2017 Valentine Card Series #10 plus Friday Feature at BRI

Hey friends, it's Friday! Yippee! Which means it's time for my weekly Friday Feature at the Butterfly Reflections Ink blog. Today I'm sharing a super sweet card featuring these adorable bunnies. I hope this sneak peek will entice you to hop on over and check out my card and leave me some comment love! <3 font="">

This is also Card 10 in my 2017 Valentine Series, so you can see the whole process of how this card came together. Click on the YouTube icon at the bottom right corner to watch it there in HD, and please don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe! With all the changes YouTube has been making, it's more important than ever to support your favorite YouTubers so we don't get lost in the cracks. I sure appreciate it! You all have a wonderful day!

Top 10 of 2010

Hello again!

I'm back from our lovely holiday in Germany.

We had a wonderful memory-making time with my

husband's family there. We did a lot of fun stuff,

ate a lot of good food, and now I'm armed with

German chocolate and ready to dive headlong

into the world of crafting again.

Since my office is still filled with my half-unpacked

suitcase (LOVE to travel, HATE to unpack!)

it will be another day or two before I'm able to get inky.

In the meantime, I thought I'd share some of my favorite

cards I made over the past year. Here's my top 10 of 2010.

Hoppy Easter

Bulldog Birthday

Welcome Little One

Hey Champ

Hello, Love

Beautiful Friend

Happy Birthday to Me

Set Your Heart On Something Beautiful

Fairy Birthday Wishes

Mr. Kitty and the Blustery Day

Whew! Well I hope you enjoyed that little look back.

It's been one year exactly to the day

since I began this amazing journey into Papercrafting.

I've learned so much and I've loved every minute.

I hope it continues for a good, long while.

In honor of my one year blogoversary

I am going to be putting together another

BLOG CANDY GIVEAWAY --

Our holiday plans pushed things back a bit

so I don't have it quite ready, but I'll keep you updated.

To all my followers, thank you so much for

your love and support. It means the world to me.

Happy 2011!

Birthday Kitty

Happy Monday, everyone!

Sorry I wasn't around more last week, I've been feeling under the weather. Nothing like a good summer flu to kick you in the pants, especially when it's your children's first week back to school! Well, at least for the younger two. Chaztin doesn't start back until after Labor Day. I can't believe he's going to be a third grader already!

Anyway, I do have a new card to share with you. Yesterday was my step-mom's birthday, and she loves cats.

The image I used is from Penny Black. I love these adorable little animals. I stamped it in Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored it with Copics. The image didn't actually have any bushes, just the flowers, and a couple leaves, which didn't look quite right to me. I created the bushes myself by "stippling", or dotting the tips of five or six shades of green until the shapes I wanted took form. 

I mounted my completed image on some kraft cardstock and stamped the "Happy Birthday sentiment from the same set in Colorbox fluid chalk ink in Chestnut Roan.

I folded another piece of Bazzill kraft cardstock into a standard sized card, then covered it with this bright, festive patterned paper from Fancy Pants called "Roasted Sun". I trimmed it down to the same size as my card front, cut it in half off-center, then flipped the smaller piece over to the striped B side.

Then I put down two strips of Tacky Tape over the seam, and ruffled a strip of chocolate ribbon from The Ribbon Boutique over top. It's a technique that I saw over at Xiumaiyuki's blog, and wanted to try out myself. She passed along this link to Ashley Newell's blog, where there is a great video tutorial. Hers looks much better than mine, believe me.

I hope you enjoyed my card today! I hope to get back in my craft room a little more this week and have some new things to share with you soon. Until then, take care and be crafty!

Hello, Love

Hey everyone! How are you all today? I am super, crazy busy this morning so I am going to jump right into things here. Tomorrow is the big Lawn Fawn Hearts Cards For Kids Blog Hop and I'll be participating! Woohoo! It's my first ever blog hop and I hope you'll come back and visit me and show your support tomorrow. I know that there's going to be prizes given out along the way, so plan to join in the fun!

I had the BEST idea ever for my card for the Hop tomorrow, but apparently there's some glitch over at the company I ordered the supplies from because it's been over 10 days since I placed my order and it still hasn't even been sent out yet! I had a few days of panic over whether or not it would be resolved and make it in time, but now I know it won't so I'm calmly trying to improvise. I'll be headed upstairs to get to it as soon as I finish posting this card I made last night.

I don't know, I seem to be having allignment issues. It's not letting me justify to the left anymore. Hmm. Just switched to the updated version of blogger, maybe that has something to do with it. Oh well, no time to fool around with it now. I started this card by folding some white Bazzill cardstock to a standard-sized card, then covered the front with this darling xs and os pattern from Basic Grey's Olivia collection. I added a strip of blue from the same collection a little lower than center on the card. Then I stamped my image from Penny Black and colored it with Copic markers. Here are the shades I used. (The Ciao is YG03 Yellow Green.)

Here's a closeup of the image. Isn't he sweet? I stamped and colored the rose twice, then cut out just the center and added it over top with a mini glue dot for some dimension. I traced a circle around my image with the lid of my googly eye tin ;o) and cut it out with Cutterbee scissors. Because I can't cut a straight circle to save my life, I roughed up the edges with my scissors to hide any flaws. Then I took my 3/4" circle punch and punched out a bunch of circles from the other side of the blue paper from front of the card. It had a whole bunch of border designs, which are a little too busy for me to use in full, but cut down on a small scale like this, I think they work. I added some adhesive to the backside of my image and then started making a scalloped edge with my circles, adjusting as needed. I added a bit of Orsay ribbon behind, then popped the whole thing off the card with dimensional adhesive.

I didn't seem to have just the right sentiment, so I decided to just write "hello, love" with my Signo white gel pen. Yeah. I think I spent more time doing this than I did on the entire rest of the card. I didn't realize when I started that my Signo pen is almost out of ink! It still looks like it's half full, but it wouldn't write nicely for anything. Never had that problem with my Signo before. Luckily I discovered that a white Magic Rub (is that the coolest name ever or what?) eraser also removes white gel pen. This here was my third attempt. I found that applying almost no pressure to the paper seemed to make the ink flow better. I will definitely have to order another right quick. Last step: rounding all four corners with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Rounder. Great tool. And here's another look at the final result. Not too bad, eh?

I hope you'll come back tomorrow and join in the Lawn Fawn Hearts Cards For Kids Blog Hop! It will begin and end over at the Lawn Fawn blog, and you can even head over there now to get the details if you like. It'll be a lot of fun! See you then! I'm off to work on my improvised card now. Eek! Crunch time!

In My Heart And Thoughts

Hey everyone! I can't believe that Friday is finally here! I go to work at five, and then head straight to the airport after. Tina's plane arrives around 10:30 tonight! I'm really excited to see her, but there's still a lot left to do to get ready for her. My husband is taking off the second half of his workday, so he can run to Sam's and pick up croissants (which I know she likes) for breakfast tomorrow morning. I want to cut some flowers and put a little vase in her room, clear off my desk -- yet again -- from the card I made late last night. Vaccuum. Freshen the sheets. Little things like that.

Anyway, I heard yesterday that a friend is having a few minor health problems, so I wanted to make a card to cheer her up. Think this little guy will do the trick?


I picked up this stamp set by Penny Black yesterday evening at the one and only local scrapbooking store in our area (aside from the chains). I'd gone there to pick up one stamp I ordered, and came home with this set as well. It's called "Hugs" and it's got lots of really sweet images.

I colored the little hedgehog with Copics: E51, E31, and E33, C-1, and C-3, R20, G20, G21, G24, R24, R27, and YR04, B02, B04, BG10, and Y15. I gave him some grass, then dotted it with dandelions with the tip of my Y15.

The sentiment is also from the same set. I stamped it in StazOn (my Memento Tuxedo Black is drying out) and mounted both sentiment and image on some blue Georgia Pacific cardstock.


I chose some red dotty paper from My Mind's Eye and punched the bottom with my Fiskar's threading water punch. I layered some green vine paper from the same collection underneath for a little color contrast. All this was adheared to white Bazzill cardstock.

Isn't this ribbon great? It's from one of the dollar bins at Michaels. The company listed is Studio 18. Don't think I've ever heard of them before. Anyway, I tied that in a bow at the top, then added my elements. I popped off the image with dimentional adhesive, and the right side of the sentiment as well. The left side I adhered with regular Tombow Mono dot roller to keep it the same height as the image.


I hope you enjoyed my card for today! Talk to you girls again soon!