It is finally Friday, we survived the latest snow storm here in the Northeast and I hear there is another one coming tomorrow! sigh!
Today is also Valentines Day, I hope everyone has a very Happy Valentines Day and you get to spend some quality time with the one that you love. This brings me to the first thing I wanted to share with you today, the Valentine that I made for my Valentine, my wonderful hubby! When it comes to cards, I typically use a sketch or scraplift and add my own personal touches. I did something a little different with this one, no sketch and no scraplifting! Instead I challenged myself to come up with a card that used no more than three different techniques. What I came up with was a card with two techniques, matting and heat embossing! Yay for me, here it is:
This card was made using all
CTMH products. The stamp set I used was Hearthrob, the card and mats are made from
white daisy and
cranberry cardstock. I used clear embossing powder to emboss the first cranberry mat with a flourish from the stamp set, and silver embossing powder to emboss the top cranberry mat.
The second thing I have to share is a birthday card I made for my nieces birthday, my family has lots of birthdays in March and April so I figured I would get a head start:
The little princess is turning 5 this year, so I thought it was appropriate that her card have a princess front and center! The princess was from the
Happy Endings stamp set. I stamped it on
white daisy cardstock. I colored the skin with copics markers and the rest with
ctmh exclusive inks alcohol markers. I used the CTMH birthday stamp for the sentiment. The patterned paper is and oldie but goodie from CTMH that I stocked up on before it was retired called Day Dream. I topped it off with color ready ribbon and some
clear sparkles, because after all it is all about the bling! That's it I hope she likes it.
I have one more thing to share with you today, I got my
later sk8r picture my life kit from the new
spring/summer ctmh catalog and I couldn't wait to use it. I am telling you, you have to get one of these. I tried to get into the whole project life thing because I loved the idea of doing something with all those extra pictures that we all take that don't make the traditional scrapbook, but I just wasn't feeling the love! These new
picture my life kits from ctmh are a whole different story, same concept but done so much better! They all coordinate with ctmh paper packs, they all use the ctmh color pallet they are such good value. I am going to put these layouts in my traditional scrapbooks to get all those extra pictures in the book! Here are the layouts I did last night.
this first one uses the 12 X 12 page as well as one with one of the included memory protector and cards. I did mat these pictures with some plain project life 4 x 6 cards due to these pictures being an odd size.
One great thing about these kits is there are not a million repeats of the same card designs, so you can make your layout unique.
This is the backside of one of my pages that I haven't completed yet, when I do this layout I can cover some of the cards with pictures and then it will be done! Very simple very easy!
Here is the last one. I can't believe how fast these went together and how great they look! As I said this is a great way to catch up and to use extra pictures.
I am going to get a couple more of these kits to have on hand for my daughters scrapbook and the family scrapbook.
That is all I have for today I hope everyone has a great weekend and a very Happy Valentines Day!
Chow for now!
