Owlways love you layout

I found these cute little owls the other day here at Shery K Designs...and had to give them a try. I had no idea what I was going to do with them, but today I came across these old Father's Day pictures and thought "Owlways Love You" would be cute with them. I think these pages turned out fun and springy instead of Valentinesy....lol....time for a change in pace. The cute little leaves are from Just Yolie. I used stickles on the owls tummy and glossy accents on the sun's face. I'm really liking the glossy accents for faces. It makes the eyes and nose look raised....like a bubble sticker and it looks so cool. It doesn't take too long to dry either which is "owl"ways a bonus! LOL. Once again except for the base paper, all of this is done with leftover papers! I LOVE that! I have so much leftover paper that I'm trying to use it.  I actually have a ton of regular paper too.....anyone else guilty of that????

http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/search/label/Challenge%20Me%20Monday funny puns
http://trulymadlycraftychallenges.blogspot.com/2012/02/february-challenge.html ribbon and bling
http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-22-wings-and-things.html wings
http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2012/02/love-is-in-air-blog-hop-and-fabulous.html use word love
http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/2012/02/design-day.html love theme
http://littlescrappieces.blogspot.com/2012/02/winner-and-new-challenge-anything-your.html anything your heart desires

Rose New Camera Pictures

Ok....so I got these beautiful flowers for my birthday and couldn't resist playing with my so so new camera. My old camera died and so almost a year ago, my sweet hubby bought me a new one. Well...the first pictures I took were awful....so I've been trying to play every once in a while to get some better shots. Today I played with several different features of my camera and these are a few of the results. I think my favorite one is the second one where I was able to select the color and change the other colors to black and white! How cool is that! LOL. Anyway, which one do you like? I'd really like to hear your input....Thanks!

I'm going to enter my pictures here at As Simple as That.  I love the thought of everyday photos....that's what these are .... a way to remember something special that my dear hubby did for me.  I sure LOVE that man!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!


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I love you Bag

Ok....so here is the another gift to give to my kids for Valentine's Day. It will look so cute with the other gifts. This one has skittles and pixie sticks in it.

Challenges:
http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-time-with-ccr-valentines-day.html

http://thepixiecottage.blogspot.com/2012/02/pixie-cottage-challenge-107-red.html

Valentine's Gifts

I had some time and instead of scrapbooking, I decided to get a jump start on the gifts for my family for Valentine's Day. So here is what I came up with....inside the black box is mini Hershey Bars, inside the bad of treats is Snickers, and inside the Strawberry is a a Blow Pop sucker. I think these are a cute way to say I love you without overwhelming them with too many sweets! LOL. These will go great with their cards.  I think it's a good start. :-)  I think I'm going to make a little heart bag to go with them and probably a bookmark as we are all avid readers in our house.  But....it's a great start!

Scrappy Frogs Challenge
http://scrappyfrogschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/die-cut-challenge.html Die Cuts
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge
http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-me-monday-97.html  Love is in the air
Paper Playtime
http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/2012/02/ch-67-cricut-creations-with-hearts-or.html hearts of love
My Craft Spot
http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/2012/02/monday-challenge-43-valentines-day.html Valentines
Scrappy Moms Stamps
http://www.scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/2012/02/terrific-tuesday-challenge-hearts.html heart main element (pillow box)
Divas by Design
http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-20-anything-goes.html anything
Frosted Designs
http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2012/02/fabulous-friday-challenge-ribbon-andor.html ribbon
Papertake Weekly
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2012/02/anything-goes.html
Shelly's Images
http://shellysimagesblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/terrifically-thrilling-thursday-at.html tie it up
Berry71bleu Pages
http://berry71bleu.blogspot.com/2012/02/february-challengein-mood-for-love.html love

Love Cards-Valentine's or Just Because

Ok....so I needed MORE Valentine's Day Cards. I was sitting here thinking about Valentines Day and I always try to do something for my Grandma's because they are alone. Well, this year will be my Mom's first Valentines Day without my Dad (we lost him on the February 20, 2011) and so she will be alone also. We are running really low on men in my family....sigh.... anyway, I wanted to do something for them for Valentines Day. These cards are all done with scraps leftover from different projects. The ribbon on the first one is crinkle ribbon that I won from a challenge at Little Scrap Pieces.  Thanks Karen!  I LOVE it!  The last one I wanted to see how it would come out using this really wild paper. It's not bad, but I like the top ones best. So....these are the cards I'm going to give to my Mom and Grandmas. There is actually an extra, and that is to give to my hubby for our anniversary or just because sometime. :-) Who doesn't like a card just because sometimes?????

I'm entering it into the Delightful Challenge here:  http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-releases-and-delightful-punches-and.html punches or dies
http://sarahhurleychallenges.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-59-love-is-all-around.html Love is all around
http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com/2012/01/crazy4challenges-c4c121.html layer it on
http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2012/01/stripes-use-striped-paper.html striped paper (last one)
http://paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/paper-pretties-wednesday-challenge.html use ribbon (1st one)
http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com/2012/01/speedy-fox-and-friends-challenge-92.html use 4 layers
http://crimbo-crackers.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-8-no-people-or-animals.html Chrismtas or festive
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/01/pile-it-on-5-just-because.html just because (last one)
http://www.lilypad.inlinkz.com/2012/01/27/simon-says-stamp-presents-a-patterned-paper-challenge/ pattern paper

Blog Candy Alert

Ok...so one of the blogs I'm following is offering up some fantastic blog candy so I just had to share!  Go take a peak at this blog for your chance to win too!  I know I'd love it!  Make sure you take some time to browse her wonderful blog...she has some fun projects!  Here's the link!

http://www.lovejoypaper.com/2012/02/purge-giveaway.html

Lunch Box Card

These are some leftover hearts from my Love Grows Here idea which I will have to post later after it really gets underway. But anyway, I was reading my google reader this morning and there were two challenges that stuck out in my mind Fantabulous Cricut and Cooking with Cricut. One was to make a 3x3 card and the other a child's valentine using the colors red, pink and white. Well this is what I came up with. I turned one of these cute little leftover hearts into a 3x3 card to tuck into my son's lunchbox on Valentine's Day and then I turned another leftover heart into a Valentine for him to give to his class. This is just my example, we'll see if he wants to do that. Last year he was super excited to make all his Valentine's and he did. It was so sweet.  He told me a couple of weeks ago that he wasn't going to hand out Valentine's this year, he wanted to just hand out candy. Sad huh....... I hope this changes his mind as I'm not ready for my baby to be too old for passing out Valentines! Who knows, maybe if he doesn't want to make them, I'll tempt him into getting some at the store....after all, they aren't very expensive and maybe he can find something he likes. If he doesn't want to make them or buy them, then I'll get him some candy to hand out but..... whatever the case, both of these will end up in his lunchbox at some time....I know he'll like that!

http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-me-monday-96.html 3x3 Valentine Card
http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/2012/02/challenge-71-childs-valentine-must-use.html childs valentine