Whoo's Your Valentine?

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a cute Valentine box I made. I found the instructions for this box here.

The box is really big, it measures 5 inches tall by 3-1/2 inches wide. I made the box with some pretty in pin and real red card stock. I used some of the new "Sending Love" Specialty Paper. I used the "Whoo;s Your Valentine" Stamp set. I stamped the owl onto some watercolor paper and colored it with some chocolate chip and pretty in pink ink. I used a 1-1/2 inch circle and 1-3/4 inch circle punch to punch out the owl. I used my MS heart lace punch for the small hearts around the owl. I added the hearts that are punched out from the border punch to my circle with a small dimensional. I stamped the sentiment and hand cut out the flag and mat. The box's circle is cut with my circle and scallop circle nesties as is the circle flap closure. I used some very vanilla satin ribbon for the bow and added some hearts punched with the heart to heart punch to the bow with some silver elastic cord.

My box is made alot like the sample one with the tutorial, I just added the DS paper and changed the stamp set. the colors are a bit different as well. You should give this one a try. Super fun and a really nice Valentine gift, filled with your favorite candies.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

New Challenge Curtain Call

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

I was blog surfing a while back and came across a challenge that I hadn't seen yet or tried, Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge. This weeks colors are old olive, going gray, (I used basic gray) always artichoke and whisper white.

The base of my card is always artichoke and I followed that with whisper white that I had scored every 1/4 inch with my score pal. The main image is from the "Herb Expressions" Stamp set and the sentiment is from "Pocket Silhouettes" set. I used some old olive print paper and some gray taffeta ribbon.

I like how this card turned out, but I wasn't sure when I started with these colors how it would go!

Well, that is all for today thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Some Exciting News!!!

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!! I have some exciting news to share with you. A while back I got an e-mail from Mercy Kerin asking if I would like to be her guest Muse in January. SHUT UP!!!! Me? LOL!! I was super excited and very honored! She is a fabulous paper artist and her Design Team are all top notch as well.


Here is the sketch we are working with this week:




My card is made with some new items from the SU Occasions mini catalog. I love this new Specialty Paper, Sending Love. My card base is real red followed by very vanilla and the Specialty paper. The main panel has letters cut from the "naturally serif" sizzlits strip die. The Hearts come from the "I (Heart) Hearts stamp set. I added some real red grosgrain and I used my MS lace heart edge punch.

Well, that is all for me today, be sure and check out the rest of the Muses' and see what they have created.

Pam Speidel

Cindy Haffner

Pam Varnell

Julie Lacey

Crystal Birr

Jessica Diedrich

Shannan Tuebner

Mercy Kerin

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week. All you have to do is create a card or scrapbook layout using the sketch above, and link your creation to Mister Linky on Mercy's Blog

Thanks again for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

Mojo 120 Happy Birthday

Good Monday Morning Peeps!

Today I have a card to share made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

My card uses the "On a Pedestal" Stamp set. I used Shara sand card stock for the base. I followed that with soft suede and then the DS paper comes from the Thoroughly Modern pack. The sentiment is from the "On your Birthday" stamp set and is stamped onto the DS paper with black stazon. I stamped the pedestal base with Bermuda bay ink onto whisper white. I stamped the cake with soft suede and rose red ink and cut out the "icing" on the cake and glued it to the cake. The cake is added to the pedestal with some dimesionals. I used my circle and scallop circle nesties to cut out the center element. I added the cherry to the top also.

I used some soft suede ribbon and a button across the middle. I also added some silver sticky rhinestones under the ribbon. I used a MS punch across the bottom too.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki