Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #294 - Valentine's Day

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #294-Valentines Day
Make a project about Valentines Day.

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To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

If it isn't a card, you will get two entries into the drawing!

Here is my Valentine's Day project 

 

I had not used my Seasonal Soirees cartridge yet so I choose to make the little Valentine's Day treat holder. I simply put my 12x12 piece of cardstock on my mat, hit the Fit to Page button, choose the corresponding number to the treat holder and hit cut. Once I had decorated the treat holder the way I wanted I was then able to adhere the treat holder together. It was super easy and a whole lot of fun.

 

I used these items to create my Valentine's Day treat holder:

• Seasonal Soirees Cricut cartridge - treat holder
• Sweethearts Cricut cartridge - cupid
• Studio G glitter glue
• Craft Smith cardstock - hot pink 
• Crate Paper (Hello Love) - cupid arrow pattern paper

I am entering my Valentine's Day treat holder to the following challenges:

• Cardz TV - Anything Goes



Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Valentine treat holder today. I hope you join in on the fun over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge.

Owl be Yours Pop Up Box card

This morning I bring to you a cute little pop-up box card I made for my mother-in-law from my girls for Valentine's day. My mother-in-law loves owls so I knew I just had to use the Create a Critter 2 Cricut cartridge for this darling owl.

 

 

Here's a look at the front again and the back:

 



I used these items to create my Owl be Yours Pop Up Box card:

• Create a Critter 2 Cricut cartridge - owl, "Owl be Yours", cupcake, and "Love"
• Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge - heart border
• George and Basic Shapes - hearts on the sides and back
• Red stickels
• Pink brads - on the cupcake
• White gel pen - on the cupcake

I will be entering my Owl be Yours Pop Up Box card in the following challenges:

• Cardz TV Challenge #2 - Create a card using hearts
• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #244 - Valentine Projects
• Craftin Desert Divas - Craft-it-up-Link-it-up - Red, White and Pink
• Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #202 - Picture Inspiration
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• (Pin)spirational Challenge #133
  
• Decorate to Celebrate - Challenge #93 - Anything Goes
• Stuck on U Sketches - Die Cut Challenge - Key to my Heart
 
Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Owl be Yours Pop Up Box card.

Be My "Bloody" Valentine Candy Box

I am super excited to share with you today my Be My "Bloody" Valentine Candy Box with a little surprise inside. This is for sure not your traditional box of chocolates for a traditional Valentine. Since my favorite show, "The Walking Dead" comes back on tonight I just had to pay tribute to it. So I created a triangle candy box, decorated it with a Valentine flare and some "blood splatter." Then I hit the kitchen and made some candy coated Oreo brains for the surprise inside.

I used these items to create the Candy Box (ALL of which have been in my stash for quite some time):

• Sweet Tooth Boxes Cricut cartridge - triangle candy box cut at 9 1/4
• Cake Basics Cricut cartridge - heart cut at 9 1 /2
• Wild Card Cricut cartridge - Be my Valentine
• red lace
• red craft paint - "blood splatter"
• Glossy Accents

I used these items to create the surprise inside (ALL of which I had on hand too):

• Wilton Cookie Candy Mold
• Oreo cookies
• Wilton Candy Melts - red, pink and white

I am entering my Be My "Bloody" Valentine Candy Box in the following challenges:

• Haunted Design House - Rotten Romance
• BBTB2 - Valentine Heart Challenge
• Shopping Our Stash #137 - Love Me Tender
• Scrappy Moms Stamps - Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Love is in the Air
• My Sheri Crafts - Challenge #126 - Valentine Project
• Craftin Desert Divas - Craft it up - Link it up - Color Linky Party
• Decorate to Celebrate - Challenge #68 - Valentine Boxes
• Cardz TV - 3D Valentine Challenge #1
• Anything but a Card - Tic Tac Love

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Be My "Bloody" Valentine Candy Box.

Valentine's Day 2012 - Gifts layout (page 2)

So here it is, my 2nd page, as I had mentioned in my blog post from Valentine's Day 2012 layout that I was planning on doing to display my kids gifts.  I finally finished it and I am totally satisfied with it.  Just the word "gifts" says it all.  My girls are my gifts and the layout displays their gifts from Valentine's Day 2012.  My youngest daughter (at the top) received "Elmo Loves You" DVD and my oldest daughter (at the bottom) received "Monster High 3" book. The both really loved their gifts.

