Happy WOYWW To You!
This Valentine’s Day, I celebrate 17 years of marriage with the man I love.
As I count down the moments to this special day, I am covertly creating tokens of romance and love…
One of my favorite creations this week was this beautiful love card, which I created with my husband in mind.
I wanted to design a card that was sophisticated and elegant in its presentation – qualities my husband appreciates – so, I chose the stylish yet neutral color palette of Red, Kraft and Black plus White to convey that message (Top Tip Tuesday).
I also added some of my favorite Close To My Heart products into the mix for the Heart 2 Heart Challenge – Love the CTMH Way, along with a few additional embellishments specifically chosen for the rich texture they provide.
Here are a few of the products I used:
- CTMH Much Love Stamp – which I also used in my Much Love Card!
- CTMH Ink Pads, Floral Ribbon, Mini Brads
- Maya Road Felt Flowers
- K & Company Life’s Journey Stitched Ribbon
During my visits to your blog, I really enjoy seeing your crafting companions in action, and know from your comments that you enjoy seeing mine – so this week at Wordless Wednesday, I dedicated an entire post to Crafting With Magellan! Be sure to stop by as someone really wants to steal your heart!
Now it’s your turn to inspire us with your creativity! What’s inspiring you this week? What have you created? Be sure to share your latest creations with us at one of our weekly parties!
Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by to see what’s on my work desk this week!
Creative Art Challenges
Are you ready to jump-start your creativity? Here’s this week’s list of Creative Art Challenges to inspire you (organized alphabetically by Theme or Anything Goes!)
Theme Challenges
- 2 Cute Ink Challenges #122 – Valentines/Love
- Addicted To Stamps #97 – Lots Of Layers
- A Gem Of A Challenge #137 – Layers
- Allsorts Challenge #297 – Love Is All Around
- Card Mania Challenges #65 – Add Some Red
- Love Is In The Air
- Crafting Desert Divas Linky Party 48 – Red, White, Pink
- Crafts Galore Encore Challenges – Use A Stamp Or Digi For February
- Clear It Out Challenge – Theme: Color/Red (Stamped Heart) and Stash: Red Embellishments (Flowers)
- Crafty Boots Challenges – Hearts & Valentines
- Crafty Creations Challenge 282 – Owl Love You
- Craft For The Craic – Birthdays or Anniversaries (Anniversary Card)
- Crafty Sentiments – Use Some Red Challenge
- Cute Card Thursday #359 – Crazy In Love
- Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge #6 – Love Is In The Air Challenge
- Digi Stamps 4 Joy #109 – Valentine’s/Love
- Eureka Stamps Challenge #127 – All Is Love
- Fairytale Challenge #110 – Something With A Heart
- Fantasy Stamper’s Challenge #29 – P.S. I Love You
- Fun With Shapes And More #175 – Valentine
- Glitter & Sparkle Challenge Blog #123 – Love Is In The Air
- Great Impressions February Challenge – Love Love Love
- Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Love
- Heart 2 Heart Challenges – Love The CTMH Way (Floral Ribbon & Stamps)
- Hoarder’s Anonymous – How I Love Thee
- House Of Cards – Love Challenge
- Inkspirational Challenges #75 – Rose Colors
- Just Us Girls Challenge #279 – Word Week – Love
- Kitty Bee Designs – Aloha Friday Challenge #40 – Valentines & Love
- Laurel Craft Challenge #14 – Love Is In The Air
- Loves Rubber Stamps Challenges #138 – Show Me Some Red
- Love To Scrap Challenge Blog 47 – Love Is In The Air
- Make My Monday Blog Challenge – Valentine
- MelonHeadz Friends – Hearts And Love Challenge
- Mema’s Crafts February Challenge 2015 – Celebrate Valentine’s Day or Use Red White + One Other Color
- Miriam’s Crafting Blog – Romance
- Natalie And Amy’s Challenge #29 – All About Love
- Naughty Or Nice Challenge #12 – Are You Feeling The Love?
- Ooh La La Creations #173 – Love
- Paper Creators Crafts Challenge 35 – Love Is In The Air
- Papertake Weekly – Hearts & Flowers
- Pink Saturday
- Pinspirational Challenge 133 – Photo (Used Red, Kraft & Heart)
- Polka Doodle Week 5 – Flower Power Challenge
- Sentimental Sundays #245 – Seeing Red (A Little Or A Lot Of It!)
- Simply Create Too Challenge #78 – Happy Valentine’s Day (Or Use Hearts)
- Stamp & Create Challenge – All You Need Is Love
- Sweet Pea Stamps – February 2015 – One Sweet Challenge
- Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog – Add A Heart
- The Artistic Stamper – February’s Creative Challenge – Love
- The Pink Elephant #TPE285 – Be My Valentine
- Top Tip Tuesday – Favorite Color Combo (Elegance & Sophistication – Red, Black & Kraft)
- Use Your Stuff Challenge #172 – Love
- V’s Sweet Ideas – Red, White or Pink VSC Challenge #31
- Wags N Whiskers #147 – For Someone You Love
- We Do Doobado Challenge #3 – Hearts & Flowers
Be Creative – Anything Goes Challenges
- 7 Kids Challenge #119 – Anything Goes
- A Girl Who Crafts – Anything Goes (February)
- Brown Sugar Challenge #132 – Anything Goes
- Crafting By Designs – February Anything Goes Challenge
- Crafting From The Heart Challenge 46 – Anything Goes
- Crafty Calendar February Challenge – Anything Goes
- Craft Your Passion Challenges #248 – Almost Anything Goes
- Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #66 – Anything Goes
- Creative Moments #61 – Anything Goes/Love
- D.L. Art February Challenge – Anything Goes
- Imagination Crafts – February Anything Goes Challenge
- Inspiration Destination #20 – Anything Goes
- Jelly Park Friends February Challenges – Love Is In The Air
- Kraftin Kimmie Stamps – Wonderful Wednesday – Anything Goes
- My Craft Creations – 2/2 to 2/14 – Anything Goes
- My Creative Moments Monday Morning Challenge #3 – Anything Goes
- Not Just Cards Challenges #12 – Anything Goes
- Party Time Tuesdays #195 – Anything Goes Challenge
- Scrapper’s Delights Challenge Blog – Anything Goes
- Scribble & Scrap Challenge 37 – Anything Goes
- Sister Act Card Challenge #92 – Anything Goes
- Sisters Of Craft February Challenge – Anything Goes
- Stamping Sensations February Challenge – Anything Goes
- That Craft Place – Anything Goes
- Through The Craftroom Door – Feb 10 – 16 – Anything Goes
- Word Art Wednesday 170 – Anything Goes
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Ah! I know he loved that beautiful card. Wishes for a wonderful anniversary and many more to share.
Happy Pink Saturday and Happy Valentine’s Day, too.♥
Thank you Beverly – each passing anniversary means more and more to me!
What a lovely card! I like how you stamped the heart behind the LOVE sentiment. I am also a sucker for black and red cards. Very elegant. Also, I am glad to see that I am not the only one who has my cat as a crafting companion. =) Thanks for sharing with us at Inkspirational!
– Shauna
Beautiful creation!!! Thanks for sharing with us at the Crafty Creations challenge. Barb
Such a pretty card. Thanks for joining us this week for our All is Love Challenge at Eureka Stamps.
Karal DT
Beautiful card and Happy Anniversary! Love the colors and simplicity that makes it so elegant! Thank you for joining us at – hope to see you next week.
Congrats on your anniversary! Thanks for joining us at House of Cards this month!
I love it, at first I thought it was a home decor piece. So pretty!
Thanks for playing along with Heart 2 Heart Challenges.
Brandi R
H2H DT member
crzy4scrapbooking
What a beautiful card you created for your hubby. I am sure he appreciated it a bunch. It is very masculine and sweet. I like the stitching and the design of it. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Sentiments Challenge.
Deborah DT
What a wonderful card and congratulations on your wedding anniversary. Thank you for entering the Digi Choosday Love Is In the Air challenge
Thanks for sharing and joining us at Inspiration Destination. Hope to see you again and good luck!
Ema
IDCB Owner
A very beautiful card design, and loving the color combo. Your cat is so cute too!!
Thanks so much for sharing!!
Ellie from My Creative Moments
Such a pretty card!
Thank you for participating in the MelonHeadz Friends Challenge!
Lovely card. Thanks for joining us in our Love Is In The Air challenge at Digi Choosday
Anjie (Senior DT Team Leader)
this is another wonderful creation with great attention to detail and perfect for our ‘VALENTINES/LOVE’ challenge. Thanks for sharing your talent with us. Good luck.
Hugs
Desíre
{Digistamps4Joy DT Member}
{Doing Life – my personal blog}
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to you both. What a lovely card… thank you for joining us over at Use Your Stuff – DT Shirl
Thank you so much Shirl for your sweet remembrance of our special day! 🙂
Very nicely done, stylish and elegant was achieved, and so perfect for that man in your life. Thanks for joining us at House of Cards.
Fab card, great layout. Thank you for sharing your work with all of us at Crafty Boots Challenges.
Dionne
A wonderfully elegant card. Happy Anniversary to you both.
Thank you for joining our challenge at
Digistamps4Joy this week and good luck..
Ursula Uphof DT member
Gorgeous card, Thanks for entering Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Use a Digi/stamp. Wendy (DT).xx
Lovely card. Thank you for joining the challenge at Creative Fingers and at Digi Stamps 4 Joy. Hope to see you again next time
I love your card! I love how you stamped the heart and the word love. I also love how you incorporated the ribbon. Just beautiful! 🙂 Thank you so much for joining us at House of Cards! 🙂
What a beautiful card. I love that pretty ribbon you chose! Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!
Thanks for sharing with us at Naughty or Nice Challenges, Jo x
Beautiful card, love it !!
Thanks for joining us at Imagination Crafts Challenge this month.
Beautiful CAS card. I like the design. Thanks for sharing with us at Card Mania Challege. Good Luck. Vesi DT
Very beautiful card. It’s wonderfuul for male. Thank you for sharing it with us at Stamping Sensation.
Eret x
Another stunning card! Thank you for joining in The Artistic Stamper Creative Challenge this month x
Great card, thank you for joining us in our challenge this time at Digi Choosday
*~KateE~* DC DT
This is lovely…Thank you for sharing with us at Digi Choosday, and good luck.
Caz xx
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Pennys Paper-Crafty DT
Digi Choosday DT
Creative Craft Cottage DT
Another cute card. Thanks for sharing with us at Mema’s Crafts.
A great card very elegant. Hope you had a lovely anniversary.
Thank you for joining our challenge at
Digistamps4Joy this week and good luck..
Ursula Uphof DT member
Love your creation, such a pretty card! Thanks for joining us at Party Time Tuesdays 🙂 -Esther
Thanks for sharing a little H2H/CTMH love with us! Your hubby should love this special card. Thanks for sharing your adorable “assistant” too!
This is a wonderful card for a Valentine/Love Challenge at DigiStamps4Joy. Thank you so much for joining us! Julie, DT member
Beautiful card. Thanks so much for playing along with us at HOC 🙂
Thank you!
Everything is pulled together so nicely. Thanks for showing us how at Heart 2 Heart!
Thank you Cynthia – I love Heart 2 Heart! 🙂
Cute card. Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!
Gorgeous!!! Thanks so much for participating in our {PIN}SPIRATIONAL challenge!! Hope to see you again for our next challenge!!
~DEANNE~
A Little Bit O’ Paper
Great card. I love the heart stamp – I have that one in my stash, too. I also love that zig zag stitched ribbon, another item in my stash. LOL Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge!
It’s so nice to meet another crafter who has the same taste in stamps and ribbons as I do! 🙂
Based on where you are visiting from – looks like we have stash hoarding in common too!
Have a wonderful week and thanks for the smile!
Congratulations on 17 years! That is super cool and amazing! I love your card that you made! It is funny how cats want to join in and “try” to help you out when it comes to papers or anything like that!
Such a cute card. I made cards for my three sons this weekend but still to make one for my husband. Pinned.
This would make a really cute wall hanging or plaque too. Nicely done. 🙂
Such a pretty card and you always have the cutest “helpers.”
Beautiful. And, congratulations on celebrating your love.
I am anxious to get back into crafting once we get settled in our new home.
Happy Pink Saturday. Thank you for always joining us and sharing.
Congrats on your new home Bev!
I would like to do more crafting too but first I have to do some decluttering! 🙂