All Year Cheer with Sweet Talk

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 622 - Z Box Fold and last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 618 - A Very Basic Rose.  I loved last weeks colors but just could get inspired.  My MOJO gone bye bye lately but today a glimmer of hope arose and went to the Cave, LOL.  I used basic grey as my base layered with rose red and then vanilla card stock.  I stamped the hearts along the bottom in rose red then the sentiments in basic grey.  The sentiment on the inside is from All Year Cheer III and is stamped in rose red.  I cut out a heart from the vanilla layer then a smaller heart from that layer and popped the smallest one up on dimensionals.  I hope you like this fun yet simple valentine creation.
RECIPE:
Stamps:  All Year Cheer, Sweet Talk
Paper: vanilla, rose red, basic gray
Ink: rose red, basic grey
Accessories: Dimensionals, heart punches
Technique: 3D, Z Box Fold

Curvy Verses Valentine Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 567 - Strawberry Macaroon Espressos with dessert to make a Valentine card. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 432.
I found my DCWV stash of dp and went with it. I did not even try the TLC again today :(

All sentiments are stamped in strawberry slush. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Year Cheer III, Curvy Verses Paper: vanilla, strawberry slush, mint macaroon, DCWV Garden Party dp Ink: strawberry slush Accessories: dimensionals, Memory box LOVE die

Sweet Talking Full of Love for You

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 575 where I took a small liberty changing the circle to a heart. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 565 - What's Black and White and Red all over?". How could I resist making a valentine card with these colors in this weeks challenge? Well I couldn't so I did. What I could do is figure out how to include the odd shape for Monday's TLC and white on white for the CAS challenge this week. LOL. So just 2 challenges for me today but I love how it turned out.
I dry embossed the Darice Hearts diagonal embossing folder on white and matted it on the white cs base then cut the heart from some real red cs. I popped up the black ribbon under the LOVE sentiment cut from black cs.

Hope you like it as much as I do. Have a fabulous day my stamping friends.

For the inside I stamped a sentiment from SU's Full of Life set using cherry cobbler ink and the envelope I stamped the solid heart in cherry cobbler then the open heart and sentiment in momento tuxedo black ink on the front left corner of my envelope.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Full of Life, Sweet Talk 
Paper: white, black, real red 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, Nestability Heart, Memory Box Love die, Darice Hearts Diagonal 
Techniques: 3D, dry embossing

Only One Cub with Love

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 554. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 544 - Wonderful Soft Corals. My LOVE wording is for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 547 - Only One and this darling lion cub is for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 338 - Cute Critters. This rubbernecker image is so adorable to me I just want to pick him up and squeeze his little cheeks. LOL. I stamped the image in black omitting the circle part then colored with copics and sponged with calypso coral and wisteria wonder. My copic colors are Y21, 23; YG06; R81. Matted on Calypso coral and wisteria wonder. I used so saffron below with my one word stamped in calypso coral.

On the inside I stamped a sentiment from God's Blessings in calypso coral and the back of the envelope with Love. Hope you like it. This will wrap it up for me this week. Headed to the beach to celebrate DH birthday. YEAH. See you Monday.
RECIPE:
Stamps: SU - Wonderful Words I & II, God's Blessings; Rubbernecker - Cub in a Circle 
Paper: white, so saffron, wisteria wonder, calypso coral 
Ink: momento tuxedo black ,Wisteria Wonder, So Saffron, Calypso Coral 
Accessories: copics 
Techniques: copic coloring, sponging, Out of the box 

Love you in Numbers

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 521 - Negative & Positive, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 312 - Age is just a number. This card started as also including today's Mojo Sketch but I failed at it so took a slight turn and still not sure I like the end result. I cut and embossed the solid red heart using both dies then cut out the pink heart and sponged with the die in place using cherry cobbler ink. I glued the removed sections out to the cherry cobbler heart and popped it up over the negative cut and sponged heart.
My sentiment was cut from Ginger alphabet form Quickutz, I used the 7 for the L , zero for the O, V for the V, and 3 for the E.
Hope you like it better than I do.
RECIPE:
Stamps: none 
Paper: pink pirouette, cherry cobbler, vanilla, the Paper studio - Love You dp 
Ink: Cherry Cobbler 
Accessories: Spellbinder Swirl Heart, Ginger Quickutz letter v, numbers 7 & 3 
Techniques: negatives and positives, die cut, embossing.

Jessie - My Anchor, My Love

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 527, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 517 - A Cabana in Old Bermuda and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 520 - Embossing Folder Stamping. Such a fun technique, lovely color combo and the sketch just worked perfect for me today.
I used a new embossing folder ,Anchor, from the Paper Studio to ink the negative side by daubers on the ink pads of all three colors. The 2 blues are so close in color it was hard to see where one stopped and the other started, :( of well. I stamped the sentiment in momento tuxedo black in the open top left corner. The white anchor cut from a die is popped up on dimensionals. I think this will be for my dear hubby who is my anchor. He keeps me grounded and I love him so much. LOL. 
RECIPE:
Stamps: Anchor the Soul - Our Daily Bread 
Paper: white, water color, Coastal Cabanna, Bermuda Bay, Old Olive
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Coastal Cabanna, Bermuda Bay, Old Olive, 
Accessories: ribbon, dimensionals, Anchor Die, The Paper Studio Anchor Embossing Folder, Circle Punch
Techniques: emobssing folder stamping, 3D

Sleepy Kitty in Love

This is for today's FREE 4 ALL CHALLENGE # 259 - To the Moon, Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 517 - Kitchen Love, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 526, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 516 - Pink and White Melons and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 239 - Love is in the air.
I used Anne's technique with wax paper stamped in versamark then sponged with pink pirouette around my image. I colored the rest with copics leaving my kitty white. My mood did not show well enough so I popped it up on dimensionals along with my double layered hearts. I embossed the melon mambo base with a heart EF and the white vellum with the border heart EF with a strip of pink pirouette under it. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Sleepy Kitty digital image, short & sweet 
Paper: white, pink pirouette, melon mambo, vellum 
Ink: pink pirouette, melon mambo 
Accessories: dimensionals, vellum 
Techniques: 3D, emboss resist, dry embossing

Love Down Under

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 516 - Pink or White Melons, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 519 - Sentiment Down Under, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENG3 # 310 - Love Is In The Air. Well this is what happens when you can not sleep, you look, you have a thought and you TRY to execute it. Not real happy with how it turned out but it is what it is. I may try something else if I ever get to sleep and wake up later. I just bought this embossing folder today at Joanne's. The name escapes me and I am downstairs trying not to wake the dh by going back upstairs to see the name. Will add later this morning. I embossed the folder on white then brushed melon mambo across the raised portions and matted on melon mambo and added some bling. I used some pink pirouette underneath and stamped the sentiment in melon mambo.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Wonderful Words 
Paper: white, pink pirouette, melon mambo 
Ink: Melon Mambo 
Accessories: dimensionals, cuttlebug, heart embossing folder 
Techniques: 3D, Sentiment Down Under, dry embossing, Brushed embossing

Happy Down Under 13th Anniversary to Shannon and Danny

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 519 - Sentiment Down Under, and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 310 - Love is in the Air. Well it may be groundhog day but it is also a 13th Anniversary for my daughter, Shannon (aka E3Stamper) so todays challenges were perfect since I needed a card for tonight. I found this gorgeous sheet of dp from the Crazy Love stack of Bo Bunny dp and had to use it matted with real red and popped up on vanilla cs. My sentiment is stamped in real red and the inside as well. Yeah I did it inside and out. Whoo Hoo. Have a great day and see ya tomorrow for another fabulous challenge.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Anniversary Innies - Sweet N Sassy Stamps 
Paper: vanilla, real red, Bo Bunny - Crazy Love dp 
Ink: Real Red 
Accessories: dimensionals 
Techniques: Sentiment Down Under, Curves, 3D

Pure White Love

This is for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 516 - White Out and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 307 - Use Your Words.
This is for my darling hubby next month. I love him so much and on the inside I will write "My love for you is as pure as the color white". Hope he likes it. I used 2 sizes of scalloped and classic Nestability Hearts. The largest classic is the actual card and the larger scalloped is matting the card. I used my quickutz "love" letters and popped them up on dimensionals as well as the 2 matted smaller hearts. It is amazing how just white can make such an elegant creation.
RECIPE:
Stamps: none 
Paper: white 
Ink: none 
Accessories: Nestability Scalloped Hearts, Nestability Classic Hearts, Quickutz love letters 
Techniques: white out

