Valentines for Grandchildren

Just wanted to share a few Valentines I made for my grandchildren this year . I have 2 GD and 2 GS. Since my Grand daughters are just 2&31/2 I made shaker cards for them . The 31/2 yr. old loves Mermaids so I found a mermaid on Life's a Beach Cricut cart. and thought this would be perfect for her . I glued micro beads to the waves and lots of sequins

         This one is for the 2 yr. old who loves little critters


My Grand sons are 10 yr. and 12 yrs. old so I found it harder to come up with something for them . The 10 yr. old love music so I used a guitar stamp that I had for him and for the 12 yr. old I used my new Love Struck die that I purchased recently . Hope them like them .

Thanks for stopping by . We are having a blizzard here again today so I'm spending my afternoon in my favorite room .

Tim's 12 Tags 2015--February

I've had my tag for February made for a week or so but just haven't gotten around to posting so thought I do so before the deadline . It's another stormy day here in NS with blowing snow and high winds . We sure have had our share this past few weeks and I'm so looking forward to spring . I made my collage using papers from Tim's Lost and Found paper pad following his tech. The heart was cut from felt stitched and attached with my glue gun .I didn't have any of his arrows so I cut several out of cardboard and silver cardstock and layered them .I attached one of Tim's charms with wire to the arrow ,added an industrial frame ,some lace and metal Love label which I covered with Picket fence paint and wiped off . The metal done the same . The seam binding ribbon was sprayed with Tea Dye DI and dried.

Tim's 12 Tags of 2015--February

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The Heart has it's Reasons --Quietfire

Since it's such a stormy day I've been spending the afternoon in my craft room playing with my new stamps that I won on Quietfire Blog Hop recently . I was so excited to find out that I had won on 2 of the blogs. I didn't own any of their stamps but always loved what I saw made with them by their Design Team . Here's a card I made today with one of them , I love this verse. The verse was stamped in Versafine  onyx  and cut out with SB Radiant Rectangle dies while still in the die I sponged around the edge with Victorian Velvet DI . I layered this on the largest die from the same set .  I stamped the edges of the pink c/s with TH flourish stamp in CTMH Cashmere and then sponged with Victorian Velvet DI then distressed the edge with my paper distresser. the hearts are Cheery Lynn dies   .The bow was made from seam binding sponged with Victorian Velvet DI . The flower which I made a while ago  was laying on my desk so thought it was the right size for the center of the bow .  Of course I love bling so I just had to add a touch to the hearts.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown #231--Love is in the Air

Addicted to Stamps #131 AG

Cheery Lynn design #171--Tickled Pink

Dies R Us Challenge #19 Hearts

Through The Purple Haze #77 Use Flowers

In The Pink Challenge #62

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #360 -Perfectly Pink

Thanks for stopping by ,hope everyone is staying warm and safe on this wintery day

WooHoo My Card Made Top Pick on Stampin' Royalty

Doing a happy dance my card was chosen over at Stampin' Royality this week as one of their Top Picks. You can see the link HERE.  Thanks so much

Compendium of Curiosities Challenge #21

I spent a few hours in my craft room today finishing off a few projects that I had started one of which is a tag I made for the challenge over at Studio L3  CC#12 using Rock Candy Dry Glitter. I had purchase a jar quite some time ago but seldom use it so I thought this would be a perfect time . The challenge is taken from Tim's book Compendium of Curiosities 3 page 55. We are not allowed to give in detail what the technique is . I decided to do another Valentine tag since it's just around the corner. I sponged a Manilia tag with Antique Linen DI and then Victoria Velvet and a little Fired Brick on the edges followed by Tea Dye for a distressed look. I stamped Tim's large flourish in Fired Brick and then followed the tech. on page 55. I really love how it sparkles. I did the same for the cherub which was stamped on red c/s and fussy cut (I ordered this die and am waiting for it to arrive )To  finish mytag I added a piece of cheesecloth(that was laying on my table) behind the heart then layered the love ticket on the heart. The sentiment is from a TH stamp set . The arrow is one of Tim's stickers that I painted gold with gold dabber paint. I also painted the heart the same way.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Compendium Curiosities Challenge #21  There is $50.00 prize given away by Inspiration Emporium if you enter this challenge

