Twofer Challenge!

Hello my crafty friends, I hope everyone is having a wonderful hump day. It is a grey cloudy one here as we get ready for some snow to come in tomorrow night. So I'm hunkering down today and tomorrow I will go out for lunch and a movie with a friend, then hunker back down as more bad weather is coming for the weekend. So y'all stay safe if you are in the path of bad weather.

I wanted to try and join in on the Twofer challenge this month. I'm happy to say I got two cards made! The prompt this month as you can see if birds. This one was a hard one at first for me, but then something pinged and away I went on making them both. As always my supplies will be listed down in the recipe section. 

As always, your comments bring so much sunshine and happiness to my life. and I thank you for taking the time to visit me.  Again I am behind with commenting but hope to catch up today. Happy week everyone!

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
My Creative time "Heart Love Note Dies" for the heart on card one
Maymay Made It for the "Love" sentiment on card one
My Creative Time "Already Missing You" stamp and die set for both cards
My Creative Time  "Celebrate Good Times" for the sentiment on card two
Stampin' Up "Botanical Blooms" stamp and die set for card two
Distress Oxide Inks
Hero Arts Unicorn White ink
Stampin' Up Botanical paper stack

Monster Hugs

Hello my crafty friends, I hope you are all well and not snowed or iced in! I am iced in. So much ice so I haven't even gotten my mail all week. Started with snow on Superbowl Sunday, then that turned to freezing rain which made a mess out of the snow. It was crunchy, but I could at least get a footing on it and got my trash out Tuesday morning. I think that morning I grabbed Monday's mail, but the rest is out in the box. Then on Wednesday, we had freezing rain again. Was supposed to have snow, but no snow came, only freezing rain. So the ice on my patio-where I have to walk to get to my garage is all ice, the driveway is all ice, the trees are all ice....so guess who isn't going anywhere?!! Roads are nice and clear though. lol I tried going out today and scrapping the ice off with the ice scrapper, but it isn't budging until it melts some. Sooo....I have some cards to share.

Well I'm at it again! Yep, I CASE'd Faith over at Daffodil Cards. She had the cutest little monster card (see it here) and I just had to case it for my Valentine's for my nephew's and one granddaughter. Please go over and check out Faith's blog, she makes the most amazing cards and even colors them digitally! I'm totally blown away at how she does that. So anyway here is my take on her monster card.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look see, your visits always bring much needed sunshine to my life! Can you believe it is almost Valentine's?!! The 13th would have been late hubby and mine's 25th anniversary. Hard to believe he has been gone for over 2 years now. I'd like to say it is better-some ways it is, some not so much so. But life goes on so I put a smile on my face and go along with it. Now I'm off to see what critter's I have in my stash as Michele wants me to play along in a challenge. I also have to get my Snippet's Playground card posted as well. Much to do so had better get busy.

I also have some things to mail out to some friends. And I will get them in the mail as soon as I can get out to the mail box! lol They are ready to go, it's just getting past the ice, which I am hoping will melt this weekend as we are supposed to be above freezing. Lord I hope so!

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
Monsters and hearts-Print and Cut feature of the Cricut as is the sentiment.
Generic googly eyes
embossing folders

Happy Love Day

Hello my fabulous friends, I hope this Thursday finds you well and looking forward to maybe a delayed Valentine get-a-way or celebration. If not, then I hope you are able to snuggle down with your honey and enjoy a great weekend together!

These cards that I made were given to me as pre-made card bases with the "xoxo" and "heart" cut outs in them. I just jazzed them up a bit. I don't like them, but don't hate them either. Anyway they will do. I used washi tape once again to help dress them up. Wish I would have kept them more CAS but it is what it is now. sigh Well it is these first two that I don't like very well, the third card I made two of and I do love those two. I think this brings me up to 16 Valentines now.  

