Love is in the Air

Valentine's Week was not enough. I need Valentine's Month to show you all my "lovely" projects! Today I want to show you a mini album I made with the new Build a Book Phase II Perfectly Shaped pages. You can purchase just the type and number of pages you need! For this album I used three clear pages and five shaped pages. MOSD has 18 shapes to chose from!

I used a lot of NEW Valentine's paper for this project - from Little Yellow Bicycle and Basic Grey (plus some other odds and ends). Below you can see a view of all the shaped pages. Isn't it yummy?!

Can you tell that I just purchased the smooth and scallop heart Nestabilities dies from Spellbinders? Love those hearts!

You can see that I edged the clear pages with paint to make them stand out. What you can't see well from the photos is that I mixed two colors of acrylic paint with some clear Stickles! This makes for a nice sparkly page!

Thanks for looking! (And I apologize for the poor photo quality this time. I'd like to blame camera issues, but it's really operator error!)

- Gloria

Love Ya!

You can probably tell that the design team all received Valentine's Intricacies in their DT box this month! I used my red heart intricacy to make this layout of my youngest son and me. The photo is from 2002. I love this picture of us together. I don't have a lot of memories of cuddling this boy, as he was always on the move! So this quiet moment is precious!

I used some buttons from my stash that matched his shorts! (I am pretty sure the buttons came from my LSS club kit.) I also found a scallop blade for my Fiskars trimmer to use on this layout! It's amazing what you find in your stash if you just bother to look! The bling title has been in my stash for a while as well.

I challenge you to dig through your stash and see what's hiding in there!

Happy Valentine's Day!

- Gloria

Vintage, Part 2

For those of you who did not get to see Vintage, Part 1, go and visit Friday's blog post. For those of you who are wondering what I am doing posting on a Saturday, never fear! I am not taking over the blog by force...I'm just filling in. We'll be back to our regular post schedule after CHA! And for those of you who have been waiting to see what I did with the other half of the Big Boy cover....here it is!



This vintage stamp is called "Picking Flowers with Mom" and is made by The Stamping Ground. The Happy Valentine's Day stamp is Close to My Heart. I cut the scalloped circle with a Nestabilities die, and then ran it through the Big Shot using the Cuttlebug Divine Swirl Embossing Folder. Then I rubbed some cranberry alcohol ink and some old paper distress ink over it, crumpled it up, and attached it to the project.

Hope you enjoyed my trek into Vintage! See you on Friday for my CHA Sneak Peek!

- Gloria