Love is in the air!

Good morning!  If you are like us and in the Northeast you are digging out from under another foot of snow.  Yes, that makes 3.5 feet for us, at least in our part of the state.  Cleaning up from that when everyone in your family is getting over the flu is not a pretty site.  I love my family.  With a lot of cooperation and pushing through the dregs of this dreaded illness we have almost cleared spaces for the cars to go in and out!  Joy.  Love.  How is that for a segue?  Ha.

So Joy has challenged the Riley and Company design team to make something with a LOVE theme.  I really liked the Love More sentiment from the latest release, but wasn't sure how to use it.  Then, I remembered the 3D ornaments everyone was making at Christmas time and thought I could do something like that, only with cut-out hearts instead of ornament shapes.  Here's how it came out:

My daughter is such an awesome crafter.  She helped with the sponging!  Here's a close up:

I would like to add this to the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe Crafts - hearts
Crafty Boots Challenge - hearts and Valentines

Dream Valley - Valentine's Day
Whoopsie Daisy - Pretty in Pink

Please head on over to the other DT blogs to check out their creations:

Frances          Heather    Jackie            Joy

Kelli             Monica     Sandye          Vera 

Have a great week and good luck unburying from the snow!

I'm hostessing an outdoor winter activity challenge!

Good morning!  My card today reaches you during sub-zero temperatures....brrr, and totally appropriate!  Today I am hosting a challenge over at the Riley and Company blog.  The subject of your card or project should be "outdoor winter activity."  Mine feels icy and cold...just like my fingers.

The stamp I have used is called Ice Fishing Riley and Percy and can be found HERE at the Riley and Company store. I colored the image with my copics and cut it out with scissors on the bottom and the paper cutter on the rest.  I really like to do this as I think it adds a little visual appeal. Once the image was adhered to the card I used crystal effects on the ice fishing hole to make it glossy.

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

Hiding in my Craft Room - color it
Chocolate, Coffee, Cards - no circles

Please, also take some time to bop on over to the rest of the design teams' blogs and check out their creations.

Frances          Heather    Jackie            Joy

Kelli             Monica     Sandye          Vera 

Have a great week.....and stay warm!

Happy January!

I can't believe that the holidays flew by so fast!  Everything should just slow down already!  

Well, we are off to a new year at Riley and Company, with plenty of humor to start you off right!  Monica has challenged us to create a food or drink themed card.  Very appropriate seeing as how we have consumed lots of that lately! lol

I have used stamps from the December release:  Mister Coffee and Coasters.  You can find them HERE and HERE at the Riley and Company Store.

My goal for this year is to enter more challenges, so to that end....I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

ABC Challenges - A is for anything goes
Crafty Hazelnuts - anything goes with patterned paper
Sweet Stamps - food and drink

Make sure you head to see the rest of the design team's awesomeness!  Here are the links:

Frances          Heather    Jackie            Joy

Kelli             Monica     Sandye          Vera 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!