A Very Masculine Valentine with Paper Temptress

Today I'm sharing a card over at the

Paper Temptress Community Blog.

I hope you have a chance to go take a look so you can also check out all of the yummy papers I've used from the 

Paper Temptress Store.

You can find this card in the following challenges:
Cards und More -- Men's cards only
Cardz for Guyz -- Truly, madly, deeply love
Die Cuttin' Divas -- Non-traditional Valentine's
Timeless Tuesdays -- WOOD you be mine?
Lady Bug Crafts -- For the one I love

Paper Temptress and Hand-made Dogwood Blossoms

Just a quick post to invite you over to the

Paper Temptress Community Blog

to take a look at this fun little project.

You can find the items from the Paper Temptress store that I used listed in my post as well as the link to the YouTube video I found about making these gorgeous and oh so simple dogwood blossoms.

Are they fantastic or what?!

I'm stunned at how easy these flowers are to make....you can expect to see these on more of my projects very soon!

Please be sure to head over to

Paper Temptress

to check out all of the details on this project!

You can find this project in the following challenges:

Craft My Life -- February/March: Anything but a card

Make It Monday -- Anything goes

My Craft Creations -- Anything goes

Sparkle & Sprinkle -- Glitter, embossing powder or flocking

Through the Purple Haze -- Anything goes

Dream Big with Paper Temptress and Mo Manning

This is going to be an unusually short post.

Because of a shoulder injury, typing is incredibly difficult.

Here is a card I've done for the Paper Temptress Community Blog.  All of the yummy papers used for this card

are from Paper Temptress' store.

The image is from Mo Manning and the brad is from my stash.

Here are the papers I used to make this card:

Blueberry Brown Bag Text

Brown Bag Cardstock

Red Pepper Skinny Columns

Neenah Solar White

You should also know that the Red Pepper Skinny Columns paper is in the Valentine's Day Variety Package which is currently on sale.  This is an excellant value and a great way to try out some of the papers available at Paper Temptress.

This card can be found in the following challenges:
Lil' Red Wagon -- Child's play
Fan-Tastic Tuesday -- Make it cute
Passion for ProMarkers -- Anything goes

Sentimental Sundays #190

Since today is Sunday, I'd like to invite you to our new challenge at

Sentimental Sundays.

Sponsoring this week we have:

Paper Pretties

The theme we'd like to see you play with this week is

More Than 3 Layers

This is so appropriate for those of us here in central Indiana....we're all about layering it up right now.  Layers of clothes, layers of blankets, and layers of snow. This month is only 2/3 over and already we've had almost 23 inches.  ~~We average around 9 inches of snow for January.~~  In fact, it's snowing as I type this post and this was the view of our swimming pool while I made this card:

Buried under that snow, there really is a diving board.
We had about 11 inches of snow then....
from just one snow storm.
Ugh.

Needless to say, I'm really in the mood for some warm weather.

So I did the only thing I could do:  I worked with sunny colors.

That awesome image is "Helium" from Paper Pretties.

The sentiment is one of the 3 that are included with your purchase.

It's such a great value!  I loved coloring this adorable little guy with my ProMarkers.  He's definitely going to show up on some

Valentine's Day cards too.

The color scheme of the card was inspired by that great striped ribbon.  It's one that I picked up from the Michaels $1 ribbon bin.

The brads are Recollections.

The shimmery patterned paper is a Hambly Studio Screen Print from Paper Temptress.  It's called Little Circles.

All of the other items used to make this card are listed below.

You can find this card in the following challenges:
Di's Digi Designs -- Spots and dots
My Time to Craft -- All about the love
Jo's Scrap Shack -- It's a love thing
Simply Create Too -- Valentine's Day or use hearts
DRS Designs -- Love/marriage
Really Reasonable Ribbon -- Love and ribbon
Hobbycutz -- Lots of layers




All of us on the Design Team are so excited to see loads of great entries in our 3 Layers or More challenge this week.  Remember that because we are Sentimental Sundays we do need to see a sentiment on your projects.

