I have had the honour an privilege to serve on the SRM Stickers DT with the very best of the best, working for the best company out there.. Seriously. The team is full of superstars and SRM is THE MOST generous company I've ever had the honour of working with.. I have stickers to last me a long time and product from companies like Cosmo Cricket and Bazzill to play with for months years to come.

Here is my last design team card that I have designed with Valentine's Day on the brain:

I have some truly beautiful Valentines papers and stickers and instead of hoarding them like I usually do, I'm using them. Last year I didn't make very many Valentine's Day cards but this year I'm singing a new tune. Yes, this year I've already made 25 valentines and they got dropped off at the flower shop today!!

Here is a trio of happy V-day cards:

Thanx for visiting!

I bought "Every day Button Bits" with intentions of making LOTS of cards for all occasions because the set is so versatile!! And it is, I just got lazy and forgot it for a while. Hey, it happens... So for today's challenge I chose this flower image and sentiment that have never seen ink!


I used a new Nestabilities die to kind of "frame" the image and highlight the green stems and leaves. The image was matted with Pure Poppy cardstock, and the green is Bazzill (I think it's Parakeet??) that coordinated with "Landscape" Palette ink used to stamp the greenery. I borrowed my husbands embroidery floss to thread the buttons and adhered them with Glossy Accents.

Thank you for stopping by! I look forward to browsing all of the wonderful blog hop creations throughout the day! Here's a link to the Blog Hop post so you can check it out if you want!!

I showed my husband the following two cards:

Stamps: Mint Motif- Sweet Hearts and What a Card - available at i {heart} papers.

Paper: papertrey ink

Ink: memento

Accessories: sewing machine, corner punch

Stamps: technique tuesday - love, Ali

Paper: SU!

Ink: versamagic (pink and red) Brilliance (black)

Accessories: felt (cut out with Nestabilites), buttons, twine

Stamps: technique tuesday - love, Ali

Paper: pink paislee, bazzill, papertrey ink

Ink: memento

Accessories: crocheted flower- making memories

I’m a Stamping Tech for Technique Tuesday and 

today, the Technique Tuesday Stamping Techs and some of our best friends are joining together to hold this first-ever blog hop to share one of our favorite projects made with Technique Tuesday’s stamps.

The hop begins on Teri’s blog. She is linking to a designer’s blog. And then that designer is linking to someone’s blog and so on. Teri has a list of all the hop’s players so please check out her blog if you get lost along the way.

With every comment you leave on the blog path, you’ll be entered to win a Pocket Full of Posies stamp set from Technique Tuesday:

Teri will pick one person at random from all the comments made by midnight Eastern time on 1/24 to win the stamp set. So the more comments you make, the better chance you have to win.

Be sure to check Teri’s blog on 1/25 to see if you are the lucky winner.

Here's my project made especially for the hop:

I used a Technique Tuesday set called The Cupcakery. (And it's only $2.99!!)

The papers are some older Basic Grey and the big, wide ribbon has survived in my stash for 3 or more years, so I don't know where it's from, but it matches perfectly!! 

The next stop on this hop is the blog of Laura. 

Thanks for joining our hop today!

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Stamps: Fruit Stand- Tech. Tuesday

Paper: BoBunny, Bazzill, PTI

Ink: memento- bamboo leaves, ladybug, new sprout; versamagic- jumbo java

Accessories: ribbon- may arts, sizzix large scallop die, nestabilites

Available now from i {heart} papers is Kimberly Crawford's new set: Sweet Hearts! I fell in love with this set the moment I saw it...

1. Paper-piece the jar image using Basic Grey patterned papers (Two Scoops). 
2. Stamp the heart border on the blue background in blue
3. Stamp sentiment and hearts with Staz-on ink on chipboard. 
4. Adhere everything together and sew along seam between scalloped border and pink paper.

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Today's "Ways to Use it" Challenge at SCS is to use butterflies. I LOVE butterflies (I don't know why or how this love developed, but such is life) and find that I used them often as a focal point in a card, whether it be a stamped image or a die cut. Today it's the latter...

I told you I would be making more Valentine's Day cards this year, right??? I've consolidated my Valentine's Day papers and embellishments and yowza I've got a lot of stuff.. Not A LOT a lot, but enough so that I don't need to buy anything new for this year's cards... So here are a couple of cards made with some Making Memories papers and embellishments:

Are you in Valentine's mode? I've been kind of lazy the past few years and haven't churned out as many lovey-dovey cards as I should, but this year is different! I am going to have a pile for the flower shop, a pile for my friends/colleagues, and a pile for ME... It's a lofty goal but this is a good start!

This is a sneak peek of a set being released on January 14th by Kimberly Crawford for her stamp line Mint Motif at i {heart} papers called "Sweet Hearts" and I am so excited about all of the possible combos... Here's my card:

• Julie Masse
• Melissa Bickford
• Ryann Salamon
• Kimber McGray (Guest Designer!!)
• Kate Baldwin- i {heart} papers owner
• Kimberly Crawford - Mint Motif designer

At least it will be in my card-making until Feb. 14th!! This card is a combo of the current TSG challenge (mix stamp sets), the Technique Tuesday challenge (use Polka Dots) and today's Sketch Challenge at SCS. Without further ado, today's card: