Celebrating Valentine's Day

 For our first date, my husband and I didn't look at the date and just agreed 'Friday works' for our schedules.  We didn't realize that it was Valentine's Day - sorry, not a great 'first date' day.  But my husband showed up at my door that day with flowers and champagne and said - What the heck it's Valentine's Day, let's celebrate.  I swear that was the day I knew I'd marry that man!  

For my card, I used these chocolate covered strawberries dies from Pretty Pink Posh Valentine Mug Addition Dies and sentiments from Pink & Main.

 

I'm happy to be sharing my card in these challenges:

 

CAS Colours & Sketches - Sketch

 

 

Addicted to Stamps & More - Any Occasion

  

Addicted to CAS - Food

 

CAS on Friday - Monochrome

 

Make My Monday - Clean and Simple

 

 

 As You See It - Recipe Challenge

 

 

Warm Loving Wishes

 

I think it's going to be a 'chilly' Valentine's Day and a yummy cup of cocoa will be the perfect sweet treat!

 My card features several goodies from Lawn Fawn:

 Lawn Fawn Build-A-Drink Mug 

 Lawn Fawn Quilted Heart Border

 Lawn Fawn Candy Hearts

Lawn Fawn Snow Day - sentiment (retired) 

Lawn Fawn Bitsy Blooms paper 

 

I'm excited to share my card in these challenges:

 

Lawn Fawnatics -Lots of Heart

 

 Inspired by - Hot Chocolate (also the color combo)

 

 Shopping Our Stash - Love Me Do

 

Inkspirational - XOXO

 

 

Cut It Up - My Heart

 

 

I Lava You!

 

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, I created this 'groovy' Valentine's Day card using some cool goodies from Dare 2B Artzy!

 Dare 2B Products Used:

Good Times Roll Stamp Set

Good Times Roll coordinating Dies

Trellis Background Die

 

Shakin Up The New Year

 

Do you love adding bits of bling and/or shaker elements to your projects?   Then welcome to THIS CALLS FOR CONFETTI!  If you haven't checked out this fabulous shop yet, you'll want to add it to your favorites list!  Tons of different sequins, clay embellishments, shaker pouches and MORE await you!  Start off the new year by shakin' things up!

This Calls For Confetti has a number of darling goodies for Valentine's Day!  I used the following goodies on my card...

 Love 6x6 Paper Pad

Gift Card Shaker Pouches and Dies

Love Mix embellishments

Gray Gingham Clay Disc embellishments 

 

 

Sending Happy Mail

 

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and this darling NEW set is perfect not only for the holiday, but for any happy occasion!

For my card, I first layered Salon cardstock onto the card base. I then cut Stop Sign cardstock with one of the Stitched Rectangles Set 2 Dies and then embossed with the Happy Mail 6×6 Embossing Folder. These ADORABLE critters and sentiment are from the NEW Sending Happy Mail stamp set and coordinating dies. To finish, I added some Glitter Enamel Dots.

 

Another Sneak Peek from Pixi Dust Designs!

 

Just one more sleep before the NEW Pixi Dust Designs Release is here!  Today, I'm sharing a sneak peak of the NEW Fox Valentine's Box!

This fabulous die includes a box die; center piece which is heart shaped when closed, but opens up to reveal the center to place a message and this adorable fox head dies!  The diecut words are from the Valentine's Day Sentiments die set.

Another way I used the Fox head dies is to use it as a 'pull up' for a gift card with the NEW His/Her Tag dies!

Be sure to stop back tomorrow for RELEASE DAY and see the full reveal!!

Pixi Dust Designs Sneak Peek!

I'm so excited to be on the Pixi Dust Designs design team for the next few months!!  If you're new to Pixi Dust Designs, you are in for a REAL TREAT!!

Today, I'm sharing a sneak peek of the NEW Box/Bag Die with two of the three add-on handles!  The NEW Valentines Sentiment dies are so fun and perfect for the upcoming holiday and other occasions!

Be sure to check back to see the full January Release on January 13th!

 

Wood You Be Mine?

 

Hey, crafty friends!  Kathy here and I'm so excited to share a sweet Valentine's Day project with you today!

My card features several wonderful Lawn Fawn goodies! 

 

1)  For the background, I cut light pink cardstock using Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop die. 

 

2)  I then used Lawn Fawn Leafy Tree Backdrop: Portrait to cut brown cardstock and placed the diecut over the Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop die and cut the leaves from red cardstock.

 

3)  To create the 'water', I cut aqua cardstock with the 'pond' die in the Lawn Fawn Stitched Pond Frame set.

 

4)  These adorable critters, images and sentiment are from the new Lawn Fawn Wood You Be Mine? stamps and coordinating dies.

 

This was SO fun to put together and the perfect Valentine's Day card!  Here's a list of all the products I used including the Copic Sketch Marker colors...

