A Piece of my Heart is Always With You

Okay, so I'm having a terrible time getting photos to upload to Blogger.....

So instead of posting the Man of the Week, I'll have to get to that on Tuesday or Wednesday, I'm posting the post I was originally saving for Tuesday!

Are you feeling SKETCHY?  Here's my take on the 2/4 sketch at Sketchy Thursdays!

I had to make some Valentine cards and after making this first one, I was quite inspired to create more!!!

There I go using Distress Ink again!!!!  Fun!!!  I also used some cool My Mind's Eye paper...it's an old one.  I LOVE IT!  It's got some great texture to it and when I inked it up it looked awesome!  Give me a couple days and I'll upload it to my flickr with a supply list...if you really wanna know.  I dusted off a Valentiney stamp set I had and stamped away!  I stamped that blue inked up heart and made some extras for future cards/layouts.  That sketch is way too cool.

Here's a close up (photo above).  I can't quit with the liquid pearls and stickles...epecially in these two colors!

While I'm at it, I'll share another card...a real easy one....he he...I love th birdies on this!

I love me some Prima flowers...I need a refill!!!!!  I'm running dangerously low!

And...okay...I'll share this as well.  I'm hoping my sisters won't see this post because these goodies are for them for Valentine's Day.  But...they've been so busy I don't think they have the time...he he....

I made Emmy (the sis in Cali) this frame.  And you will be sick of this photo because I've used it on so many projects lately!!!

I used some fun crackle paint and then misted some walnut stain onto it.  This frame was one of those real cheap ones from Michael's.  

I also wrote a message to my sis on the frame "A piece of my heart is always with you."  I miss her so.  She needs to move back here to Washington.  I'm working on one for Krystal but don't have time to finish it till midweek.  But you better believe I'll share!

The ski trip I went on was SUPER FUN!  There's just something so refreshing about being with The Girls.  It was me and my Mom and my Aunts....I can't believe how much we laughed...and fell on our butts.  When I get copies of the photos, I'll share!

Thanks for visiting today!  I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Hugs,
Mo

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To My Valentine

I love the new poem up at Scrap That Poetry!  It's called "Ah, Yes! Love" by Clarence B. Campbell.

Again, I broke into my Vintage Plum Stash!

What a beautiful kit!

Sorry for the glare in this photo but I am not going to take another photo just to have one without the glare...I figured you ladies wouldn't mind.

The journaling reads (it's part of the poem):

"Ah, yes! Love

The transparency I used is to blame for all that glare (which I was able to correct pretty well with my Photoshop Elements).  I figure out how to do some cool things by trial and error while working on this layout.  I put on some of this ink, intending to color the inside of this heart a beautiful blue.  But I found out that it would NOT dry onto the transparency (duh)!  Luckily, as I placed my elbow over that area and discovered it was wet, I DID NOT smear it all over my beautiful page!!!  I then placed another transparency over it to blot it and got this cool look.  Now....to seal it....I added some of that clear-drying glue/craft laquer (Stampin' Up! calls it Crystal Effects) but they do sell another brand at Michaels.

I used lots of Liquid Pearls and Stickles for all that added zing!  I had another photo that wouldn't upload...but you get the idea of how they look, right?  If not, I'm sure if you click on the full layout you get a big gigantic photo.  For a supply list check HERE.

Well, that's it!  I'm loving this layout!  I think I'll frame it and give it to Luke for Valentines...along with something else he might like such as golf-related stuff.

Hope your week has been great!  Thanks for visiting!  What are you doing this weekend?  I'm skiing on a GIRLS ONLY trip!  Woohooo!

Hugs,

Mo

Is bubbles and beauty and lantern light,

Music and madness and dizzy height,

Tender words,

And a star-filled night!"

This verse went PERFECTLY with my photo taken around Valentine's Day one year (Hubby and I argue if it's 2005 or 2006..I think he's right but I didn't tell him that...wink wink).  So contrary to what I thought, this was taken in '06 NOT '05.  Anyway, my POINT IS....we saw this dinner show at a place in Seattle called "Teatro Zinzanni" where you have dinner while they perform all around you.  There's music, singing, acting, comedy, lots of costumes and make-up, and even acrobats!  Oh, it is sooooooo amazing! Oh!  AND FACE PAINTING! (See how it talks about that in the poem????)  I hoped to go this year, but Hubs was too late on booking the tickets (ahem....Mo was actually too late in reminding him)!

 Side note...I've figured that I have to help romance along by sending links to what I want for special occasions and telling him what I want for Anniversaries and Valentines Day...etc.  I started last Christmas and have been VERY VERY VERY HAPPY.  I didn't think I could be... at first...because my gifts would not be HIS idea but MINE.  Then, I realized IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME...cuz I get what I want and I'm not moping around when other people talk about what THEY got!  Sorry, it's not the thought that counts with him...because when he's stressed...he doesn't think clearly...he he!  Examples (clothes purchased online that don't fit...not even close (SMALL UNISEX is NOT SMALL!!!), ANOTHER gift certificate to a place for which he's already given me 3 previous ones, a framed piece of artwork that SUCKED (not my style at all...and he payed WAY TOO MUCH for it), and the most INFAMOUS present....BIG FAT NOTHING...not even a card...or flowers).  Yep, I remember stomping upstairs that day after yelling and slamming the door behind me.  It was not a good year for us that year.  Sigh.

So we will be celebrating our 8 year anniversary this May...yep...it took me THAT LONG...to figure out I needed to SPELL OUT WHAT I WANT!  It's a win-win situation!  With those I love, I'm not great at compromise....I want what I want...yes, I know I'm spoiled....I'm a brat.  But they never tell me...that's why when I realized this a few years a go...I shocked myself...heh heh!  More on that another time.  I stumbled across some cool techniques while working on this layout!

All About MO!

He he....remember I had a secret??????  Maybe not....

But I have a fun thing to share!  It was a "you never know" attempt....as most of my DT app submissions are!!!  All I can say is if you don't make it.....KEEP BUGGING THEM!  He he!!!!
They might FINALLY CAVE IN!!!!

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All About Me Challenge Blog!  Wanna see who I'll be designing with?????  CLICK HERE!

I am so very excited to be a part of this wonderful challenge blog!!!  And I'm VERY excited to collaborate with all the talented scrappy gals on the DT!!!!  These ladies are coming up with some AWESOME things....stay tuned and play along!  Indulge in some "me time" and learn and grow through your scrappy addiction!!!

Here's a layout I did...it was SUPER QUICK...I got to play with lots of my papers in my Simply Obsessed Earth Love Kit (another one I'm hoarding)!  It has lotsa Cosmo Cricket goodness!

I scrapped one of my most FAVE topics...my beautiful girl!

Sorry to bail on you!  It's Tuesday morning and I've got to get to work for a lovely 7 am meeting followed by what I call "funky Tuesday" since all kinds of funkiness seems to go on at the Urgent Care clinic I work at!  Ugh!  Another motto of mine said most Tuesdays...."Okay everyone, we've met the FUNKY quota...no more funkiness allowed!"  Thank goodness my shift ends early today!  I'm soooo exhausted from working since Friday......it's been "FUNKY TUESDAY" EVERY DAY since then!