Let's continue talking about LOVE...

It's Sunday...  almost finished with all details regarding my class in the convention.  Just waiting for some things by mail.. hope they get here on time!!!   There's still space to be in the class, you can get information in the button at upper right in this blog, or sending me an email to winecheeseandscrapbooking@gmail.com, or like me on facebook (Scrapper Myra) and contact me through inbox.  :)

Separately,  let me share these LOVE party favors.  These are very simple to do, specially to make with kids since the steps to follow are very easy and you embellish as you want.

Some of these were published in the Papeles y Más magazine.

Let's take a look at them one by one.

Here's one with the "key 2 my heart" sentiment.  I stamped the key, cut and tied with bakers twine.  Used mainly cardstock, stickers and stamps.  Candies are placed inside as shown.

Here's the front view:

This one was so fun to make.  Stamped the images and colored with paint, ink, pencils, glitter... and more.  Added some buttons and sticker at bottom.  Very cool.

This is my favorite.  Stamped banners and cut them to assemble with doily, buttons, bakers twine and a feather.  Lovely, isn't it?

And, last but not least, I took advantage of the patterned paper design and just added the sentiment, doily and ribbon for this one.

Hope you are still enjoying St. Valentine's Weekend.  I am...

It's all about love....  love... love....

Love you just the way you are!

Happy Saturday my friends. The only fact you are alive and able to read this post, makes today a wonderful day. Think about it. 

Here is a card I made using a Stampahoot stamp. Nice couple, huh?

I used watercolor pencils to give'em some life. Also complemented with other stamps (Unity Stamp Co), strips of patterned paper, doillie and sequins. 

It resulted very cute and I really enjoyed making it which is at the end the most important part of this amazing imperfect process. LOL. 

Love life just the way it is... Imperfect and wonderful!!!

Tks for your visit. 

Loving You...

It's Friday and you know I love Fridays...

I've been very "scrapbooking-lazy" this week... Have arrived too tired from work and have not touched any paper these weekdays...  But I wanted to share something today for the Unity FWF.

So last night I took my Unity stamps and assembled this Love card for today.  It will be the very first one for St. Valentine's this year.

I used 4 stamps from the November KOM... They are fabulous!  And combined with patterned paper from DCWV, cardstock and washi tapes... ink and a metal accent.

I think it is a good card for a lovely Friday.

Hoping your weekend will be full of memorable moments!

Card on TOP

Hello friends...

Stopping by to show you how finally my husband's St Valentine's card looked on top of the delicious cake I gave him.

Remember the card? You can refer to it HERE.

I wanted to give him something different than classic gifts, so I ordered this delicious carrot cake from my friend Isis and placed the card on top. (Isis is also the one who made that delicious cake from another's friend bday... remember? Take a look HERE).

Hope you liked it.

And for more love... here's more of the St.Valentine's work to share. This card has different layers of papers, and I used Unity Stamp Co. stamps, which I love.... :)

The little card aside is a gift card holder I made for my husband too... In the inside it said "Forever" as the continuation of the sentiment in the cover.

Continue loving ... everyday... Thanks for your comments. :)

Celebrating Love today!!!

Happy St. Valentine's Day... It's one of those days that you know you should celebrate everyday, but then since there is a designated day, you join the club and buy gifts, and celebrate, and party, and get excuses to have a special dinner... and so on... you just have to do it and love it!

Hope you find reasons to celebrate friendship today... I also hope love is present every second of your life... and that you don't only feel loved, but also understand how big the potential you have to love and change the life of anybody around you. Love is so powerful... and to love is a decision... Go for it...

Thank you for loving me somehow... yes... if you visit my blog, you are sure sending me some love... thanks.

Here's the card I made for my husband. I managed to schedule the post to automatically appear later during the day so he receives the card before he sees it in the email. LOL! Hope I made it!

The card says "Tinto Love"... in an analogy of red wine with his love... Inside the card I explain it better but basically same way I feel a red wine can be complex, strong but sweet, and full of evolution when you really taste it, and also thinking that you just can't "drink" a wine just because, you have to make sure you are "tasting" it... so, basically some of this resembles our love... Kind of crazy and complicated but you know... I hope he will love this card.

