Sending Love

Without hearts and Valentines and all things Love-ly, February would just be another cold month between Christmas and Spring. So, of course, for our first February challenge, Catered Crop wants to give you every opportunity to share you heart.

Our featured ingredient for our next challenge is Hearts!

I chose this adorable Pure Innocence image to send to my daughter.  I colored with copics and added lots of hearts.  I also created a little gift for her to fit inside the mailbox.  I saw this idea on Pinterest (of course) and stitched up some little gift holders. One has a pair of earrings and the other has some chocolate.  Just take your wax paper and cut out 2 hearts.  Stitch them together leaving a little hole if you need to and add your goodies.  For the earrings I just put them on the inside first and stitched around.  I think I needed to change my needle but I love this idea.  

Playing along is easy as A-B-C, 1-2-3, baby you and me.

• Just use a heart somewhere in your project.
• Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
• Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, February 18.
• Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.

Need some ideas? Here's a whole gallery of creative ways to use hearts in your projects. You can click on the inspiration board below to go to a Pinterest board with the sources of these pictures and more gorgeous ideas and brilliant tutorials.

You can find Heather's digital stamps at her Etsy store, here. And, for those who prefer to get ink on their fingers, you can get any of more than 120 clear stamps of her image over at My Favorite Things, here.

The randomly chosen winner at the end of our Hearts challenge will get to choose three Heather Ellis digital stamp characters from her Etsy shop.

I will be announcing the winners of my blog candy tomorrow night.  SO sorry for the delay.  I have had the stomach flu and need an extra day to recuperate.  There is still time to join in on the give away.  Check it out here:

You can win the Flourishes' set Sweet Days of Summer by leaving a comment HERE. 

You can win your very own Lang Recipe Cardholder and a Mo's Digital Pencil image by leaving a comment HERE.

I am also giving away a sweet little snowman that I created...HERE 

Thank You Teacher

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As I sent my son off to school today for his end of year testing I started thinking about all you teachers out there.  Not just school teachers but Sunday School, Homeschooling Parents, and tutors.. What a blessing it is to have all these people that take the time to enrich our child's lives and brains..:) 
This is a card I created last fall for the Dirty Dozen. The image is a Pure Innocence image from My Favorite Things.I colored her dress with copics and added the lines with a prisma pencil to give it some contrast. I drew the apple with markers and created a button with a button kit from the fabric store. 

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Here is the second card I created for the Dirty Dozen.  I spray painted a piece of cardboard with chalk paint and then wrote out the numbers and letters with chalk.  I love this little guy.  My Favorite Things has this with a girl over in their Pure Innocence section.  

Thanks to all who teach. It is a big job....

Sew Lucky

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I needed a gift for my sister for her birthday.  I am one that  loves giving a handmade

gift.  She works in a school and is so good with the kids. So I created this

card using the Pure Innocence image.. These images are available

at My Favorite Things.  The back panel is a piece of fabric I stitched to the

cardstock.  The pattern on her dress is from a piece of burlap that I soaked

in clear copics blender solution (Saw Debbie Olson demo that at CHA)

You soak it and then quickly lay it onto the colored area you want to texture.  Don't let it sit too long.

 

Then I quilted her this bag.  I hope she likes it.  All of the fabric is from my local

sewing store.  Part of the proceeds go to St. Judes Children's Hospital..I like that. 

Happy Birthday Sweet Sis....