Be The Most

Isn't this a cute card to give to a child (one of my grands) to encourage them to be a bright spot in someone's life?  I felt like coloring yesterday and also knew I wanted to use an image and sentiment about color.  This is an image and sentiment by a company no longer in business.

The splashes and splotches of color are stamps from a Joy Clair stamp set done with Distress Oxide inks.  The cup and contents are colored with Copics and Prisma pencils, cut with Elizabeth Crafts Stitched Oval die.
The tag is cut with a Spellbinder die.
MFT Sketch:

Challenges:

MFT Color Challenge 

 MFT Sketch
Simon Wednesday - layers
House that Stamps Built - anything
Scrapyland - anything
Time Out - each day is a gift. open, celebrate, enjoy
Word Art Wednesday - anything
7 Kids - anything
Daily Marker - 30 days color challenge
CardzTV - anything

Coloring For Fun

Most of the cards I have made lately have had little if no coloring.  I took some time yesterday to sit and color with Copics and Prisma Pencils and using a new stamp set from Joy Clair.

I love the colors at the MFT color challenge so I used those for this whimsy bouquet.  After coloring the flowers and jar, I cut out a jar from a window sheet to put on top the stamped jar.
I used a Spellbinder die for cutting the rounded rectangle.  The banner is MFT die.
 The sketch :

Challenges:
MFT sketch
MFT color challenge

Simon Wednesday - layers
Daily Marker - 30 day coloring challenge
Cardz TV - anything
7 Kids - anything 

Hug In A Mug

Another Valentines.  Love this rosy patterned paper for the background.  I found another piece of paper (dots) in my stash that blended well too.

I used (but tweaked) one of the sketches/ card maps at Power Poppy, putting the sentiment on a ribbon below the square. 

The sentiment is a Stamploration die which I used to cut out some metallic gold paper.  The same paper is used behind the heart on the cup and behind the white square.  The cup, steam, and heart on front of the cup are cut with the Silhouette.  The dotted heart behind the cup is a die by an unknown company.
The cup is popped up with dimensional tape.  The ribbon, which has a sheen to it IRL, is recycled from a Christmas present.
I really love how this turned out; the photo does not do it justice as is so often the case.

Challenges:
Crop Stop - anything
CardzTV - anything
Power Poppy - use page maps
Simon Wednesday - layers
Cutploration - colors in photo

Stamploration Never Ending challenge

The House That Stamps Built - anything

Casing From Pinterest

I pinned a card quite some time ago so as I was looking through my collection, I saw this and knew it was a good Valentine to make this year.  Using Kraft for the envelopes, it could go to a boy or girl but I wanted it for a "non-frilly" granddaughter.   I used a Darice Hearts embossing folder to add a little feminine touch.

Each little card fits into each envelope so the flaps will be shut when received.
The red letters, and double heart are all Cuttlebug dies.
Making these cute little envelopes was another "new" for me.  I am on a roll so far this year with trying new things.  Having fun venturing out into the unknown!

Challenges:
Tuesday Thowdown - anything
Time Out - Each day is a gift. Open, celebrate, enjoy.
Crop Stop - anything 
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Dies R Us - cards for kids
CardzTV - anything
Simon Wednesday - layers

Pop Out Valentine

Here is one of my "try a new technique" cards.

I used one of the card maps at Power Poppy.

I like the outside with the washi tape, funky paper, and die cut hearts but the inside is the really fun part I had never tried before:

Eight panels of the heart attached in the middle of two full hearts. 
The sentiment on the front is cut out with a SU punch.

Challenges:
Power Poppy - pagemaps
Tuesday Throwdown - anythimg
Simon Wednesday - add a sentiment
CardzTV - anything
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Joy Clair - pop out card

If You Mustache

Valentines for the men in my life - difficult.  S this year I am giving 5 sons (and SIL's) the same card.  Well, not the SAME card - haha .  I made 5 of the same type of card.  I had already made a card for one SIL or else he would get the same type too.  Making the same card five times definitely simplified things.  And besides, I like this card so much I decided, "Why not give them all the same?"

I started with heart shapes on the computer and then added the mustache digital stamp (Doodle Pantry).  I originally wanted to cut the hearts out and have the mustache over the negative space but I wasn't willing to fussy cut all those mustaches (15 in all).  Second choice was to us a Copic and draw a line of color within the heart shape.  (If you can outline something, can you inline it?)
The sentiment is my own also done on the computer and then cut out with a Spellbinder die.
The background paper is Doodle Pantry.  Black fiber ribbon is from the Kraft Outlet.
Distress ink is Tim Holtz Tea Dye.
The hardest part of this card was lining up the hearts and spacing them and the mustaches equally.
Because I could make only 4 cards with one sheet of BG paper (8 x 10),  I printed a darker version for my second sheet.  Here is that card:

I like both of them.  Here is the inside which I also printed on the computer and then just added astamped  SU heart.

And the sketch I used for the front of the card is at Sketch Saturday.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday
Cuttlebug - valentines
Scrapyland - spellbinder
Tuesday Throwdown - distress
Stamploration - stamps and curves
Stamploration CAS

7 kids - anything
Daily Marker - 30 day challenge
Simon Wednesday - add a sentiment

Multi-tasking Glitch

Sometimes when I talk to a certain person on the phone, I do other things while I listen because actually I don't do much talking, just listening.  The tendency for this person is to go on and on and also to repeat a lot.  So while I was listening yesterday, I was also browsing through other blogs.  I saw this cute idea, thinking I would come back to it.  That is where the glitch came in - I couldn't remember what blog I saw the idea on.  So take note that this is not my original idea and I know the card I saw yesterday was cuter than mine.  This one is okay but I liked the other one better.
Win some, lose some.  I think my three year old grandson will like it though.

Stitched heart dies are an unknown company.  The circle for the head is one of the Circle Stax dies by MFT Die-namics.  Glasses are Impression Obsession. Clouds are Memory Box and MFT. Grass is really an Icicle die by MFT which I love using for grass.

Challenges:
Dies R Us - cards for kids
Cuttlebug Mania - Valentines
Simon Wednesday - add a sentiment
Stamploration - curves and stamps
Scrapyland - anything