Feel the Love Blog Hop!

Hey friends - not much time to papercraft in the past week or so here. We're all healthy (finally!) in our house, but I'm playing catch up! I'll get back at it sooner than later... starting with the blog hop! ***Make sure you go all the way to bottom of this post so you can try to win some BLOG CANDY!***

Feel the Love Blog Hop!
If you arrived here from Nikki's blog - The Glamorous Side of Scrapping then you are in the right place!

I made some fun 3"x3" valentines cards for my neices, nephews, and other random people we like to give sweets to. :) We have heart-shaped cookie pops slated on our "to-do" list next week, complete with multi-colored heart sprinkles and that fun glittery sprinkle stuff. Should be a good time! Anyway, I need some little cards to put with them, of course! Most of these cards are going to kids, so I wanted them to have some sparkles but keep it simple... I made lots...



All paper is from We R Memory Keepers latest Valentine collection. :)

Here is the list of bloggers for the hop ---
1. Jamie at Glitter, Stamps, and Paper, Oh My! http://glitterstampsandpaperohmy.com/
2. Karel at One by One The Flamingos Are Stealing My Sanity http://karelj.blogspot.com/
3. Nikki at The Glamorous Side of Scrapping http://www.theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
4.Liz at Skittles and Scrapbooks http://skittles-and-scrapbooks.blogspot.com <-- You are here! :)
5. Brittni at Life's Musings http://gardenwhispers.blogspot.com/
6. Jesi at Jesi's Things http://jesisonaroll.blogspot.com/
7. Ellen at Card Monkey http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
8. Jessica at Overjoyed Scrapper http://overjoyedscrapper.blogspot.com/
9. Casey at Simple Joy Crafting http://simplejoycrafting.blogspot.com/
10. Jenny at Crazy about Cricut http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
11. Shannon at My Scrappy Creations http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com/
12 Meagan at Beyond Paper http://beyondpaperdesigns.blogspot.com/
13. Jessica at Creative Stamper http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/
14. Jill at The Scrapaholic http://thescrapoholic.blogspot.com/
15. Aimee at Little P's Momma http://www.littlepsmomma.blogspot.com/
16. Kathy at Kathy and 3 kids http://kathyand3kids.blogspot.com/
17. Amanda at Something Sorta http://somethingsorta.blogspot.com/
18. Michelle at Holy Cricut http://queenofmycraftroom.blogspot.com/
19. Kathy at The Beautiful Life www.kathy-thebeautifullife.blogspot.com.
20. Angie at A Tuttle Time http://atuttletime.blogspot.com/
21. Angela at Created with Joy http://createdwithjoy.blogspot.com/

Okay - now time for the really fun stuff, right? BLOG CANDY! WOO!

I gave away some really fun stuff just this week... but I have some more goodies to give away. All you have to do is become a follower of my blog and make a comment on this post, I'll pick a winner on Monday Feb 7th at noon CST using random.org. :)

Here's what you can win:

I was thinking Spring/Summer when I was digging through my bin of goodies... so its flowers, birds, pretty colors, some stamps, rub-ons, bling, some AWESOME chipboard shapes, oooooh you're gonna love it! :)

Keep on hopping and enjoy the other projects along the way! :)

Here's your next stop --- Brittni at Life's Musings http://gardenwhispers.blogspot.com/

Faithful Friend

I was digging through some photos tonight and I came across these pictures of our family dog, Radar. She was such a special dog and indeed, a faithful friend in the all of the ways that pets can be. Always knowing when something was wrong, when you needed some extra licks or cuddling, she just knew what she needed to be to each person in our family. She was a truly amazing dog, right up to the end.

Radar passed away when I was about 6 months pregnant with my oldest child. It was a sad day, but she will forever be remembered for the remarkable addition to our family that happened by "mistake". (I don't remember 100% how it happened, but she was my brother's dog. I think he needed somewhere for her to be for a while when he was moving -- he brought her over one day and she just never left.)

So there's my little jaunt down memory lane and without further ado - my dear friend, Radar. :)

Patterned Paper and stickers: Thrift Shop by October Afternoon
Flowers: Prima Marketing
Tags (both metal and paper): Tim Holtz
Alphas: Thickers by American Crafts and Tiny Type by Cosmo Cricket
Trim/crocheted ribbon: Maya Road

Scraps!

Here's a fun little card I made this morning while my daughter was doing her schoolwork by herself for about 20 minutes. I'm trying to use up some scraps, but I have this crazy memory though and about 95% of the time (even if a piece of paper is cut into five chunks) I can still remember the brand name.

I used the Cricut Cartridge 'Simply Sweet' to cut the hearts out of the striped patterned paper and simple flipped one over and ran my Tim Holtz 'Fired Brick' ink pad over it to saturate it with that red color. Then, after I hit the heart with a little heat to dry it quickly (I'm impatient), I sprayed it with some bubble gum pink Glimmer mist so it would sparkle a bit. Tie some twine around the heart and I decided to keep it simple and throw the card together. :)



Patterned paper: KaiserCraft (green w/white hearts), We R Memory Keepers (striped and red/red hearts)
Cardstock: Close to My Heart
Stamp Sentiment: Signature Greetings by Paper Trey Ink
Ink: Fired Brick by Tim Holtz/Ranger Ink
Border punch: EK Success
Distressing tool: Distrezz-it-All by Zutter
Glimmer Mist: Bubble gum by Tattered Angels
Twine: Caribbean by The Twinery
Die-cuts: Simply Sweet by Cricut/Provocraft

I entered the Wee Memories Scrappy Saturday Challenge - sponsored by the Twinery - with this card! :)