Happy Valentine's Day!

Here are more of my "cheater cards"...LOL! I think these embellishments are so pretty...I would be happy to receive a card with these on them. Like I say to my husband when I am using my iPhone to look up words to use on my Scrabble game on my iPad, I am just using my resources! He says I am cheating.

I put little messages inside each card and used a stamp on each of the envelope to coordinate with the card. Now, I need to find the "safe place" where I put Jackson's card and outfit for his Valentine! It is owl themed and I will have photos of him in the outfit....provided I find that "safe place".....hmmmmm!

Valentine Cards

I mentioned in an earlier post that I received a lovely valentine from my friend, Tina. Here it is. She commented that she designed this card the week we were snowed/iced in here in Atlanta, so she had to "make do" with what she had on hand....hate to see what she would come up with if she went to the store and chose materials! LOL! Tina is the queen of layering. I counted twelve layers on this card, beginning with the Happy Valentines banner that she cut out by hand back to the actual card! I told her I had heard of seven layer salads, but a twelve layer card? Just lovely! I gave her the chain punch from MSC that she has the little hearts on (covering the flower) for her birthday and she put it to good use. Thanks, Tina!

My cards are a little simpler! I did several of the quilted ones like below. I used paper, stamps and embellishments from We R Memory that were all coordinated. I guess that is cheating to use coordinated things, but something about it reminded me of the days of getting the box of Valentines back in my childhood and going through and choosing certain ones for certain people.

For my quilt, I did my pieced quilt, quilted with gutter guard and then used Spellbinderders heart as the frame. I have several of these heart die from the time there was a mess up on the die and I was on the DT and working at CHA, so I was able to cut four frames at a time in my Excalibur! I thought the embossed embellishments that We R Memory had to go with the papers and stamps were very pretty....and simple to put together in a card. Makes me feel a little guilty after seeing Tina's beautiful layered card...oh well, I will get over it!

Hope everyone has a great Valentine's Day....more cards to come!

Valentines

Well, my two faithful friends came through and when I got home from being out of town and got my bundle of mail, there were two lovely cards from them. Not only do they usually send cards, but they actually do them early! I tried to put mine in the mail today to them, but I guess the postman came early due to the snow we were expecting (and are getting!). Oh well, mine will be late but I wanted to share theirs with you.
It is uncanny how similar their color schemes are this year. Tina did a quilt card above. I had not done one with a diamond in the center.
She always decorates the envelopes too as you can see.

Above is the card from my friend Kathy. I love the punch she used along the edge...I will have to ask who makes it! The hedgehog is so cute with his heart boxer shorts! I like the way the bundle of twine goes with the texture of the hedgehog. Great job, ladies! I took down my Christmas cards and have these two displayed by my front door.

I went to my Joanns etc today (Duluth, GA) and it had shrunk!!! It was half the size it was in December! They had put up a wall in the center and consolidated everything on one side. How sad! Especially after my Hobby Lobby and Michaels have both been gone for over two years! Oh well....guess I don't need a lot of stuff anyway, but these stores were so convenient.

While there, I noticed paper that reminded me of the strip quilting. I thought of Tina's card so I bought some and made a card. I used my new double loops Martha Stewart Crafts punch. It was so pretty after I punched around the page, I hated to put anything on top of it!

Below, you can see how the quilt card is pieced. Instead of strips, I used triangles with a square in the center. I used sticky label paper to mount it on, though that is not necessary.

It is snowing to beat the band here. Unfortunately, we have a funeral to go to tomorrow afternoon for a dear lady at church. Hopefully, the sun will melt any ice on the roads. I had missed seeing my neighbor since the first of the year and I learned this week that he slipped on the snow/ice we had the first week of January (when I was doing the wedding) and broke his leg. He had to have surgery on it.

Be careful and have a great Valentines Day!