Thanks for coming by and visiting little ole' me for a spell. I so do love visitors! Your comments really do bring me so much joy and sunshine, especially this time of year when I can be melancholy. 

Edited this post cause I'm crazy and didn't know what day of the week it was! lol I was a day ahead, so I have fixed this post. Thanks Carol for letting me know! Yes, having only the dog to talk to has made me a little crazy I guess. lol Have a great Thursday!!!!

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
washi tape from my stash
My Creative Time stamps and dies
Embossing powder

You Are Loved So Very Much!

Hello everyone Happy Valentine's Day to all!!! I hope that this hump day finds you well and looking forward to some Valentine Day goodness with your honey. Not much happening around here. Still trying to get the crafty space done. Dragging my feet a good bit. Yesterday would have been Dwayne's and my 24th anniversary, so feeling a bit gloomy, but this shall pass. Dwayne wanted to get married on Valentine's Day, but it fell on a Sunday in 1993, so we chose the day before. Sure wish I could turn back time, but we can't so let's move forward. 

On to today's cards. They were Pinterest inspired too, well ok, not exactly inspired but I completely CASed (again) it with a few changes or add on's. You can find the original card HERE. I think that brings me up to 12 Valentine's now. Supplies listed below in the recipe area. 

As always I thank you so much for visiting with me for a spell! I love you all and your comments keep joy and sunshine in my heart!

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
My Creative Time-circles, hearts, sentiments and stitched heart impression
Waffle Flower for the polka dots
gold washi

Elephants in the Room!

Hello my crafty peeps! I hope your Sunday is going well! We finally got snow here last Thursday. Can you believe it?! lol We have been so blessed in Hanover PA as we have had a  mild winter with no plowable snows, until Thursday that is. I think it will be an early spring and I'm all for that even though it hasn't been a rough winter. 

So I have two adorable (at least I think so, lol) Valentines that I made for my two youngest grands. I completely CASed these cards I found on Pinterest. You can find the original HERE. They are the same but different. lol I used washi tape as well, whoot, whoot! Don't often use washi, but I love it. Ok, I think this puts me up to 10 Valentines to date!

Thanks for stopping by today and visiting with me a spell! I always love when visitors come. I will make sure to visit you too as I love visiting as well. Thanks for your sweet comments, they always bring pure sunshine and joy to my life! As always my recipe for this card is at the bottom of my post. 

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
My Creative Time for my little elephants and dies-elephants is a NBUS
Maymay Made It (NUBUS) & My Creative Time for my ink splatters
Waffle Flower Border sets for the polka dots
Gold washi tape
Zig's to color my elephants
My Creative Time for my hearts and banners

You Make My Heart Beep!

Hello my crafty friends, I hope this Friday finds you all well and excited to start the weekend! Have any fun plans for the weekend?? Not me, same ole, same ole. lol 

Today's card I made 4 of. So I think that brings us up to 12 cards so far. I'm so proud of myself for getting these cards done, for getting going on making cards. Now I just have to finish my room and start my scrapbooking. That won't happen as fast as I have a lot of crap, I mean stuff. lol 

I love this little 'bot, she is just so cute to me and there is a match boy 'bot too. I only used the girl one though. Once again, I used that stitched heart die to "emboss" the left side of the card. Simple once again, but I think cute. I plan on putting glossy accents on the eyes of the 'bot. I probably should put it on the arms and legs too. What do you think, just the eyes for everything but the dress??

As always I thank you for stopping by today and visiting a spell. Your comments always bring lots of joy and sunshine to my life. 

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
My Creative Time for the Robot
My Favorite Things for the heat
Zigs to color my 'bot with

Love

Hello my crafty friends, are you tired of me yet?!! lol I hope not because I have more to come before I disappear once again. lol I hope your week is going well and that you are looking forward to finishing up hump day and moving on to the downward slid to the weekend. 