Woof You Light to Dark Critter

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 417 - A Certain Bashful Delight with a dessert option of adding a critter. Well my DH came home last week with a 2in high and 3 in long jet black lab pup that tried to run out under his truck and last year he ran over a little puppy unavoidably with cars in front on the side and behind him so that he could not avoid it without recking. He felt sooo bad about it and brudded for several days. He said he "could not let that happen to this little guy" even though he had said without reservation years ago "NO MORE DOGS". We had a dog I got form the kennel and was sweet and well behaved for 3 yrs until he got struck by lightning (or at least that is what I think happened). He started going crazy anytime the weather got bad.
So this is going to be my dh's anniversary card for the 20th of this month. LOL.
I used Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 420 - Light to Dark for my coloring using copics C0, 1, 2, 3, 5, & 7.
My layout is from Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 211 - Sketch. I sponged the certainly celery bottom section then added some flicks with my marker for grass, I sponged the son with daffodil delight using reverse masking and the sky with bashful blue using the punched out circle as a mask. I filled the sun in with yellow Stickles for some sparkle.
My images and sentiment are from a Sweet-N-Sassy clear stamp set called "Woof You" and were all stamped in momento tuxedo black ink.
Hope you like it and I hope my DH does also.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Woof You - SNS
Paper: whtie, certainly celery, bashful blue, daffodil delight
Ink: momento tuxedo black, certainly celery, bashful blue, daffodil delight
Accessories: circle punch, sponges, yellow stickles
Techniques: light to dark, copic coloring, masking, reverse masking, sponging

Sweet Talkin' Love

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 416 - Dry Embossing with Sanding on Pattern Paper. I used my Cuttlebug "Heart Block" embossing folder and The Paper Studio "Love You" dp.

This is also for todfay's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 207 - Themed "Love Is In The Air" and so it is with Thursday being Valentine's Day. So glad my dh shows me daily that he loves me and not just once a year. I think everyday should be Valentine Day. LOL.

My layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 280.

I used some rasberry ripple ribbon, a Martha Stewart Heart punch and Martha Stewart Heart Border punch on this. I stamped the open heart from the stamp set and the sentiment inside then cut it out and popped it up on the solid heart punch that is also popped up. I then stamped another sentiment on the bottom edge. I used my rasberry ripple marker to doodle around the edges of my focal panel and the card base.

Hope you like it.

RECIPE:

Stamps: Sweet Talk

Paper: vanilla, rasberry ripple, TPS "Love You" dp 

Ink: raspberry ripple

Accessories: ribbon, dimensional, MS Heart Border Punch, MS Heart Punch,

Techniques: 3D, dry embossing, distressing, doodling

Short & Sweet Love You

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 415 - Play with Patterns. I used 3 different patterns of dp on this.
This is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 206 - Limited Supplies - Monochromatic.
My layout is from FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES CHALLENGE # 71.
My dp is from The Paper Studio "Love You" stack, I punched 3 layers of hearts and popped the top 2 up on dimensionals. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up's "Short & Sweet" set stamped in real red and the heart colored with copic R20.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Short & Sweet - SU
Paper: whtie, real red, TPS - Love You
Ink: real red
Accessories: dimensionals., heart punches

Sweet Talk

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 420; Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 410 - Soft Calypso Party with dessert option of making a valentine card; and for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 413 - Focus on the Dies. Today I used Nestability Circle Heart Die. I used the smallest one cutting and embossing then distress sponging with the die in place 4 times using calypso coral cs and ink. I punched a 3/4 in circle and attached to the center then stamped a different sentiment in each circle from Stampin' Ups Sweet Talk set using calypso coral ink. I attached these 4 circles on white then matted on calypso coral and soft suede cs and popped this up on dimensionals.. I tied some soft suede ribbon across the middle. My base is pool party.
RECIPE: Stamps: Sweet Talk Paper: white, soft suede, calypso coral, pool party Ink: calypso coral Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, Nestability Circle Hearts Techniques: Focus on the Die, distress sponging, 3D

