My Paper Crafting and Feel the Love Project

Hi my crafty friends! Today it's time for My Paper Crafting to sponsor the I Feel The Love project.  Here is the info about the project from our very own design team member Madison:

Alana

I Feel the Love Project for February 2013

21 year old student Alana experienced a devastating loss as the result of Hurricane Sandy when it came to shore in October of 2012.

She lost her original home, as well as most all of her family home belongings due to this horrific storm. These included her clothes, her bed, and the home furnishings.

When Alana returned from school she did not have a home to come back to. She was able to stay briefly with an aunt before living in a hotel for a month. The family was finally able to relocate to another home.

When Alana was asked how this storm impacted her she said that she was "scared for my family and for my house." Alana was forced to stay away for a couple of weeks and she said it made her "homesick." When Alana was able to go into the area for the first time and see that her family home had been knocked down she said, "I was in shock of what I saw. It is something I will never forget as long as I live."

I can't imagine losing everything all at once. That would be very difficult. We can support Alana and her family. Words of comfort can go a long way. With all of the difficulties she has recently experienced, we would like to honor her as the I Feel the Love Project February 2013 recipient.

We recently had a fundraiser to raise money for the I Feel the Love Project. So in addition to sending hand crafted greeting cards, the I Feel the Love Project will also be sending a gift card to Alana so she can buy some clothes or something for her new home. There is no obligation or need for anyone else to do this. It is just something we felt called to do.

If you would like to be a part of this project...

All you need to do is:

Submit your hand crafted card/s by February 28th to:

Madison Womack

IFTL Project

P.O. Box 1203

Atascadero, CA 93423

Project #18

  I can't even imagine losing everything your own as well as your home.  But I am thankful that this family had no lives lost during Sandy's wrath. Sandy came through where I live too but we were very fortunate that we only had a little water come in our basement office.  Yes, it was a little inconvience, but we didn't lose our home, we didn't have feet of water in our home, we were blessed in every way!  To go through what this family and other families have been through is so heartbreaking.  I feel it is up to those of us who are forunate to help those who have lost everything.  I will be putting in a gift card into my card for this family to be able to buy some clothing or whatever they may need.  I know if my readers would just send a $10 gift card and a card to this family they will indeed be able to start to pick up their lives and slowly start returning to a normal life once again.  Can we all do that?!!  Please consider doing this and mail your card and gift card to the address above.  Madison is an exception teen doing these "Feel the Love" projects.  I'm so in awe of this young lady for thinking of someone other than herself at an age when being a teen isn't easy anyway.  I'm proud to say that I am a design team sister of Madison!  Come on everyone, lets get those cards in the mail to Madison so she can make sure that Alana and her family have smiles on their faces in knowing that we all care about them!! 

Here's my card. I used Close to My Heart Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge for my card base and my little blue mat.  My sentiments come from SU. My little flower I made using a SU punch.  And that is all there is to this card.  I let the cheery paper do the work for me.  Thanks everyone! Make sure you link your card up to My Paper Crafting and I Feel the Love.

Sorry my loyal followers, I forgot to add my card! lol Yes, the mind is the first to go when you get old! lol  Here ya' go!

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Love is in the Air! BBTB2 Challenge

Hello my crafty friends!  It is Valentine's week and my turn to host the challenge over at BBTB2.  I challenged my design team sisters to use a heart, cupid or both from any cartridge on any project. Oh my you have to go check out the beautiful creations my design team sisters made!!  Awesome!!!  As for me, I did a card for hubby.  This is a special week for us, our anniversary is the day before Valentine's and then of course we have Valentine's day.  We have a little get-a-way planned for next month after the holiday has ended and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Why do they double or almost double everything just because it's Valentines?!  Well hubby and I are to cheap to pay the full price, plus when I was confirmed in the Catholic church, we were remarried and that date was March 13th. So we will just celebrate on that anniversary. lol Yes, people we have two anniversaries if you can believe that.  We usually only celebrate the one in February though.  So now that I've told you more than you needed to know or cared to know onto my card. LOL  I used the Sweetheart Cricut cartridge for all my die cuts and for my stamped sentiments I used Lots of Love from My Creative Time.

The inside

Go check out my design team sister's projects and then go make something for the sweetheart in your life and link up with us at BBTB2.  Please make sure to follow our simple rules listed on BBTB2.  Can't wait to see what you come up with!  Crafty hugs!!!

Be Mine Valentine

Hi my crafty friends, hope all is well in your neck of the woods.  We lucked out and didn't get the storm that hit the along the East Coast, just got some rain and a little bit of snow unlike the feet of snow they got in NY and Boston areas.  Thank God! I'm not against snow, just dont' want any, I'm ready for Spring. lol Of course that's not coming for a while yet so might as well not complain, right?!

 There are a couple of challenges going on right now and I thought that I would enter them. The first one is at Cardz TV and the challenge is "Kidz Kardz challenge 24" to make 3 3x3 cards and the second challenge is over at My Creative Time for Me and the challenge there is to use embossing, either dry or wet embossing.  So here are my cards that I'm entering this these 2 challenges. All products used on these little 3x3 cards are from My Creative Time, dies and stamps. I also made little belly bands to keep my cards closed and to put my die cuts on.


On these little 3x3 cards I used kraft card stock with the 3x3 Trifold Card die, Chocolate Greetings, Lots of Love, and Beary Special Thoughts stamp set. I also used real tin foil on my Hershey Kiss, I just ran it through my Cuttlebug with the die! Cool huh?! Now I wish I could take credit for that idea myself but sadly I can't. It was one of MCT designers that did this and I thought it was too clever!!

On these little white cards I used the 3x3 Trifold Card die, Stitched Scallop Heart Die set, and the Lots of Love stamp set.

I hope you enjoyed my little sweet Valentine cards, can you believe that I didn't use my Cricut?!  See what you can come up with and make your grandchildren, children and hubby or someone special a sweet Valentine!  Have a wonderful weekend!!

Digital Desserts Fridaze with My Paper Crafting

Happy Friday my crafty friends! Today is Digital Desserts Fridaze at My Paper Crafting and I have used an adorable digi from Melinda called "Owl Always Love U".  I am getting my Valentine goodies together for my grandchildren and thought this little digi was perfect for on a little treat box as I will always love them. I kept my boxes small as their parents don't like them to have to many sweets. I cut my box from the Cricut cartridge Love Struck at 5.75. I die cut an open heart to layer over my heart window on the box. I die cut some more hearts and placed them above the open heart and then put my digi on the back of the box using foam tape to pop her up. That's it, just kept it simple because I know the kids will just rip them open to get at the candy. lol Oh and I colored my little owl with my Spectrum Noir markers and stamped a sentiment on the front of the box.

Won't you join us and link up a digi that you've use?! You can use any digi image to play along with us but if you use one of Melinda's digis you will be entered twice to win a prize from Melinda!! So come and play with us whether you use a different digi or one of Melinda's digis!

Crazy for you! My Paper Crafting Challenge

Hi all my crafty friends, it's time for a Cricut challenge at My Paper Crafting! This week we were to use hearts as our theme.  I decided use the heart from Smiley Cards.  The first time I saw this heart I loved it because it reminded me of the time my youngest son was in Kindergarten and there was this little girl he liked.  He came and told me that he had hearts in his eyes over her.  So I just had to use this heart and the sentiment "crazy about you" which I will give to my son this Valentines day.  My sentiment came from My Creative Time.  My card is simple but effective I think. lol  I think I will make this card for all 6 of my boys, that way they will all know that we are crazy for them! lol

Come on over to My Paper Crafting and take the challenge with us. Link up your project for a chance at being "Top Crafty Cutter"!! Just make sure to follow our simple rules and have fun!!

Spring is in the Air! BBTB2 Challenge

Oh boy do I ever wish Spring was in the air!! lol It's Monday and time for a BBTB2 challenge, our super talented and ever so sweet design team sister Carole gave us the challenge to make something about spring.  Yes, we all have the winter blues and are dreaming about spring. lol  This is just what we needed!! My layout was totally lifted...I'm a huge fan of Faith Abigail and she did the layout a while back. I just love her style with her scenes and I knew I wanted to lift it for my spring pictures but had never gotten around to it. So when Carole gave us this challenge I knew now was my time. lol  Here is the original layout and here is mine. Of course Faith's is much better than mine, but I'm pretty happy with the way it came out.  I need to add my clouds and a sun yet. The carts used were Freshly Picked for the wheelbarrow and gazebo, Bloom for the tree, Straight from the Nest for the banner, Elegant Edges for the scallop squares, George and Basic Shapes for the rounded corner squares and Paper Dolls for the hills as well as Kate's ABC's for my lettering.

Some close ups:

I hope that you will make something "springy" and upload it to BBTB2.  If you need some inspiration go see what my design team sister have for you, they are amazing!!  This is a Cricut challenge so please use for Cricut for your "springy" project!  Happy Spring!!

Digital Desserts Fridaze with My Paper Crafting

Hi my crafty friends, hope you had a great week. Today is Digital Desserts Fridaze at My Paper Crafting and I have used one of Melinda's cute little digital's on my gift card holder. He is "Bear Holding Hot Chocolate", isn't he cute! He was perfect for my little gift of a Starbucks gift card.  And to have a little action, I put him on a homemade action wobble! I used my Spectrum Noir's to color my bear, I cut my gift card holder from the Artiste Cricut cartridge.  The stamps I used are from Cardztv and the banner came from My Creative Time die. I'm sorry for the poor quality of the photos. I had to take pics from the pictures of my project I took. Here's what happened, I loaded all my 2012 pics to my computer to put them on my external hard drive and I had a few 2013 pics on too.  So I deleted my 2013 pics and thought that I would just load them back on later. Well guess what?! Yep, my computer says I've already loaded these pics off the camera card and won't let me put them back on even  though I've deleted them from my computer.  I have no clue how to get them back on there! Makes me mad, technology and I don't get along real well on some days. lol  So if you have any tips for me, please tell me, I could use all the help I can get. lol I just figured if you deleted from from the computer then you would be able to load them back on again. Guess not!

Each week please join us for our weekly Link-Up party. Just create something using a digital image and link to My Paper Crafting If you use an image from Paper Crafting World, you will receive 2 chances to win. That's right! One lucky project will be selected each week to receive a single digital image from Paper Crafting World. If you use a PCW file, please add PCW after your name.

Melin also has a free file each Friday, so go check it out and pick it up!