Frilly and Funky: Be My Valen-twine

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Marilyn

Altered Box

I've been seeing some many altered things in blogland recently I decided to give it a try . I picked up this box quite some time ago and it was just sitting there in my craft room so I pulled it out and started in . Not sure if I can remember all the steps I did but will try my best . First I removed the hardware and gave the box a coat of Mod Podge then added some cheesecloth and painted over it with white acrylic paint. Next I added modelling paste over TH's Burlap stencil . I set it aside to dry . Once dry I sprayed with  a mixture of broken china DI, victorian velvet DI,and dusty concord until I got the shade I wanted . I added some gold dabber paint over some of the areas for shine . The flowers I made using spellbinders rose die ,burlap heart was cut freehand , and the sentiment was already precut chipboard that I had in my stash. The flowers were placed on TH trellis and one of Tim's key was added to finish my box.
Since one of my friends Birthday was coming up I decided this would be a perfect gift for her since she's a crafter too . Hope she likes it .

I'm entering  this in the following challenges:

Through the purple haze #76 AG
That craft place AG
Party time Tuesday #196 AG


Thanks for stopping by you comments are greatly appreciated

Love/Valentine

 Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful Friday I just wanted to stop in to post another one of my Valentine cards that I finished today . The card base is red and I used my Scallop Spellbinder dies to make the edge, then continued with the scalloped edge on the white and pattern paper. I dry embossed the pattern paper with EF Hearts. Other supplies used :MB Heart Ensemble,Spellbinders classic scallop hearts, Tim Holtz love struck stamp which I stamp in Fired Brick DI ,embossed with clear EP and fussey cut out (since I don't have the die) To finish off my card I added some tiny rhinestone hearts to the white scallop edge.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Simon Says Wed. Challenge : AG

Stampin' Royalty:Challenge #264 Love/Valentine

Through the Purple Haze

Shopping Our Stash#186 Love Me Do

A Vintage Journey : Love is in the Air


Thanks for stopping by .

WooHoo I'm a winner on Quietfire blog hop

This must be my lucky day I won twice on this awesome blog hop by Quietfire . Maybe I should run out and buy a lotto ticket . Thanks to all the DT for all their hard work and inspiration . Now looking forward to owning my first Quietfire stamp .

Hearts

Now that Valentine's day is just around the corner there's a lot of challenges going on in blog land  focusing on hearts. I took my inspiration for this card from Linda Coughlin on The Funkie Junkie blog. I sprayed a piece of white cardstock with Poison Red Dylusions ink ,dried with heat tool then applied Gold dabber paint to my TH flourish stamp and stamped randomly . I stamped Love definition from Tim Holtz's Love Struck set in black Archival ink and sponged the edges with pumice stone DI. The To My Valentine was stamped with Gold dabber paint on black c/s fussy cut and layered on gold paper then fussy cut again.I sprinkled some gold/white Frantage and embossed with heat tool. The gold heart is a Cherry Lynn Design die cut from gold paper. I added a red glitter heart to the center .I curled the corners slightly and distressed the edges before attaching it to the card base . I wanted some contrast so I stamped a script background in Pumice stone DI and then stamped LOVE in Fired Brick DI randomly . The gold heart was hung with ribbon and added a Love charm .

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Cherry Lynn Designs--Sweetheart

Frilly and Funkie -Winter wishes

Simon Wednesday Challenge -Have a Heart

Word Art Wednesday

Craft Hoarders Anonymos: January choose your Challenge

Thanks for dropping by , I love reading your comments .

Tim's 12 Tags of 2015--January

Well we're in a deep freeze here in Nova Scotia this past week and big switch from the mild temps. we had over Christmas with lots of rain .Nice to see a little snow but not liking the cold . Yesterday I Spent some time in my craft room and decided that i would try to do Tim's 12 tags for 2015. Last year I started but only completed 5 of them . Hoping to do better this year and complete them all. Here's my tag for January . I didn't have all of the products that Tim used so improvised with reinkers for the spray and cut glass for the gold glitter on the letters. Chit-chat words were placed on the tag and then covered with Glue n Seal.The numbers were cut out of cardboard twice and layered then painted with black dabber paint and when dry painted covered with embossing paste .I wanted a bit of sparkle so cut some stars and circle from red glitter c/s and added a metal star to the center of the circle. The ribbon was spray with vintage photo reinker diluted with water and dry with my heat tool . I would have like for more of the blue tone to show but overall I like how it turned out in the end.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

12 tags 2015 --January

Frilly and Funkie : Anything Goes

Really Reasonable Ribbon #109


Hope evryone is staying warm this cold winter day and thanks for stopping by my blog