Good morning everyone!  Happy Friday!  This morning I wanted to share another Heartfelt Creations card I made a couple of weeks ago.  Somehow I seemed to have missed this one!  This is one of my most favorite cards so far.  You know how sometimes you start to put a card together and it just seems to fall right into place; well that is how it was for this one.

What do you have planned for the weekend?  We are supposed to have more rain (no suprise), but maybe changing over to heavy wet snow before the weekend is finished.  Now I would love to see some snow this winter.  So far, we have had really warm temps and lots of rain.  One of our neighbors has flowers blooming in his yard!  Our dogwood trees are looking like they are ready to blossom right now.  I'm not a big fan of all the rain we have had, but we always need it.  Our grass is green and we have actually mowed twice since December.  Very unusual....but not very different for other parts of the country.  It has been a very different winter all over!

Well, I'm off for my second cup of coffee.  Have a wonderful weekend and we will talk on Monday!

Welcome to Heartfelt Creations Wednesday!

Well my friends it's the middle of the week and time for me to share another Heartfelt Creations card with you!  Sympathy cards can be the hardest to create and I've always felt that, just like any other card you create for someone, you have to keep that person in your thoughts as you create.  For me that is what determines how much frill I use.  When I was working on this card, I had a dear friend in mind and she loves pink and green so that is what I did.  If I needed to send her a sympathy card, this would be the one. 

The Heartfelt Creations products I used are:

HCPC 3450 Cross and Lilies PreCut Set
HCPC 3452 Pristine Lilies PreCut Set
HCD 719 Cross and Lilies Die

For the instructions for my card, visit the Heartfelt Creations Blog, everything is posted there and you get to see all the other beautiful projects submitted by the other design team members.  You can also visit the individual blogs of the design team by clicking on their names on my sidebar.

Well ladies, that's it for me this morning!  I hope you enjoy my card as much as I liked creating it!
Have a wonderful day and remember to "Breathe"!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

This is my Valentine...I did this one for me!  I cut a heart out of a cereal box and painted the back side in cream and the front in pink, then a layer of crackle paint, then a layer of cream and when it cracked the pink was showing through.  I used Ranger Distress Inks to distress the edges and I went over some of the crackle to add more pink to the heart.  Next I added the doily and left one side of the doily open so I could insert my tag inside.  The next step was to hot glue the edging all around the heart.  Then I cut a piece of card stock using the new Marianne (Anja) die and made my tag.  A couple of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts edged in the same shade of pink distressed ink and a couple of skeleton leaves and it is all mine!  Most everything I do is for someone else, but this time, I decided I wanted to keep it.  I plan to make a wall hanging out of it and display it in my craft room.

I hope everyone has a great Valentine's Day and that your sweetie is good to you!

Be sure and come back tomorrow as it will once again be a Heartfelt Creations Wednesday and I have another card to share with you!

A Man's Box....

Good morning everyone.  This morning I'm here to share a Man's box that I have been working on for awhile now.  It didn't really take me two months to finish.....I just did a little and then set it aside.  This past week I decided it was time to finish and give it to my husband.  Please forgive my picture; it leaves a lot to be desired. 

I began with a cigar box, back in November of last year.  First I painted it brown and let it dry.  Next I found some scrapbook paper that I liked and I decoupaged the inside and outside of the box.  Once dry I added the feet (wooden balls painted brown) using Glossy Accents.  Once these were dry, I added the trim all the way around the bottom of the box, using hot glue.  I also added the keyhole accent...I think it was a Tim Holtz thing.  Then I set it aside and actually forgot about it for a month.
Then I did Christmas and in January I just sort of coasted along.  Last week I was moving some things around and there was my poor unfinished box.  I pulled it out and inspected it.  Everything was fine, so I decided it was time to finish it.  I found some coordinating papers and used the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and  cut out some flowers.  I distressed them, shaped them and glued them together and set them aside to dry.  I cut a butterfly out of black card stock from my scrap bin and used Stickles all over it.  I also found some rose leaves and some skeleton leaves and decided these would work well.  Next I dipped everything in UTEE and made everything look like glass...even the skeleton leaves!  I love the way they look!  I found another Tim Holtz frame.....I'm sorry I cannot remember which collection, and stamped my sentiment to fit in it.  Everything was then hot glued to the top of the box.  And I called it finished...Finally!  I think it would make a lovely piece to hold keys, change, etc.  Whew, thanks for hanging with me here; I got a little mouthy!

Well that is it for me this morning.  I hope you have a wonderful week...be sure and come back in the morning when I share my Valentine with you!  So no matter what you are doing today and no matter where you are, remember to take a moment and "Breathe"!

Joy and Love.....

Good morning everyone!  I hope you have had a good week and that you are looking forward to the weekend.  Winter is supposed to visit us this weekend with some colder temperatures and some snow showers.  It sounds like a good weekend to have a fire in our fireplace!

This morning I want to share another card I made for Heartfelt Creations.  This stamp is becoming one of my very favorites and you will be seeing it often I think!  The name and number of this stamp is:
HCPC 3455 Butter Fly and Lilies PreCut Set.  For all the specifics of this card you can visit the Heartfelt Creations blog and see it there.  Have a look around at all the lovely creations from the other design team members as well.  It is always inspiring to see how each one of us uses the stamp in a different way.  It will really get your creative juices flowing!

Well that about does it for me this morning.  I'm off to get my second cup of coffee and have a look around the blog world and see what everyone else is doing this morning.  I hope you have a good day and are ready to start the weekend.    Try and find a little time to be creative just for you, and remember to "Breathe"!