wishing love to all

hey friends, 2 valentines i made this year and a card i gave for a birthday. images from various artists and kits. 

linking to digital whisper: valentine.

love to all.

hearts and flowers

for our midweek muse: hearts and flowers

images from designs by MANDN and retired mischief circus.

love to all. 

frogs in love

it is valentine's month and the sunday postcard art theme is: frogs. so here you go.

images from designs by MANDN, mischief circus (retired), gecko galz, and my artistic adventures.

love to all.

last minute and just in time -- valentine

just before the challenge closes i am making it to the tag tuesday valentine challenge with this digital valentine tag!

images from designs by aymara (cupid), and my artistic adventures (heart paper), abd a few bits from rtired mischief circus and dezinaworld.

here are a couple more of the other valentines i made this year, from a variety of art kits:

love to all! 

white space and valentines

happy valentine's day for those who celebrate! 

first, here s something for the our midweek muse white space challenge:

this bunny wishes you lots of love!

and next, here are some of the valentines i made for my work mates this year. altogether i did about 25 designs for our staff of 54. making 54 unique cards was just too much! 

all of the above cards are made with a variety of images form retired mischief circus kits. lots of crowabout studio B, tumblefish studios, holliewood studios,  and itKuPiLLi for example.

i might share more valentines later this week.

meanwhile, love to all, and may peace prevail on earth.

faery time

for the next two weeks at tag tuesday i'm hosting the challenge so let's create tags with faeries! faeries are good for all seasons, so as this fortnight's host, this is the theme i chose. i was planning on making some digital tags and some paper ones. i started with digital and got carried away. 

all images on the digital tags are from retired mischief circus kits.

here are a couple paper collaged tags:

images from gecko galz

background paper from gecko galz and paper doll parts from jleeloo. 

i'll share more tags next week. i hope you will play along!

have fun; love to all.

black & white color challenge

hello all and happy valentine's day! the latest two week challenge at tag tuesday is "black, white, & one other color." there is one week remaining in this challenge. here are two tags, since i am already a week late!

face and background are from lunagirl. heart came from a paper by gecko galz. words from tim holtz stickers.

face is from lunagirl, hearts punched from paper by lunagirl and the background paper is from gecko galz graphical paper pack. words from tim holtz. 

also linking to the gecko galz "love through the ages" customer challenge.

love to all, always.

more digital valentines

 first, for sunday postcard art: cherub

background digital paper by gecko galz, cherub from pixabay, all other images from mischief circus artists: songbirdy, itKuPiLLi imagenarium, and (vintage) tumblefish studios.

these two have female images from designs by aymara, backgrounds and embellishments from gecko galz, and a few other bits from other companies.

sending love and hugs to all. 

faery love

linking to the "love through the ages" challenge at gecko galz. a couple digital valentines i made with background digital papers and embellishments from gecko galz and female/faery images from designs by aymara.

love to all!

love to all, today and every day

every year i make valentines for everyone at work but the staff has grown so large that i cannot make individual ones for everyone any more (last year i managed it with 45 people! but we are bigger now and i just couldn't pull it off). so i designed one digital valentine for everyone. 

the quote is by cornel west. images from pixabay and tumblefish studios. we are a justice organization which is why it is themed this way. i stamped happy valentine's day on the back and wrote each person a note. enjoy.

as always, wishing love to all.

first love is self love

for sunday postcard art "amour"

heart paper from "oh cupid" by gecko galz; all other images from mischief circus artists: crowabout studioB; itKuPiLLi imagenarium; miles beyond the moon (retired).

love to all.

black white & red valentine

for tag tuesday, black, white and red. this new challenge selected by DT member wendy lasts for 2 weeks. we'd love to see your creations!

image and paper from gecko galz.
play along!

love to all.

captured hearts twinchie #2

i have one more 2 by 2 inch "twinchie" to share for this month's gecko galz customer challenge:"captured hearts." challenge closes on the 29th!

like yesterday, background paper is from the "smitten" paper pack at gecko galz. foreground female image is a freebie this month at the gecko galz blog (there are free images on the blog about every other day!). the rest is stash goodies.

enjoy; love to all.

captured hearts twinchie #1

the gecko galz customer challenge is "captured hearts" and i've been itching to play -- with only 2 days left to link up!

as you likely know, a twinchie is a 2 by 2 inch creation, a fun-sized "canvas" to work with! the background paper is from the "smitten" paper pack at gecko galz. the foreground female image is a freebie this month at the gecko galz blog (there are free images on the blog about every other day!). the rest is goodies i had on hand.

enjoy; hurry and play! love to all.

my favorite color

is purple and that's the theme at take a word this week.

images on 1st piece from songbirdy "mauveine," cupid from open clip art. on second piece it is also mauveine along with steampunk images and butterfly by itKuPiLLi imagenarium.

february, my birth month, is the month of purple and amethyst, love, black history and all kinds of good things. so happy february!

love to all.

give love

for take a word and moo mania and more -- both have the theme: "love is in the air." each year i create as many unique valentines as i can and last year i succeeded in giving one to everyone at work, about 40 people. i'm not quite there yet this year but i still have a few days! and creating many of them digitally to print out at ATC size makes the task easier! here are a few:

all the images and backgrounds are from crowabout studio b "heart wide open" except the background on the crow piece is from my artistic adventures.

love to all!

more tag hearts!

we have one more week remaining to play along on the theme i've chosen for the current tag tuesday challenge which is "hearts."  here are two more tags for you.

i made all of these with the sweet girls from the crowabout studio b "love the world" digital kit (although for these i printed the images for my cut and glue collages). background papers are from "my artistic adventures" and the sentiments and tickets are from various gecko galz kits and collage sheets. ribbons and heart punches are from my stash of supplies.

last year i made valentines for everyone at my work place (about 40 folks). we will see if i succeed in that again this year! 

enjoy the valentine fun; love to all.

so many hearts

as we are getting close to valentine's day and it is my turn to set the theme for the tag tuesday challenge i have chosen "hearts" as my theme. i've always liked making valentines (last year i made and gave more than 40!) so this theme is to give a jump start to those who share my love of hearts and doilies and all things lovey-dovey.

i made all of these with the sweet girls from the crowabout studio b "love the world" digital kit (although for these i printed the images for my cut and glue collages). background papers are from "my artistic adventures" and the words, bingo, and heart on third tag are from various gecko galz kits and collage sheets. ribbons, flowers and heart punches from my stash.

as with all the tag tuesday challenges this one runs for two weeks and i hope you'll join and have fun with it. i'll be posting more hearts and valentines in the coming weeks.

love to all, always!

sweet loving wishes to everyone!

i've always liked valentine's day -- whether or not i felt i had a valentine of my own.  i loved the little valentines we'd pass out at school and as an adult playing with stamps, collage images and digital images i still can't quite get enough.

i wanted to give valentine's to everyone at work -- about 40 people.  i had some left over from last year which i'd never given out and a few made earlier this year but i still had to make about 15 more.  the 4 ATCs above are made with vintage valentines from twisted papers and background papers and hearts from my artistic adventures.

the top left is made with twisted papers and my artistic adventures.  the remaining three are digital images -- bottom right and left are crowabout studio b ("love the world") and the rest are gecko galz.

these are all digital creations with images either from gecko galz or crowabout studio b.

so these are just a few of the new ones i made this year.  i'm exhausted now having just finished the night before -- but i just made it in time for valentine's day.

happy valentine's day and love to all!