VLV Sketch/CAS-ual Fridays meet!

Happy Friday, PEEPS!! YIPEE! The weekend is here, the weekend is here! Tomorrow, my kids' Grandma and Aunty are taking them skiing so I will have the whole day to myself - WHATEVER SHALL I DO?!? Craft, you say?! I am thinking so!!! And...a nice long walk....and a nice long bath....and read a good book....lol...the list is endless! BLISS!

Alright, enough about tomorrow's plans...let's get down to bizness about what I did TODAY :) I needed a sketch to start my card so I ventured over to the Verve Splitcoaststampers Forum HERE and low and behold, they are having a sketch challenge this week for the final challenge of February! Hop on over and take a look-see....lots of prizes up for grabs for entering the month-long challenges!

Here's their CAS sketch:

Seeing as how it's Friday, I knew that CAS-ual Fridays new challenge was issued so I scurried over to see what the girls want from us - "Add SILVER to your project." Alrighty then...that I did - I added a super cute double-heart charm to my twine bow!

And...here is my card:

Super cute huh?! I love it! I used my new MFT Stars Die-namics and cut some stars out of the white, then added bits of cardstock behind them, and stamped my Verve sentiment before layering down. I also used my new MFT Fish Tail STAX Die-namics to make the flags. Added the bordered center piece with twine wrapped around it then tied on my silver charm with another bow...voila!! Super easy peesy!

I hope you liked today's card - it was sure fun to make...take care and pop back in tomorrow to see what shenanigans I end up getting myself into ;) Ciao!

CAS-Fridays meets The Pink Elephant (and a few others...)

Happy Tuesday!! I came across a new-to-me challenge site last week and I've been itchin' to get a card in to their challenge this week! CAS-Fridays are wanting to see us "use letters creatively in our CAS project this week"....so that could be die cuts, stickers, alpha stamps - etc. I chose to use my GoGo Boots dies from Sizzix for my "LOVE" lettering as that is what popped out at me in the inspiration photo from The Pink Elephant - TPE185:

...and here is my card using these two challenges:

My card is pretty straight forward this week with an embossed layer of hearts (Cherry Cobbler), some Crumb Cake seam binding, button and of course a popped-up heart to fill in the LOVE :)

I would also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

My Time to Craft - Love is In The Air
One Crazy Stamper - February LOVE Challenge
Simply Create Too - Valentine's Day or Hearts
Party Time Tuesdays - LOVE and ROMANCE

Thank you very much for stopping in this afternoon - I hope you are enjoying your day, full of blessings and LOVE (and maybe some ink, stamps, and paper???!??  :)