Love is in the Air Blog Hop!!

Welcome to the Love is in the Air blog hop hosted by Paulette from Around the Block with scrapalette! If you have arrived here from Doreen's cute blog http://polkadotpaperprincess.blogspot.com/ you are right on track.  If not, and you'd like to start at the beginning of the hop, visit Paulette's cool blog  http:/ /scrapalette.blogspot.com/. Our projects are all about love and Valentine's Day.

My project is a Love Bingo card.

Recipe:
A2 card in white
DCWV - Be Mine stack - patterned background paper

Sophisticated Cricut cart - letters l, o, v, e @1" using the font shadow feature
Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cart - hearts @ 1", 3/4", 1/2"

Tim Holtz embossing folder- I used a pearl vellum and trimmed it down to fit my card

White grosgrain ribbon by Basic-basic (M's), Pentel metallic red pen for doodles on the letters, pop dots, pearl bling, Christmas red Stickles. 

Thanks for hopping along with us this weekend!!  Your next stop is Deb's blog  http://www.queenmommy.com/.   

Hearts & Flowers

This card was inspired by all the lovely wreaths made of flowers I've seen everywhere lately!  It almost has a beachy quality to it.  Didn't start out that way...but I think I like it :-)

Recipe:
5" square card base in white

Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cart - heart @ 4"

Cuttlebug embossing folder - Retro Kitchen set

Stamp is Oriental Trading Co from the Everyday Word set, pink seed beads from Bead Treasures, paper flowers from my stash, buttons from Oriental Trading Co, pop dots, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Life of the Party "Happy Day" twine.

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Paris in the Spring!

This is a quick card I put together using a Stampin' Up stamp set that I got cheap at a garage sale.  I've always wanted to go to Paris--maybe someday :-)  I like how it turned out...

Recipe:
5" square card base in pink

Birthday Bash Cricut cart - postage stamp card @5"

Stampin' Up stamps from the "Paris in the Spring" set, Postcard stamp is Stampabilities, colored pencils, SU blender pen, pop dots.

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Happy Hippo Birthday!

Hello!  Sorry I've been such a stranger lately!  I took a few weeks off for the holidays and then had sick kiddos and a hard drive crash...Eeee!  Feels good to be back in the craft room organizing and creating:-)We went to a birthday party for a sweet little girl on Sat. and this is the card I made for her.  Hope you enjoy!

Recipe:
A2 card base in brown
My Mind's Eye- Simply Delightful stack- pink papers

Birthday Bash Cricut cart - hippo @ 4"

Cuttlebug folder- Paisley

Impresssion Obsession stamp set- Cakes CL203, white Marvy gel pen for doodles on the ice cream cone, brown bling, pop dots, brown ink on the edges of all pink papers, brown lace trim (HL), glossy accents to make the ice cream shiny.

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