Happy Valentine's Day

Just a quick post to show you the last six of my valentine cards that I put to gather for the youngest of our grandchildren. I used retro valentines from The Graphic Fairy. Be sure to check out what Karen has to offer... I know you'll be impressed.
Happy Valentine's Day to all!

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You Make Me Happy

It's a busy, busy, busy week. We decided to move some furniture around to make more space in my studio, and it's snowballed. Now we're switching what use to be The Penmaker's den into our new eBay room. His "Man Cave" is now in the living room downstairs which was the apartment where our son and his family (my sweet Adelaide) lived... part of which is still empty. Why do I start these massive projects? This one is going to go through to the weekend. I can't wait to get this done... my studio was really in need of a makeover.

Now a brief synopsis of my card. For this one, I pulled out Graphic 45's Mon Amour collection. For some odd reason, I never think to use this. Here is is tucked away in the closet while I work on Valentines using all my other papers. That's just crazy! These papers are beautiful!

Well, I combined them with My Mind's Eye Heirloom and did a pocket card.

I added in some pretty pink I Am Roses flowers and a tiny heart tag (Sizzix Stephanie Barnard Framelits w/Stamps) tied with May Arts ivory burlap string.

I cut "greens" using Alterations Thinlits Garden Greens. I cut hearts and the pink frame with Spellbinders Classic Hearts and Lattice Rectangles.

This frame is from the Mon Amour chipboard pack. It's embellished with Liquid Pearls. I cut the loving couple with Spellbinders Classic Ovals which is popped up with 3-D foam adhesive.

The antique brass corner is a new one a bought online. The organza for my bow came from Michaels.

If you have any questions, please ask. I'll be working away in my studio... or in the eBay room... or maybe downstairs... I'm not sure where. Have a happy day, my friends!

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Happy Birthday 2 You

Time was running out, and I had to have a birthday card for our grand daughter pronto. With all the sickness going around our family, Penny's birthday party was delayed. So when our daughter called and asked if she could invite everyone that was able to come to our house for the gathering, I had to do some quick creating. Her birthday gift was already wrapped, but with not being well, I just hadn't gotten to making her card.

Since all my valentine makings were on my table and a lot of it was pink (Penny's favorite), I decided to go with that. My Mind's Eye Record It Heirloom to the rescue again.

I just did some basic layering, adding on vintage lace, MME 3-D stickers and ephemera.

I topped it with a bow of Michaels ribbon, I Am Roses flowers, and a teeny stamped Happy Birthday tag (Sizzix Framelits w/Stamps by Stephanie Barnard).

A big, happy 13th birthday to our sweetheart!

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Provincial Sympathy Card

Kaisercraft's Provincial collection has a classic shabby chic feel to it that lends itself to so many different themes. I pulled it out the other day when I needed to make a sympathy card for a dear friend of our daughter and son-in-laws's who had lost her husband recently. The soft whites, muted blues, elegant timepiece, and sketched florals were, I felt, perfect for what I wanted to convey.

I kept my card simple so I wouldn't have to use a padded envelope. Even though I fussy cut and layered, it fit into the flat envelope successfully. 

The only embellishments are a half pearl from Queen & Co and some May Arts ivory burlap string. I find that simple is more of a challenge than than any other form.

Have a great day, my friends.

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Love Story Valentine Card & My Final Sneak Peek

After a week of stomach flu, I think I'm finally pretty much back to normal. Yesterday I got a burst of energy and made three cards of various types... but this one is pre-flu.

I ordered a few sheets of paper to "fill in the gaps" in my Valentine selection. These are from Kaisercraft's P. S. I Love You. Very muted colors... just a beautiful collection. And they seemed to blend nicely with my older stock.

Along with my I Am Roses flowers, I just had to add in some glitter paper in the form of a berry spray I cut with Alterations Thinlits Garden Greens. I tucked in a bit of vintage pink lace, too.

 The darling little boy and girl couple image is a digi. My hearts were cut with Spellbinders Classic Hearts die set. The doily with Alterations Distressed Doily.

This last sneak peek from the new product collections shown at Creativation this year, is the Idea-ology Tag Press Tool. I have been wanting a tool to create metal rimmed tags "foreva"! Finally, it's here. Well, at least it will be as soon as the stores get them!!!

Isn't this just about the coolest thing you've ever seen? It's on the top of my want list. I can envision all types of neat looking tags made with this. I hope it will live up to my enormous expectations. Only time will tell!

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Love You Valentine Card, Pens, & Sneak Peeks

Bad times come to us all, and mine came in the form of stomach flu. Ugh! In fact, most of our family seem to have it, including some of the grandchildren. Is anything worse than that? 

I'm going to try to get this post up, but it will probably be mostly photos. Here goes.

I created this Valentine card before falling victim. I nearly used up what was left of a 6x6 My Mind's Eye paper pad on this, a digi image, I Am Roses and Recollections flowers, lace from my stash.

Two more beautiful pens, from The Penmakers workshop.

A Civil War pen with red, white a blue designer acrylic...

And a Motorcycle pen in the same colors.

Now sneak Peeks from Idea-ology...

What a great lineup of product. Do you agree?

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In Memory of Cassidy & Today Is The Day Valentine Card

Our family pet and buddy of more years than I thought possible died this past weekend. Cassidy was a rescue dog. When our daughter worked as a vet tech in Atlanta, a dog was bought in after being hit by a vehicle. The doctor had to put several pins in her shoulder to hold the bones together, but she survived. Sarah took her in and adopted her as her own. When she moved back here to Ohio, Cassidy came along. After Sarah married and began her family, they moved further north and Cassidy came to live with us. The fenced in yard was great for her and after Adelaide was born, the two became fast friends. Near as we can figure, she was sixteen to seventeen years old. She was frisky until the end when the seizures hit.
These last couple days have been hard ones. The Lord gave us such a good companion over the years... she is most definitely missed.

My valentine today is a pocket card. I haven't made any for awhile, and felt like changing things up a bit. It's a mix of Echo Park, Graphic 45 and some odd scraps.

The 3-D sticker is from the My Mind's Eye Record-It Heirloom collection. The flowers are by I Am Roses.

The image is a digi from an Etsy shop as is the red and white ruffled trim. The grosgrain ribbon came from our local scrapbook store when they had their close-out sale several years ago. (Are there any local independent stores left?) The cupid die cuts were a gift from Linda at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. 

More sneak peeks coming next post!

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