Valentines For You

It's not a surprise to anyone who knows me that I send alot of Happy Mail !! I'm in several snail mail groups and also receive lots of mail from all over the USA and around the world.  As a member of the Paper House Productions Creative Team,  I literally feel like I've hit the jackpot by having access to so many fabulous supplies. It's a paper-crafter's dream !! 

For the following cards, I used these supplies from Paper House  - Everyday Moments Rice Paper Borders, Rose Garden Tags Double-sided Paper   &  Vintage Romance Snapshot Stickers .  I cut the tags from the 12x12 paper, chose the 5 designs I wanted to use and then picked out the stickers & borders for the 5 cards. At first, I was going to also do some rubber-stamping  but quickly decided that these cards needed nothing more than what I already had. The papers are absolutely gorgeous and when paired with Kraft card bases, they have a vintage look that I love !!

A True Love Story Never Ends

My Heart Is Wherever You Go

Collect Moments Not Things

Do you send Valentines ?? I will probably give several of these to my guy Brian and send the others to friends. I'm sure I'll use the remaining tags for a few more cards.  You can check out the Paper House Productions Valentine products HERE . And don't forget to use my code -  PH20DEBRA -  to get 20% off of your order, even sale prices.  

Thank you for stopping by to see my Valentines !! 

Until next time, Stay Creative

Debra Davison / Meticulosity

February Cookies / 2020 - 1

I wasn't sure what I wanted to make when I saw the latest batch of cookies in the inspiration photo for  challenge #135 at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie !! A baby card, a Valentine ?? Something red, something with hearts or animals ?? I hope that you will get inspired yourself and link a project up of your own before February 20. 

I found this embossing folder/stamp set at Michaels last year on clearance for $1.00 !! It was the perfect time to use it for this card ..

• I embossed a piece of black cardstock with  a red inner core, using the pawprint embossing folder. 
• Using my sanding square, I sanded off the top layer of black to show some of the red color underneath .
• The embossed panel was adhered to a Kraft card base.
• The cat was stamped on a piece of watercolor paper with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and then fussy-cut.
• I adhered a Starbucks giftcard in the lower right corner.
• The cat's Valentine was colored with a red Sharpie marker and then the cat was popped up next to the giftcard with foam tabs.  

This card includes 3 of my favorite things - the color RED, coffee and cats !! I know I will be making many more of these in the future !!  I hope that you love it as much as I do ..  Take a look at the other Design Team member's creations over at the main BLOG page. And link up a project of your own !!

Until next time, Stay Creative.

And thank-you for visiting Meticulosity .

 Debra Davison

Coffee & Cards with Deb & Celeste 2/12

Back again for our February Blog Collaboration -- just in time for Valentine's Day.  Red, hearts, flowers, Cupid with arrows.. There are so many fun images and designs that are perfect for Feb. 14. So, what did I do ?? Of course, I decided to be different and come up with something completely non-traditional. Not much red, no big hearts and strangely enough, NO stamping !! I was talking to a friend who has young children and she was wondering what she could make without a ton of  "artsy" supplies. So I put my thinking cap on and noticed my new band-aids from Target $ Spot. And then this idea came to mind. This would be a cute card to make with your children. You could write the sentiment or stamp one. I just happened to use my DYMO Caption Maker.

• I used a striped card base and placed a strip of green glitter washi down the R side / portrait position. 
• On a MAMBI Pocket card, I placed 3 band-aids vertically, side by side. 
• The "Stuck on You" caption was made  with my DYMO caption maker. My guy and I love the Sugarland song "Stuck Like Glue" and this card is based on that. I sent the card off to him in the mail this morning.

This month, Becky Ledbetter is joining us. Becky makes cards, she sews, she knits and crochets, she scraps. I hope you will check out her project on her new blog This Chick's Challenge.  And 0nce again, Celeste has another amazing card to show you this month. Check it out at Crafting Junky. As always, we hope that you will sign up to follow our blogs as we create our way through 2017. 

This month's blog post was brought to you by one of my favorite Starbucks cups - and it is perfect for Valentine's Day. I have had it since 2010.  I am drinking Caramel Apple Bread Pudding coffee and it is absolutely yummy !! Who comes up with these coffee ideas ??? And just because I love Valentine's Day so much and hearts, hearts, hearts, I also made a tag and an ATC with the cutest stamp set by Lisa Arana with Unity Stamp Company - Aw Shucks, Lulu. I paper punched a heart out of a sheet of cardstock to use as a stencil.  Victorian Velvet Distress Ink was used to create the hearts. A bit of washi, some twine and several Tim Holtz Ideology words completed both projects.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit Meticulosity. I very much appreciate it. I hope we have inspired you to get creative. Who knows ?? You just might pull out that box of colorful band-aids and come up with something !! See you next month !!

Debra Davison / Meticulosity