Follow Your Heart

Happy Friday, sparkly friends! I will be visiting you soon. ♥︎ I'm posting on the Live & Love Crafts blog today, sharing my take on Sandy's recycling/upcycling theme. I created a tag using Maja Design's Vintage Autumn Basics and Vintage Summer Basics.

You know how Sandy always wraps everything so beautifully? I save the gorgeous seam binding packaging, as I love the sentiments scrolling across it.

A quick peek at Sandy's wrapping, which gave me Follow your Heart:

There are so many wonderful words and phrases. Inspiration truly can be found anywhere. ♥︎ This tag will be part of a gift for a beautiful family enduring heartache. This tag is a celebration of the parents' love. Rather than fall apart as their child fights a terminal disease, they follow their hearts into a love that grows ever stronger.

Vintage Autumn Basics XXII is probably my favorite blue design of any collection. Fluttering atop it is a Memory Box Isabella butterfly made with Vintage Summer Basics papers, clearly driven by the music in its heart. ♥︎ The smaller butterfly is from Coffee in the Arbour. The stunning Button Etoile centers a triple bow of seam binding.

I used a few trims on this tag. :o) The wide lace is the gorgeous Celeste, which is paired with the sweet and ruffly lace Madeleine (my new favorite lace combo). I sprinkled a Prima resin Lace Heart with Shabby White Frantage and tucked it within a tiny flower arrangement. Rhinestone Lace trims the entire tag because love is sparkly.

And this is me pretending I can take artistic photographs. ;) Thank you for fluttering on by and I wish you a happy weekend. ♥︎

Lovely challenges entered:

 *Crafty Gals Corner~ Sweethearts (Use a Heart)

 *DL.Art Thankful Thursday~ February Linky Party (Anything Goes)

 *Frilly and Funkie~ Love is in the Air (Celebrating a beautiful love)

 *Lil Patch of Crafty Friends~ Anything Goes

 *Penny's Challenge~ Favorite Color or Embellishment (Trims!)

 *Scrapy Land~ Anything Goes (Memory Box die)

Maja Design - Vintage Autumn Basics - No.XXII	Vintage Summer Basics 6x6 Pad	Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour 6x6 Paper Stack	Rhinestones Lace (12mm)	Lace "Céleste" (65mm)
Lace "Madeleine" (25mm)	LLC Shabby Seam Binding	Sunflower Pearl Trim (10mm)	Button �toile	WOC Open Roses, 20mm
WOC Open Roses, 15mm	Pearl Stamens	Prima Shabby Chic Resin Treasures - Lace Heart & Corners	Stampendous Fran-táge Embossing Enamels	Tim Holtz Paper Distresser Tool

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Hearts at Deep Ocean Challenge!

Happy Tuesday, sweet friends! I hope you're having a beautiful week. It's time for a fun new challenge at Deep Ocean Challenge and it's a sweet one: Hearts! ♥︎

Love is for all seasons, so rather than a Valentine I made a friendship card to thank a friend for supporting me through this difficult time. You may be surprised to see coloring! After 1.5 years away from coloring due to injury, I have returned to my Copics for Deep Ocean projects and it feels magical. ♥︎

This cutie pie is Lullaby from Wee Stamps by Sylvia Zet. Isn't she the sweetest angel? Sadly my pictures washed out some detailing (I need to work on this!), but Polar White Flower Soft adorns the branch for fluffy snowy fun. Her wings (and the Wild Orchid Crafts flowers) are covered in Glamour Dust for wintry sparkle.

She is surrounded in love via a die from Sue Wilson's Decorative Frames Italian collection. A double dose of love adorns the corner, where the smaller Cheery Lynn heart (Two of Hearts) is topped with friendship in full bloom. The pristine Pure Love crinkle ribbon is from my dear friend Diana of DL.Art.

The Graciellie Design sentiment is from her Angel Wings set, inked with Milled Lavender and nestled in a sparkling Melissa Frances resin frame. Gracie is a sweet friend and I'm thrilled for her digi store re-launch that took place last week. My papers are from Maja Design's Vintage Frost Basics, which are embellished with goodies from Live & Love Crafts, Wild Orchid Crafts, and lace from The Ribbon Girl.

My card base was made with Go Kreate's Large Frame Frilly 10, which is topped with Joy! Crafts Lacy Square Frame. The small snowflakes are from Cheery Lynn. A larger Magnolia snowflake is tucked within the flowers, while Magnolia Heart Flourishes provide extra touches of love.

Be sure to check out my teamies' inspiring creations and I hope you can play along with us. Our amazing sponsor for this challenge is Live & Love Crafts (yay!) who is generously offering a gift certificate to one lucky winner. :o)

Thank you for fluttering on by and I wish you a blessed day! ♥︎

Copics:
Skin: E0000, E000, E11
Hair: E02, E09, E17
Clothing: RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99; BG70, BG72, BG75
Birdie: E41, E42, E43; YR12, YR15

Lovely challenges entered:
 *Crafting with Dragonflies~ Anything Goes Card
 *DL.Art Thankful Thursday~ February Linky Party (Anything Goes)
 *Lil Patch of Crafty Friends~ Anything Goes
 *Magnolia-licious~ Bingo or Anything Goes (Pearls-Doily-Ribbon bow)
 *Scrapy Land~ Anything Goes (Cheery Lynn, Magnolia, Sue Wilson dies)
 *The Ribbon Girl~ Anything Goes Card

Fountain of Love

Hello, sweet friends! I hope you're having a blessed week. Thank you for your continued emails/comments of love and support. I'm posting on the Live & Love Crafts blog today, sharing a sweet Valentine using Pion Design's To my Valentine. I'm still wrapped up in all things lovey-dovey, so I made a card for someone in need of extra love. ♥︎

My fountain of love is a beautiful resin Prima Garden Fountain, which is embossed with Shabby White Frantage and bubbles up with pearly love. Wild Orchid Crafts flowers bloom across it, accented with a sweet sentiment and butterflies from the coordinating Borders sheet.

Marguerite lace, topped with Sunflower Pearl Trim, rest atop the darling miniature heart paper. My Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles card base is made with the new Red II from Pion's heavyweight Palette collection.

Atop a gorgeous Lace Heart Appliqué I have layered a double-bow of seam binding, a sparkly heart key charm, and another sweet Pion butterfly. Mini Heart Crochet Trim lines the top, which is a recent purchase of which I am completely in love. ♥︎ I topped it with pearls because I cannot stop my pearly self.

Thank you for fluttering on by and I wish you a beautiful weekend. :o)

Lovely challenges entered:

 *Crafty Gals Corner~ Love is in the Air

 *Dies R Us~ Love (Use at least one heart) (And I used Spellbinders dies)

 *DL.Art Thankful Thursday~ February Linky Party (Anything Goes)

 *Scrapy Land~ Anything Goes (Spellbinders)

 *Simon Wednesday Challenge~ Have a Heart

Pion Design - To My Valentine 6x6 - Love is in the air	Pion Design - To My Valentine 6x6 - Roses of love	Pion Design - To My Valentine 12x12 - Borders	Lace "Marguerite" (35mm)	Maya Road Crochet Trim - Mini Hearts (13mm)
LLC Shabby Seam Binding	Lace Heart Applique	Sunflower Pearl Trim (10mm)	Prima Shabby Chic Treasures - Garden Fountain	WOC Magnolias
WOC Apple Blossoms	WOC Cosmos Daisies	WOC Hip Rosebuds	WOC Open Roses, 15mm	WOC Sweetheart Blossoms
Decoration Berries	Charm - Heart Key with Rhinestones	Stampendous Fran-táge Embossing Enamels	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads	Tim Holtz Paper Distresser Tool

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