From Your Biggest Fan

I've still got a few Power Poppy Hues to Use Challenges to catch up on, so these cards use the colors from Jan.30. I'm also playing along with the Power and Spark Challenge again with the theme of love. It's so easy to join this challenge with the Va-Va-Valentines Digital Set!

I took these colors and just switched them out on the elements...using the green for the fan blades on one, yellow on the other. I did the same with the background paper, just switching up the colors for each layer. I don't care for the color pink so I kept it to a minimum, using it only for the hearts and lettering.

 Nice and simple cards, just like I like it :)

Forget-Me-Not

I played along with Die Cuttin' Divas and the Power Poppy Power and Spark Challenges again. I love this sketch and thought it was the perfect way to highlight this awesome digital stamp from Power Poppy! The dies I used are the heart and the scallop border at the bottom of the card.

The Power and Spark Challenge is all about love and sparkle, you can choose to do both themes or one. I went with the love theme. We don't do Valentines Day in my house, we prefer to celebrate our love for each other every day, so I went with my favorite colors for this card, blue and green. Once again my hoard of paper came to the rescue as this DSP from SU went perfectly with my Forget-Me-Nots. The Alpine Forget-Me-Not is actually the state of flower of Alaska so I have a special fondness. I always look for the flower when out for a hike.

You Mean the Whirl To Me

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week Heidi has a great sketch for us!

I colored up this dragon from SugarPea Designs last week for the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge, using colors my 19 year old son found when he googled dragon images. As I started going through my hoard of paper I found some retired SU DSP that matched him beautifully, so my card came together quite quickly. I love it when that happens!

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we want to see how YOU interpret the sketch!

Just for You for LMMS

Happy Thursday! It's time for a new challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog and today I'm using one a new image, Polka Dot Pals Estrella. I really love her because even though she is holding a heart you can use the image for any occasion. As you can see I made the card a general 'for you' one.

I'm really loving red and yellow together right now, it's kind of my new obsession :)

Head on over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT created and don't forget there is also an LMMS FB group where you can interact with other LMMS fans!

Love You

Today's card features a brand new digital image from Power Poppy called Blossoming Cherry. I really love this stamp because it makes me think of my grandma. Her and my grandpa used to travel all over the US by train and they used to go to Washington D.C. quite often. Grandma always loved it when the cherry blossoms in DC were in bloom, she thought they were so beautiful.  

I took the image and put it on my Word document twice, then I turned the branches to try and form a heart shape to fold around the sentiment.

There are a few challenges I played along with for this card.....the colors are from the current Power Poppy Hues to Use, the theme of love and the use of sparkle (I used silver Stickles in the middle of the open flowers) is for the Power Poppy Monthly Power and Spark challenge and last but not least the love theme is also for the Be My Valentine theme at The Paper Players.

So Happy I Found You

This month over at Power Poppy the Power and Spark challenge is all about love and sparkle, you can choose to do both themes or just pick one. I'm not big on sparkle so I went with the love theme.

New Valentines Day digi's were recently released at Power Poppy and this image is from the Va-Va- Valentines Digital Stamp set. How fun is it?! I have 2 mini dachshund puppies that LOVE to steal our socks so this image makes me think about chasing them through the house LOL I'm on a red and yellow kick, I love how bright and happy these colors are together, so that's what I used for my color palette.

My layout is from the new challenge at Die Cuttin Divas. As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to use it! I have a feeling this sketch will end up being one of my favorites! My die cut is the oval that the image is placed on, it's from an MFT set.

Getting Text-y for Jingle Belles

This week over at the Jingle Belles blog they want us to make text the focus of our project. This one stumped me, I had a hard time with it for some reason.

I went through my paper stash and found this paper from Carta Bella that has the words from 'Twas the Night Before Christmas on it. After staring at it for a while I cut out a panel with a stitched die and then used a die from Stampin Up to cut out the houses. I then took a stamp of Santa flying through the air and stamped that above the houses. I used red to keep with the theme of the text on the paper, with a brown border behind the text panel.