Love is in the Air

Or at least for the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. Welcome to Love Me Do! which for the next 13 days it will be all over the gallery so get your hearts, hugs, love notes out and make a Love themed card with your stash. 

I have made a mini slimline card with a favourite sheetload from January 2023 which is on rewind right now so check it out. I am so sorry for the terrible photo, I am not sure what gremlin is living inside my laptop but I literally fought the edit program and I lost the fight. That was just the last pitfall, the first was "where is my valentine paper pad?" I still am in the dark on that one, but in my loose papers I found 2 that co-ordinated and some cardstock that matched. Of course I just had to use the super cute gnome with the hearts all aver his hat popped him up, added a few "who knows how long I've had them" pearls  and a valentine sentiment. 

Finished the inside with an "elderly" sentiment. 

Thanks for stopping by today and stop by the SOS blog and check out what the rest of the design team have made.

 

A Panda Valentine....

 Hello there11 I know Valentine's Day is over but I didn't get a chance to blog the Valentine card I made for my Great Grandson this year,  I only made 2 cards this year you would think I would have lots made with all the time we have been spending at home, I always seem to find something that hinders crafting, the biggest "something" is the adorable tabby to the right, she seems to require more attention than a 2 year old.   On to my card.

You never realize how busy a card is until you take a picture of it, and the sentiment certainly was much more visible IRL. The panda is from a Stampin'up set along with the Love You. The Happy Valentne's Day die cut was too large to fit on the front of the card so I added DAY to the inside. 

Couple of scraps of patterned paper and I think the sentiment is an Impression Obsession but don't quote me. 

I'm entering this in:

Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog ~~ Love, Love, Love

Thanks for stopping by and checking out what I've made. Have a great week and stay safe, stay healthy.

My Heart Beets for You....

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash #463 My Heart Beets for You,  We want to see Hearts or vegetables or both on your project. Well I check my hoard of stamps and couldn't find anything that looked like a vegetable lots of fruit though, so I just went with a Heart. 

I used one of my older House Mouse Designs wood mount stamps and dug into my scrap folder for the pink cardstock to use, cut with the original spellbinders large ovals and added three heavy cardstock ovals to elevate the image just a bit. Then added it to the Martha Stewart Valentine paper pad I found 3 or more years ago at Dollarams. 

Finished the inside with some left over patterned paper and an ancient sentiment stamp from Inkadinkadoo. 

I am entering this in:

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and check out the awesome projects the rest of the design team have made, a couple of them have vegetables. 

G is for Gel Printing.....

Hello family, friends and followers, it's time for a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, I missed the inky one and that would have been great I hope you played along.  I am not at all experienced with using the Gelli Plate, at least I have one but I've only used it once and wasn't too happy with the  results. 

Edna has done a crackerjack job with her gel printing background. (thanks to Lee)

Now on to my offering.

It's been a long drawn out affair getting this card together starting with finding the gelli plate since I haven't used it since bringing things home in October from the cottage  I checked a couple of Jennifer Maguire videos and although you cannot really see it what looks like speckles in the darker heart was a background stamp that I lifted some colour off after applying the stencil,  I made the print and let it dry then added a darker ink to the gelli plate and laid the Dollar Tree stencil on the ink then pressed the background stamp into it (guess I needed more pressure) then removed it,  added the prepared paper to transfer the image. Of course had to add a snarky cat, sentiment and a few rhinestones.

Close up of the snarky saying.

Finished the inside with the off cut from the gel print and a Valentine sentiment. 

I'm entering this in:

Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge ~~ Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the Main Blog to check out what the rest of the design team have made, they are so much more experiences than I am. 

 

A Simple Fun Fold Valentine.

 I have  a few cards I have made that I have to wait until they have been received before I blog them and since I had design team cards to blog this was put on the back burner,  I made a simple fun fold for my 3 1/2 year old great grandson. (he sent me one too)  With the pandemic I put the cards in a bag and hang them on the door knob, knock and then get 6 feet away,  

I must admit this was quickly made with a lot of things that had been cut for another card,  Both sentiments are from Michaels $1.50 bin (it was so long ago they were $1.00 when I bought them) 

The sentiment on the banner says You hold the Key to my Heart.  So I added a key and a heart.

The fold is a Bridge fold, it folds flat for mailing and is an A2 size. 

The sentiment is on the back. 

I'm entering this in:

Double D Challenges ~~ Anything with a Heart 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.