Heating up Love with a Valentine Ornament

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Festive Friday #8 | Holiday Greetings

The Festive Friday Blog Hop is hosted by Terri Sproul. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year. If you reached this stop from Terri's Blog Terri Sproul , then you are in the right spot--she is also the beginning of the blog!

For this card:

Paris Trunk Walnut Ink

assorted punches for branches and berries
embossing folder
gold thread and wired ribbon
Bazzill Basics Card Stock
Coredinations Card Stock

Thank you for stopping by! The next stop on the hop is Chris! She always has great designs at Stinky Dog Designs!

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Festive Friday #1 2♥12 | Thanks SNOW much!

The Festive Friday Blog Hop is hosted by Terri Sproul. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year. If you reached this stop from Terri's Blog Terri Sproul , then you are in the right spot--she is also the beginning of the blog!

Yes, I just put away the holidays in my house last weekend...it was hectic, it was crazy and i didn't grumble too much! But...I know I need to get started on my cards to have some more for next year. It was so much fun making cards throughout the year and there are so many ideas out there that I have not tried! With the growth of pinterest, I am finding more and more talented card makers out there that inspire my own card making.

This week's card is cased from a Sharon Langford at Designs by Sharon. She used her electronic cutting device to create this super cute snow globe card that I have chosen to instead make using my circle cutter and punches! I added a sentiment to the card with a digi stamp from Digital Delights by Louby Loo. I made him a thank you card for those times during the holidays when you need a thank you! I hope you enjoy looking!

 The next stop on the hop is Chris! She always has great designs at Stinky Dog Designs!

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Festive Friday #22 | The Last Card

Welcome to Festive Friday #22!!! The last one! Wow this has flown by! On this the day after Thanksgiving, I want to say I'm thankful for meeting Terri Sproul and becoming involved with her enterprises! Through this blog hop I have many creative opportunities and have gained many new cyber friends in the papercraft world! For that I am truly appreciative!
The Festive Friday Blog Hop is hosted by Terri Sproul. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year.
If you reached this stop from Becky's blog BC Designs , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog

For this card I made 3-dimensional ornaments with my filigree flower punch. I zentangled the sentiment Joy and added bling to the ornaments for that extra sparkle! :)

Thank you so much for stopping by!! I hope you enjoyed my card! Now back to our regularly scheduled hop! The next stop on the hop is Laura Fisher's blog. If you get lost on the way, the entire list is below!

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Gill's Fairy Day Blog Hop Day 1 | Fairy Card

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Good Morning and welcome to Gill's Fairy Day Blog hop Day 1. This is a 2 day hop for 24th and 25th of June where the line up on both days is different--I am participating on both days so come back for more tomorrow!

If you arrived here from Anita's blog then you are in the right spot! If you joined in randomly, you may start at the top of the hop here!

The theme of this hop is FAIRY Day so what we are doing on this hop is bringing together a select few people from all over the world to take part and for them to create a project with a fairy or fairies on it.

This is a differnt kind of hop as along the hop there are letters to find in the postings - not all blogs have the letters but if you gather all the letters then at the end of the hop on day 2 assemble them to create a fairy related word. If you then return to my blog and enter the Mr Linky at the bottom of the post (do not reveal the secret word yet). After the hop i will contact someone at random and ask them to email me with the word - if correct they win some lovely candy from Gill.

For my first project I did a punch-art fairy! I LOVE fairies and I love love love doing punch art!!

I love doing paper piecings with punchies!

For this card I used Bazzill Basics and DCWV Pocket Full of Posies Stack, ribbon, and EK Success [hearts, circles, word window] and Marvy [scalloped circle] Punches, and chalk and Millenium Pens.

I hope you enjoy my fairy card! I really appreciate you stopping by! I would appreciate it if you would leave a comment or follow me if you enjoyed what you see!

Now back to the hop -Gill has hidden a number of letters throughtout the hop over both days. I personally do not have a letter on my stop but there are some hidden nearby! Remember to collect all the letters from the hop (they will appear over the 2 days) and assemble to form a fairy related word then return to Gill's blog at the end of the 2 day hop and enter the Mr linky (not revealing the word) for your chance to win candy.

The next stop on the hop is : Jackie! Hop on over to see her wonderful creations!

Here is a sneak peek of what is to come tomorrow!! Can't wait to share these ideas!

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Guest Designer Craft Us Crazy Week #8|Favorite Embellishment and/or Something New

If you are looking for my Weekly Challenge for Digital Delights by Louby Loo, look here.

It is my EXTREME pleasure to be a Guest Designer for the biweekly challenge over at Craft Us Crazy. They offer challenges for all sorts of crafting~not just cards! You're welcome to use any and all company brands and products. They love to see all walks of crafts ...decoupage, stamping (Rubber or Digital), altered, 3D, LOs, Die cut projects, anything as long as its made by your talented hands and it follows the Challenge theme!!! How great is that!

This weeks challenge is sponsored by Digital Delights by Louby Loo and is to use your FAVORITE EMBELLISHMENT and/or SOMETHING NEW!! Anyone who knows me knows my FAVORITE embellishment is GLITTER!!! A close second on embellishments is punchies and bling!

New Car by DigitalDelightsbyLoubyLoo

For this card:
ALL DDSTAMPS USED: New Car
CS AND PAPERS: SU cardstock and Bazzill Basics Cardstock
MARKERS (if any): BIC Mark-Its
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Glitter, basic grey Bling, flocking, SU flower punches, Diamond Glaze, Extreme Glitter Paint

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I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for stopping by!

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Weekly Challenge | Must Use Flowers!

Good Morning! What a wonderful spring day and for this week's Delightful Challenges, your creation must use flowers!!
For my 6×6" card I did a masking technique in the freeware program GIMP to place the bride and groom inside the oval frame. I accented the frame and the bride's veil with ultrafine glitters. The flowers are punched from Stampin' Up punches and burnished with a large ball embossing tool. They are adhered to the card with 3D Zots and blinged out with crystal bling and flower brads.
Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoy!

True Love Bride and Groom Card with Digital Images by Digital Delights by Louby Loo

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Wedding & Anniversary Sentiment, #Wedding03 Bride and Groom, Scalloped Frames Set

CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics and Spring Weave Digital Paper Pack

MARKERS: BIC Mark-its
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Chalk, Glitter, SU Punch, bling, brads
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES:  Masking with GIMP

Join us at Delightful Challenges because you could possibly win and be able to purchase your own adorable stamps and papers at Digital Delights by Louby Loo as this weeks challenge is sponsored by:

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Warm Wishes!

As we get some chilly weather here in Texas, it reminds me of a cute snowman tag I did back in December for my papercrafty pal Kinder Stampo's Tag Swap the theme was "Wishing you a pink winter wonderland."

This 3½" wide tag is acryllic embossed with Stampin' Up's Northern Flury Textured Impressions Embossing folder on the Sizzix Big Shot Express. The cardstock is Bazzill Bling, and white with some Die Cuts With a View Embedded Glitter Paper. The brads were also Bazzill. The nameplate diecut was a Sizzix Die. The punches were various Marvy and EK Success Punches in my collection. The fibers and ribbon were miscellaneous finds at local discount and craft stores. The beads were from Fire Mountain Gems and Crazy Crow. The Turquoise ink--Bic. Adhesive was Xyron 250 and Zip Dry! Both are great for adhering paper to acryllic. Thank you for looking!

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Turkey Napkin Rings

directions to follow...

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