Wags w/Balloons

Here is another card for the Cards For Little Hearts organization.  I used the same balloons as were on yesterday's card.  For this card, Wags, Stacey Yakula's dog stamp, is holding the balloons. I stamped the dog first and put a mask  over Wags and then stamped the balloons.  Once the balloons were stamped, I took off the mask and little Wags is happily standing with his balloons.  I used my Copic markers to color the images.  Real Red and Bermuda Bay cardstock were used for layers and the card base.  Another cute card for a special child with heart issues.  My plan is to make one heart card a day for two weeks.  Have a great day!

Sending Hugs

Over the weekend I read that someone on Facebook was making cards for an organization, Cards for Little Hearts.   I looked up the organization on the Internet and decided I would participate in this month's heart-themed cards collection . Handmade cards are donated and distributed to two hospitals in Ohio:  Nationwide Children's Heart Hospital in Columbus and The University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland.  February is heart month.  During that month, children (ages 1-college age) who are living with congenital heart disease are showered with cards to uplift them.  They do not accept Valentine's Day card, but the cards are heart-themed.

Today's card was created using a stamp set by Stacey Yakula, Heart Balloons.  This card was quite simple to make.  I used a framelit for the "hugs" and the"sending" is from another stamp set.  I stamped directly on the white cardstock, so there was no need to use a die or a machine to cut out the image.  I like Stacey Yakula's stamp sets and I found a website, Purple Onion Designs, that has a number of her stamps.  The Heart Balloons stamp  is one of a few that I purchased.  Isn't it cute?  You can read about the organization at www.cardsforlittlehearts.com  Have a great day!

Kids' Cards

A little later this morning my favorite neighbor children are coming over to make a few cards.  These are the three they will be working on.

The hot cocoa card was made using the Hot Chocolate die set from Elizabeth Craft Designs.  I embossed the white background layer using an older Cuttlebug folder.  I didn't have a set that had a long hot chocolate sentiment so I typed  one on my computer and used a die from one of my sets downstairs to cut it out.

The Valentine card was created using Lawn Fawn's Chirpy Chirp stamp set.  The sentiment is from another Lawn Fawn set.

The warm wishes card was created using Lawn Fawn's Critters In The Snow and their snowflake dies.  Have a great day!

XO XO

I am making a list of a few things I need from Stampin' Up's Occasions catalog when it goes live on January 3rd.  On that list is a package of the new From My Heart Specialty DSP.  And then I am down in my craft room and what do I find?  The Valentine paper from a few years ago.  I used some of it on today's card.  It was cute when I bought it and it is still cute paper.  But I am pretty sure I still need the new DSP in the Occasions catalog!

The little girl is from MFT Stamps' You Have My Heart stamp set.  For the little girl's dress I stamped her on the DSP and fussy cut the dress and added it to the stamped and colored image on the card.  The little heart and the xo are from Lawn Fawn's Heart Shaker Gift Tag dies.  Another cute Valentine or a card for someone special for no reason.

I have to change the subject here, but I was sitting in my office last Friday when I saw a bluebird!  And then I saw two bluebirds! The blinds were down, but open, when I took a picture, but it was too blurry.  I called for John so he could see them, too.  If he didn't see them, he would say something like, "Are you sure they were bluebirds?"  He was as surprised as I was to see them here at the end of December.   Now we are wondering where they are staying?  I am keeping an eye out for them when I am in my office!  Have a great day!