Valentine's Afternoon!!

  Are you enjoying Valentine's Day, I sure am!!    Hubby and both my boys always treat me very well and today was extra special.  I felt a bit spoiled today and I'm very thankful for their cards and gifts!  I really love all three of my guys very much -- every day!!

   I also had a very special surprise in the mail and it was from one of my online 'craft' freinds and it's a gorgeous card that was created by Reni.  I saw it last week for the first time when she was a Guest Designer for a new release at SCACD.  She created this gorgeous 'purple' birthday card with a new stamp 'Celebrate' stamp designed by Victoria Case exclusively for SCACD.  I saw it on her blog and immediately LOVED it.   I wrote a comment about it on her blog and guess what?  She sent it as a wonderful friendship gift.  How awesome is that!  It came from her in The Netherlands to me here in the US and she also added some wonderful little goodies!   It was such a thoughtful idea and I was so happy and surprise when I saw her name on the package -- It definitely made my day!! -  Thanks again Reni, I will cherish my gorgeous card and thank you for your fabulous act of kindness!!

   I also had a lot of fun today, simply spending time in my craft room.  I've been working on some really fun Team projects and a special card for a brand new challenge which started today over at the 'House of Gilli Challenge blog' !  This is the very first Gilli Challenge and it was a fun recipe challenge, which I have shared below.

   Suzanne Dean, is the new Art Coordinator at Gilli and she is also sponsoring this first challenge -- Woohoo!!  If you are the lucky winner you could win a Gilli Stamp along with a Class of your choice from Suzanne in her 'Color Me Creative Classroom'.   I can say from experience that all of Suzanne's classes are awesome and I highly recommend them.   I'm playing for fun, and I had fun creating my card.  I wanted to share it with you now and wish everyone who is playing lot of luck!!  You will  NOT be disappointed in any of her classes or with any of the adorable Gilli Stamps.   

  I am also excited to have copied over the receipe to share with you here and hope it will inspired you to get started on your project.

House of Gilli Challenge #1

RECIPE CHALLENGE

-Use some form of Sparkle 

-Use 3 Patterned Papers

-Use at least 2 dies and/or punches

-You do not have to use a Gilli for this project
BUT IF you use a Gilli you get 2 chances okay ;)

                                     

  For all the details and more information, please hop on over to the 'House of Gilli' blog HERE!!

  I have a nice little collection of Gilli Stamps and for my card I chose to use Gilli Girly.  I started by picking out my three patterned papers from the Gossamer Collection by Memory Box.  I especially love these 6 X 6 papers and I buy mine at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design.   I then colored my sweet little image with Copics and to give her that extra sparkle and shine, I added a fine layer of glitter on top of the finished project.  I used my new Grand Calbur (love it) and a variety of Spellbinder dies to cut and embossed the background shapes.  I also used a decorative punch for some simple flourishes and added some  Prima 'bling' and a few Petaloo Dazzlers to finish off my card.

 
  I'm off now to head over to the 'House of Gilli' to post it in the challenge.  I hope I have inspired you go join me for this fun new challenge.

  Have a great night!!