Happy ♥ Day!

Happy ♥ Valentine's ♥ Day, Girls!

Are you doing anything special today? We're taking the kids over to my mom's this evening and going out to dinner at a new steakhouse in town - Cool Hand Luke's. My boss says they have the best ribeye - and I'm all about the ribeye! After that it's home for the Papertrey release party - LOL What a romantic way to spend the night, eh? Anyway - I hope you all have a ♥ lovely ♥ day.

So it's official - I have strep. No big deal, don't cry for me Argentina, I get it quite often. I started my Penicillin midday yesterday and hope to be swallowing soon without wincing at pain that feels like I am swallowing razor blades {ouch}. But while I was off yesterday I made a mess of cards. Again I dug into my scrap box for all of these cards "and can I just tell you how impressed with them, I am?"

This is just a simple blase' thank you card. It's probably my least fave and I think it's because it doesn't pop. I'm sending it to my husband's aunt who sent me a bunch of clothes that she got from a friend - talk about hand-me-downs! I have to say though, his aunt is like 85 and I was thinking these clothes were going to be...you know...um...old-ladyish - LOL But they weren't - there was some really cute stuff in the lot and I can't wait to get down just a tad more and wear it all comfortably.

I made this one with a new stamp set I got from Target - on clearance ;) It's a set of 6 stamps, nice and big like this - and I like big sentiments.

Now this card is a tri-purpose card. The sketch is from Amber's Viva la Verve challenge this week. There was a twist to this challenge in that it had to be a monochromatic card - all 1 color plus a neutral; I went with PTI's Dark Chocolate and Vintage Cream with some brownish buttons because there was also a PTI challenge to make a card using the same colors that Dawn McVey used on one of her cards - and she did a lovely Praying for You card that was Dark Chocolate and Vintage Cream! This week's Whatchadoin' Wednesday challenge at Storage Units, Ink & More was also to make a monochromatic card. So there ya' go - I participated in 3 challenges with 1 card!

These next 2 cards are total cuties - and I ♥ them. With the exception of the buttons, these are all Papertrey Ink cards. PTI is coming out with buttons tomorrow with their new colors - so soon I will be able to make a card like this and have it be an all PTI card! Sooooo excited for the release tomorrow!

*whew*
All that cardmaking wore me out!
Have a wonderful day, and thanks for stopping in!
♥