on Facebook they are having a Black & White Valentine Challenge!  I stumbled upon it today while ogling one of my fave designer's oh so pretty card (it's by Angeline Choo and you can see it here if you want or check out her blog here!) and while I should be doing so many other things (one of which is getting Happy Mail ready to send-almost there-almost ready for a trip to the post office) I figured this would be a quick one!  It was.. maybe not as quick as I thought, but it was quick!

I started with some pretty black & white paper from Gina K Designs Petite Patterns paper.  These can be foiled which is why I bought them, but for this one.... the challenge is black and white so I just used it plain!

I used the Unity Coffee Side By Side set... and if you think it wasn't a challenge for me to NOT color in those hearts red, you're kidding yourself!

I used this sentiment from my custom made Coffee set that Regina at The Cutting Cafe Shop made for me.  It was perfect to make this set work on a Valentines card!

And while searching through my stash for fun black and white embellishments, I thought this little mustache was perfect to top off the pretty hearts I diecut from some glitter paper using a CDD die... tee hee!

So that's it... gotta get to work!  Thanks for stopping by and hope you'll play along with this one.  If you love color like I do, then this one will be a challenge!  But it is fun to try!  (Although I just might color those hearts red before I go eat breakfast...haha!  Don't tell Whitney over at Unity!)

Caffeine Fueled Paper Play With Impression Obsession

I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's Blog today and here's a sneak peek!  Hope you'll join me and play along with Impression Obsession:

The Cutting Cafe-Valentines Words Inspiration!

It's time for some Cutting Cafe Inspiration and this time around we're playing with Valentines Word Cards!  I chose the "words" SWAK and Smooch because I LOVE both of them!

I created four cards for today... two of each word.  I just pulled them into my Design Space Software, sized them as per the instructions that come with them, decided what papers I wanted to use (the hardest part!) and my Cricut cut out all of the pieces for me!  Pucker Up Baby!  That's what I say to my Cricut when it does all my work for me...lol!

I also snuck in a piece I had stamped quite a while ago from the beautiful Conversation Heart stamp set from the Cutting Cafe Shop and it was perfect in the "O" of this one!

Are you in the know?  S.W.A.K. ... Sealed With A Kiss!    My mom used to say "Sealed with a lick 'cause a kiss won't stick!"...lol!  And there are some really cute sentiment and embellishment pieces on the printable set that comes with this cutting file.  I used quite a few of them on these cards.  All of the sentiments... the circle piece above, the lips.  I just printed out the two pdf's that came with the cutting files for each card and mixed and matched as I pleased!  Pics of what is in the files are included at the bottom of the post.

I also had some extras from prior projects laying around.  That pretty flower... the Conversation Heart stamped piece from the first Smooch card and below...

I had stamped those cute little love birds from the Animal & Bug Love set and it was perfect for peeking out of the "O" in this Smooch card!

I added some cute little puffy conversation heart stickers and some sequins here and there.  Quick and easy today!  Well, that's unlike me now isn't it?  These are fun and you should definitely get on over to the Cutting Cafe Blog and see what everyone has made... there are some quite awesome things going on over there!  And be sure to comment on the Blog before you go too far for your chance to win some free files!

Thanks for stopping and don't be a stranger!

Upcoming Blog Hop With Gracielle and a Social Media Giveaway!

So excited to announce that this coming Friday, February 9th the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Design Team will be participating in a Blog Hop with Graciellie Design to introduce a new Digital Stamp Set, Coffee and Love!  You could win one of two $10 gift certificates to the shop!  Just head on over to the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Group on Facebook and follow Coffee Loving Cardmakers on Instagram to find out how you and a friend could win one of the new sets during the Coffee Lover's Social Media Giveaway this week!

In the meantime, here's a sneak peek of a project that I'll be sharing with you during Friday's hop!

Intrigued?? You don't want to miss it!  And during the hop, Graciellie will be giving away two of these!

Heart 2 Heart Guestie for February!

Excited to be guesting with the gang over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges in February!  This week it's a sketch challenge.  You can use any sketch you like from the Make It From Your Heart How To Guides!  I used a Sketch from the Close To My Heart Make It From Your Heart Volume 1, Sketch 23, on Page 44.

Unlike myself I did a pretty good job of sticking with the sketch this time..lol!  Although my background "rectangles" are really squares but it's hard to tell because my banner goes across the whole thing.  I knew I wanted to use this "Celebrate" die from CTMH and it's pretty long, so I needed to make my center piece a little big bigger than in the sketch to be sure Celebrate stood out.

This is a birthday card for my dad so it had to be fairly masculine.. again... unlike me, no flowers and just a little bit of glitter..lol!  I think I did pretty good!  I used a Stamplorations die for that beautiful stitched background.

That handsome gray plaid and the woodgrain that I cut the banner from are from the Close To My Heart Jack paper pack-I should have bought so many extra packs of that one.  I just love those papers!  And celebrate was cut once from a distressed silver foil paper and twice from the gray that I used for the base and I stacked the three together to give them dimension and look almost like a chipboard piece.  It only takes a little bit of extra time and I love the look of it.  I use Ranger Multi Medium Matte when I do this or any time I glue on thin pieces because the glue dries to a matte finish and it doesn't curl the piece I glue it on.  (Thanks to my friend Melanie for that tip!)

I used a Craftin Desert Divas border die for that beautiful hanging banner with some silver glitter paper.  I used Liquid Glass to glue the border on .. just a small amount in a couple strategic places because I wanted it to be mosty free and also used Liquid Glass to glue on my silver sequins (then I don't have to worry about them falling off!)

I'm playing along with the Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge to use a One Word Sentiment and also with the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Wednesday Challenge!  You should check these out too!

And don't forget!  You have all month to play along with all of the challenges over at Heart 2 Heart!  For this challenge, pick your favorite sketch and join in on the fun!