My Valentine!

My first Valentines with Eddy! :) Gosh I love that man...plain and simple...just love him to bit and pieces!

Making this LO just made me smile the whole time!

Flowers - prima and kaiser

Butterflies - MStewart puch as well as MStewart heart glitter trails behind them

Envie/card - MStewart vellum valentines card set

My Valentine letters - DaisyD's

PP - BoBunny

XOXO punch MStewart as well

(Wal-mart was clearing out MStewart items after Valentines for 75% off...I couldn't help myself!)

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p.s. we were on the golf course at Crown Isle for our first Valentines together....so romantic...walking and playing in the sun together!

DARE grad

Well it was Zoe's turn to participate in the DARE program at school. They offer it to the grade 6 kids....get them while they are young...turn them against a life of crime and drugs!!! YAY!

I was excited to use the tissue flowers that I handmade.

The DARE is chipboard letters with gold embossing.

The black they are on is also chipboard.

The black bling I actually used a template and marked the swirls then added the bling one bling at a time ;)

The funniest part about this LO is the photo itself....not sure if you picked up on it yet or not but Zoe is holding the certificate upside down! LOL Her and I had a great laugh in my craftroom when we were looking at the LO I was creating with it! The reason being I believe is because she was the second kid called up so I didn't get a shot of her with the RCMP member....so after it was all said and done I asked if he could pose with her for a picture (as I'm a scrapbooker and NEED a photo) so he agreed...I basically pushed Zoe over to him and she scrambled to grab her certificate...without even looking at it (either of us) she held it up...I snapped the picture and off we went on our merry way....not until yesterday (after photo development and everything!) did we notice the funny certificate! Makes life priceless doesn't it!

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Perfectly Purple!

Last night I created one last card before I went off to dreamland. I incorporated two challenges.

First challenge was a sketch challenge from Gloria at Canadian Scrap, Swap & Chat

Second challenge was a color challenge from ppc-challenges

So without further delay...here's my card :)

I embossed the two little sticks poking down.

I cut out the scalloped circles with my nestabilities.

The Sweet Ebony, from The Greeting Farm, is the image that I won when I played on the Oh Alice! blog challenge, I colored her with my copics.

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Lisa spoils Lisa

This is what I spoilt myself with this month.....shhhhhh don't tell Eddy!!! (sorry the pics are all sideways and upside down...I think it's cause I took them with my iPhone....darn Eddy taking his camera home...darn Summer taking her's to camp) geesh ;)

2 stickles

2 spools wire

1 hockey embellie

MM paper and ribbon slot punching tool

2 Tim's distress paint (clearance)

1 Tim's distress ink (coupon used)

1 bottle flowers (on sale)

2 Studio G stamps (one coupon used)

1 Tim's swivel clasps set (on sale for 2.49!)

2 packs cards/envies (clearance)

3 sheets pp for current projects!

70 sheets of cs (all on clearance!)

Hey the way I look at it....the world can be happy I only have one addiction and it doesn't hurt anyone!

You all know what I mean right?? ;) lol

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Off to play in my room!

Roses!

Wow....watching "how to" video's can sure get in my way of doing laundry! Yikes! Oh well...the laundry will still be there tomorrow! Today was flowers! Here's some roses that I made. Yes another YouTube video inspiration! Fun fun!

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Tissue Flowers

Well today I continued with my "playing", trying to learn some new tricks. I watched a bunch of video's on youtube about flower making because I'm in a homemade flower swap. I'm sorry but I can't find the same youtube video to give the lady that showed how to make tissue flowers the proper credit, but just know this is not my idea!

So the first thing to do was fold your tissue paper and place your diecuts on it, I think I folded the one full sheet about 4 or 5 times. I taped down the dies to hold them in place then ran them thru the cuttlebug.

This was the result of cutting them out, two flowers, with about 8 layers of each size, simple & easy...just the way I like it. So the next step was to use your paper piercer and make a hole in the middle for your brad to go thru and hold the flower together.

Once this was done I scrumpled up the flower but it wasn't feeling "complete" to me....so I took the experiment a bit further. I used my mini mister by Ranger and added water, drops of Cranberry Alcohol Ink, and then a mini scoop of Perfect Pearls Bronze. Spritzing on the tissue paper was kinda scary because it looks like it's going to turn to one big soppy mess...but then I took my heat gun out and it dried so crisp and it even curled in all the right places. I'm so happy I experimented with the spritzing!

I took a photo of before and after the water addition...I think it gives it that extra shine! They do look way better in real life...and I was taking the pictures with my iPhone (Summer is away at camp with her camera!)

I think I may switch gears with my flower swap flowers and give these a go instead....we'll see...I'm a "changing my mind often" kinda girl ;) lol

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Flower swap

Well I joined up for a homemade flower swap.....then Dolly posted the examples and I almost died! They are soooo pretty...oh boy I thought...so I went on youtube and watched video after video on flower making! lol This is the one that I liked the best and figured would be the easiest (because I can use the cricut) to make multiples of them!

Let me know what you think!

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