Love Song Blog Hop

So Glad You're Here.  Can you feel it?  Love is in the air.

Hello and welcome to Paper Crafting World & Cooking With Cricut's Love Song Blog Hop!
Because love IS in the air,  the Designers have come up with some great Valentine's Day projects inspired by our favorite love songs.
If you've arrived here after visiting Celeste at Touched by a Butterfly you're in the right place. If you're joining us mid-hop and would like to start at the beginning click HERE to go to Paper Crafting World’s Cooking With Cricut blog and check out what Melin has made!

For my project, I was inspired by Stevie Wonder's song "I Just Called to say I Love You".  When my hubby and I became engaged (oh so many years ago!) we lived 450 miles apart so the telephone was our love connection.  Awww, this phone from the Wild Card cartridge brings back the memories!

I used the hde contour feature on my Gypsy to remove the circles on the dial and added the hearts instead. I cut 3 different phones from the base image (just pulled the back half of the card off the Gyspy mat to save paper) so I could use different papers.  The full image was cut using double-sided paper.  The sentiment and small hearts welded on the dial are from George and Basic Shapes. Some faux stitching and dots finished the design.

Now, what's a blog hop without a little blog candy?  I will use Random.org to select one person to win this selection of embellishments.  All you have to do is leave a comment and include a way for me to contact you (VERY important).  If you are already a follower or become one I'll enter your name twice, but you must state that you are a follower in your comment. I'll announce the winner on Valentine's Day!

I hope you’ll join the Design team and link up your favorite love song inspired project at Cooking with Cricut. One lucky entry will be chosen by random.org to win a $10.00 gift certificate provided by PaperCraftingWorld.com! And make sure you leave a comment, too! One lucky commenter will also receive a $10.00 PaperCraftingWorld.com gift certificate!
Thanks so much for hopping with us today. Now head on over to visit the very talented Linda at Linda's Creativity and see what she has to share.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn

Getting Cricky!

 Getting Cricky with K. Andrews is having a surprise cartridge give-away.  Visit Kristal's blog by clicking HERE and see how easy it is to play along (no project necessary).  She also has a call out for six new design team members.  And, if you haven't used K. Andrews Designs stamps, you should give them a try.  Besides terrific sentiments for all types of occasions, Kristal donates $1 from every stamp set sold to a deserving charity - I think that is just totally awesome.

Here is a card I designed using one of the sentiments from her Sympathetic Sayings set.

This set includes sayings that are absolutely perfect for the inside as well.

I used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketch challenge #114.  The card was cut from the Wild Card Cartridge at 4.25".

Thanks for stopping by.  I'll be back tomorrow with a new design and some news.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn

Cards Using Two of My Newest Cartridges

I used two more of my new cartridges to make these cards.  The first one is for a kindergartner who recently had surgery to repair a cleft palate.  I thought a visit from Nemo might cheer him up so I used Best of Pixar.  Nemo and the layers were cut at 2.75".  I sometimes shy away from cartridges that have lots of layers and tiny pieces, but this one came together quite easily. The sentiment was cut from Wild Card. 

I used Rock Princess for the second card.  Tween-agers are so into skeletons and I thought this little lady was especially cute with her heart eyes and bow.  I  liked the font for the sentiment - also from Rock Princess.

Wow!  Getting this posted has been tricky.  We've had two power outages in the last 3 hours!  We don't know what happened - the weather is clear - but there were outages all over our area.  I've reset all the clocks, digital frames, coffee makers, satellite, etc., for the second time, so I hope it that's the end of it.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn