Hello My Love - Card

Hey there friends!  I've got a new card to share with you today.  I completed this one last night and planned to share it early this morning but omgosh.....I woke up feeling like death.  Thankfully my DH stayed home to help with my grandson and I'm starting to feel better now.  (Thanks honey, love you)

Okay now onto my card ;D

I actually made this card to enter into the Simon Says Black, White and another color challenge but I missed the deadline (hate when that happens).  I chose to use black, white and red.  Boy this was harder to do than I thought it would be.  I guess because I love playing with the whole box of crayons and love loads of contrast.

For this card I started by cutting Card #2, Layers from the Sentimentals Cricut Cartridge from white cardstock.  Next I cut black cardstock for my base and stamped it with a Metallic Pearl Dabber.  I believe the stamp I used is Inkadinkado.  I stamped the white cardstock with two shaded of red Colorbox ink and a Recollections stamp.  Then I inked it with Tim Holtz distress inks in Fired Brick and Festive Berries.  I also ran it through the sewing machine to add an extra little detail.  I added some glitter embossed swirls for a little framing and doodled around the edges.  I finished this off with some inked ribbon, a charm, sticker letters and a heart cut with Cricut Accent Essentials.  I also ran it through the swiss dots embossing folder.

Thank you so much for stopping by today and WELCOME to my newest bloggie friend Mallrat!!

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!

Smile - Universal Studios

Hello, Hello!  

How are you doing today, great I hope :D  I'm doing alright, just taking care of some business and wrapping up some projects with upcoming deadlines.   Last night I finished up my project for the Grandparent's Day Blog Hop hosted by Erica's Craft Room.  That's coming up on Saturday so be sure to join us.  There are some beautiful projects and blog candy in the line up that you don't wanna miss.  Since I was working on that I don't have a new project to share today so I dug into my vacation scrapbook for this one:

This is from our trip back in 2007 (man that was a long time ago!).  I pulled my colors straight from Thing 1 & Thing 2.  This also happens to be one of my FAVORITE color combos :D

I used my handy dandy Cricut to cut my tags and inked the edges with some Colorbox Chalk.

This tag was also cut with my Cricut and then stamped with blue Colobox Chalk.

If you look to the far left, you can see the journaling is on an inverted tag.  This was a miss cut that I didn't want to go to waste ;D  The title is chipboard that I painted to match.   I did a little decorative cutting on the ends of the red polka dot paper, some tearing and a bit of doodling to finish things off.  Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy!

Well friends I've gotta run but before I go, I'd like to WELCOME Carol.
Carol, THANK YOU so much for visiting and deciding to follow along.  I really appreciate all of you and look forward to reading your comments each day.   They really lift my spirits especially on those days that are WAY less than perfect.  So THANK YOU all very much!!!

Have a Beautiful Day!!!