A Masculine Valentine's Day Card

I just love Valentine's day, all the bright colours and the fun of it all. I start getting ready for Valentine's day by making some red and pink hearts for around the house, hanging up a banner that I made a couple of years ago and by making cards for the people in my life. 
I find it really easy making Valentine's day cards for all the  females in my life but it always a challenge for me to make a masculine card.
For some help I went and looked at the Mojo Monday site for a sketch I could use and I just loved the sketch that was for this weeks challenge.

Here is the card I made for my husband this year. I waited until now so that he wouldn't have a chance to see it before Valentin's day.

The red patterned paper is from Doodle Bug and the rest of the paper is Recollections. The black edges have been distressed and the red edges of the heart has been inked up with some Tim Holts Fire Brick Red distress ink. The heart and the tag was cut using my Cricut and my Plantin Schoolbook cartridge and the banner was cut with a Papertrey Ink die. The sentiment was stamped  with three little stamps from an Impression Obsession stamp set. 

At first I was worried that the card was a little too dark fro Valentine's day but I when I gave it to my husband he really loved it, so I was really glad :)

I hope that you are having a great Saturday!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Here is a link to the video where I share the Valentine's banner that I made :)

Getting Ready for Valentines

Well this Friday is Valentine's Day and I have been getting some cards done over the last couple of weeks but today I got some little treat bags made for the girls in my church group and some colouring done for another card.

I decided to keep the treat bags simple this year but I just love how they turned out!!











I made 10 of these little treat bags for tonight. I cut out 10 tags and hearts from my Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge. I embossed the heart with my Culltbug folder Hugs and Kisses and then stamped the back with a My Pink Stamper stamp.
The girls were so excited when they saw them, which I just love :)

Earlier today I had a chance to get some colouring in, my son was home sick today so we had a very quiet day. A lot of Olympics on TV and some crafting time for me :)
My husband surprised me with the light pack of the Spectrum Noir markers so I had some fun breaking them out of their package and using them..lol
I downloaded this image from Tiddly Inks and I just love how it turned out.




I am hoping that I will have a chance to make a Valentines card with this cutie tomorrow.

Well I'm off to bed,

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

2 Cute Valentines Cards :)

I just love valentines day!! All the glitter and hearts it's sure to cheer any one up in the middle of winter, especially this winter!!! Who doesn't love a little splash of red and pink around the house to cheer us up among all the grey and cold outside this time of year.


I have been having fun creating some valentines for this year. Here are two cards I have created and shared over on my YouTube channel :

I know that I am glad that tomorrow is Friday, we have had a busy week and I am looking forward to the weekend :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

A Pretty Birthday Card

Well Christmas has come and gone and I just don't know where the time has gone!!! Life has kept me pretty busy over the last month or so since my last post, keeping up with my 3 busy boys to volunteering at their school and at my church.
I have been crafting but have not been sharing much, so I am hoping to get back into a posting routine, both here and on my YouTube channel.

I have been busy getting ready for valentines day by making some cards which I will begin to share over the next couple of days, but I have also been trying to create a little collection of birthday and thank you cards too.

Today's  card share is a cute little birthday card I created using one of my favourite stamps company Tiddly Inks.

This cute little image was coloured using my Spectrum Noir markers and was matted onto a frame I cut out with my Cricut and the Elegant Edges cartridge. The back ground paper is from a Designer K and Co. paper pack Wild Safron. The sentiment is from a Wild Rose stamp set:  Birthday Circles
I added some glitter around the edge of stamped area and some clear Wink of Stella to her bow!!(You can never go wrong with glitter...lol :))  The pretty little flowers were cut from a MFT rolled roes die and inked around the edge with some Victorian Velvet Distress ink.

I hope that you are having a great week!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Getting Ready For Christmas!!!

These last couple of weeks have just been crazy for me! A friend's husband turned forty today actually, but she threw him a surprise party last Saturday, and she asked me to make him a cake.
They both love to play cards, so she asked me to make a poker themed cake. She sent me a picture to follow and this was my version of it:

It was a lot of fun to create, although I was really nervous when it came to covering it in fondant, I just felt really rusty....lol

This week I have been back to focusing on Christmas. I wanted to get a head start with my wrapping when I realized that we have a number of gift cards that we are giving away.
I always like doing something special for the gift cards, so I spent some time yesterday making some gift card holders.
Here is a video that I posted to YouTube, where I make a gift card holder:

I hope that you having a great day!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Christmas Treat Bags

Last night was the last night of our Church's kids program until the new year, so I wanted to make the girls in my group a little treat bag. I wanted it to be simple and have some meaning also :)

Here is what I came up with:

The blue base was embossed with the Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder, the star is from the Cricut cartridge Christmas and the sentiment is from the Scrappy Moms Winter Wishes stamp set.
I wanted to mention that I hid all of the intricate cuts on the star to help speed up the cutting and the assembling of the star. I was making enough that it would have been a very long process picking out all of the little pieces of paper on all of them...lol!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Baby Boy Card

A friend from church had a little baby boy about a week and a half ago, so I wanted to make her a card to go with the small gift we got for her.

I am so happy with how his card turned out :) I used the Lawn Fawn, Plus One stamp set for the cute mobile and sentiment, and the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge to cut out the scalloped oval and frame.




I coloured in the stars and moon with my Spectrum Noir markers and then added some Wink of Stella glitter to them. I stamped some little stars and hearts on the craft card stock with some Versa Mark ink.

I hope your having a great Tuesday!! Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl