Love, Love and more LOVE!!!

   I am so happy to be feeling better and I think that wonderful nap I took yesterday afternoon, was a big help.  I don't know WHY I was so tired and sore, but I guess it was that awful bitter wind and cold.  It's still chilly today but the wind is gone and the sun is shine so brightly that it simply makes me feel warmer.  I also have a nice fire going in the woodstove and it's very comfy.

    I LOVE being warm and I love sunshine and really do hope to eventually move to a place with a much warmer year-round climate.  It would be wonderful to be lying in the sun on a warm beach and right now that's simply a dream.

    Speaking of things I LOVE, I have really had a wonderful time created lots of Valentine and Love cards this year and trying all kinds of new stamps and techniques.  I have two new cards to share today and both were created for new challenges.   The first one, is my a new card that I am submitting to yesterday's CAS Card challenge over at The Outlawz.  I just did not like how my card turned out and found today to be a better day for coming up with ideas.  I started with a deep red piece of Glossy Cardstock and a cream colored card-base.  I knew I wanted to trying something different and started by die-cutting two red hearts with my MFT die (this is my favorite heart shaped die) and I especially love that you cut three hearts each time.  My next step was to cut a simply black bow and for that I used a Memory Box (Crisp Bow) Die and a scrap of black cardstock.  I then popped the small heart on top of the other and added them along with the bow to my card.  To complete the card, I stamped on my Sentiment (from Hero Arts) and heat embossed it in black.   I finished off the card with three black pearls...!   Hope you like it.  

   My next card was created for today's new 'Rainbow Themed' Greeting Card Challenge over at The Outlawz and for this challenge, we were required to use a Rainbow in some way on our project.  I knew I had this sweet image by Lori Boyd and simply needed to print it out on some Cyrogen Cardstock, and color it up with my Copics.  I think it's so adorable and I love that it was created for a fundraiser - A Mission for Macie, which you can find over on Lori's site HERE!!  

      I knew right away that I wanted to use 'Somewhere over a rainbow'...as my sentiment and have always LOVED that song.   I can't ever think about a rainbow without starting to hum that song.  Do you still remember when you first heard it?  If you are like me, it's probably the version the Judy Garland sang in The Wizard of Oz....I love it and for some reason this song always touches my heart!!!  It's another song I used to sing to my boys when they were babies...and I think that is why I love it so....

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow.
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?

  Feel free to sing along.....!!