What's Black & White & Red All-Over?

Why it is this weeks Heart 2 Heart Color Challenge with Color My Heart Colordare Challege!  This week you get a two-for!  The color challenge is Shades of Red, White and Black.  Sounds like a valentine to me.

For this, I took last week's Pals Paper Arts sketch and used it for this challenge and here is what I came up with:

Same card but it shows a little of how the inside of the card is decorated (to carry the theme of the front of the card).  I haven't figured out what saying will appear.  But don't you love the snarky little saying in this stamp set?

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Black, Pomegranite and White Daisy Cardstocks;

Stamps:  C1637 Stamps of Approval

Inks:  Black Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  Z1848 Red Shimmer Trim; z3090 Red Enamel Gems

Other:  Cricut CTMH Artistry cartridge

I hope you will join in all the fun this week for these challenges!  Happy Crafting!

 

Heart 2 Heart Favorite Paper Challenge

 This is the second challege for Heart 2 Heart Challenge this month - create in your favorite paper.  It is so hard to choose a favorite paper, don't you think?  Usually, the paper that I'm currently playing with is my favorite paper and since I was still creating in La Vie En Rose, I had to do one more.  The technique is pleated skirt fold from Splitcoast Stampers.   The first picture shows the gold embossing on the greeting and I think it shows the pleating a little better..

Next is a little better angle on the card:

This is the inside of the card:

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Black, Pomegranite and White Daisy Cardstocks;

Stamps:  C1637 Stamps of Approval; C1641 Springtime Wishes; B1410 A Friend Like You (Ret.) (Stamps shown below)

Inks:  Pomegranate, Fern, and Black Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  Z1985 Gold Shimmer Trim; Z2012 Gold sequins; Z3203 Treasured Puffies

Other:  Cricut CTMH Artistry cartridge

C1641 Springtime Wishes

C1637 Stamps of Approval

B1410 A Friend Like You (Retired)

Please join this weeks Heart 2 Heart Challege and strut your project in your favorite paper pack!  Happy Crafting!

  

Valentine's Day Mailbox

Monica Wihongi, from CTMH teaches you how to make an adorable handcrafted mailbox for Valentine's Day.  This video came from My Craft Channel where you can find a lot of fun papercrafting projects and techniques videos. While you are out there, check out some of the other fun projects from Close To My Heart!

 

This cute little mailbox is made with the La Vie En Rose paper pack.  Perfect little mailbox for Valentine's Day!

Happy Crafting!

 

Valentine Workshop Part 3

This was the last part of the Valentine Workshop from last week.  I kept telling everyone that it was easy and would go together quick.  We watched Leo from Dreaming Tree put the inside popup together several times and when you are using two-sided paper and you turn your papers over from the side they were supposed to be on, you've somehow made it infinitely harder on yourself!  The colors were chosen based on the rest of the workshop and the La Vie En Rose paper pack.

 

So, here is my Valentine Popup Card from the Dreaming Tree Valentine Bundle called I Love You SVG Bundle.  The card is 5" x 7" and there is a beautiful envelope to make for it if you want.

 

 

Next is the inside of the card:

 

 

The last picture is a close up and different viewpoint of the beautiful heart pop-up.

 

 

Here is what I used for this final project: 

 

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Pomegranate and Black Cardstocks;

Stamps:  S1601 Beloved Bouquet

Inks:  Black and Pomegranate Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  None

Other:   I Love You SVG Bundle

 

Later on I did add the "Happy Valentine's Day" stamp from the Stamp of the Month - Beloved Bouquet to the outside of the card and embossed one of the sayings from that set on the inside of the card.  You must have stamping!  :-)

 

Happy crafting!  Hope this gives you a few ideas for Valentine's Day!

 

 

 

Valentine Workshop Part 2

This is a continuation of yesterday's post.  We did six cards at my workshop last Saturday.  Five of the cards were standard cards, and tomorrow I will post the 6th card which was a 5"x7" card with a popup in the center.  It was an SVG file from Dreaming Tree.

 

The first picture is all 5 of the standard cards:

 

 

Now I will show each card separately for a better look.  The first one actually started out on the Roses side of the paper and then ended up switching to the black pattern:

 

 

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Pomegranate, and White Daisy Cardstocks;

Stamps:  S1601 Beloved Bouquet

Inks:  Pomegranate Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  Gold Ribbon (probably from Walmart; Gold Chevron Washi Paper from Hobby Lobby; Spellbinder scalloped heart and heart dies; Opaques Pearl Adhesive Gems (Ret.)

