Crafty Gals February 2012 Challenge

It's time for another Crafty Gals Blog Group Monthly Challange. This month Lela issued the following challange:

"February is the month of LOVE and what could be better than showing off our idea of a "ReCipE for A VaLEntiNE". Last year DH made me chocolate dipped strawberries. He found the recipe on-line and they were fabulous. It was wonderful but a surprise as usually he gets me roses. What makes the perfect VaLEntiNE surprise? Is it candy, flowers, love notes? Let's see your ReCipE for sharing LOVE. Don't forget to add a Heart or 2 on our project."

I have such a sweet tooth, so I had to choose candy. I have this cute image from Great Impressions that is a candy jar full of candy hearts. I love using it for Valentine's card. I hope you like it.

Stamps: Great Impressions
Cardstock: SU! Melon Mambo, Regal Rose, Basic Black, Whisper White
Misc: Target patterned paper, Prisma pencils

Elementary Elegance

This is a card that I made for one of my Yahoo group swaps. I have finally inked up my SU! SAB set, Elementary Elegance and used my Twitterpatered DSP.
Stamp Set: Elementary Elegance

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Basic Black, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo, Whisper White

Ink: Regal Rose

Misc: Twitterpattered DSP, pearls, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder

Paris, Paris

I had to make two cards that were both Paris themed for my Inkyfunstampers and Stampers Corner Yahoo groups. I made them very similar with just a few mods.

CARD #1:
CARD #2:

All supplies are Stampin Up! unless noted.

Stamps: Paris in Spring, French Script Background, Print Pattern Background

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Basic Black, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo
Ink: Basic Black, Pretty in Pink

Misc: Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Recollection Black Glitter Brads

Skiing Cat

As I post this card, it is 75 degrees outside but since this is how I image winter is like in most of the country, this is my Happy Winter card for today. This is the card that I going to send for my Glitter Girls and Guys Yahoo Group Card of the Month. The main image is from Cat's Pajamas. The sentiment is from DRS Designs (I think!). For the small amount of coloring that I did, I used gel pens. The sentiment was stamped with Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue.

Crafty Gals January Challenge

This month, Heather posted the following January challenge "As mentioned, I am expecting my first baby at the end of February. We're pretty excited to celebrate this new addition and new stage in our lives. My challenge to you for the Crafty Girls January challenge is to celebrate NEWNESS ....it doesn't have to be a new baby...perhaps it's a New Year, new marriage, new job, new friend, etc. In addition, use the opportunity to try a out a new technique (or template, something you haven't tried before).

I decided to use one of my newest Hero Arts/Operation Write Home stamp sets. I used the "All The Time" set. I love to use clocks, so I was excited to get this set.

I used SU! Not Quite Navy for the card base. I mounted the DSP (SU! Letters from Santa) on Chocolate Chip card stock. I took another piece of Chocolate Chip card stock and used the scalloped punch. I stamped the clock image onto a piece of Crumb Cake card stock with Not Quite Navy and cut it out and mounted it with Stampin Dimensionals.

Happy Birthday Horses

This is a belated Birthday card I made for my father. His birthday was in November but I just hand delivered it to him this morning. I'm not sure of the source of the image but I love those galloping horses. I used SU! Crumb Cake (I still have to stop myself from typing Kraft!) for the card base. I embossed at piece of Cajun Craze cs with the SU! Houndstooth embossing folder and mounted that to the card base. I added a piece of Chocolate Chip strip to the Cajun Craze layer. I stamped the image and sentiment on a piece of Crumb Cake with Chocolate Chip ink and mounted it a Chocolate Chip piece. I used my new Corner Chomper on the image and Chocolate Chip layer and added three brads.

Crafty Gals December Challenge

The Crafty Gals Blog Group's December Challenge is the THE POWER OF THREE! We were required to make a holiday card keeping the number 3 in mind. Everything on the card had to be in 3's. 3 layers (card base does NOT count as a layer), 3 stamped images (or an image with 3 things on it), 3 embellishments (3 buttons, 3 ribbons etc. or 1 ribbon, 1 pearl, and 1 brad etc).

I used my favorite Stampin Up! set, Lovely as a Tree, again. I stamped it in Chocolate Chip ink on Very Vanilla cardstock and then cut the image into 3 pieces. I then mounted the images on to pieces to Chocolate Chip cardstock and then mounted those pieces to an embossed piece of Cherry Cobbler cardstock making up my three layers excluding the Crumb Cake based that I used. I finished the card by adding three brads in the bottom corner.