Long valentine

My cat ate my cards.

Seriously, if a card falls off my computer desk, she will start chewing on it, so I have to be careful to move them away after I scan them. Sometimes she will jump up and deliberately knock a card to the floor just so she can start chewing on it. I had several long cards that I wanted to use in my mailings today, because I like to nestle my ATC swaps inside long cards, but I couldn't find them, and so I feared the worst - my cat must have made off with them.

Thus, I needed a long card. I had a recipe challenge from the Crafty Pad, and all my glitter papers and Embellishments from the Target One Spot still out, so ZAP!!



One fancy edge (Martha Stewart punch), two (glittered foam) hearts, and three patterned papers. Not exactly tasteful, but it certainly gets your attention. Now, if I can keep it from getting my cat's attention...

Using it

You may recall that a couple of days ago, I went to Target and spent $3 on scrapbooking papers and embellishments, and to justify the expense, I told myself I would have to make 3 cards. I made one a couple of days ago, and now, here are two more. In addition, I used a highly unlikely focal image for the papers I bought - a vintage valentine that I picked up from the Graphics Fairy.

Here is the first card, using a sketch from Sunflowers and Dragonflies:



It also uses a glitter heart that I bought at the Target One Spot last year. I love the One Spot. The word stamp was a freebie from TAC.

This card follows the Get Sketchy sketch this week.



I really like how the snowflakes on the Christmas paper match the doilies on the Valentine paper in the K&Co stack. The Chipboard hearts were my One Spot purchase.

Whew! Now I can enjoy the rest of my cheap goodies without guilt!

Paris

These are not the greatest drawings I've ever done, but they are inchies, and there is a limit to what you can do on an inchie.



My husband was able to recognize about half of these locations - how about you?

The Saturday Spotlight is on teeny tiny, you can't get much smaller than an inchie.

Cheap and sparkly

Last time I was in Target, I found some valentine themed paper in the dollar bins, along with some embellishments, and as I was driving home with these little goodies, I said to myself "I need to make at least three cards with this stuff to justify the three bucks I spent". Then I thought that for an additional challenge, I should make something other than a valentine.



The background paper and the cardboard sticker that says "happy" are from that purchase. The stamp and the huge purple rhinestones are from Dollar tree, as are the holographic stickers I used to spell "Birthday". I used glitter pens and the blended glitter technique to color the image, and to do some faux stitching around the edge. It isn't gorgeous, but you can't complain about the cost of the materials!

Now, who needs a cheap and sparkly birthday card?

Usagi

Cat and I have been working on Zindorf tutorials, and a few days ago, I picked this one to try. Cat objected, saying she wanted to do the one we ended up doing two days ago - the tutorial featured rabbits, but since I already decided I wanted to do owls, I did it with owls. Cat did hers with a rabbit. Then (and this is the part that cracks me up), she says that she wants to do the original owl tut that I picked, because she already stamped the owls.

Well, since I already used owls with the rabbit tut, I decided to use a rabbit with the owl tut. I recalled that in Japan, instead of seeing a man in the moon, they see a rabbit, so I took that as my inspiration for this ATC - a plain brown hare striving to transcend the mortal plane to fulfill his destiny as the rabbit in the moon.



I took some chances with the color - instead of sticking to shades of blue, I used some green and purple to develope the color of the sky. I used gold embossing on the leaves and some gold metallic accents on the rabbit to symbolize his spiritual journey.

I had another reason to make a brown and purple ATC as well - it's the challenge this week at Fun with ATCs.

Owl always love you

It's the beginning of the month, which means a new free digital stamp at Designed2Delight. If you make a card with it and post it by Monday, you get a free digital stamp next week. If you use that stamp, then you get another one the following week, and so on. It's a great way to collect digital stamps, and it is a great way to get the experience of being on a design team without the stress.



I used another Zindorf tut for this one, although I changed so many things in the tutorial, I doubt Michelle herself would recognize it. I did, however, attempt to use SU inks on this one, thereby learning that spots and brayers don't mix.

How many inchies can you fit on an ATC?

6 inchies.