 

This next card was CASED from a lovely Australian consultant Denise Tarlington's blog.  I couldn't help myself, her card was SO lovely!  She has great instructions for creating this lovely card!

 

 

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Pomegranate, Black and White Daisy Cardstocks;

Stamps:  S1601 Beloved Bouquet

Inks:  Pomegranate, Fern and Black Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  Z1809 Black Shimmer Trim; Z3075 Red Glitter Paper

 

This next one I had the white card, the black matt and the rose pattern paper sitting on my craft pad for 2 days trying to figure out what to do.  Finally a mistake from another card helped me to pull this one together.

 

 

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Black and White Daisy Cardstocks;

Stamps:  S1601 Beloved Bouquet

Inks:  Pomegranate, Fern, and Black Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  Z1985 Gold Shimmer Trim; Z2012 Gold sequins; Gold Glitter Glue from Ben Franklin's in Havre, MT

 

This one you saw earlier from last week's MojoMonday post.  I still think it is a fun card.  I love layers!

 

 

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Pomegranate, Black and White Daisy Cardstocks;

Stamps:  S1601 Beloved Bouquet

Inks:  Pomegranate Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  Z1809 Black Shimmer Trim; Z3075 Red Glitter Paper; Spellbinder scallop and circle dies; Opaques Licorice Adhesive Gems (Ret.)

 

Last is a card that started out to be a portrait style card but after realizing that all my cards were portrait, I turned it into a landscape style card.

 

 

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Pomegranate, Black and White Daisy Cardstocks;

Stamps:  S1601 Beloved Bouquet

Inks:  Pomegranate Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  Z3075 Red Glitter Paper; Z1851 Scallop Border Punch

 

Have a lovely day crafting!

 

 

 

Valentine Workshop

This past Saturday was a great day for a workshop!  The featured stamp set was the Stamp of the Month, Beloved Bouquet.  We did 5 standard size cards, a treat box, and a 5" x 7" popup card that was cut from Dreaming Tree Site.  I used the La Vie En Rose paper pack.  It is so much lovelier when you see it.  Pictures never do it justice! 

The first item is the treat box filled with Hugs and Kisses:

 

 

This box was created from the Cricut CTMH Artiste cartridge.  It's on page 37.  If you want to download the Handbook for this cartridge, you can find it on Cricut's site here:  http://content.cricut.com/b/pdfs/res/handbooks/Artiste_Handbook_web.pdf

 

 

Recipe:

 

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Black and White Daisy Cardstocks;

Stamps:  S1601 Beloved Bouquet

Inks:  Pomegranate Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  Z3075 Red Glitter Paper; Hershey's Hugs & Kisses

 

If you would like to download my Design Space file for this treat box, you can find it here: https://us.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/35857500.  Anyway I think that is the link.  If not I will correct and repost.

 

Stay tuned tomorrow for the rest of the workshop.

 

Happy Crafting my friends!

 

  

 

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January 2016 Stamp of the Month & Mojo Monday!

Have you seen the January Stamp of the Month -Beloved Bouquet  with 14 lovely images for your Valentine Card stamping?  It is beautiful and is only available through January 31, 2016.  With a qualified purchase of $50 you can get this lovely set for $5 or $17.95 at the regular price.  Be sure to click on the graphic for a larger view:

 

 

I decided that I would try my hand at this weeks MojoMonday 431 because it was begging me to be used with this stampset.  When you look at the image, don't you think so too?

 

So here is what I did with this sketch:

 

 

And one more view -- a side view:

 

 

 

Papers:  La Vie En Rose Paper Pack, Pomegranate, Black and White Daisy Cardstocks;

Stamps:  S1601 Beloved Bouquet

Inks:  Pomegranate Exclusive Inks

Embellishments:  Z1809 Black Shimmer Trim; Z3075 Red Glitter Paper; Spellbinder scallop and circle dies; Opaques Licorice Adhesive Gems (Ret.)

 

This is one of the cards we will make in my Saturday workshop this month for Valentine's Day.

 

Happy New Year and Happy Crafting!