I made two of these cards. I don't have this stamp set from SU, but a friend of mine does and she brought it a few years back and I'm just now getting around to using some of them. Well the "love" ones anyway. lol Very simple card design as I was just trying to get cards made, but hope that they aren't so plain that they are boring!! The 3 tiny red hearts are the negatives of the Simon Says heart from the first post with the stacking layers. So I think we are up to 8 Valentine cards now.

As always thanks for stopping to visit for a spell. Your comments always bring such joy and sunshine to my life! 

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
Stamp Up set for the "love"
Waffle Flower Border stamp set for the polka dots

You Make My Heart Beat

Hello my crafty friends, I hope this Monday finds you well and eager for the new week! As promised I'm back with another card. A Valentine card. I hope you don't get sick of them as I will be having more coming. lol  I only made one of this design. I love the stitched hearts on the side of the card, so pretty in real life! I kept my Valentine's simple this year to get them done quickly. All except for two, which you will see later.

As always I thank for for stopping by and visiting for a spell. Your comments always bring a lot of joy and sunshine to my life!

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
My Favorite Things stamp set for the heart beat and saying as well as the stamps hearts-NBUS
My Creative Time for the stitched hearts-NBUS

Stacking Layers

Hello my crafty friends, I have been on a card making marathon! I know, you are shocked aren't you?!! I made a lot of cards, which isn't like me at all, but I was on a roll. Now if I can get on a roll like that with my craft room redo I'd have it made. lol Hopefully that will kick in better to now. I have also been babysitting my little "almost" 3 year old granddaughter on the weekends while her parent paint. Savannah loves having Trinity over because she plays with her-they wear each other out which is good for me. lol 

Ok, on with the cards. I will be posting many posts by doing the cards in sections. Here are the first ones. Now I got the stacked background as an SVG file from Lori Whitlock. Love her designs!!! I fell in love with the stacked layers when Jennifer McGuire showed them but there was no way I was going to pay that much for a die. Then low and behold Lori Whitlock made SVG's like them! I was swooning and bought the whole lot! I think there is 13 in all, but don't hold me to that. I don't have all 13 here, as I only did a few of them in Valentine's. The rest I have ready to be made into another type of cards. I kept the stacking layers in all white, but I think they would look great in monochromatic colors as well and will be trying that out sometime. I put black on the backs of three of the stacked layers and love how it came out. The last two I put on a white card base keeping the card mostly white on white with a pop of red and black. I kept these simple because I wanted the focus to be on those stacking layers. So what do you think?!! Are you in love with these stacking layers as much as I am???

As always I thank you for stopping by and visiting with me for a spell! Your comments always bring joy and sunshine to my life! 

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
Lori Whitlock stacking layers SVG's-NBUS
My Creative Time-"love" hearts, love and the next to last heart dies
Simon Says-last heart die

Love Ya!

Hello my crafty friends, today is the day that I post over at Cardz TV Gallery. The following cards are the cards I made for my grandchildren using Mary's Cardz TV card kit and sketch one. This is such a fabulous idea Mary had and I am getting ready to get some kits made up again with sketch two. My plan is so make for each sketch to have on hand. I used the print and cut feature on my Explore to cut two of each image and then I pop dotted one on top of the other one. Then it was just a case of assembling after I had all my papers cut to size. I made two monkey card with different papers but didn't get a picture of the one. I think they turned out rather cute and my grandchildren loved them. The Cardz TV stamp set that I used is the Love Ya set. I used the "Sending hugs and kisses and Valentine wishes" on the inside of each card.  As always, thank you for stopping by and sitting a spell with me. I truly love the company and your sweet comments. They really do make my day!  Crafty hugs, Brenda

This card uses Cardz TV sentiment on the inside only. The outside sentiment is from My Creative Time.