The grapes, glass and cork are pre-made dimensional stickers from Recollections brand. Chipboard letters are from Basic Grey. Cardstock is from AC. Patterned paper is from DCWV. And the hearts were cut with Provo Craft products (cuttlebug die and machine), as well as the embossed circles in the background from same brand embossing folder. The word "love" is a brad from Fun Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by... keep celebrating Love everyday... not just today friend.... everyday.

"Last" of the LOVE projects

This is the "last" Love project from this year. Maybe if we think of it, that's wrong. It's not the last love project. It's probably the last I've made from a series related to St. Valentine's 2011... but it's not the last love project... because all my projects, no matter how simple or complicated, big or small, fast or no... are made with love... Make sure all you do in life is made with love. Whatever you do for living, whatever is that you have as a hobby, no matter what you do for someone else... make it with love. And you'll enjoy it more, and the results will be better.

I made this mini album for someone who wanted to send pictures of her sons to their sister, who is older and lives separately. It has to be simple and handy, and have room for her to place the pictures and finish playing a little bit with the project.

One of the pages had a message of love for the sister. This little metal plate from Portafolia, combined with the Scenic Route chipboard message, were perfect to communicate that.

Another page of the mini album had room for the pictures with a title to remind the sister about how good is life.

And this other one sent a brother hug... the plate is also from Portafolia. Look at the right page... there's a little envelope with tickets valid for different goodies.

What better goodies from brother to sister, than kiss, love and hug?

This other plage had flowers and hearts for the sister.

The nice "lace" shape in the background is a piece that I still had from a strip designed and cut by a friend (Gladys, my favorite Colombian girl), who gave it to me a while ago in an ocassion we were enjoying scrapbooking together. She probably doesn't even remember but I do.

The branch was stamped with an Autumn Leaves stamp, and then carefuly cut by the shape.

I cut chipboard and papers using the Cricut Expression machine. The heart shape was from Plantin Schoolbook cartridge, using the End Caps feature.

Hope you liked my mini album... Now, let me share with you the not so mini dog biscuit we gave to our dog Malbec last St Valentine's Day.

He was so obedient, that he did not even touch it until we told him so... How cute!

Then he smelled and smelled and tried to get it but it was difficult becaus this giant biscuit was flat and heavy.

He could use a little help to grab it from the floor...

Mmmmmmmmmmm....

This lovable dog deserves this and much more... We love him so much.

Thanks for visiting... This was posted with Love...

Still in Love

Are you still in love?

Well, this might be understood as if you still in love with your partner... husband... wife... after years..???? Good... answer that question to yourself. I personally believe love is a decision we make and it is also an unbelievable feeling that evolves along with that decision. You decide to love someone no matter the good, the bad, the pretty and the ugly. And there are different stages... through which that love evolves and you express your feelings and emotions... and also the love itself in different ways... Maybe the flowers you received before, now are not as expected as then, but you do receive everyday signs confirming the love is still alive... Right? Well.. I'm not therapist... just my way to define it.. hehehe...

But you know what?... I don't refer to that with my post title... I am talking about that it's still February, so I'm still posting "love" projects... hahahahaha.... what do you think? But I'm also still in love.

This double spread layout was made by a friend called Rebecca. She owns a scrapbooking store in Isabela, Puerto Rico. Her work is beautiful. She has a great ability to use so many different papers in one layout and really get to use most of the materials. You can get more information about the store HERE. She made this layout for a crop a couple of weeks ago.

Papers are from Making Memories' collection, Je t'adore. You'll love it. It's a very romantic design and at the same time not too "romantic" for those who doesn't like it to be over the "sweetness"... if you know what I mean...hehehe..

I'm sorry for not having the best pictures from her work, but I wanted to show you the original pages from which I made the scraplift. This is the left page, where she proposed to place a vertical photo and the text block she cut from one of the papers. The details of her work are amazing. She used different sized strips of patterned papers and placed as background and also used a punched border with little hearts. Each strip is distressed and inked. The detail flower was cut with a Cuttlebug machine (beautiful die and was very fun to do).

