More Valentine Cards

Here are a couple more card samples that I made for my upcoming Senior's event....

This is from the Kraft paper pack that I picked up at Michael's. I wanted to highlight the patterned paper so I used a lot of it for the background. It's a really cute pack of paper and I love Kraft.

I had to have the heart doilies even though I already had a supply of round. Also a purchase from Michaels. The sparkly word was cut from patterned paper and I was able to use another embossing folder from my large stockpile that I hadn't used previously. Love the XO. Kept it simple with not too many layers for ease of assembly.

Valentine Cards

I volunteered to do a little social at a local Senior's home and thought that making some Valentine cards and eating sugar cookes and date oatmeal sandwich cookies would be the perfect event.

 I did a few prototypes and then I realized that maybe I would be dealing with amateurs so I scaled back a bit.
This card looks simple but there were quite a few steps... 3 pieces of embossing and I was cutting all the hearts with my Big Shot, so this card was abandoned. Too many pieces and too much prep.

Then at the suggestion of a friend, I decided to turn to the Silhouette for a simple card, that could be cut quickly and would be easy for my clientele to assemble.
How cute it this?

The XO is a chipboard sticker so there will be a variety to choose from. In all I came up with 4 card designs and with the help of my willing assembler, we put together 40 card packs, all prepped and ready to go. Check back for other samples. There is still time to whip up a few of these cards in time for the big day.

Loonies for Lindor- Save the Date!

 Another fabulous Scrapbooking Crop for Charity coming your way this June. I was able to secure the same venue that we used last year to host another all day Crop on Sat. June 13, 2015. The Event will run from 9-6 at Woodside Bible Fellowship Church in Elmira. Stay tuned for more details.

Also note, that I have added a follow by email to my blog page and now you can be notified whenever I make a new post (which should be often as my goal is 100 posts in 2015) by entering your email.

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge

I just happened to be working with the adorable Love Struck line from WeRMemory Keepers, when I spotted a cute Valentine tag. I needed to make a wedding shower card for a lady at work with birds as the theme but I wasn't quite sure how to use the tag. I happened upon the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge and I had my answer. Just cut off the tag part and I could use the sketch.

I follow the sketches pretty closely, no design team aspirations here but I love how it turned out and I think the recipient will as well.

I'm excited to link up to a new challenge site.

The Dreaded Lampshade

Maya is still on the road to recovery and unfortunately, that includes wearing the dreaded lampshade. Look at that poor sad face.
I'm sure all pet owners go through this at some stage in their pets life. Surprisingly, they seem to adapt to it pretty well, eating and drinking and sniffing the ground. Just can't itch or lick, 2 of her favourite things. Hopefully, won't be for too much longer.
In the meantime, she is getting lots of special treatment, massages, hot and cold compresses and lots of petting and one on one time.

Little Red Wagon Shhhhh! Challenge

This was an easy one for me. The Little Red Wagon challenge this week was to not put any words or sentiments on the front of the card. I never know where to put them anyway.

So, a good friend of mine, who has this thing for owls is having a birthday very soon. I gave her the card ahead of time (blank so she could regift it, ha!ha!) and was finally able to use the birthday cake which was one of the very first things that I cut out with my new Silhouette. The card is pretty basic unless you count the million little pieces in the birthday cake.

I hope you like it.

That's 2 weeks in a row for the Little Red Wagon challenge. I'm on a roll.

Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

I feel like I have posted these cookies before but they didn't show up in a search of my blog so maybe my memory isn't as faulty as I think. These are absolutely the easiest and fastest cookies that you could ever make and there are really tasty.
All you need is a box of cake mix and a few other basic ingredients and you are good to go.

Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
1 package chocolate cake mix (do not prepare)
1/2 cup oil
2 eggs
1 cup chocolate chips or other add ins (optional)

Mix.

Bake at 350F 8-10 minutes.

Super quick and easy.