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:

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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:

Even though this is technically my "summer vacation" I am still working a lot. Almost every day... But I am able to steal away to do some great summer activities with the fam'. In the mean time, I have been crafting a little too... I've been trying out a few different styles, so stay tuned for some variety!!
Here are some projects that I've completed:





There you have it!

Cards 1&2:

Stamps: elzybells

Paper: melissa frances, MME, PT

Ink: melissa frances, MME, PT

Accessories: button (jenni bowlin), ribbon, copic markers, glitter, chipboard

Card 3:

Paper: crate paper, PTI

Accessories: tattered angels mist, MM Slice, eyelets, srm stickers

Card 4:

Paper: ep, bo bunny, pti

Accessories: ribbon, srm stickers

Card 5:

Stamps: whipper snapper, amuse

Paper: basic grey, pti

Ink: ranger

Accessories: flower soft card an accessory, flower soft, copic markers, MM Slice, button, ribbon

This week our challenge is to use flowers…Primas, floral ribbon, flowery designer paper, flower stamps…ANYTHING WITH FLOWERS!  We’d love for you to play along with us! If you do, please use keyword JBE094 when uploading to SCS or PCP or leave a link to your project in the comments section of this post!

I imagine everyone is extremely busy this time of year, but if you're wondering where I've been, well.. I call this "Christmas Concert Season" because in the last 8 days I've had 8 concerts/dress rehearsals (That's right, every single day! Sometimes two!!), and from year-to-year it's at least this busy. Things are winding down with my school concert tomorrow night and after that.....Sweet freedom.

I have also had a Christmas Card order to fill, and the company pays me really well, so I like to do a good job. Here are the cards:

Their company colours are, you guessed it, yellow and black, so I was *thrilled* to find this Making Memories paper that is not only festive and yellow, but it's FLOCKED! Love it! For the main image I re-created their logo in photoshop, printed it out, cut it out with Nestabilities, airbrused it with a Y26 Copic Marker, stamped snowflakes with a glue pad and covered those with glitter.. PHEW! Like I said, I like to go BEYOND the call of duty for this company. I used Papertrey Ink ribbon and an Amuse stamp for the snowflakes. I am really happy with how it turned out!!!

For those of you that aren't in "the know," yesterday was World Card Making Day, and yes it's a real thing.

So my mission for this year's WCMD was simple: play along with a few challenges, get some mandatory design work done, and use up scraps on my table. And guess what? I actually accomplished all three of my goals, so here are a few cards that I made yesterday and today: