Love You Forever

Supplies : Paper, Cardstock, and Heart Prints stamp set by Papertrey Ink; Watermelon, Blush, Cranberry, and White Daisy Ink by CTMH;

I used an older 2 Sketches 4 You sketch for this card. I tend to jot down sketches or ideas I like on a little 3x5 file card or my notebook and then work on them later. I don't always get to use them, but they are there if I need a jump starting point ;) Anyway, I wanted to make a lovey Valentines card and decided to break out my Heart Prints set since I haven't used it probably since last Valentines. I have the right punches now too so that made it much easier! I have to say though that this was kind of a tough card for me, I'm not used to making the tall skinny ones. But it was fun to break out of my usual routine plus a smaller card wouldn't of had room to stack the hearts like that and I'm really enjoying the heart stack ;) Thanks for popping by and have a spectacular Saturday!

Beloved You & Me - Sketch Friday

Supplies : Paper Beloved by My Minds Eye; Cardstock by CTMH; Aqua Mist buttons and White twine by Papertrey Ink; You & Me and Heart stickers by Pebbles Inc.; Basics 1 Slice card by Making Memories

It's Sketch Friday over at Practical Scrappers! Lucy created the sketch this week and it sported a cute Valentines theme with hearts so I thought why change a great thing and went along and did hearts on my layout as well ;) I broke out the Beloved papers and printed these two cute jammie pics of the girls from last year. Though they weren't taken at Valentines I loved the huggy little poses they were doing here. They share everything, even clothes sometimes, and I know that can't be easy for them. In fact sometimes they just plain don't get a long because one or the other is sick and tired of ALWAYS having her sister around, lol. But for the most part they are sweethearts and I love how by bedtime no matter what scruples happened during the day, they are back to best friends again. Below is the sketch. Remember to link it to the Mr. Linky at Practical Scrappers if you play along ;) Enjoy the layout and have a fab Friday!

Your Couch or Mine?

Supplies : Cardstock, On the Couch and Background Basics Hearts stamp sets by Papertrey Ink; Black and Cranberry Ink by CTMH; Stickles; 3D foam tape

I know this is probably not what Lisa meant when she made this set, but the naughty version was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this sentiment. So with Valentines coming soon I thought it would be funny to make a Valentines card with it ;) I pop dotted the couch up for dimension and the hearts in the background are glittered up for a little bling. I took the design from a card I saw in one of the Scrapbooks Etc. magazines. I loved the simple clean lines and thought it would be perfect for what I wanted to do with the stamp set. Simple and sassy! Enjoy the card and thanks for visiting!

Mini Forest Friends Thank Yous

Supplies : Kraft cardstock, Raspberry Fizz and Pure Poppy Ink, Forest Friends and Cupcake Collection Stamp sets by Papertrey Ink; Cocoa and White Daisy Ink by CTMH

I wanted to include some little thank you notes with some scrappy goods I sold and since I was feeling in a Valentinesy mood I broke out the pink, red, and white ;) The skunk is my fav, but this little guy has really been growing on me! I think it's so fun to get even just a small note of thanks when you purchase something. The Quilted Works store gives us a little chocolate with a note and I thought how sweet! Oh I could spend hours in there looking at fabric and it's a small store. I think it's worse than the scrapstore now since I have a pretty good idea of what I want to work with when I go scrap shopping. But fabric shopping is so different, probably because it's newer to me, so I am just in awe at everything! I got a free pattern for the lantern bloom quilt and I'm slowly buying up my fabric since I love those colors, I wear them all the time ;) Because all I've made are baby quilts and I haven't machine quilted anything I'm making smaller projects to practice so that when I do get ready to make my pretty quilt, I'll be able to do it more confidently. Anyway back to the cards, these were super simple and quick, no layers just some fun stamping and I used the entire 8 1/2 x 11 kraft sheet in about 10 minutes. These are 3x3 and didn't use up the sheet completely so here's what I did with the scraps.

Supplies : Kraft cardstock, Raspberry Fizz and Pure Poppy Ink, and Forest Friends stamp set by Papertrey Ink; White Daisy Ink by CTMH

Since my goal is to whittle it down my scrap pile even though they were odd sizes I thought just finishing what I began and making more thank you notes would work with these bitty strip scraps I had left. I ended up with a long 2 1/2 x 11 strip and a 2 x 6 strip. I cut the long strip in half and then folded each card for two 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 cards and one 2 x 3 card. Just little babies ;) And they were so cute and tiny I couldn't help but put some cute and tiny toadstools on them. Since the sizes were funny I played a little with the placement to get three different looks using the same stamps and colors. Enjoy and have a happy Wednesday!

I Scream!

Supplies : Paper by October Afternoon (various collections); Thickers Letter Stickers and Christmas Cupcake Flair button by American Crafts; Rhinestones by Kaiser; White mini ricrac; Circle Nestibilities; Sweet Blush cardstock, Journal Jots stamp set, and Raspberry Fizz ink by Papertrey Ink; Basics 1 Slice Card;

This week the supply challenge on Practical Scrappers is pattern paper! I guess that's not really a challenge for me though since I'm always using my patterns, lol. I did do a little cutting out with my patterns which is something I haven't done a whole lot of. The cherries by the top journaling were cut out from paper and pop dotted on the layout and the star element was cut using my Slice and also pop dotted to the layout. I used sketch #29 from Inspired Blueprints for the layout. It's a little older, but it's also a sketch that I never got around to playing with. The star balloon Audrey's holding in the picture was inspiration to use this sketch ;) Thanks for popping on by and have a great Tuesday!

Summer Love

Supplies : Paper by Scenic Route (rainbow and green dot), October Afternoon (clouds) and Cosmo Cricket (Girl Friday for letters and orange floral); Giddy Remarks stickers by American Crafts; Cardstock; Handwritten fonts Slice card

Every Friday Practical Scrappers does a layout sketch and we just started getting them early to make samples for the site now! I was so excited to see this sketch in my inbox and had the perfect photo of Cait to go with it. Since I had all those valentine cards to show you all I waited until today to post it. The best part about this layout for me is that it uses some new goodies I just got. The background paper I had just picked up that Monday as well as those cute American Crafts Giddy stickers. Everything else is scraps ;) Yay for using them up a little more right! I love this photo of Caitlyn and this was one of my favorite summer tanks of hers. She might fit into it this year, I had bought a 6/6x but she has been growing like a weed and eating like a teenage boy. She is ALWAYS hungry, lol. Enjoy the layout and have a happy Monday!