Valentine's Gift Treat Bags

Every year I make my hubby and kids Valentine's gifts.  The other day I realized that it's fast approaching and I hadn't made anything so I decided I'd better get busy.  I found these cute little cookies and cream hearts at the dollar store and bought them along with some exploding packets that contain a balloon that puffs up when it's hit.  I've never seen anything like that before so I had to buy those just for the novelty of them.  So I came home and made these cute little gift bags for part of their Valentine's gifts. I think they are cute!  I actually used a leftover lamb on one of them from a layout I did 2 years ago and just had it left over.  I love using a left over and having it look so cute!  That's always a bonus!  LOL.

http://4craftychicks.blogspot.com/2014/01/4ccc-179-anything-goes-and-crazy-egg.html anything goes
http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2014/01/himcr-134-for-loved-one_25.html for a loved one
http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.com/2014/01/emboss-that.html dry embossing - lion and lamb
http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/2014/01/weekly-challenge-anything-but-card-love.html love
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2014/01/pile-it-on-4-animals.html animals

Snow Bunny and Snowman Card

Well, it's been a few months since I scrap booked and to be honest, I haven't done a whole lot in the last year.  It's been nice to actually create something again.  Here's a fun little card that I made using some of my Christmas stash!  I love the little bunny and pink as a winter color.  The little bunny is from a KaDoodle Bug Designs set that has been retired.  I think she's so cute though.  One of the reasons I haven't been scrapping lately is I haven't found a "reader" that I like since google reader shut down.  I know a lot of people switched to bloglovin, but I don't like that I can't search the listings.  I like to search for the current challenges and haven't found one that will search the title AND the content.   Has anyone found a reader that you can actually do a search like that on?  Sometimes it's nice to search by a topic in a the list and I haven't found one that will do that yet.  Very sad....  If you've found one you love, please let me know.  I've tried 3 or 4 and none of them have a search function that will search the content and the title.  Sigh....  Anyway, I've missed the motivation that the challenges give me and so I tried searching the blogs I follow the hard way to see what challenges were going on.  I found several but boy, it took a long time.  Since I went to all that work, I'm entering it into these challenges!  LOL.  Please share if you've found a good reader....I'm getting desperate around here!  :-)


http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2014/01/challenge-150-winter-fun.html
http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/2014/01/challenge-100-sketch.html
http://cricutcraftyclare.blogspot.com/2014/01/fccb-challenge-195.html
http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2014/01/its-all-new.html
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/2014/01/craft-tell-your-hearts-content.html
http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2014/01/fccb-challenge-194-use-snowman.html
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2014/01/dlart-thankful-thursday-january-linky.html
http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/2013/12/januarys-just-because-linky-party.html
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2014/01/pile-it-on-4-animals.html