Day 4 of my GIU week

Valentine's Day will be here before you know it!

I always look forward to my husband fumbling with what to get me

and my two sons attempts at helping him out on this...

I get a lot of M&M's

they try

Featuring: ...Everything Love stamp set

I started this one off with a blank white card front, and decided the heart should be embossed

Zing in Silver to the rescue.

Once that was heat set, I dripped Tim Holtz Distress Inks down from the top then sprayed with water to create a marbling effect.

Next came the simple stamping of the sentiment.

I sat & looked & looked before deciding it just needed more then I remembered my

Prima flower jar! Topped those off with a little bling from Imaginisce and *Boom*

Valentine's Day!

Leave me some love for a chance to win  random stamps from Unity Stamp Company. If you missed a day this week, just go back to Monday and work your way through my posts for better odds of winning. See you tomorrow for my grand finale! 

there is magic

it's been a really good week for me!

I received my Unity Stamp order

My kids have made it on time for school everyday & the oldest is driving them

I helped some people at the food pantry I volunteer at weekly who really needed it

and I got to play in my craft room two nights!

For this one I played along with Freshly Made Sketches #201

my girls over at Mountain Plains Crafters did an unofficial challenge to use

WOODGRAIN, mine is part of an old CloseToMyHeart Stamp Set called Weathered Backgrounds, which I stamped on Kraft cardstock using Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs.

The sentiment & image stamps are from Unity Stamp Company's new sentiment set called

... Butterflies & Moonbeams, which I stamped with black Memento and colored with Copic markers.

The sentiment was stamped using Tim Holtz Walnut Stain.

the printed papers are from a big pad of Michael's called Homespun.

and the finishing touches (tiny bits of bling) from Imaginisce

First Cards!

for Operation Write Home that I actually made tonight!

Yep, that's right I made 6 cards tonight! Granted they are not great works of art or anything like that but not two are completely identical and this gets rid of an entire paper pack I've been working on since Valentine's day.

Products Used: printed paper-Oriental Trading Post Lovey Dovey; brads-Making Memories love notes jumbo shimmer brads; ribbon & cardstock-misc; ink-CTMH black; LOVE Stamp-Imaginisce

All 6 of these are a part of the No Paper Buying Challenge I joined. For more info, please see my Aug. 1 blog post!