Thursday, February 5, 2009

*Valentine Birdhouse and matching cards*

I just love making Valentine's Day projects. I guess it's the reds and pinks and all the hearts that I love so much.

This is one of those $1 mini birdhouses from Michaels that I covered with some Making Memories Love Notes paper. I added some Valentine picks to it as well as a bird that was white, that I had from a Christmas pick, which I covered in some Hotty Pink and Pink Poinsettia Shimmerz! Gotta love Shimmerz!! I also added a mini heart brad to the body of the bird. To finish off the birdhouse, I added a gingham bow and a Making Memories Love Notes Tag, which I also covered in some Pink Poinsettia Shimmerz.


For this card, I used the same MM paper and another tag, part of a Valentine pick from M's, more gingham ribbon and some heart gems and hemp cord.

And for this card, I used some of that yummy Sugared paper by Basic Grey. I used some more pieces of the Valentine pick, my new Inkadinkado stamps from my friend Christine, (Thanks Girl!! ;) and also a chipboard heart, which I covered in some more Pink Poinsettia Shimmerz and a pink heart gem. I stamped the bird and sentiment onto some vellum. And I used some red DCWV scalloped cs and some pink polka-dotted ribbon.
I hope that you all have a great day! I will be having ANOTHER GIVEAWAY soon! Yes, I said another one!! So stay tuned!!

Hugs,

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

QKD February Release Party! And a Giveaway!!

Today is the Release Party for some awesome new stamps over at Queen Kat Designs! And now I am officially on the Design Team! Woo-Hoo! There is going to be alot of fun games, challenges and prizes today at the party!! So make sure you sign up and play along!! Just visit the new QKD Forum today for some FUN!

So here are some projects that I made with 2 new stamps! This first one is so cute, it is called Love Birds!
Here is what I made with it!

I used some Bittersweet paper by Basic Grey, some K&Co. Felt Hearts and a Melissa Frances Rub-On. I used some Copics to color in the birds.

This next one was also made with some Bittersweet papers, another MF Rub-On, chipboard hearts and mini pearls.

This one was made with some paper by Little Yellow Bicycle which I folded in half and then cut that in half with my trimmer to form the card base. I added some satin ribbon, a MF rub-on, flower gems and some glitter added to the feathers of the birds.
This next stamp that I used is called Flower It and is a background stamp. It is so versatile and can be used a number of ways.
And here is what I made with it.

On this card I simply stamped the image, all in one color, onto a piece of white cs and matted it onto some pink cs. I added 2 small pearls to 2 flowers in the corner. The background paper is also Bittersweet by BG, and I added a MF Rub-On, Making Memories flower pins, a pearl pin and some ribbon and a button.
For this card, I inked my Flower It stamp in multiple colors of reds and pinks. Matted it onto some mauve cs and then added some K&Co. Felt Flowers and I used my White Paint Marker to make some "stitches". The sentiment was printed out of MS Word.
For this card, I used a Butterfly shaped mini chipboard album, which I covered in yellow cs and stamped the Flower It image onto it in pink ink. I added a Valentine pick, chipboard heart, crocheted flower, mini pearls as eyes, ribbon and ric rak and the sentiment was printed out of MS Word.
And lastly, I took a plain white gift bag and prettied it up a bit with the Flower It stamp!

So do you want to win this adorable stamp set from Queen Kat Designs?? All you have to do is visit the new Queen Kat Designs Forum, sign up, introduce yourself on the MB and link it back to me, so we can say hi to you! And you must also sign up to follow my blog or as I call it, be my Friend! You have until February 14th and then I will pick a winner! But remember, you must follow these rules in order to win! Check out the other DT members blogs too, they also have a giveaway!! Just go HERE and click on the photos of the Royal Court! Good Luck!! Hope to see you at the Party!!

Hugs,

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

My Valentine's Blog Candy Winner.....

First off, I want to say thank you for all the wonderful comments that you all left! I appreciate every sngle one of them! I wish I could give you all something! But I will have plenty of more giveaways coming, so hopefully maybe you all will get something!! hehe Well, my son picked a name out of a bucket! There were soo many I didn't have a large enough bowl!! And my Winner is............

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LYNN BONILLA!!!

Congratulations Lynn! Please email me your snail mail addy to KeepsakesbyMelissa@yahoo.com as soon as you can so I can get this out to you quickly! If I don't hear from you by Friday, I will have my son pick a new Winner!

Thanks again for all the sweet comments and all my new friends!!

Have a great day!

Hugs,