Valentine's Day Blog Hop at Exploring Cricut

Welcome to our blog hop and challenge.  You should have arrived here from Faith's blog.  In honor of Valentine's Day, the challenge this week is to make a card, layout, or paper craft with a valentine theme and use at least one jewel.

For my card I used the candy heart cut from Simply Charmed and the young lovers from Suburbia.  This is a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch card.  The small size doily makes a great bact piece for the silhouette.

Please lease a comment by Sunday, Feb. 16.  I will be giving away some little goody to one of you who stops by.

After enjoying all the ideas our team has come up with, create your own card and enter it in our challenge at Exploring Cricut.

If you arrived from somewhere else and want to join us at the beginning of our hop go to Sharon's blog. Otherwise, your next stop is Emily.

 

Blog Hop Schedule

Sharon http://meemeescreations.blogspot.com

Donna http://wwwkindredkreations.blogspot.com

Faith http://scrapbookerphd.blogspot.com

Rae Ann http://joyinart.blogspot.com

Emily http://emilyqueenofallthingscrafty.blogspot.com

Annette http://mymindsdustbunnies.blogspot.com

Michelle N http://justanutterpapercrafter.blogspot.com

Jen http://javajencreations.blogspot.com

Julie http://mylittlecorner-julie518.blogspot.com

Michelle S http://cricutcrazyscrapper.blogspot.com

Liz http://unikbyyes.blogspot.com

Rosa http://enjoyingthebug.blogspot.com

Diane http://happyscrapperdiane.blogspot.com

 

Thank you so much for stopping by.  Have fun creating and Happy Valentine's Day.

Rae Ann

 

Be My Valentine at Digi Darla's Challenges

As soon as I saw the theme I knew this little guy would be perfect.  Doesn't he look like he's going a-courtin'?



 

I've been experimenting with using distress markers as water colors.  I think I'm getting pretty good at it.  I used the cricut cartridge Create a Critter for the triple hearts and the cartridge Picturesque for my favorite corner shape.

To see all the entries at Digi Darla's Be My Valentine Challenge, click here..

 

 

Happy Creating,

Rae Ann















Be My Valentine Challenge at Exploring Cricut

Welcome.  Come join our challenge at  Exploring Cricut.  Make a card, layout, or any paper craft with the theme "Be My Valentine".  Here's my contribution as a design team member.

This is an easel card.  I'm in love with this little Queen of Hearts from Teddy Bear Parade.  I used the Picturesque cartridge for the decorative corners and a circle from the same cartridge for the message backing.  By accident, I found a description of how to write words in a circle on Microsoft Word - it's so easy and I never knew you could do it.  Click here for instructions.
On the circle I added a small, gathered piece of toulle,(if that's how you spell it, LOL) a glitter sticker heart, and 2 stickpins that I made.  Overall, I had a lot of fun with this.

Have some fun of your own and enter it in the challenge at Exploring Cricut .  I looking forward to seeing you there.

Rae Ann

Little Miss Muffet Challenge

This will be an 'Anything Goes' entry because I'm using one of their stamps but not following the current theme.

 

 



This sweetie looked like Valentine material to me.  I used colored pencils, which is why the colors are so soft.  Everything, but her, I found in my stash and put to good use.

 

Be sure to visit Little Miss Muffet Challenges to see all the great entries.

 

Happy creating.

Rae Ann