I used these items to create this layout:

• Design Studio - to weld "gifts"
• Storybook Cricut cartridge - font
• Sweethearts Cricut cartridge - heart
• Foam tape - 2 thicknesses behind the heart
• Martha Stewart lace heart edge punch - top and bottom of page
• Recollections bling - top and bottom of page
• Glossy Accents - "gifts" and the red parts of the heart
• Stickles - below the heart to create a flower effect

I will be entering this layout in the following challenges and linky party:

• Red Carpet Studio Challenge #22 - Valentine's Day layout
• Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge Me Monday #147 - Queen of Hearts - use a heart
• Scrappy Moms - Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Valentines project
• More than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #80 Valentine's Day project
• My Paper Crafting #120 - Hearts to You project
• Paper Playtime Challenge #3 - Border Punches
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday - Linky Party Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Valentine's Day 2012 - Gifts layout (page 2).

Here is a look at the full layout all together:

Zombie Love card

So I couldn't resist when I got this FREE digi from Dilly Beans to do her up in time to make the

• Zombie Love Challenge 
• Forever Night - Freaky Friday Challenge #25 - Create a project with the theme Alternative girls, plus the color challenge (red, black, grey and white). 
• Haunted Design House - HDH #119 Freakers Free For All

Once I got to coloring her everything else just fell in place...the glossy accents, then floss, the prefect paper and here she is.

I used these items to create my Zombie Love card:

• Dilly Beans Digital Stamp
• Sharpie markers
• Glossy Accents and floss - for the hearts
• white gel pen - for the eyes and accent in the hair
• metal charm - Love
• ribbon
• heart brads
• scissors - to hand cut the large heart
• misc. clear swirl stamps
• black ink

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my Zombie Love card.

Hugs & Kisses Mailbox

Well I've been working on the this mailbox for my youngest daughter Jaidyn for quite some time now.  I knew that I wanted the hugs and kisses concept but things just weren't jellin' for me.  Finally after weeks of looking at this thing, it is now finished!!! 

I used these items to create my mailbox:

• Design Studio
• Mailbox from Target $1.00 deals
• Red, white and pink cardstock
• Sweethearts Cricut cartridge - for the "Hugs & Kisses" and the "X O <3"
• Indie Art Cricut cartride - for the lips 
• Martha Stewart edge punch
• Heart punch - from $1.00 bin at Michael's bought years ago
• Hugs & Kisses ribbon - bought last year on clearance at Michael's and NEVER used
• Pink ribbon - from my stash
• Christmas Red and Cotton Candy Stickles - on the "Hugs & Kisses",the "X O <3", the small hearts and the lips
• Glossy Accents and Stickles - on the lips

I am entering my mailbox in the following challenges:

• Crazy About Cricut Valentine Hop and Challenge - create a new Valentine project
• Craft Your Passion Challenge #96 - Anything Goes - No Pattern Paper
• Whimsical Designs - Colors of Love - Whimsical Wednesday Challenge - create a card/project with the colors red, white, and one other color of your choice - (my other color is PINK)
• My Craft Spot - Monday Challenge #43 Valentine's Day - Make a Valentine card or treat packaging
• More Than Favors - Wacky Wednesday#64 - Love -  create any project with a Love Theme
• DL Art - Thankful Thursday - Link Up Anything

I'm not sure why I had a creative block on this one but I'm glad it's over and I did end up with a nice keepsake for my daughter.  I know she will love it and especially the candy inside!

Thanks for visiting and checking out my Hugs & Kissed Mailbox.

If I couldn't have him, NO ONE WOULD!!!

For those of you have been following me might remember back in September I had displayed my Appalling Apothecary.  Well a piece of that apothecary was the heart of a (former) sinful boyfriend (in the jar to the right). 

Today I give you a little back story how that heart got there. 

My relationship with my former boyfriend was just like any other relationship, except I was in love with him but he was in love with someone else.  Once I found out about this, I felt that since I couldn't have him, NO ONE WOULD and I "took care of him!"