 

Lawn Fawn Wood You Be Mine? stamps

Lawn Fawn Wood You Be Mine? dies

Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop

Lawn Fawn Leafy Tree Backdrop: Portrait

Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Foam Strips

Art Glitter Glue

Art Glitter Glue Ultra-fine Metal Tip

 

COPIC SKETCH MARKERS:

E21 - Soft SunE23 - Hazelnut

E25 - Caribe CocoaE27 - Milk Chocolate

E29 - Burnt UmberE31 - Brick Beige

E33 - Sand

E35 -  ChamoisE37 - Sepia

R24 - Prawn

R29 - LipstickR30 - Pale Yellowish Pink

YG67 - Moss

 

 

Sending Love & Hugs

 

Sending someone a paper hug and lots of love is easy - and SO fun - with Pink & Main's newest release! 

For my first card, I adhered lime green cardstock to the card base. I then cut light blue cardstock with the new Polka Hearts Cover Die. As a backdrop for the images, I cut light pink cardstock with the Double Stitched Dome Dies. These SUPER cute images are from the new Prickly Hugs stamp set and coordinating dies.

For my next card, I cut raspberry cardstock with the new Heart Spotlight Cover Die and adhered the 'frame' onto the card base. Using the same die, I cut several different designs from the Hooray Paper Pad and placed them into the die frame. These stinkin' cute images and sentiment are from the new Stinkin' Sweet stamp set and coordinating dies.

Sending Lots of Love

 

There's just TOO much to LOVE in the new Pink & Main Release!! In fact, I have TWO different projects I'm sharing today because I'm having so much fun creating with these goodies!

For my first project, I created a fun and easy slimline card. I cut a piece of white cardstock using the Layered Slim Line Dies. With the new Conversation Hearts Stencil and using Mini Ergonomic Blending Brushes, I brushed on red ink using the first stencil then brown with the 2nd layering stencil in this set - so cute - then adhered this piece onto the card base. I added a piece of dark brown cardstock to the center then added the gold embossed sentiment created with the new My Heart Smile stamps and coordinating dies. To finish, I added a touch of bling with these pretty gold gems from the Sparkle Gems collection.

It was SO fun to create these darling little notes created with two different sets that are actually perfect pairs!  

The first set of mini note cards were created with the new Take The Cake stamp set and coordinating dies. It's super easy to color in these little images and the sentiments just make me giggle. As a backdrop for the images on each card, I used the Stitched Circle dies.

The next set I used for this batch of note cards is called One Smart Cookie and there are coordinating dies too! How darling are these images and coordinating sentiments?! For the image backdrops, I used the Postage Dies.

Pink & Main January Release Day!

 

Happy Release Day!! Pink & Main's January Release is filled with LOTS of wonderful goodies you are going to LOVE!!

Today I'm sharing the new Love You Quick Card Kit! You'll be able to put together eight darling cards in a matter of minutes!!

The kit includes 8 card bases, 8 envelopes, die-cuts, enamel dot stickers and full color assembly guide! Follow the guide or, like I did, make your own designs using the materials included in the kit!

The die cut images are adorable and I love the soft, pretty colors! You'll have so much fun putting together the cards -- quickly and easily. A great project to do with kids, too!

Be sure to follow Pink & Main via email/blog, Facebook and/or Instagram so you won't miss any projects the design team shares...not to mention, you'll be among the first to hear about deals and specials!

Puppy Love

 

Awww! These DARLING puppies are sending sweet Valentine's Day kisses! 

For my card, I cut red cardstock with the Postage dies and adhered to the card base then cut pink cardstock with the smaller of the dies as a backdrop for the pups. These cute, cute, cute, puppies are from the Puppy Love stamps/dies and are Copic colored. To finish, I added the little dog bones (from the Puppy Love die set) cut from white cardstock.

 

Double The Love

 

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I was looking to do some quick, fun cards and came up with this little Valentine duo that was easy to create – and fun to put together!

 

 First, I blended these inks onto a Cloud White cardstock base: Wisteria, Royal Purple, Magenta and Peach inks.  I then used one of the hearts in the Hearts Confetti Cuts set; putting aside the striped diecuts from the heart and placing a piece of Piggy Pink cardstock behind the opening before adhering the blended piece onto the card base.   

The darling little raccoon is from the Love Is In The Air stamps/dies and the sentiment, gold embossed on Midnight cardstock, is from the Words of Love set.  After placing the image and sentiment, I added a few glitter glossy dots.

 

 

For the next card, I took Royal Purple cardstock, and used one of the Hearts Confetti Cuts to cut the heart in the top, center of the card and adhered the cardstock piece to the card base.   I took the striped diecut pieces from the first card and paper pieced them into the striped openings in the heart on this card.  The little kitty is also from the Love Is In The Air stamp/die set and sentiment from the Words of Love set.