Recipe:

Monkey-Create a Critter 2

Hands-Summer Love

Bird and Mail box-On Parade - City Icons

Robot-Robotz

sentiments-Cardz TV "Love Ya" stamp set

Robot sentiment-My Creative Time "Best Bots Forever" stamp and die set

hearts-punch in my stash"

label-SU word window punch

Chocolate...A Basic Necessity-BBTB2 Challenge

Hello my crafty friends, I hope your Monday is off to a great start. We had a very cold weekend here in Central PA with negative digits. More snow for today and supposed to change over to rain for Tuesday so they are already calling for heavy flooding. Not looking forward to that mess or the icy slush as it makes it to the change over. 

 I made it through another "first" without hubby. Friday into Saturday I was kept busy with 2 of my granddaughters. I went to pick them up and they spend the night. We enjoy supper when we got home, colored and made monkey bread for snack. Then I tucked them in bed. Saturday morning we made Valentines for their parents and colored some more and played games. The in the early afternoon their parents came and got them. Then I celebrated what would have been our 23rd anniversary with our youngest son. He came home from college to take me out to eat and then to the movies. His boss's wanted to meet me, they were very kind to me and told me I could come in anytime to escape reality and watch a movie with a friend. Just to let my son know and he would let them know. For free. How sweet is that?? They said they would take good care of me and give me snacks and such. I just thought that was so nice of them to tell me that. I don't go to the movies much, but was very nice of them to offer me that. Sunday my youngest granddaughter was over to see me, she is 3 months and really growing! Then my second to youngest granddaughter was dropped off so I could watch her while her parents went grocery shopping. She just turned 2 today and apparently is a little stinker when they go shopping. So the grands and my youngest son kept my mind occupied and I survived the weekend. Thank goodness for the grandchildren, they sure do bring a lot of joy into my life. It's a little bittersweet though, because my husband loved the grands so much as well and got great joy from them. 

Anyway, better get on with the job at hand. As you know Monday's always brings a  new challenge over at BBTB2. Emily is our sweet host for this week and she has challenge the DT and you to make a project using candy because today is national gumdrop day. I bet you didn't know that did you? lol So she wants to see candy on our projects. Make sure to go over to BBTB2 to see what inspiration my DT sister's have for you too. I started off with a card base and added some red paper for my base. Then using snippets of black and the heart paper as well as snippets of white.

As always, thanks for stopping by and sittin' a spell with me. I so enjoy your company and love to hear what you have to say on my latest project. I'm not quite in the swing of things yet, but hopefully I will get going better with each post. Crafty hugs, Brenda

Going to go play at the Snippet's Playground this week because I used snippets on my card.

Recipe:

Valentine Sweets Cricut cart-I did a print and cut

Sentiment from Cardz TV stamp set called "Sugar Rush"

wink of stella on the candies (click on the picture to enlarge and see all the shimmer and shine on those candies)

I Love You More Today...Cardz TV Gallery

Hello my crafty friends, it is my turn to post over at Cardz TV Gallery. It's February and so that means that Valentine's Day isn't far off! It will be a hard month for me since hubby's passing. Our anniversary is the 13th of February, that will be a hard day. But on the 14th we have a granddaughter who will celebrate her 2 birthday. I know hubby will be looking down on us both. My love continues to grow for my husband even though he is no longer in this physical world with me, so this sentiment is so true for me. I do love him more today than yesterday.

Some of you who visit my blog regularly will think that this card looks a little familiar to you Well that is because I made 4 base cards with the houndstooth pattern on it because I have challenged myself to always make more than one card at a time this year so I can build my card stash up. To see the card similar to this one, click here. I made two of these Valentine cards to place in my stash and made two of the other card. 

Thank you for taking time out of your day to come and visit me, you always make my day brighter with your visits and comments. Crafty hugs, Brenda

Recipe:

Outside sentiment-Cardz TV Stamps "Love Ya"

Hounds tooth squares-My Creative Time "Build a Banner" kit

Envelope-My Creative Time "Mini Stitched Envelope" Die

Hearts-My Creative Time "We're Better Together" Stamps and Dies