Wild Thing!

It's Monday AGAIN! Where did the weekend go??? I did yard work all day Saturday (after neglecting it for a long time) and I'm sore all over!!! LOL
Today's card is a masculine Valentine. We always think of Valentines as "girly" but that's not quite fair, is it?
Card Recipe:

• Stamps: Art Gone Wild! "Gentle Giraffe"
• Papers: The Paper Studio
• Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
• Ribbon: May Arts
• Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Dots
• Nestibilities: Round and Labels (not sure which #)
• Bling: K and Co.
• Border Punch: Fiskars
• Copics:BG96, E35, E08, BV23, C7, RV04

TIP: Speaking of Copics, did you know that on the Ciaos the BRUSH end is identified by the GRAY ring right below the cap? For the longest time, I was constantly taking lids off to see which end was what until Asela Hopins told me that in one of her classes! Oh for the little things in life!!!

That's all for today! See you tomorrow!

Cathy Clark

Feb. Designing D.I.V.A.S. Challenge Valentine Love

Copic Markers used on this card

Today's card is my interpretation of Annie B'c Splitcoast Stampers Designing D.I.V.A.S. Feb. Challenge. I took a little liberty and used ribbon across card instead of strips of words and I used Tilda by Magnolia stamps on the circle instead of a heart (Tilda's holding a heart shaped balloon afterall!) and I put my sentiment in the lower right corner. Tilda is so darn cute, I just HAD to use her! LOL

Card Recipe:

• Stamps: Magnolia Stamps
• Paper: Bo Bunny
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Ribbon: Michael's
• Nestibilities: Round and Scallopped Round
• Stickles: Grape Ice on purple balloon; Frosted Lace on Tilda's pentifore; Diamond on wings, lace on clothing and on pink balloon
• I used foam tape to elevate the large round area and sentiment to make them stand out more
• Copic Markers: see above

Have a great Sunday everyone---see you tomorrow!

Cathy Clark

It's a LOVE thing!

Love is in the air! I have a 24" twig tree that I decorate all year round and I just decorated it for Valentine's Day. It makes me smile and my 2 and 4 year old grandchildren love to see the changes each holiday.

I made another card for the "Heart" day mostly cause I think you can get as frilly as you want for this day and I love that! It's hard to see in this photo, but I wanted show the inside as well as the front of this one. The heart cut-out on the front peeks inside to the sentiment "Sweet Wonderful You". I really like that saying.

Recipe:

• Red cut-out card---Studio g
• DP---K & Company
• CS---GinaK
• Sentiment stamps---these are old and from unknown source
• Ink---Memento Tuxedo Black
• Ribbon---May Arts
• Border Punch---Martha Stewart
• Black Stickles Glitter Glue on Love setiment
• Corner Rounder---Creative Memories

Have a great day everybody and tell someone you LOVE them!

Cathy Clark

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday everyone!

Today I am actually in Charleston WVa visiting my son, daughter-in-law and my amazing one year old grandson Mark II. He is so beautiful, so sweet, and so much fun to be with! My daughter and her two young children from Florida came with me in hopes to see snow! It's warmed up a little this week here so we may not be making snow men or sledding---we'll see!

With Feb. 14th getting close, I made a valentine that I'll be sending to a close friend. Hope you like it! The recipe is:

• Heart Tree stamp---Ippity Stamps (image given to me by sweet friend Kelly Landers)
• Sentiment stamp---Inkadinkado
• CS---American Crafts
• DP---Basic Gray and My Mind's Eye
• Nestibilities circle and scalloped circle
• Ink---Memento Tuxedo Black
• Border Punch---Martha Stewart
• Both ribbons---May Arts
• Copic markers: YG03, YG95, E33, E35, E47, RV02, RV06, RV29, R37, B12, and B05

Hope you all have a good, good Friday and a wonderful weekend! Usually I say something about the beach or sunshine here but today I say THINK SNOW!!! (at least in southern WVa!)

Cathy Clark