Challenge #41 - Let your LOVE show

It's Valentines time. I am not into the forced display of love,

so this is one of my least favorite holidays, BUT

I LOVE the reds, pinks and whites that are so abundant right now.

So the challenge to you this week is to use all of these colors in your project:

RED

PINK

WHITE

XOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Jana here: I went the wimpy route and used cards I made because I needed to send a few out. I used Opus Gluei as my excuse, or the other way around. Nothing too complicated. I used my new Copic markers. I sooooo love them. They made this seemingly simple little stamp just fabulous.






I made this one and three others. I used the same "ingredients", except for switching the background on 2 of the cards.


Check out the other one on my blog. I posted both over there.

(yup, I'm modest like that)

Rosemary here and I made a series of ATCs - only showing one because well, they're all alike this go-round! I went all girly and frilly and gooey - YAY! I've been shoveling snow so something other than only white is appealing to me!

I have mixed emotions on Valentine's Day; I've had wonderful ones where I felt like I was walking on air and some awful ones where I just wanted to go and sit in a dark room and eat a pound of high quality chocolates I gifted myself (there is NOTHING wrong with that!). But LOVE is grand whether we have it for a day, a year, or twenty plus years. We've all loved and been loved in our lives and it's a blessing to marvel in that we get to experience those highs and lows. Oh how boring life would be otherwise!

This ATC makes me think of those little card Valentines we had as kids - I guess that when Valentine's Day is best - the little shoebox mailboxes or brown paper bags that we decorated and put our names on and then we went around and filled everyone's up!

The products used are K&Company Ka-Zoo paper, Martha Stewart and Fiskars punches, QuickQuotes Powderpuff "Pink Cheeks" , computer-generated sentiment, and Darice plastic adhesive hearts.

Oh, and before we forget - we have a little giveaway! A brand new, sitting in the Borders bag, copy of StampIt! Cards magazine published by the fine folks at PaperCrafts magazine. (I was in the bookstore and thought, ooh, this would be nice to buy and heck why not two and share the LOVE with our Opus Gluei ladies!?!) So, just enter a project for this challenge and we'll put the names into a hat or a random generator (I lean toward the low-tech per se) and draw out a lucky winner! We'll announce it at the next challenge and I will mail it out super fast - promise)

Now it's time to LET YOUR LOVE SHOW.

(MWAH)

UPDATED - Saturday Rewind - Challenge #40 Soup to Nuts

Hey there! Rosemary here - I bet you didn't think I'd ever get the recap of last week's submittals up did you? Well, I almost didn't, it's been some wild weather in my neck of the woods. I offer people's exhibit #1 - my deck! We have had somewhere between 2-3' of snow (UPDATED - it's supposed to be between 28.5" and 30" according to the newspeople - too much drifting for our official tally). It's been crazy. We had to dig the heat pumps out of the drifts and take snow off the deck so it didn't collapse. YIKES!

But it appears to have finally stopped and we're going to take it easy for the rest of the day. Whew! (Updated - whew doggies, I'm tired but not as sore as I expected - YAY)

So, let's see who participated last week! Our challenge was entitled Soup to Nuts and what we hoped you would do is to either SOUP (Start a long term project) or NUTS (Finish a project you had lying around). Wait until you see what cool things we have to share with you! Such inspiring projects and while reading the comments I had to chuckle - you ladies get us, you really do! You've embraced the fun that is the Opus-Gluei outlook!

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Divya Rao starts us of with this gorgeous card! Oh my gosh, look at the beautiful sewing technique she's incorporated into this! She wants to use her sewing machine more and I can't wait to see what other projects she does! This is great! The recipient of this card is going to love it!

Then next up we have Ruthie who had my stomach growling when she told us how she finished off some homemade carrot soup (YUM YUM YUM) - she's going to be working on a patchwork quilt project, can't wait to see that! Check out her blog, she's a crafty and clever blogger! (and you had some wasabi peanuts - yummier) Take a photo of that soup, Ruthie, inquiring minds need the recipe too! And please share photos of the quilt as it is coming together!

Electra is back and look what she's up to! This is an ambitious project - a daily photo calendar (here's the link- it is really cool). I love this concept! What is even cooler is look - Electra posted another project for this challenge! Go, girl, go!!!!

Electra's second project is to finish up her summer 2009 vacation album. I understand that completely, I won't even admit how behind I am on vacation albums! Love these designs and she has such a clever way of pulling her elements together, I just enjoy these so much.

Kristen is keeping herself up to date on anniversaries, birthdays, etc. with her perpetual calendar. Check this coolness out! We work so hard to make a beautiful card, now you can be reminded to get it in the mail!!!!!

Jess made this gorgeous clean and simple birthday card - she's doing both a soup and nuts for this challenge. She finished this lovely card and she's overhauling her crafting space too! Her soup portion is that she's going to try and make more clean and simple cards during the year! Good for you! And what a wonderful surprise to see our old OG friend Bobbi is back! Welcome back! Go and drink in with thine eyes this beautiful "therapy room" (LOVE that) she has created and organized for herself, it's wonderful. Here's a little taste of what she did!

Thank you all so much for your great takes on this theme! It was fun to visit your blogs and see your hard work and beautiful projects! Stay tuned for our next challenge tomorrow!

And remember to take breaks when you shovel - it's important to conserve your energy!!! LOL