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 Talkin' Valentine Card

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 570 - Dry Embossing with Stencils, today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 361 - Sweet Treats, and today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 432. I am backing up a couple of weeks and using COLOR CHALLENGE # 565 - What's black and white and red all over? for my color combo.
I tried embossing with my cuttlebug and almost broke a plate and ruined my embossing folder that had 4 different patterns. I was able to save my heart section so I went to my light box. If a hidden camera was around it would be a riot. I have not used my night light in such a long time. It took me forever to remember what and how to dry emboss then I could not remember where my stylet tool was.

Awe finally it all came together. It was a site only my friends at SCS could appreciate. LOL. Now off to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Sweet Talk, All Year Cheer III 
Paper: white, real red, black 
Ink: Real Red 
Accessories: heart stencil 
Techniques: dry embossing with stencils

Valentine Blessings from Heaven

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 576. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 566 - Doing the Mambo wearing Pink eating Pumpkin Pie. I found some dp in my age old stash that worked for the CC. WOW. I love it when that happens. I seamed the pretty in pink and dp with a thin ribbon. I cut and embossed the scallop and smooth edge hearts, layered them, and popped them up on dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment in melon mambo on the front and envelope.

The sentiment from Blessings from heaven was stamped on the inside in melon mambo. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Blessings from Heaven, All Year Cheer III 
Paper: white, pretty in pink, melon mambo, ?dp 
Ink: Melon Mambo 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, Nestability Hearts 
Techniques: 3D, layered

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

Blessings from Heaven Love You

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 568 - Revisiting Shaped Cards fromTECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 315 - That's Odd. I used white on white and the only color is in the sentiment for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 359 - WOW them!.
I cut and embossed the heart nestie 2 largest sizes using white cs then cut the sentiment in white and cherry cobbler. I wanted to use the largest scalloped heart for the base but it seems to have grown legs and walked off.

I stamped the sentiment on the inside in cherry cobbler on the inside and envelope. Now let's go to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Blessings from Heaven 
Paper: white, cherry cobbler 
Ink: cherry cobbler 
Accessories: dimensionals, IO Love You die 
Techniques: 3D, CAS, White on White, Shaped Card

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

A Perfect Blend of Espressing Yourself

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 525 and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 515 - A Really Crumby Espresso. I also did the dessert making 2 cards. I made them in a contrast form. I used 2 of Stampin up Sets, Espress Yourself and Perfect Blend. I used the coffee beans to make my background using tone on tone on the choc chip card. I colored the coffee cups with copics, cut out the middle of both and popped them up after stamping in real red. The hearts were punches and then embossed with my Quickutz goosebumps Swirls then I brushed the tops of the raised portions with choc chip ink pad. Hope you like them. I have a couple of good friends at work that will see these for valentines day along with a candy cane.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Perfect Blend, Espress Yourself    
Paper: Vanilla, Real Read, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip 
Ink: Momento Espresso, chocolate chip, real red 
Accessories: copics, dimensionals, Quickutz, QK, Goosebumps 
Techniques: 3D, Copic Coloring, tone on tone, make your own background  

Hogs and Kisses

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 523 and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 513 - Basic Bermuda Slush which sounds so yummy even as cold as it is.
I found this digi image in my stash from years gone by and just had to color it up. I used copics and as I was coloring I realized how long ago it was that I printed this because it was certainly before I found the right paper for copic coloring, oh well, no time to reprint and start over just had to go with it and make the best of some therapy time. I stamped the sentiment from All Year Cheer that reads "hugs and kisses" and changed the u to an o. I think I will give this to my darling daughter e3stamper (aka) Shannon. She will get a kick out of it.
RECIPE:
Paper: white, Bermuda Bay, Strawberry Slush, DCWV - Blossoms & Butterflies dp
Ink: Bermuda Bay 
Techniques: copic coloring, 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

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

Puppy Love

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 362 - Night of Blue Cake.
I did a small piece of white cs using Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 364 - Wrinkle Free Distress using my SU Markers for ink and misting.
My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 228.
My image is a digital image purchased a while back from Designed2Delight and needing the perfect opportunity to be colored and used. I cut it out and popped it up on the bashful blue scalloped heart after sponging the inside of the Nestie with the die in place.
My dp is from a newly purchased stack from The Paper Studio.
I have battled for over month now of which Valentine card to give to my dear sweet hubby who is just the love of my life and this will be it. I had to wait 11 years to find him but I have never been sooo much in love that it hurts to be apart even long enough for work. I hope he likes this one.
Have a fabulous day of LOVE!!
RECIPE:
Stamps: Puppy Love - D2D
Paper: white, vanilla, crumb cake, bashbul blue, TPS dp
Ink: Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Digi image, copics, Nesties Scallop Heart, dimensionals, wax paper, SU Markers, sponges
Techniques: sponge distressing, 3D, Wrinkle Free Distressing, copic coloring, dry embossing

Olive You Love Notes

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 361 - Valentine with a Twist where Hannah threw me for a loop when she said NO RED!! Anne don't faint OK? In order to reign as the Queen I had to come up with an alternate plan and so I used last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 360 - White Island Pool Party which has no red or pink in it but still with a Valentine theme. Whey.
My layout is from Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 371.
I cut thin strips of pool party and island indigo cs for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 363 - Make Your Own Stripes and used the LOVE NOTE image stamped in island indigo for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 156 - Hearts.
Have a fabulous Thursday everyone.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Olive You
Paper: white, pool party, island indigo
Ink: island indigo
Accessories: stickes, ribbon
Techniques: Make Your Own Stripes

Wild West Love

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 371.
My colors are from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 361 - Soft Poppy Delight.
My tag panel and heart with the stips of cs from the color challenge are from Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 363 - Make Your Own Stripes.
My heart is also for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 156 - Hearts. I added stickles to the heart stipes, cut a poppy parade mat for the heart and popped it up on dimensionals.
I used a sheet of dp from The Paper Studio - Love You stack for the bottom panel and soft suede for the base.
The focal panel is stamped with poppy parade using Wild West Alphabet "I" and "U", sponged with poppy parade then popped up on dimensionals. I punched 3 of the larger holes from poppy parade cs using my crop-a-dile, popped them up on dimensionals then covered with glossy glaze for faux brads.
This will be my valentine card to my darling hubby. I hope he likes it. He is so supportive and encouraging while enduring my addiction. LOL
RECIPE:
Stamps: Wild West Alphabet
Paper: white, daffodil delight, soft suede, poppy parade, TPS - Love You dp
Ink: poppy parade
Accessories: dimensionals, eyelet, crop-a-dile, stickles, ribbon, circle punches, Martha Stewart Heart Punch, corner punch
Techniques: Make Your Own Stripes, faux brads, 3D, sponge distressing

Wonderful Words of LOVE

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 363 - Make Your Own Stripes. I used 1/4 and 1/2 inch strips of Bo Bunny - Crazy Love dp then cut and embossed with Nesties Hearts. I cut and embossed a matt in choc chip using Nesties Scallop Heart. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how this turned out.
My hearts are for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 156 - Hearts.
This is also for Sunday's FEATURED STAMPER CHALLENGE # 261 - Darsie1.  I chose to CASE Darsies' BEARY MUCH as I love that darling bear holding that heart. So cute.
I stamped the LOVE from Wonderful Words in choc chip ink. On the inside I stamped "Happy Valentine Day" from All Holidays set in choc chip.
I think one of my daughters might be seeing this next week ;)
RECIPE:
Stamps: Wonderful Words I
Paper: vanilla, choc chip, Bo Bunny - Crazy Love dp
Ink: choc chip
Accessories: Nestie Hearts & Scalloped Hearts
Techniques: Make Your Own Stripes

