Today I'm going to give you some other blogs to visit while I continue to battle this stubborn cold. I have not had the energy to make any projects to share but I have been still admiring the work of some other talented crafters. Here are a few to check out.

Dannie Graves

Angela McKay

Inking Idaho

Stamp with Amy

Enjoy

Valentine

The other night I had some girlfriends over to make some Valentine cards. As usual, we spent more time talking than crafting....at least we all got some cute projects made! We made this cute little box that I chose to use as a votive holder, some of the other girls are going to use it to hold some little Valentine gifts.

This card used the silk technique and has a masculine feel.

And what would Valentines Day be without some candy. I love the new glitter paper and of course the sweet treat cups!

Quick Birthday Card

As I looked in my daytimer this morning I realized that next week is one of my sister-in-laws birthday....this card has to go in the mail.....should have gone in the mail a few days ago....so I needed to make something up quick. I headed over to Pals Paper Arts for some inspiration and they had this great sketch for me. I went to my new fave kit from the Sale-a-bration and quickly made up this cute card. Surprising to me was that I picked up the Peach Parfait again....well it was still on my desk from the card I made a couple of weeks ago....but it does look good with this paper!

Mojo Friend

Continuing along with my Mojo Month, I created a card for a friend who needs a lift....or chocolate. As soon as I saw this stamp set in the Occasions Mini, I HAD to get it! I am a chocoholic trough and through. I kept the look monochromatic, I find I'm really digging on this look right now. I teamed up chocolate chip, crumb cake and soft suede to achieve this look....and although my 9pm lack of natural light photo looks like I used very vanilla, it is actually whisper white.

Mojo Thank you

Continuing on with my month of Mojo here is the card I created for this week's sketch. I have not used much of the Peach Parfait from the new In Colors and with my sale-a-bration paper in hand I decided to pull it out for this card. I still don't totally love the color but I do like this card and I LOVE the sale-a-bration paper package....yes, a perk of being a demonstrator, early arrival of catalogues and specials!

Mojo Monday and Happy Birthday

One of my goals for January is to replenish my stock of cards and while I've looked to the Mojo Monday Blog for inspiration, I've never played along, so this is the month I'm going to get off the sidelines and play. I also wanted to play with the talented goddesses over at Stampin' Royalty for their 1 year birthday - congrats ladies! For the card above, I used retired Sweet Pea DSP (yes I've hoarded it and realized that I love to just flip through and look at all the beautiful paper, I really haven't used much of it), pretty in pink and whisper white card stock, old olive ink, curly cute stamp set (a new fave) and I scrunched up my 3 layers of punched circles to make a flower, added a few brads and I'm done.

Now this spinner card is not so much about the card rather than who it's for....my future son-in-law. Yes he's only turning 4, and my daughter is still 3, but she has told me that she is going to marry Max and they are going to have 2 babies. The boy baby is going to be called Fast Runner and the girl baby Leah (well the girl name changes every couple of days, today it's Leah). Max loves Star Wars so I thought a spinner rocket ship might come close enough. Happy Birthday!

Happy New Year Cupcake Toppers

Last year my daughter had the brilliant idea to make "Happy New Year Cupcakes" and we decided that the tradition just had to continue. This year we also made some cupcake toppers. My little helper picked the paper, the stamp and the ink and also did the punching. I did the stamping and the glue. They are quite basic, but I love that she picked out all the little details and I had to leave them just as she had designed!