Happy Valentine's Day !!!

Happy Valentine's Day!  Here's a card I put together this a.m. for DH.  

Just some brown card stock, patterned paper, inked around the edges; a paper doily (I cut away the outside) and pearl bling.  It's a sunny beautiful winter's day but not for long.  Apparently there's more snow on the way tomorrow.   DS is scheduled to go on a snow boarding field trip tomorrow with his school mates - we'll see how that pans out.  Here's an interesting photo - I was digging through my bookshelves yesterday and came across some old craft magazines my Mom gave me - this one belonged to my grandmother.  I enjoy looking through them every now and then - advertisements, recipes, craft ideas.  1966 - I was only 4 years old!!  

Card making directions 1966.  No picture  :)

Pre-Swiffer.  Love it!  LOL

Have a great day!  Easy on the chocolate!    ;c)  Jackie

Valentine I'm Wild for You ----- Bee Mine!

This card was inspired by a card (and stamp) I saw on the.Toyrifix blog - Jan 5/11 "Love is in the Air"

This is my very own design.

Here's a cute card which has been in my stash for a few months and with everyone out in the blogosphere posting Valentine's Day cards I thought I would post one too  :-)      This was my own design and the "Wild For You" sentiment was picked up in the Michael's $1.50 bin.  The beige cardstock was stamped with black ink using a kissing lips stamp; Martha Stewart lace border punch; pearl bling; and black ribbon.   Till next time!

Cards & Tags

A very quick post tonight...some new cards.  Christmas, birthday/valentines/hubby card.  I'm proud of my dress card - absolutely my own.  I'll add more this weekend.

I Love You....Valentine

A simple Valentine card.  I cased this from a website this afternoon....I can't remember where, but her's was red/pink/white.   What caught my eye was the use of scoring the white part of the card...and it's simplicity.   The picture doesn't really do it justice.  Clean, neat and pretty.  Cheers - J.

Wild for you! {and other sentiments}

Spent my day just fooling around and playing with my papers, glitter, scissors and ribbon (and glue and more paper and ...... well you get the idea - :o)

A few more Valentine's Day goodies came out of the crafting and so did a Halloween one! I couldn't help it as I love Halloween (and FALL!). The card stock came from pieces that have been lying around waiting to be created into a cute favour! If you'd like the instructions, please email me or leave a comment. The only thing I'm not really happy about is the quality of my pictures. I'm no expert, but I know the lighting could be better - these little guys really do look cute and the pictures don't do them justice.

I'm designing and making the favours and table centrepieces for my friend's wedding in August. I worked up some samples for her yesterday, gave them to her and forgot to take pictures! Anyway - that's where the idea for these other favours came from. Cheers 'til next time - Jackie.

Valentine's Cards

Into the Valentine's spirit, I made three cards today. I have but the most basic of supplies - I was pleased with the outcome. The little cupid stamp was my inspiration to make these cards - I thought he was so cute. I stamped him, and coloured with markers - and used stardust Stickles for his wings. I didn't have a large circle punch so I used a template I found. The cardstock I had on hand...basic white and what i call raspberry pink and found some paper to coordinate with each. Both ribbons were purchased at Wal-Mart, the "I Love You" stamp I picked up at Michael's last week for $1.50. I hope you like them - I enjoyed making them today. As I'm getting over a nasty 5-day cold, it was nice to have some down time to do some crafting.
Cheers - Jackie

You're the best cupcake!

I got this pattern from Scrapchick (Friday Freebie) recently and thought I'd try out a few tags. Finished these Sunday night past, but haven't had a chance to upload the pictures for you. Hope you enjoy! Cheers - Jackie

Valentine Projects

I've been trying to come up with some ideas for Valentine's...here are a couple.

This easy and quick project is a teacher treat bag using some small paper bags I had left over from Halloween. I cut a piece of ivory card stock 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" and sponged it with chocolate brown ink then cut a piece of 2" x 3" black card stock for the blackboard. I used double sided tape to attach the blackboard to the ivory card stock, then to the bag.

The apple punch was borrowed from my sister - check out her website at www.justscraps.ca. I attached my green and red apples in different places, punched a hole in the top of my bag and added the ribbon for a decorative touch. Voila! I think they look cute. Fill with homemade fudge wrapped in cellophane and give as teacher gift bags any time of the year, a teacher's birthday, get well soon. halloween....use your imagination!

I designed the key shaped tag - with a little help from my husband. His idea was to put the heart at the end of the key. I think it's pretty good! I used ivory card stock and with brown chalk gave it some depth. These cute little tags could be used on a gift bag, bottle of wine, used to embellish a card or a scrapbooking page. The pattern can be downloaded at www.paperandpiecings.com for just $1.00.

Hope you enjoy my ideas and can use them for some of your crafting projects! Cheers 'til next time.