Happy Valentine's Day

Popping in with a quick post to wish all a Happy Valentine's Day!  This is one of my cards that went postal this week.

Stamps:  Love From Cocoa (Sweet n Sassy)

Paper:  White, Red, Black

DP:  not sure - scrap on my table

Ink:  black (Memento)

Accessories:  block hearts and swiss dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug); scallop circle die (Spellbinders); clear embossing powder; Copics; Scan n Cut (Brother)

This sketch was from Mojo Monday a week or so ago.  Cocoa was cut out using my Scan n Cut and popped up on dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by and as always ...

Have a great day!

Pam~

Another Valentine ...

One more Valentine to show and then I'm done.  This one will be going to my hubby.  My starting point was heading over to the Mod Squad Challenge Blog to see what they had up this week.  It's a Valentine challenge with some glitter.  This is the front of the card ...

Now for the inside ...

Stamps:  Monica Romances (House Mouse)

Paper:  Red (Bazzil); White, Black (SU)

DP:  Christmas Noel (Recollections)

Ink:  Memento Black

Accessories:  Copics; Printing 101 cartridge (Cricut); flourish die, dazzling diamonds, stickles (SU); circle dies (Spellbinders); glitter pen (Sakura)

Unfortunately, you cannot see the glitter on this card at all.  On the front I used cherry cobbler stickles on the little heart.  Each letter on the inside is colored with a glitter pen as are the little white hearts.  The bigger heart has dazzling diamonds on it.  This is one of those cards that looks completely different in real life.  This card measures 3.5" x 5.5".

The card design came from Splitcoast Stampers ... a Building Block card.  Click here for directions.

Thanks for stopping by and as always ...

Have a great day!

Pam~

Hearts for MOJO ...

Playing along with the MOJO Monday sketch to make another Valentine's card ...

Stamps:  Lexicon of Love, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (SU)

Paper:  White, Old Olive (SU)

DP:  unknown - from Sam's years ago

Ink:  Elegant Eggplant (SU)

Accessories:  banner dies, gems, sponge dauber, polka dot embossing folder (SU); Basic George and Pennants cartridge (Cricut); Copic 

• The hearts and banner were cut from the Cricut cartridges.
• The gems were colored with a Copic marker.

The inspiration photo ...

Thanks for stopping by and as always ...

Have a great day!

Pam~

Tall and skinny MOJO ...

MOJO Monday is changing their size a little bit.  This week their challenge is to make a tall and skinny card.  Always fun to shake things up.

Stamps:  Love From Cocoa (Sweet 'n Sassy)

Paper:  White, Red, Crumb Cake Black (SU)

DP:  Bright & Basic (Recollections)

Ink:  Memento Black, Real Red (SU)

Accessories:  Copics, oval, rectangle & scallop dies (Spellbinders), heart & polka dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug)

Once again I pulled out my sponge dauber.  Between sponging and Cocoa stamps, my cards are looking the same...only the colors are changing.  :)

Thanks for stopping by and as always ...

Have a great day!

Pam~

First Valentine's card ...

Posting my first Valentine's card of the year.  My inspiration for this cutie came from the Mod Squad Challenge Blog and MOJO Monday's sketch.

Stamps:  Love From Cocoa (Sweet 'n Sassy)

Paper:  White, Rose Red, Not Quite Navy (SU)

Ink:  Memento Black, Rose Red (SU)

Accessories:  Lacey and circle dies (Spellbinders), Copics, heart and polka dot embossing folder (CuttleBug), wooden heart, ribbon, gem 

The Mod Squad challenge was to use some kind of wood on your card...paper, emblishment, etc.   I went with a little wooden heart.  Here is the sketch from MOJO this week ...

I made my background by rubbing my ink pad directly on the embossing folder and then running it through my Cuttlebug.  

Thanks for stopping by and as always ...

Have a great day!

Pam~

Happy New Year with a little MOJO

After taking a break from blogging, I'm back and hopefully going to do better this year.  I want to participate in some new challenges and improve my stamping/creative side.  

I have actually been stamping the last couple of months.  Not a bunch but did get my Christmas cards made and did a few challenges here and there. I have to say, that after not stamping consistently my creativity has taken a nose dive.  Ok, enough babbling and onto today's card.  This is for the new sketch over at MOJO Monday.  It can be square or circle.  I went with a 4 1/4 by 4 1/4...

Stamps:  Ain't Love Grand (SU)

Paper:  White, Black (SU), Red (Recollections)

DP:  Christmas (Recollections)

Ink:  Memento Black

Accessories:  Copics, pearls, banner die (SU), ribbon (Hobby Lobby), hearts embossing folder (CuttleBug)

Below are some of the cards that I made but never posted.  I believe my inspiration for each card was from a challenge.  Unfortunately, I didn't write down any info so don't remember what each one was for.

Thanks for stopping by and as always...

Have a great day!

Pam~

Bethany's Valentine ...

I didn't want to post Bethany's Valentine's card until she saw it.  Don't know if she has time right now to check out my blog but just wanted to make sure.  Everyone loves a surprise!

Another awesome sketch to go by.  Thanks to the gals at Freshly Made Sketches for this fun layout.

This is what I did with it ...

Stamps:  Love You Much, I {heart} Hearts

Paper:  White, Rose Red, Baja Breeze, pink Pirouette

DSP:  Rose Red

Ink:  Baja Breeze, Rose Red, Pink Pirouette, Memento Black

Accessories:  Nestabilities rectangle dies, heart punch, scallop border punch, sponge dauber, Copic markers

All products are Stampin' Up unless otherwise noted.

Thanks for stopping by and as always ...

Have a great day,

Pam~

Paper Players Valentine's Challenge

Each Sunday The Paper Players have a new challenge.  This week they have a theme challenge ... Valentine's Day.  I wanted to go a different direction with my color choice ... not the traditional red.  I know who I want to receive this card so I adjusted it to their liking.

Stamps:  Have a Heart

Paper:  Regal Rose, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla

DSP:  My Mind's Eye

Ink:  Black, Regal Rose

Accessories:  Marina Mist ribbon, Nestabilities scalloped/square and label die, heart punch (non-SU), Prismacolor markers, sponge dauber, dimensional

All products are Stampin' Up unless otherwise noted.

• I added a punched heart with a dimensional to the kitty's hand and after looking at the card, it looks like Ms. Kitty is wearing a mitten ... LOL
• For a different look, I made a double bow.

Today we woke to another big snowfall ... we received between 6 and 8 inches.  It looks gorgeous but my pups weren't so sure of this one.  It was difficult for Sadie to um ... do her business.  We had to make paths and pat down the snow so she could find just the right spot.  It was quite funny!  I've included some pictures ...

My paws are cold!

How do we walk in this stuff?

Ok Daddy, you shovel me a place to walk and maybe I'll come out of the garage.