Crazy for Valentines

This week's crazy for challenges challenge is to make valentines. I made some for a swap. I've had this little Whippersnapper guy in my stash since October, he has remained uninked until now. I paired him with a Unity stamp sentiment and colored in copics.

CPS 150

I finally got around to doing a CPS sketch!

 I used Kitchen Goddess from QKD. I stamped her in Memento Ink, colored her in with Copics and I paper pieced her Apron. I used my slice to cut the label shape, and my threading water punch for the border. I used papers from Crate and Hambly, and a little distress ink in Tea Dye.

Truth or Dare- the Circle Journal

I was in a circle journal group a few years ago. My book never made it back to me, and the group basically fell apart. But I always thought it was a great idea, and I met some other wonderful journaling ladies, so I decided to start another one up. I have a WRMemory Keepers 8x8, 3 ring binder. It's black. I decided not to decorate the cover.
These are my instructions, made with a digital scrapbooking kit:

For the truth or dare cards, I used some 2up pages. I used cardstock, stamped, and printed the questions.

I chose Dare. My dare was to center a page around numbers. I used stamps from QKD to make the star circles. They are from the Over the Moon set. It's gotta be my favorite set for versatility!
For the photos, my husband took these pictures. I cropped them and applied a Color Pop action to them. I had never done a numerology reading, but mine was very accurate.

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This week, we are featuring the spotlighting technique. In this technique, you color in only a small portion of a stamp, to highlight it. The results are very dramatic, as you can see here:

I used the stamp, By the Sea Shore. In order to highlight her gorgeous face and body, I colored her in with Copics and Stickles. Then I used my CM oval cutter to create the vignette you see. I inked it and adhered to the card.

Thanks for stopping by! Now head on over to Stephanie's blog to see what she made this week.

Here's the whole list, in case you missed it:
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog
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Today, I worked on Karry's circle journal. Karry had the theme of "I love..." and you had to pick one thing that you love. Karry is on the ball with this- she included her own paper from the Love, Elsie line. I had fun with this one.Karry also wanted us to include some doodling. I doodled dots around my picture and a border around my journaling. I DID NOT doodle the camera- it's a stamp from Unity stamps. Perfect for this kind of layout!

The little cards are called "Moo" cards. They are the most adorable little cards- they have your name and address (or whatever you want) printed on the back. You can make them here: http://us.moo.com/en/

Royal Kat Wednesday

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This week, we had a color challenge, use blue, silver, white, and grey. I used these colors on one of my pages for my Christmas Journal.


I added some red, because I loved this overlay which had red in it. I thought it would go well with the gnome.I colored him with copics and used some flock for his beard. Then I went back in with a pen and redrew the lines from the stamp to give it some definition.

Thanks for stopping by! Now head on over to Stephanie's blog to see what she made this week.

Here's the whole list, in case you missed it:
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Playing Catch Up!

Here are my pages that I haven't been posting. I started them all last week, but I kind of lost my mojo and none of them looked done to me. I'm still missing a couple of days but caught up otherwise for now. I'm going to post them a few at a time...

Day 7:


Day 8


Day 9


And Day 10, 11, and 12 still missing. Check back tomorrow for Days 13, 14, and 15.