Mary Poppin's Wanna Be

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 359 - Looking Back, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 369, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 359 - Basically Limeade Parade and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 361 - Inspired by Belleek Pottery.
My digi image is so old I can not remember where I got it sorry but it is colored with copics then stickles added to the flower centers and cheeks.
So here are my WT - Looking Back Challenges:
WT308 - Hearts
WT312 - Polka Dots
WT316 - Flowers
WT317 - Decorative Scissors
WT319 - Ovals
WT321 - Sweet Treats
WT323 - Fine Tune
WT325 - Die Cuts
WT326 - Piercing
WT328 - No White CS
WT347 - Exta, Extra Read All About It
WT351 - Friend or Faux
WT352 - Stencil
WT354 - Digi
WT355 - Bead it
Now off to work I go. Happy Thursday everyone.
RECIPE:
Stamps: digi?
Paper: vanilla, basic black, lucky limeade, poppy parade
Ink: certainly celery
Accessories: ribbon, twine, beads, Fiskars Heart Border Punch, dimensionals. glue dots, Polka Dot EF, Script EF, Nesties Label 10
Techniques: Cuttlebug - The Negative Effect, Dry Emboss, 3D

Valentine Greeting Card Kid

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 369 , Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 359 - A Basically Limeade Parade and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 361 - Inspired Belleek Pottery.
I inked my Victorian cuttlebug embossing folder negative side with pink pirouette then embossed on white cs. I punched my poppy parade border with Fiskars heart border then added a layer of ribbon. I cut the angled panel from lucky limeade and layered with some black ribbon then added some hearts from the border punch outs. I also used the hearts for the upper right corner detail as well.
My image was stamped in momento tuxedo black then colored with copics and matted on lucky limeade, poppy parade and basic black cs and popped up on dimensionals. I added some stickles to the heart. The sentiment is from Three Little Words and is stamped in poppy parade.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, Three Little Words
Paper: white, basic black, poppy parade, lucky limeade
Ink: momento tuxedo black, poppy parade, pink pirouette
Accessories: ribbon, Fiskars heart border, stickles, Victoria EF, Cuttlebug
Techniques: dry emboss, 3D, Cuttlebug-the negative effect

Fancy Valen-TWINED Remake

This is for today's FREE 4 ALL CHALLENGE # 100 - Have A Heart or Two and today's QUEEN FOR THE DAY CHALLENGE # 96 - lisalara who is a sweetheart as well as a fabulous inspiration on this website. I chose to CASE Lisa's LOVE KNOTS. I made 2 knots at the top of my heart using twine which is for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 360 - Twine It Up.
I did some faux stitching for Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 358 - Sew Beautiful.
My layout is from Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 368 and my color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 358 - Pretty Pink Rose with a dessert option of Valentine.
OK so I was not in love with my last creation on Wednesday so I took it apart and did a "do-over" on it. I like it much better now I think. Not sure the white heart in the center of the big scalloped heart will stay, not really growing on me right now. What do you think?
I used some valentine dp for the 2 panels and matted them, I also sponged and matted the sentiment panel and cut the cornes.
I sponged the heart border panel as well. I threaded white twine in loops rather than straight around and like that much better. So give me your opinion please.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Fancy Flexible Phrases
Paper: white, rose red, pink pirouette, pretty in pink, valentine dp
Ink: rose red, pretty in pink
Accessories: twine, dimensionals, Fiskars Heart border punch, MS Heart Punch, Maurvy Scalloped Heart, corner punch
Techniques: faux stitching, sponging, 3d

Fancy Valen-TWINED

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 368.
My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 358 - Pretty Pink Roses with a dessert option of Valentine.
I punched my Fiskars scalloped heart in rose red cs then punched holes around the edge with my crop-a-dile and threaded twine in and out with a bow ending up at the top for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 360 - Twine It Up.
I inked my Hearts embossing folder with rose red the embossed the pink pirouette cs for the 2 panels on the top and the one across is pretty in pink punched with Fiskars Heart Border punch. The 2 hearts on the sentiment panel are from the punched border. I stamped the sentiment in rose red on pink pirouette.
Happy Hump day all.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Fancy Flexible Phrases
Paper: pink pirouette, pretty in pink, rose red
Ink: rose red
Accessories: Cuttlebug Hearts EF, Fiskars Heart Border, Maurvy Scallop Heart, twine, crop-a-dile
Techniques: Cuttlebug - The Negative Effect, Twine It Up,