BBTB2 Wedding Hearts

I hope everyone had a loving and wonderful Valentine's Day. It is so exciting that we are being sponsored this week by one of the most loving and sweet gals in the world, the fantabulous Regina from The Cutting Cafe. While love is still in the air we are highlighting the double heart cut from the Wedding cartridge. I was going to stay monochromatic on this wedding card but when I came across this piece of designer paper in a K&Company stack I just thought it would look so beautiful on a cream colored card. I had a piece of DCWV cream paper with a pearlescent finish and that's what I cut my hearts from. I also used it for the front of my card and printed my sentiment on it, which reads--And Two Shall Become One.

I cut the fancy part of the heart twice so I could layer it and add some dimension with pop dots. I added some MS fine crystal glitter to the front of the heart. To embellish my card I used cream lace, cream grosgrain ribbon, pearls and a cream rose.

Fill Your Bucket Valentine Treats

This is a bucket I filled with Valentine treats for my granddaughters. The story behind this bucket comes from the book that is tucked into it called Fill A Bucket: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Children. Having retired from elementary education I can attest to the importance of teaching a child to read. I am totally convinced that it is the single most important thing for a child to learn. You can not survive in this world today without knowing how to read. I am always excited to come across great children's literature and I love to pass it on to my grandkids. If you have a preschooler or know a preschooler and have never come across the book Fill A Bucket, I highly recommend it. The story inside talks of the happiness in a family when a child is born, how they receive a special name and something else they have. It is a magic, invisible bucket of happiness. The story talks about how to fill the magic bucket by being good and doing good. How a child fills other people's buckets of happiness when they use manners and treat them kindly. I think it teaches some valuable lessons. I hope this book imparts some love and kindness to my granddaughters, Paige and Payton.

In the book it shows the buckets filling up with hearts and stars so I used them to decorate my bucket. The bucket came from the Target $1 bins over the summer. I used my Cricut Plantin' Schoolbook cartridge to cut the stars and hearts at 1", 1 1/2" and 2" from pink and purple paper (Payton's two favorite colors). I used glitter and Stickles to give them a little sparkle and bling.

I used white grosgrain ribbon, and pink pompom fringe to decorate the top of the bucket. Using Cricut's A Child's Year cartridge I cut the letters for the words "Fill Your Bucket" at 1 inch then glued them to the white ribbon. Now I just have to hope that the most important thing the kids get from this bucket come from that book. That they don't just want the candy, chocolate and Wow Wow Wubbzy movie. Of course, I had to add some craft supplies. Lots of stickers--hearts and princess theme and a few other things they can use to put together a card or two. Payton loves to make things, just like her Nana.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #12

I have to say this is one of my most favorite cards I've ever made. It came out way beyond my expectations and I think it looks like a real teacup. This is the teacup card cut from A Child's Year. Now I will tell you I did a little altering on the size with my Gypsy. I also added the solid piece at top to make it look like the cup was full. I designed this card on my Gypsy at the hospital while my husband was in surgery last week. We're both glad that part is done, he's home and now he's on to recuperating. This card was made with K&Company double-sided paper. I made the flower myself from beige tissue paper. I cut out each piece by hand and inked the edges with Chalk Box ink in Chestnut Roan. Then I put the layers together with pop dots between each layer to give it plenty of dimension. There are nine layers on this flower. I added a large pearl for the center. I placed the flower on top of a cream organza bow and accented with pearls. My sentiment was computer generated and placed atop a scalloped circle cut from Mini Monograms using the back side of the K&Company paper.

Project Tuesday DT

I love Tuesdays when I can go to the Project Tuesday blog and see their newest challenge. I was really extra excited to see that this project is for a DT call. I would love, love, love to be on the design team at Project Tuesday. This week's project is a party favor and they're so quick and simple. Mine will be part of a bucket of Valentine goodies that I've put together for my granddaughters Paige and Payton. Check back later in the week when I feature that bucket. My paper is from G C D Studios Designer collection Rose Colored Glasses. All that's needed to make this project is one piece of patterned paper 6" x 6" plus ribbon and whatever embellishments you want to add along with some tape. You can find the link for the directions here. I embellished my favor using two pink buttons and I tied my ribbon through them. The ribbon is pink and says Celebrate. It has been in my stash forever and I have no clue who makes it. I added a pink heart also from my stash. I only know that it came with a bunch of embellishments I ordered from QVC a long time ago. I filled my favor with my favorite treat, Hershey Kisses Cherry Cordial flavor. If you've never tried them I highly recommend them. I could eat an entire bag by myself in minutes. But I'm refraining at the moment.

BBTB2 Wild Card Heart

The challenge this week at BBTB2 is to make the heart card from the Wild Card cartridge. The Wild Card cartridge is so great for making a quick card with an envelope. It takes all the guess work out of what you're going to put the card in after you make it, cutting the envelope to be exactly the size you need for your card. My card is going to be for my youngest granddaughter, Paige, who is almost six months old. I can't believe she's that old already. She was born about a month premature and she's so tiny you wouldn't think she was that old, barely weighing in at 11 lbs. now. But, oh my, she is such a joy and such a good baby. We call her our "little lovebug" so that is where my design idea came from. I designed the little love bugs using the Walk In My Garden cartridge. I used the solid ladybug and shadow on page 118. I cut them from Bo Bunny polka dot paper. This is two sided paper with a mottled solid color on the back side which I used for the card. I altered the antenna by cutting the end off so I could add hearts. The hearts are the leftovers from the MS Heart Border punch. For the wings I used a heart cut from the Sweethearts cartridge and I cut them out of vellum. The hearts I added on the body of the bugs are a punch that I've had in my supply stash for years. My sentiment is computer generated then cut out with a Nestie. My doodling is done with a Sakura 3D Glaze pen. If you've never used these pens, I highly recommend them. I just love them and use them on almost all my cards. I cut my envelope from vellum and lined it with pink. On the back of the envelope I added this white lacy paper that already had the scallops on it just to dress the envelope up a bit.

CCC #11

Oh my goodness!!! It's 11:00 am and I just realized I forgot to put my blog post up. I am so loosing it. My husband is having surgery on Friday morning and we have been trying to get so much done to prepare for it. It is a huge deal because I am visually impaired and can't drive. So while he is unable to drive for four weeks that means I will be confined to my house. I don't live in an area that has any shopping or public transportation. That means I have to make sure I have enough groceries and any other items I may need including the wide variety of prescription medications I have to take to keep the cancer, lupus and various assorted other ills at bay. On top of all this stuff we sprung a plumbing leak. My mind has soooooooo been elsewhere. Anyhoo---thank heavens I have my design team responsibilities and blog to take my mind off all the crummy stuff. Boy, that Mary comes up with the best challenges. She keeps me on my toes and always thinking. Sometimes I get a headache. LOL The challenge this week to make a Valentine's card with no hearts on it was really fun. Although, I have to admit this is not my first choice of background paper. I had this really cute paper with a design edge and when I went to assemble all my pieces I noticed it had tiny hearts on it that I hadn't seen. In my defense, remember I am visually impaired (legally blind), and they were really tiny hearts. So back to the drawing board. I found this red paper in my stash with just the slightest polka dot pattern to it, no hearts! I just used it and cream cardstock. This is a really cool cut I found on the Graphically Speaking cartridge on page 29. I cut this at 3 1/2" using the word feature on the keypad. There are three elements to the card. The word love, the red piece that is notched and the piece with the letter U which slips into the notches. My scalloped circle and letter -i- were cut from Mini Monograms at 1 1/2". Since this card will be going to my husband during Valentine week I added little embellishment other than cream colored string and little mini buttons.

BBTB2 Blog Hop and Candy

I hope you have arrived here from the oh soooooo very talented Shelly's blog for the BBTB2 Blog Hop. If not you can return to Carole's always inspiring blog to begin. Today we are highlighting the darling rabbit cut from the Winter Woodlands cartridge. I needed to make a baby boy card for a baby shower coming up next month so that's where my idea formed. I cut my bunny at 3 1/2" from a medium blue cardstock, layered with a lighter blue and shadowed with a dark blue. My patterned paper is from Cloud 9 Design called Bouncing Baby Boy. I used a Fiskars border punch on the edge of the white base card.

I didn't want the bunny to look girly by adding any lace or bows but I thought a little ruffle around the neck would be okay. I gave the bunny a fluffy little tail with a pompom. The eye and the nose were cut with the layer button on the cartridge. A little doodling with a Sakura 3-D Glaze pen finished him off.

My sentiment came directly from the patterned paper and I just cut it out with a punch and backed it with the dark blue paper. Now I hope you'll continue on your way hopping like a bunny to the amazingly talented Jen's blog. She has made the most darling project you'll want to see for sure. Thanks for hopping in today and please leave a comment for a random drawing I will do on Saturday to win this blog candy. I will post the winner on Sunday late in the day because my husband is having some surgery on Friday and will be coming home on Sunday afternoon if everything goes well.