Treat Yourself

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 412 -Let the Paper Inside Show, today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 203 - Color Challenge using Ruby Red, Kiwi Kiss, Bermuda Bay and Choc Chip.
My layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 276 which is perfect to go with today's TLC. I love it when a plan comes together. LOL.
I dusted the bunnies off this darling set and inked the images using momento black ink on white then on bermuda bay and ruby red. I cut out each section and popped up the icing, candle and flame on dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment in choc chip on the kiwi kiss panel.
My dp is from Cherry Cupcake - Paper Pak dp.
Now off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Treat Yourself
Paper: white, choc chip, ruby red, bermuda bay, kiwi kiss, PP - Cherry cupcake dp
Ink: momento tuxedo black, choc chip
Accessories: Fiskars oval template
Techniques: paper piecing, showing the inside paper

Short & Sweet Love

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 418, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 408 - Very Soft Ripple, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 411 - The Best of 2012. Today I chose one of my all time favs from last year. I had so much fun doing TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 372 - Faux Dry Embossing that I had to do this one again. I used my Martha Stewart heart and ribbon punches out of raspberry ripple cs then punched one and some holes to thread some twine thru for the top.
My dp is from The Paper Studio "Love You" stack and is matted on soft suede cs. My sentiment is from Stampin' Up's Short & Sweet.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Short & Sweet - SU
Paper: vanilla, soft suede, raspberry ripple, TPS Love You
Ink: soft suede, raspberry ripple
Accessories: heart punch, ribbon punch, twine, dimensionals
Techniques: faux dry embossing

Riveting With Love

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 408 - Very Soft Ripple, for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 411 - The Best of 2012 where I chose TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 363 - Make Your Own Stripes by scoring stripes onto the rich raspberry panel and adhering alternating strips of vanilla and rich raspberry cs to the soft suede panel, for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 202 - Postage or Faux Postage. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 275.
I stamped the image in rich raspberry then used a circle punch to cut it out and popped it up on the vanilla postage panel after sponging with soft suede with the die in place.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Riveting
Paper: vanilla, soft suede, rich raspberry
Ink: soft suede, rich raspberry
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, score pal, Nestability Postage Die
Techniques: Make Your Own Stripes, 3D, Postage

Embossed Happy Anniversary

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 411 - Best of 2012. I choose TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE 398 - Try A Little Dimension for this card. I also included today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 202 - Postage or Faux Postage. I have been MIA for a couple of weeks so I also added the last color challenge from last year COLOR CHALLENGE # 407 - Silver, Gold, and White.
I have had this embossed image since I bought my Cuttlebug eons ago and never used it. I embossed the image in white and gold then cut the ribbon and bells out to attach to the white layer for dimension. I cut and embossed the white and gold layer using Nestabilities Postage Die and popped the white panel up on dimensionals. I matted that on silver. My card base is 4x4 white.
RECIPE:
Paper: white, silver, gold
Accessories: Cuttlebug, dimensionals, Nestability Postage Die
Techniques: dry embossing, 3D

Love & Sympathy in Fall Colors

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 405.
My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 395 - Perfect Summer Tango.
I knew I had some vellum in colors and lucked up with one in yellow for panel 2. I stamped the sentiment in perfect plum then the image also in perfect plum. I cut the image out in the vellum then glued it to perfect plum cs and cut around it again. This is popped up on dimensionals as well as panel 2 then I used some stickles. I used my hole puncher with perfect plum cs to cover the dimensional dots between tangerine tango panel 1 and the vellum of panel 2.
Hope you like it. This was a quicky.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Love & Sympathy
Paper: perfect plum, tangerine tango, vellum
Ink: perfect plum
Accessories: hole puncher, dimensionals, stickles
Techniques: CAS, 3D, Sympathy

Build a flower of Love

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 389 - Bravo Regal Starfruit, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 391 - No Stamping and my layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 255.
I just HAD TO HAVE this build a flower from Cheery Lynn Designs the day it was released and this is the 5th time I have NOT been able to get the stems to punch out without cutting them out, ggrrrrr. I know it is not my cuttlebug. Oh Well it is what it is since this is no stamping and no coloring and took me longer than any other card I have made.
RECIPE:
Stamps: none :(
Paper: white, bravo burgandy, regal rose, TPS - Love You dp
Ink: bravo burgandy
Accessories: Brad, Nesties Label 16, Cheery Lynn Design "Build a Flower"
Techniques: no stamping, die cut build a flower