The right page continues the game of the patterned papers and has a big half heart, also from one of the dollies paper from the collection. She wisely positioned all these on dark cardstock so the design stands out. Don't you love it?

So, I am not very good scraplifting... Not because I don't have fun doing it, but because there's something about me that make me change it...

I tried to keep as much as possible from the original layout... and I was able to do it. I placed the patterned papers as exactly as I could...

For left page, I used a chipboard flourish I had from Fancy Pants, and the border punch I used was different (I confess I borrowed it from my friend Maribel... and it was new... I used it first... Thank you Maribel. You can see Maribel's out of world work HERE.).

However, I changed the orientation of the photo for a horizontal one (thinking of this photo I had from me and my husband... not only we are hugging but also the colors go very well with these papers). I also added other border in the bottom of the page (Martha Stweart's), and you'll noticed I did not place the text block in this page.

I positioned it in the right page and added another flower of those that I really had fun assembling.
A little heart was also added to the flower.

So with the title added and those other details, I ended up answering the question of the title with the text block that serves as journaling in the layout... What is love?

And, this is how the double page layout looks finished. I hope you liked it... and thank you Rebeca for such inspirational work that you always share with SB Friends group.

I will post another LOVE project next week... Keep loving everyday... don't miss the opportunity to be imperfect... Love is.

I {HEART} you!!!

Tomorrow it's St. Valentine's Day. I personally believe we should celebrate love everyday, but I also respect there is this one day, some people celebrate it at a different level. I do believe we should not measure love according to the size of the gift you will receive/give this day, if any gift should be given except for love itself. But again, it's nice to share chocolates and special messages with people you care about, and if this day will make some people express love better or be able to show a good side... let's make it happen.



Remember the crop party I had the other day, where we had an ATC swap? Well, we also had Party Favors' swaps... and there was all kind of party favors. It was great to see the different styles and personalities reflected on the party favors... well they also reflected the tools each of us had... some people really did achieved a super professional look in their work... This year, is for me to get some new tools (but again, this is another future post...hehehehe).



This is a top view of the party favors I created:







And this is a bottom view:









You can note is a rectangular box that is between two hearts. The hearts are glued to the front and back side of the box, and then tied to each other through the top side.


The heart party favor can stand because the bottom side of the two hearts support the box and serve as base.

I embelished the heart with another heart, lace ribbon, buttons and flowers.

All the party favors together, looked really cool, and I am sure my friends enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed the ones made for me... with love.

Happy St Valentine's Day... I hope you can celebrate love everyday, and take time to be imperfect while doing it.

I will be sharing more LOVE projects next time.

(cardstock: Bazzill; patterned paper: Basic Grey; flowers: Portafolia; stamp: Studio 112; miscellaneous: lace ribbon, buttons, fibers, ribbons, adhesives, paper punch)

More Love...

And there is always more love to give... and more understanding... and more patience... time... and care... When you think you have given it all... or that you don't have anything else to do, to think about, to care about... to come up with, more to be... There is always more. You are never done my friend. There is always more... there's always a bright side... Look for it.

But that was just a thought... Today, there are more cards. Some are cards I made before but have never posted, and some are recently designed... but they are all about LOVE...

Maybe you find one you like, or get inspired, or simply think it's too simple, too colorful, or not your style... It's ok... This is the chance to be imperfect... Just look at them and leave a comment. I appreciate them all.

Maybe you like this card with simple letters for the word LOVE with different paper scraps for backgrounds....

Or maybe this cutie with a gem...

These are details from a bunch of cards... maybe you can get inspired by looking at the colors and textures...

What about this? Do you want some glossy finish for your little heart? (sorry... big heart)...

It's a bunch of hearts!!!! Yeah!

Does this phrase remind you of someone? You + me = happy... Yes? Go make a card for that someone right now...

Aren't these buttons too cute? Love the different textures and patterns...

Here's the whole card.... Beeeeeautiful or not?

Here's a oldie... I made it a while ago... A more romantic look.. .but still full of heart.

Playful... Different pieces of papers...

And this one divided in four parts for a simple layout.

Hope you found these inspirational or useful somehow... Thanks for looking at my cards.... I HEART you for that...