Bee My Valentine

Hello all!

I have so excellent news to share with you! You might remember I was asked to be a GDT for Ooh La La, well, they asked me to become a full DT member instead! Of course I said yes :) This is my first challenge as a DT member and it's a cracker: "LOVE STORY". I decided to use this challenge to make my husband's Valentine's card, I love this cute image! I've used the last layer of pyramage to decorate the inside. I hope you can join me and the other girls for this challenge, see you there :)

Materials:
* Create & Craft Pastel CS
* Ooh La La Bee My Valentine digital images & paper
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park DP scraps
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* Matt Gold paper
* Memories Direct Flowers
* Flower Brads and Bee & Heart Peel offs from my stash

Challenges:
* Happy Campers (Flowers & Use Something Digital)
* Hobby Vision (Valentine's Card)
* Gingerloft (Love is in the Air)
* Sassy Studio (Love is in the Air)
* Simply Create Too (Valentine's Day or Hearts)
* Ladybuy Crafts (Valentine's Day and/or Love)
* Visible Image (Love)
* Heck of a Challenge (Love & Flowers)
* Ready Teddy Go (Love is in the Air)
* Emerald Fairies (Love)

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I Love You This Much

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Hi All!

We are starting another PCD challenge today and as Valentine's Day is approaching fast, our theme this time is Valentine/Love. I thought I'd make an easel card again, as I hadn't been doing alternative folding techniques for a while now. I hope you can join us this fortnight :)

Materials:
* Platypus Creek Digitals Row of Hearts digi, coloured with Promarkers
* Digital Delights Love is in the Air Sentiment set
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park & Paper Mania Summer Bloom DPs
* Inkssentials Crackle Accents Glaze
* Gloss Glaze
* Red ink & Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
* Brads, Silver border peel offs from my stash

Challenges:
* Avadares (Valentine's Day/Love)
* One Crazy Stamper (Anything Goes)
* Stamp & Create (Love)
* Let's Craft & Create (Anything Goes)
* Diva's by Design (Make it Girlie)
* Paper Creator's Craft (Love it All Around)
* ATC's with Attitude (Add a Tag or Sentiment)
* Glitter 'n Sparkle (Sentimental)
* Card Mania (Oh So Girly)
* One Stitch in Time (Love)

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Valentine Sweetie Sleeve & Friendship's Garden Blog Hop

Hi everybody,

In addition to our challenge (with the same theme), we are doing a blog hop at Friendship's Garden people! Our hop is sponsored by Designs on Cloud Nine, we're calling it "ITS A LOVE THING"! You can win a 20 dollar gift certificate to their shop! Awesome, right? PLUS, some of my teamies are having their own little giveaways during the hop, so look out for those extra opportunities to win!

If you're hopping along with us, you should have arrived from Dena's blog, if you want to start the hop, please visit the challenge blog first! Chana is the next stop on this hop, tell her I said hello :)

Before you leave, here's my make. I made a gift sleeve for a box of heart chocolates I will be giving to my hubby. He deserves it, because he always does the photography and photo shopping for this blog AND I forgot to make him a Christmas card last December.....naughty me! We will be having some lovely tapas on Valentine's Day after work and I will take this prezzie along with me. It's a really easy project to do, especially if you have a scoring board.

Materials:
* Design on Cloud Nine Bee Mine images
* Me and My Big Ideas Fashion District Striped DP (which incidentally was a gift from my husband for our first wedding anniversary last year!) & Dovecraft Piece of Cake DP
* Sentiment stamp from Eline Vintage stamp set
* Clear Stickles on the bees' wings
* Brads and border peeloffs from my stash

Challenges: 
* Moving Along with the Times (Have a Heart)
* Little Miss Muffet (Valentine/Love)
* Sassy Studio (Love is in the Air)
* By the Cute and Girly (Love is in the Air)
* ABC (In pairs; my bees and two pairs of brads)
* More than Favours (Love)
* Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge (Love is in the Air)
* Truly Scrumptious (Love & Hearts)
* Ladybug Ink (Loves me, Loves me not)
* Creative Belli (Valentine/Hearts)

Right, that's it from me, hope to see you during the hop and at the challenge (which has a Love Theme as well, plus use at least 3 types of embellishments)!

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Bunny Valentine

Hi everyone,

Owwww, what a busy week, I can't believe it's Friday again! I am very sorry for not being around very much, hope this improves in a week or so when one of my deadlines has passed....

Are you ready for another Card Makin' Mamas Challenge? Yes? Well, what a coincidence, today starts our new challenge and guess what.....the theme is "VALENTINE".

We are sponsored by Meljen's Design for this challenge and if you win, you get some Meljen's Goodies as a prize! Check out all the details on the Challenge Blog! I personally love Meljen's, such cute and fun images, so I was pretty happy I got to work with one of their digis for my inspiration card :)

I made my hubby's Valentine's card for this challenge, which you can notice straight away as the photography is abysmal and let's not even talk about the shoddy photo shopping. Let's just say I'm glad he will be taking the reins again for the next card...........With this in mind, have a look at my photos:

I know, I know.....not quite straight and such......but I think you can still see the card well enough, right? What do you think of the sentiment? I thought it was very appropriate for this card, but maybe a little silly? Oh well, I like silly sometimes :)

Materials
* White scalloped base card
* Meljen's Design Cuddle Bun Love, coloured with Promarkers and faux stitching
* Dovecraft Piece of Cake DP, edged with Dovecraft Cocoa Brown ink
* K&Co Smitten Icons, Dollhouse Sweet Things and Dollhouse Alphabet Chipboard
* Banner using Crafter's Companion embossing board with computer-generated sentiment (it says: My Bunny Valentine)
* Stars border punch, matted with holographic mirror card
* Heart gems from stash

Challenges:
* Meljen's Design (Loving You)
* Simon Says Stamp (Animal Antics)
* Joanna Sheen (Love is in the Air)
* Paper Shelter (Love is in the Air)
* Fab 'n Funky (Use a Digi)
* Cooking It Up With Katie (Heart, Punch, Embossing)
* Crafty Pad (Valentine/Anniversary)
* Bling it On (Love is All Around)
* Elke Kaart een Feestje (For Someone Special)
* Emerald Fairies (Be My Valentine)
* My Time to Craft (Adorable)

Hope you like my card and it inspires you to participate in our challenge. You have two weeks to link up, so I am hoping to see all your beautiful makes over there :)

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Flower Birthday

Good evening, I'm back again with another card! It seems that sometimes I don't have time for weeks and then I have so much time I don't know what to do with it! Anyway, I thought I'd make a few generic cards for birthdays and such, so here is the first one:

Here's the inside:

I've used Eline's huis papers (in the Meadow), they are really beautiful A4 papers. The rest is from my stash. This is the first card I've used the giant pearls on, I've got a whole assortment of colours and I think they look really beautiful here.

I want to submit this card for the following challenges:

* OLLCB (3 of a kind)
* Moving Along with the Changes (Spring)
* Paperplay Challenges (Layer it up)

BTW I've made a little sweetie wrapper to go with the Valentine's card I've posted Sunday:

I've used the same basic paper, punched some flowers and stuck them on top with a little gem in the middle. I hadn't done anything like this before, but it wasn't very hard and still looks fairly impressive.

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Ssshhtt........

Good evening all! It's been a very busy week for me, but I finally had some time to craft today. I have made my husband's Valentine's card and I'm afraid that I went a bit overboard with the whole love theme. But then again, the first Valentine as a married couple should be a little special, right? So I searched for the most pinkest en love'ish papers and embellishments in my stash and came up with this:

Pretty pink huh? Here's a picture from the inside:

The pictures are not as great as usual, because hubby takes them for me, but for obvious reasons he couldn't this time.

I've used a scalloped card from papercraft UK. Most of the other stuff I have no clue regarding maker or line, usually because my stash is a mess! I only remember buying the hearts on Ebay, don't you just love them? I've also put some stickles on the image's ribbon around the heart, don't know if you can see it very well though.

I'm thinking about making a matching gift bag for a nice bag of Maltesers. I'm such an angel ;)

I would like to submit this card to the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge (Sentiment with a love theme)
Craft Your Days Away Challenge (Love)
Creative Inspiration Challenge (Valentines/Love)
Paper Sundaes Challenge (Valentine's)
Totally Gorjuss (As You Like It)
Creatalicious Challenges (Love & Ribbon)
Charisma Card Challenges (Valentines/Love)


Thanks for looking!

Love, Ciska

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