♥Daily Love Letters♥

Happy Valentine's Day! 

 I hope you are feeling loved today, if not by a sweetheart, by friends, family, nature, God, and a happy heart...

I want to share my Valentine project for my hubby, (which was also my vinyl UStream class for last week) called DAILY LOVE LETTERS

This is an altered composition book designed to be used by The Babe and I

every day, for messages back and forth just between us.

 This particular book happened to have two chipboard covers stitched on, so we have a photo gallery page front and back!  This paper is from the Recollections All Seasons 180 page stack.

I stamped and put vinyl stickers throughout the book to decorate the pages, carrying the theme all the way from cover to cover.

This project works wonders with youth, too.... try sharing messages of love in written notes, because once shared on paper, they are also written on the heart.

Happy Day of LOVE to you! 

PS... Don't forget that there isn't a UStream class tonight because it's Valentine's Day... (and I'm out of town this morning)  If you don't have a h♥t date tonight, I invite you to check out one of the recorded classes on my UStream channel, and I'll see you next Tuesday!

Sneak Peek for UStream Class Tonight!

Love is definitely in the air, and tonight in our UStream Cricut Class, among other things,  we will be learning how to capture beautiful kissing photos in a heart shaped design using

CENTER POINT!

This is the third in a series of knowing all about your CRICUT,

and what all of those buttons do!

We will be making a really fun and flirty project, too!!

Don't forget!  You still have another 9 days to enter my BIRTHDAY BLOG CANDY contest!

Just make a card, or something else, for someone else, and post it here, and you can be a winner!  I will be back tomorrow with more entries and pictures of this weekend's CRICUTEERS SWARM!

Happy Crafting!  See you at 8:00 eastern time tonight!  Just click on the blue UStream icon in the upper right corner of my blog, and it will take you to my UStream channel.

Thinking of Ewe!

Lambie-pie has come out again, and is off to take some special greetings to some friends. This lamb is created with an Accent Essentials scallop, Cuttlebug D'vine Swirls embossing, and five petals of a seven petal flower from Walk in My Garden for the ears, face, and legs. Isn't that clever?! Many thanks to Dawn Griffith for the idea. She showed how to use a 5 petal SU punch (which I don't have) for this little fellow. The red section is also embossed with a Sizzix embossing plate, which I have discovered is best used with spritzed paper. The glitzy patterned paper is Cloud 9, and the decorative border punch is from Fiskars. The pink velvet trim is from my stash. I hand wrote the message, and will write my note inside. I hope 'Ewe" are inspired to send someone ewe are thinking of a note today!!

Cuttlebug Challenge #15

This week's Cuttlebug Challenge was just that...a challenge! We were to use this great PageMap to create a tall card, which, as my faithful followers know, is out of my comfort zone, as I usually make A2 size cards, but, like most exercise, it feels good after it's done!!! PageMaps do make it so much easier to stretch yourself! Give it a try :0)

I was really pleased to have my new Scor-Pal to play with, and also the new Valentine Martha Stewart heart punch for the trim. The awesome valentine designs are from a great piece of glittered cardstock by Cloud 9. The sentiment is from a brand new StudioG stamp set that I found this week at Michael's. Enjoy ~ love is in the air!!!

Wild Thing!!!

This is one of those cards that just wouldn't be "quiet" until I got it made! I used this same sentiment on an elegant white card recently, and it reminded me of the lyrics of an old song...I just couldn't go with the next line...."You make everything ~ Groovy!" Anyway, the big ape and I had a lot of fun with this card! He is from Animal Kingdom, the heart and lettering are George, the branch is SYI, with stamps from CTMH and StudioG, and plenty of chocolate inking.

Love is in the Air!

Danielle and Chris are getting married in November, and her shower was this weekend. I was asked to make some cards, and here they are! Best of everything, Danielle!