Tangled Up In Love!!

Hello my friends and Happy Monday to you all!  DARN!!  The holidays are over and I'm so bummed I tell ya!  I just love the holidays and its the only thing I look forward to during winter, LOL---so now I'm facing 3 months of dreary winter weather & darkness, blech!  ( looks like extra time under my Happy Light that hubby got me, lol)!  I'm counting the days until spring and on March 8th we spring our clocks forward, no more darkness at 4:30 pm--yay!  I HATE daylight savings time, ugh, I wish they'd do away with it!  That means this weekend I have to start putting away all the Christmas decorations, oh boy!  Although that generally gets done faster than it all goes up, but we have to have our 2 real trees out the door and on the curb by next week for recycling--so that really kicks me in gear, lol!  I take all the decorations off the trees and pack everything away.  Hubby is in charge of taking the lights off and putting the boxes away.  I hope to be done with it all by next Monday--that at least is my goal, lol.

Since I'm leaving in a few weeks for Nashville to teach my copic class and then I leave right after for LA for CHA I don't have lots of extra time on my hands.  If you are planning on going to CHA, let me know so I can look for ya!  I'm teaching 1 copic class at my hotel (meeting room) on Friday before CHA starts at 10 am--so if you want to come, you can register at www.cmcroad.com!  I'll be in LA from Thursday thru Tuesday--I'm sooo NOT looking forward to the flight, blech! I'm a nervous flyer and we have a stop-over in Denver so I'm praying for good weather.  Otherwise Marti (my pal) will have a not-so-fun seatmate, hee hee.  Last year our flight was so turbulent and I had a double sinus infection--it was HORRIBLE, I was so sick the whole flight and I just kept my head on my table, LOL! Poor Marti!

NewsBitz:

-Holiday Special is EXTENDED thru Jan.8th, 2011 for those that requested the extra days!  So get great deals on all the Copic classes at the Color Me Creative Classroom--see details HERE!

-Love cute and fun to color digi stamps?  Check out the new digi store Stamp Fairy HERE!  They are just adorable and if you haven't tried out digi images now is your chance to give them a whirl--they are fun, affordable and easy to store!  I will have a project up soon using some of these cuties!

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Tangled Up In Love!!!

Well now that Christmas is behind us its time to move on to the next holiday right? LOL!  So that means I've been working on some Valentines Day projects for you!  This particular project is for this month's Magnolia-licious DT January Challenge hosted by the fabulous Cheryl Rowley!  She challenged us to a RECIPE project--see the details on the recipe, challenge and DT projects at the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog HERE!

I love, love to look/think about how I can re-purpose my stamps!  You invest good money in them and you should use them as much as you can.  I didn't get a chance to use the "Lightning Edwin" from Magnolia-licious during the holidays and I was a bit bummed!  But while I was looking at him and I thought how cute he looked all "tangled up"--it hit me that he could be "tangled up in love" by switching the lightbulbs out with small hearts!  And that's what I did!  I created a Valentine's Day card and matching treat box!

I've entered this into another challenge as well-- the sketch layout is this past Saturday's SFYTT by Jen del Muro--see her blog at I {heart}2stamp!  (I flipped the sketch tho, lol)

Isn't he a cutie?  Sadly Edwin gets underused by me and I HATE that cuz' he's so darn cute!  So my New Year's resolution is to pull him out more often (mark my words, lol).  The papers are new from Bo Bunny called "Crush" (15% off now) and it has great colors and patterns for Valentine's.  To change the Christmas light bulbs I stamped a small heart (from a PTI set) onto pink cs in red and pink inks--and yes then I cut those tiny hearts out, LOL!  The hearts got a coat of diamond glaze and stickles for shine & sparkle!  Now on the RECIPE it calls for the use of 2 Magnolia stamps so the first one is "Lightning Edwin" and then the sentiment heart is a Magnolia stamp "Elegant Heart" from the Raising the Ceiling collection (Diana is out of this heart, but perhaps she can get some in--if not this heart stamp "Arrow Through My Heart" would work well too)!  **Ligtning Edwin is in mini form as well here!**

That "Tangled Up in Love With You" sentiment I created on my computer, printed it out and then stamped the "Elegant Heart" stamp over top of it in red ink. I colored the edges of the heart with copics to make it pop more!  To finish it off I tied a bow with my Bow Easy (PTI ribbon) and topped it with some Prima flowers (I was only supposed to use 4 as the recipe says, but I added 1 extra, oops--I have to have symmetry, sorry)!

Here's this cutie up close for ya!  He was colored with Copics of course (R29,R24,R22,R20/C9 thru C1).  Each mini heart was glued on very carefully to cover the Christmas bulbs :)  To cut out any detailed image or these super tiny hearts I count on my SU (Stampin' Up) paper snips--they are the best and I use them everyday!

This cute lil' treat box was SUPER EASY to create!  It's a die from PTI (Paper Trey Ink) called "Favor It Box 3" and you cut 2 out with your die and then score the sides, adhere together with Scor-Tape and ta-da you have a mini treat box!  These would be perfect for your kid's classmates or for party favors cuz' they are so easy to create multiples of quickly.  I added another PTI die cut on the front (Mat Stack 3) and embossed it with a hearts CB folder.  Some more nesties and then the sentiment is a new set from PTI as well (I adored the sentiment) called "Love Lives Here"--sentiments are good for the whole year thru!

I used black cs and the matching Bo Bunny paper on my treat box and tied it off with a bow and button!  Then I sprayed the whole box with Smooch Spritz (vanilla) so its super sparkly!  I lovee sparkle :)

Hope you enjoyed this heartful Valentine's Day post today and it gave you a giggle, maybe a smile but always fun right?!  LOL!  Now make sure to hop over to the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog to see the other fabulous DT projects and join in on the fun too!

See you back here on Wednesday with a "Too HOT to Handle" post !!