My heart seemed full as it could hold

I’ve got a little banner to share today featuring the gorgeous A Heart for You Rio from Simply B Stamps.

And here’s a close-up of the beautiful image.

It’s a Valentine banner, but you guessed that right?  I’ve used dies from the December Club La-La Land kit as well as the idea for the banner from the included project.  I love the dies in these kits they are just awesome.

Given the theme of my banner I am entering it in the current challenge over at Creative Corner.  It is going to form part of the decorations of an office for Valentine’s Day, I’m turning the office into the “tunnel of love” in revenge for the occupant (a male manager at work) covering my desk with glitter balls for Christmas.  As a crafter I’d never inflict glitter on someone’s workspace, I’m still trying to get the glitter off so he must pay and what better way than having to work in an office decorated like the tunnel of love?!

My project is clearly not a card so I’m also entering it in current challenge at C.R.A.F.T. challenges.  Love to Scrap is running a challenge asking you to use at least one item starting with an initial of their name.  I have “L” covered with the word love, “T” for twine, “S” for sentiment and “B” for blossoms.  I almost had a clean sweep but I just couldn’t think of anything starting with “C” to add to my banner.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E33, E37, 0

Lips R24, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit N5, N7, N9, R24, R29, R46, R59, R89, T6, T8, T10, 100

Heart E08, E33, E35, E47, R05

Dove C0, C1, C3, R0000, R000, R00

Chalks & Powders etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder ~ Candy Cane Red Gold

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

La-La Land ~ Heart Header Border, I {heart} You Sentiment, Love Owl Tag & Open Hearts Banner (December Club La-Land kit)

Embellishments

Prima Flowers ~ Peaceful Sarasota

Inks & Paints etc

Smooch Glitz ~ Firecracker

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Red

Blue Fern Studio Sanctuary ~ Conservatory

Ribbons & Trims etc

Twine from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ A Heart for You Rio (retired)

Challenges

Creative Corner ~ Love is in the air

C.R.A.F.T. #293 ~ Not a Card

Love to Scrap #45 ~ Initial Challenge of 2015 (use at least one item starting with L,T,S,C or B)

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers…

There are a couple of ladies on the Simply B Stamps’ Fan Page who are fighting cancer so a group of us are making cards to brighten their day and here is my first featuring Go Pink Betty.

I’ve done the card up in white and teal as they are the colours for cervical cancer, which Rachel sadly has and kept it fairly CAS.  CAS is the current theme at Crafting When We Can so I’m entering it in there.

I tried to do the butterflies on the teal paper in white but I didn’t have any other white ink pad handy other than my StazOn and I think it dried up so they are sparkly but not white and a bit hard to see.  They are, however, embossed so I am entering this in the current challenge at Time Out.

To jazz it up a bit I did add some extra sparkle and bling in the Sparklets, with those I have the twist for the Time Out challenge and also meet the theme for Fairytale Stampers' current challenge so am also entering my card there.  I swapped the sentiment element for my Sparklets as I used a Tim Holtz Word Band instead of a ribbon slide; I thought the sentiment was fitting.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E23, E25, E27, E30

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit BG11, BG49, BG53, BG57

Chalks & Powders etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder ~ Magic Moon Pearls

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Sparklets ~ Sea Breeze

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Word Bands

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Peacock Feathers

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Pine Needles

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Coconut

Ribbons & Trims etc

White Ribbon from stash (coloured with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink)

Stamps

Marion Smith Designs ~ Mad Tea Party Curious (Butterfly)

Simply B Stamps ~ Go Pink Betty

Challenges

Crafting When We Can 83 ~ Clean and Simple 
Fairytale Stampers #48 ~ Bling Bling: Glitter

Time Out #19 ~ Embossing with the optional twist of sparkle

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Wolves may lurk in every guise!

There’s a fabulous new release of Teen Scene images ready for Halloween, Spooky Teens, from Simply B Stamps and I’ve got Big Bad Wolf Chris on my card.

To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch over at Cheerful Sketches.  I’m loving all the layers, which allowed me to use a range of papers and patterns to jazz up my card without the need for embellishments.  Which was just perfect as I’m planning this for one of my male friends hence the no embellies or frills and the good, solid manly image.  As this card is for a male I’m also entering it in the current challenge at Chocolate, Coffee & Cards.

It’s the right season and this is the right image for a Halloween card and I do love to make Halloween cards.  And what better colour to go with this image than orange.  As I have both Halloween and orange I’ve got both themes for Simply Create Too’s current challenge so I’m also linking up my card over there.

Now it’s also Day8 over at SBS’s 13 Days of Halloween where the theme is embossing, either wet or dry.  I’ve used both on my card, creating a cool bit of background paper using an embossing folder and then adding some colour with ink and embossing powder.  I’ve also used embossing powder to highlight some of the lettering on another piece of paper.  I took the sentiment that comes with Big Bad Wolf Chris and printed it several times on a piece of coloured paper and added in some fangs.  With my trusty VersaMarker I then went and traced over the bits I wanted to emboss, sprinkled on some embossing powder, blitzed it with my heat gun and voilà, the perfect sentiment and background paper combination.

To join in the fun of the 13 Days of Halloween and to see the rest of the images in the awesome Spooky Teens collection head on over to the SBS blog.

Ingredients:

Copics

Fur E30, E31, E33, E34, E35, E37

Eyes E21, E23, E29

Ear, Nose & Mouth R000, R01, R02

Hair E49, E53, E55, E57, E59

Outfit N4, N6, N8, YR12, YR14, YR16, YR18, YR68, 110

 Chalks & Powders etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder ~ Byzantine Bronze

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder ~ Cape Cod

Inks & Paints etc

Prima Ingvild Bohme Chalk Ink ~ Rusty Keys

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Rusty Hinge & Walnut Stain

Papers

Christina Re Shimmer Cardstock ~ Pearl

Echo Park Apothecary Emporium ~ Wicked Potions

Echo Park Chillingsworth Manor ~ Orange

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Licorice

We R Memory Keepers Black Widow ~ Happy Halloween

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Big Bad Wolf Chris

Challenges

Cheerful Sketches ~ Sketch #17

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards #76 ~ For the Boys

Simply Create Too #72 ~ “Halloween or use lots of orange”

Thanks for stopping by!