Here is how my memory box use to look like when were together:

Valentine's Day use to be a favorite holiday of ours until I found out that he was also planning to spend it with the other woman.  So I decided that Valentine's Day would be the perfect day for me to "take care of him!" 

I found a voodoo priestess and she instructed me how to make my very own paper voodoo doll.

Then when I knew he was with her, I did it!  I then claimed the heart that belonged to me and would NEVER belong to another! 

This was his hearts first resting place along side the wonderful memories we created together:

Now NO ONE will ever have his heart but ME!!!

I used these items to create my paper voodoo doll:

• Wonderstrange arts Free digital image Voodoo Doll which I printed out on craft paper (to give it a burlap look) and altered by cutting off the candy cane
• red Sharpie marker - for the heart
• Silver Gloss paint marker - for the pins
• white gel pen - for the heads of the pins
• Glossy Accents - for the entire pin to give it a more realistic look
• buttons - for the eyes
• floss - for the eyes, mouth and around the heart
• doily heart
• ribbon

I am entering this Paper Voodoo Doll in the following challenges:

•  Dilly Beans Challenge - Freaked - This week theme is "FREAKED" take it how ever you wish & get creative!
• Haunted Design House - HDH #117 - Shot Through the Heart - You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that includes a heart and a hole somewhere on the project

Ok, so obviously this is just a fictious story that I created to go along with my creation.  I hope I didn't freak you out too much!

Valentine Cake Pops

I am so excited to share my 1st adventure in making cake pops.  I have been wanting to make cake pops for so long and for Christmas I received the Bake Pop Baking Pan actually I got 2 (duplicate gift), no matter I will use both.  So I decided to try them out.  The instructions are simple, the pans are easy to use and the batter actually makes approximately 50 cake pops.  I decided since Valentine's was close I would decorate them for the occassion.  My 9 year old helped make, bake and of course decorate.  We had chocolate, red, pink and white candy melts.  We also used an assortment of sprinkles, colored sugar, jimmies, and some crushed pretzels.  These have been a HUGE HIT in my house with everyone.  I decided to take some to work and this how they looked.

Everyone enjoyed them at my work too! 

I am entering these in the challenge over at Decorate to Celebrate - Challenge #17 Valentine's Day Party - you are to create any project to be used as a party decoration (or party supply) for a Valentine's Day Party!!  Celebrate EVERYTHING WONDERFUL ABOUT LOVE with table decorations, party banners, pennants, yard signs, cupcakes, party favors and more!!

I will for sure be making many more of these in the future.  The possibilities are endless for this delicious treat!  Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Valentine Cake Pops!

Love You - Minnie Valentine

Today I share with you a valentine I made for my 2 year old daughter Jaidyn.  Recently she was introduced to Mickey Mouse and Friends and she always says, "Minnie, Minnie, Minnie," when she sees Mickey or Minnie, so I just had to do Minnie for her.  Yes, I know another easel card, well I just can't help it I love this type of card.

I used these items to create this valentine:

• Design Studio
• Disney Mickey Font Cricut cartridge - for Minnie
• Lyrical Letters Cricut cartridge - for the "Love You"
• Martha Stewart punch set
• DCWV Nana's Kids printed cardstock - the polka dot paper
• Cuttlebug - for Minnie's bow
• Swiss Dots embossing folder - for Minnie's bow
• white gel pen - for Minnie's bow
• conversation hearts ribbon - I cut the hearts out to use in the corners

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Cartoon Characters - make a project using a cartoon character...Disney, Looney Tunes, Hello Kitty, Scooby Doo.... any cartoon character will do!
• Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #46 - Any Occassion (MUST use Polka Dots)
• Shopping Our Stash Challenge #35 - use a border punch or create a border detail
•  More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #63 Let's Get Animated - create any project as long as it has any kind of animated character on it.
• Docerela Shop - #5 Challenge - make a Valentine's Card/layout or 3D that includes a cut using our Cricut Machines. 

Here is an up close look at the individual parts of my card:

I can't believe it I actually got a valentine completed way in advance...WHOO HOO!  Now I must get some other projects going.  I have my oldest daughter's Valentine's to make for her class of 28, invitations to my oldest daughter's birthday and decorations to make for her party too!  I'm gonna be a busy little bee for the next month and a half...wish me luck!