Play Date Cafe Challenge #169

Happy Valentine's Day! Check out the lovely subtle colors this week:

I decided to make another love-themed card and I think it's my favorite card I've made so far.

I used a vintage doily, painted pink then sprinkled with Perfect Pearls powder. For some reason, I am really loving tickets lately, and even though I didn't have any fancy designer ones, I actually found some old tickets from a raffle on the nightstand and used those! I used some metallic ink on a Heidi Swapp Color Magic ribbon border, and some pink ink on the Heidi Swapp/Pink Paislee resistable heart. Then I added a flower from my stash and some tiny tabs by Tim Holtz Alterations Tabs and Tags, and some twine. (I'm not sure who the Hello stamp is by)

This week's sponsor is Simon Says Stamp! This is perfect because I am finally figuring out how to use Inlinkz so hopefully it is linking correctly to some of the products I used below :) If you play along in our challenge, you could win a gift certificate! Get all the details at The Play Date Cafe Blog! Make sure to check out our guest this week, Christine Traversa. 

Playdate Cafe Challenge #168

Well you can tell it is almost Valentine's Day, the pretty pink hues are all over! Check out this week's lovely color story:

 And I am very excited to tell you about this week's sponsor, Avery Elle:

 

I wanted to do something a little different this week, so I did a - gasp - CAS card!  Here's my version of CAS:

 

The hearts are from vintage sheet music, sprayed/painted with assorted inks. The alphabet stickers are Memory Makers. I like how it is simple but still has that messy "me" look :)  Thanks for stopping by!

Oh, and I wanted to say farewell to two of our team members, Stacy & Jocelyn. I loved having them with us and seeing their great creations each week! 

Be sure to check out The Play Date Cafe blog for complete rules and participation information!

Love-ly Layouts

I did some challenge scrapping this weekend and I want to share.

First up is my entry for CSI Challenge #57:

 I have found the CSI community to be so kind and inspiring! I got tons of comments on the last challenge I entered there, and I already have a bunch on this one too! I was so excited when I saw two digi layouts in their examples, because I am much better at digi at this point. I plan on entering a lot more of their challenges in the future.

And here is my layout for ColourQ #174

 It looks like pink is all around for February! I don't mind though. Here is an artsy layout of me and my husband.

I hope you enjoy!