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Hi everyone! It's been ages since I posted but today I finally found some time and inspiration to get a quick Valentines day card made today.

I made this for the wonderful new challenge over at Lily Pad Cards. Virginia provided us with this wonderful photo....don't you just LOVE the fabulous colors?


                                               Here is what I came up with for the challenge.



Got out the distress inks and found some scraps to play with. Used a few different heart punches and stuck with a simple black-white and "pop" of color combo. I looked for some vellum....but I must be out- darn! I was hoping to make vellum hearts like in the photo. Thanks for the great inspiration Virginia! I must admit it feels great to participate in a challenge.....it's been quite some time since I've done that.

Supplies used:
Hero Hues Snow layering paper
Waltzingmouse label stamp
Spellbinders label #6 die
sentinment by TAC
EK Success & Provo Craft heart punches
Distress inks
Embossing folder by Provo Craft

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great crafty weekend!

FYI- Jenny over at Wee Memories is having a HUGE giveaway.......go see what is up for grabs! 

Inky Hugs.....................................Anne

It's been too long!

Hi everyone! If you have been wondering where the heck I am......I have not been on a month long vacation (I wish), I haven't been sick or away for other reasons, I've just been incredibly BUSY!!

Work is going well, in fact I had to work out of town 2-3 days a week for most of January- and my social calendar has been filled with fun things to do every weekend. Been to many MN Wild hockey games, saw a play last weekend, played in a Scrabble tournament (and got totally whooped), been getting together with many friends (that has been way overdue) , even had to go help my brother move at the last minute one weekend! I have also been making a real effort to get to the gym 3-4 times a week and shed some of this extra winter weight that has appeared out of nowhere. So this is my poor excuse for not blogging or getting any cards made- I just simply haven't had the time.

Sorry I have not visited all of your blogs much either......feel really bad about that.

I did force myself to take some time and sit down and participate in one of the Hero Arts 90 minute scrambles a few weekends ago, and this is the kind of fun and silly card I made for that.



I pulled out my Hero Arts woodgrain BG stamp, grabbed a Stampin Up heart stamp and randomly stamped all over that, then thought I would try to color this silly looking Cupid quickly! Got out the Copics and colored that image as best as I could feeling the time crunch. The card had to include a frame so I used my white gel pen to make a simple dotted border. I had this whipped up in 30 minutes!! I LOVE these quick scrambles.....really gets the heart rate going and the creative juices flowing.

I hope to find the time and energy to get some more cards made in February- looking over my calendar it's going to be another busy month......have to get those dreaded taxes ready quickly ( ughh!) and have more fun things scheduled to go do on the weekends! Miss you all and hope to be back in the next week or so with some more creations!

Oh yeah, I had my own birthday this month (I turned 43) and I must admit really I don't like getting another year older- EEEK!!

Inky Hugs, Anne