Cardz TV Valentine's Sketch Challenge

Hello Sketch Challenge Friends! This week at Cardz TV the Design Team is featuring cards with a Valentine theme using any of Mary's Card Sketches. I chose to work with Sketch #17 (Mary's newest sketch). I love to make interactive cards for my grandkids so when I saw this sketch I knew it would be perfect for using one of my little window flap dies. I cut three flap windows that open to reveal a sweet little piggy, perfect to go with the Hogs & Kisses sentiment from Cardz TV Stamps Critter Punnies and Farmyard Funnies.

I often cut apart my stamps to make custom sentiments for my cards. In this case, I took the "Sending You" from Critter Captions and the "Hogs & Kisses" from Farmyard Funnies and put them together to make a whole new sentiment.

This year, in an effort to be more organized with my cards, I've been making envelopes to go along with my cards and storing them together in a container. It makes it a whole lot easier when I need a card in a hurry to have them together and ready to pull out and mail or give to someone on the spur of the moment. I got an awesome envelope liner die from Simon Says Stamp to help me with this process. So glad you came by today and I hope you'll play along with this week's Sketch Challenge at Cardz TV Stamps.

MojoMonday,ASpoonfulofSugar,CopicBuzz,CharismaCardz,Cupcake,CuteCardThursday,Crafty Cardmakers,Digital Tuesday

THE CHALLENGES:

• A Spoonful of Sugar (http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/) -Hearts
• CopicBuzz(http://copicbuzz.blogspot.com/ )-Cute Daisy May, Ribbon
• Charisma Cardz(http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/ )-Pink,Brown,Cream,Toffee
• Crafty Cardmakers(http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/ )-Something new
• Cupcake Craft Challenge(http://www.cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/) -Going Girly
• Cute Card Thursday(http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/) -Something new
• Digital Tuesday(http://digitaltuesdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ ) -Valentine, digi
• Mojo Monday(http://www.mojomonday.blogspot.com/ )-Sketch

I'm most definitely addicted to card challenges. The more the better! I had nothing going on today so I was able to spend the day in the design studio. At times I couldn't leave if I wanted to because hubby was painting the hallway. I had to keep the dog in with me so he wouldn't get into the paint. I've been wanting to make a card with my Cute Daisy May digital Valentine stamps so I looked for a sketch that would allow me to do that. Mojo Monday's would work wonderfully. When I saw the colors for the challenge at Charisma Cardz I new my Heidi Grace Cherrywood Lane/Paisley was perfect. I got a chance to color with my Copics and put some of the stuff I learned in my Copic class over the weekend into practice. My picture didn't come out very well because it is a cloudy, snowy day so the light in my room wasn't very good. I used a cream colored base card. My image is backed with brown cardstock. I used Martha Stewart's Heart Border Punch, my new punch, on medium pink cardstock.

Both my circle sentiment and the Be Mine under my image came from The Cutting Cafe.
(http://www.thecuttingcafe.typepad.com/) Both are from Valentine sets being offered right now so head on over and check out Regina's digital stamps. I added a few pink rhinestones to my heart and finished off with some brown ribbon.