Happy Valentine's Day!!

  Wishing everyone a very special Valentine's Day and hoping it's full of  LOVE for you and those you love.  I feel like I've been working on Valentine's  projects for so long and very much happy now to be moving more into Spring!   

   When I think of Spring and colors I always think of pretty light and pastel colors, light shades of of course, my favorite would be lavender or a light lilac, which is the color I chose for my first card today.  It's for our brand new challenge over at the StampFairy Challenge Blog and I'm here to invite you all over to play along.

  Challenge # 11 is one that is very easy and will be fun for all.  All you need to do is pick one of your favorite colors, a StampFairy image and a white/off white card base or cardstock.   If you are new to StampFairy, you can find a fabulous selection of images to choose from in our store at this link.

  We want to see you create a project using all white, with a touch of ONE color, for me that's where I chose lavender.   We called it -- 'Basically White with a Touch of One Color' and this the is the card I created to help provide you some inspiration --

  I started with one of my favorite images, which is from the 'Linda Fairy' collection in the StampFairy Store.   I then started my project by picking out some pretty sparkly digi paper and then printed out my image twice, one on top of my digital paper, so that I could cut out the pieces and paper piece them on her dress, hair bow and the the star on her wand.  I then stamped my Thank You sentiment in the closest ink color I had, which is 'Lavender Lace'  from Stampin' Up.  I also embossed my card base with a wonderful SU Embossing folder called 'Textured Tulips'.    My final touch was a matching bow that I created with my Bow Easy and then simply glue on to the card.   You can find all the details on the challenge and some wonderful inspiratoin over on the StampFairy Challenge Blog!!

  My sweet little 'Thank You' Card is also being submitted to these new challenges and everyone is welcome to join the fun -

• Challenge up Your Life - Challenge # 37 - Monochrome
• CES Challenges - Challenge # 23- Cute and Cuddly
• Stamping Vacation - Monochromatic Purples
• Totally Papercrafts - Challenge # 53 - Clean and Simple
• The Rubber Cafe - Challenge # 4 - Paper Piecing

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  And after you finish that challenge you'll want to be certain to hop on over to 'The Outlawz' for their first  BIG PARTY !!   The Outlawz Girlz have put together a fabulous list of sponsors who have all donated some wonderful prizes.  WOOHOO!!    For the full list of prizes and all of the fun details, please head over to the Outlawz group HERE!
 

  I am very happy to be helping out the 'Girlz'  in the 'Birthday Group' this week and have created one of the inspiration cards for this week's challenge!   This week to tie into the big Showdown, we want to see you create a 'Birthday' project/card based on a 'Western Theme!   As always, your project must be new and created for this challenge.  All the specifics and full details can be found over in the group - you can link directly to the Birthday challenge HERE.


  For my card I started with this fun lil' cowboy image from Bugaboo Stamps.  I colored him with Copics,and then used a variety of cardstock and digi papers for the background.  I embossed each layer for more dimension and then added some twine and buttons to give it more a western feel.  My Happy Birthday sentiment was computer generated and created with Western Themed font, that I found over at DaFont.

  My cute little Cowboy Card is also being submitted to these fun challenges.  I invite you all to join me in any of them and hope you will.

• Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Challenge # 59 - Tempting Texture
• Tip Top Tuesday - Challenge # 21 - Frame it!!
• Our Creative Corner - Cut it Out Challenge - (Die Cuts)

     Time for me to sign off and create some new cards!  Before I go, I want to remind you that there is still time to join our current challenge at Baby Bud Designs and to also tell you 'ssshhh it's a secret' that this Friday - February 18th, we'll have something new and special to share with you all!   Please be sure to stop by then and I'll have more to share!!     I'm also sharing one of my most recent Baby Bud cards and this was a fun little Birthday Card, but would have also made a very cute Friendship card, featuring Max and Molly, two of the newest members of the Baby Bud Collection.

  Happy Monday and I hope everyone has a wonderful week!!