Here are the items used to make this card:

Hambly 6x6 Screenprints	Papertrey Ink Cardstock	ProMarkers	Sizzix Tickets	Sizzix Big Shot	Scotch Double Sided Tape, 36 Yards
Scor-Pal	Swingline Guillotine Trimmer	Scotch ATG	Ranger Inkssentials Craft Sheet	We R Memory Keepers Brad Setter

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Come and Get It Challenge #3

Come and Get It Challenges

is beginning a new challenge today with the theme of

Food, Glorious Food.

Sponsoring this week is one of my favorite digi companies:

Bugaboo Digi Stamps

Bugaboo was generous enough to allow all of the Design Team to select our own image to work with for this challenge.  I'm crazy about the JJ line of images so I decided to find one of her hilarious options.  The decision was an easy one when I saw this image/sentiment combo.

Isn't she fun?  I just love JJ!

My paper choices were inspired by that great scarf JJ's wearing.

I colored her scarf to coordinate with the small polka dots.

After I had finished the card, I added some polka dots to her apron with a white marker to replicate the larger dot patterned paper.

You can find this card in the following challenges:
Di's Digi Designs -- Spots and dots
My Sheri Crafts -- Delightful Digis
Open-Minded Craft Challenges -- Warmth: food or clothing
Daring Cardmakers -- What's your tipple?
Digitally Sweet Challenges -- Anything goes #71
Frosted Designs -- Polka dots
Crafty Little Fairies -- In the kitchen
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper -- January challenge

What kind of new Food, Glorious Food project will you be adding to our challenge at Come and Get It this week?

All of us on the Design Team look forward to seeing your creations!

Here are the items used to make this card:

Paper Temptress Red Crepe Ruche	Bazzill Basics	DCWV Playtime 12x12 Stack	My Mind's Eye Playdate 6x6	ProMarkers	Spare Parts Brads and Clips Asst
Scotch ATG	Sizzix Big Shot	Sizzix Scalloped Squares	Scor-Pal	Ranger Inkssentials Craft Sheet	Swingline Guillotine Trimmer

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Paper Temptress Hiding in My Craft Room

Happy Saturday everyone!

I'd like to invite you to a brand new challenge at

Hiding in My Craft Room.

Our theme this week is

Clean and Simple

I'm so happy to tell you that our fabulous sponsor this week is

Paper Temptress

One lucky winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to spend on some of the most awesome papers you've ever seen and felt.

I need to be completely honest and let you know a couple of things:

1. I'm on the Design Team at Paper Temptress.

2. I'm hopelessly addicted to the papers I've gotten from

Paper Temptress.

I made this card before realizing the incredible glossy black moire paper is no longer available.  (Insert sad face.)  The same great pattern and feel of that paper can be found on the Gold Retro Lustre paper.  The background mat is one of my absolute favorite papers....the Mirrored Reflective cardstock.  It's difficult to get a really great picture of this because it is so reflective.  

Because one of the papers I used in my first card is no longer available (repeat sad face) I repeated the same design using papers available in the Valentine's Day Package.  This is such a phenomenal value any day but from now until February 14 it is on special.  What a fantastic way to try out loads of papers for one really low price!

The picture above shows a bit of the shimmer on the papers.

It's even more gorgeous in person!!

Even the card base is from Paper Temptress.

I used the Neenah Solar White 80#.

It's what I color on with my ProMarkers and love it!

The weight is really great for a card base, too.

You can find this card in the following challenges:
CAS-ual Fridays -- Color blocks 
Sweet Pea Stampers -- Flower power
Crafty Girls -- Challenge #9: anything goes

All of us on the Design Team at
Hiding in My Craft Room
would love to see your new CAS project.
And believe me....you'd love to win this prize from
Paper Temptress!!

Here are all of the items used to make this card:

Paper Temptress Valentine's Package	Mirrored Reflective Cardstock	Neenah Solar White, 80#	Off White Embossing Powder	Embossing Magic	VersaMark Ink Pad
Fiskars Stamping Blocks	Inkadinkado Meadow Stamp Set	Silver Embossing Powder	Swingline Guillotine Trimmer	Scotch Double Sided Tape, 36 Yards	Scor-Pal
Scotch ATG	Ranger Inkssentials Craft Sheet

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