Welcome to the Sista's Scrap Too! second blog hop!

Though this is my first time hopping along, I heard that the Sista's had so much fun with the first hop that it was decided to do a hop once a quarter. This is the hop for the first quarter of 2011 and we are glad you decided to join us! We have 13 designers working on our theme for this hop, which is none other than Valentine's Day. We've put a twist on it, asking the designers to use the colors red, black, and white in their designs. We can't wait to show you what we've come up with! Some of the Sistas went the traditional route and used traditional colors for their projects. What would craftin' be without creativity and diversity?! We know you'll enjoy what lies ahead on the hop route!!

Remember, start at the beginning of the hop and work your way through each blog. Please leave blog love (comments) along the way and become a follower of the blogs so that you can see the beautiful creations year round and not just when we have a hop! There are Sistas who are offering blog candy and you never know where you'll find some so be sure to visit each participating blog. Thank you for joining us for our 2011 SST! Valentine's Day Blog Hop! We hope you enjoy the creativity...

 Now for my project! You all know by now that I LOVE creating ATCs...well I have been at it again and created Valentines Day ATCs for a swap I am part on with the Ladies from Crop Chocolate! If you haven't heard about Crop Chocolate it is a ONE DEAL AT A TIME website with AWESOME deals on scrapbooking and crafting supplies. I LOVE it!! Check it out HERE! But I digress...here are the V-Day ATC designs I came up with...Thanks for Looking! Be sure to visit me again to see my new creations! You can click on each image to see it larger.

This is the group of 7 ATCs I made

Here are some close-ups. I did a number of techniques here. For the Card on the left, I first embossed the cardstock with a cuttlebug folder from the "Love is in the Air" set, then I painted the entire card with red acrylic paint dabber by Ranger and let it dry, I then inked over the painted image with silver pigment ink by Colorbox. I heat set everything, added bling and stickles and let dry. For the card on the right I took some thin burlap string, tied a bunch of knots in it and cut it into strips, I then attached it to the heart and adhered it with glue to the back of the heart. I made the sentiment on my computer and ran the paper through my printer.

For the candy box and treats, I used Disney "Love Always" Cuttlebug die and embossing folder set and first cut out the shapes and embossed on it. I then inked over the raised image and adhered to the ATC card. I pop dotted the red candy box for some dimension. I then spelled out the words "sweets for my sweet" with the DYNAMO label maker and added it to the card.

For this ATC I used the mini Heart and wings punch by EK Success and punched out the hearts out of different paper and the wings white. I then added adhesive to the red heart and all the wings with my Xyron "X" create a sticker maker and added white and red fun flock to the shapes to make it fuzzy. I added the hearts and wings pop dotted to the card and added bling and wrote out in red stickles the phrase "My Heart Flutters for You" Well the word "heart" is implied.

Last but not least, for this ATC, I printed a valentine bingo game card really tiny, and outlined the word BING in black diamond stickles. I added a large red bling for the "O" and added a small punched heart in the middle and some black pom pom ribbon to the bottom.

THAT'S IT FOLKS!! Thanks for looking at my creations! I hope you enjoyed looking at them as much as I enjoyed making them! Now you know we can't have a Valentines Hop without something SWEET! So how about some SWEET BLOG CANDY?! Just leave a comment and tell me which of these ATCs you like the most and become a follower of my blog so that I can continue to share my creations with you! I will use Random.org to draw a number from the total comments left for some SWEET SURPRISE SST V-Day Hop Blog Candy! I will post what the candy is when I draw a winner but I promise you it will be SWEET! You have until 12 Noon EST on Monday February 14th to enter! 

Good Luck and thanks for stopping by!  If you arrived here first, you can go back to see the other Sista's blog posts by clicking on the Hop Line below:

Hop Line Up

I hope you enjoyed my project(s)! Here is the list of participating blogs. I've made them clickable to make it easier for you to follow along the hop route. Don't forget to stop by and visit everyone. Leave some blog love and enjoy!

Sumaiyah: http://www.StampinDymonz.com 

Cassie: http://cjscropcorner.blogspot.com

Michele: http://nowstampthis.blogspot.com

Yvatte: http://gr8ful1-sweetlilscrapper.blogspot.com

Lei: http://divinescrapper.blogspot.com

Renee: http://reneehagler.typepad.com

Tonya: http://rileyscustomcreations.blogspot.com

Kim: http://kim-kimscreativecorner.blogspot.com

Cammi: http://cuttin-up.blogspot.com

Normea: http://mmdezigns.blogspot.com

Ella: http://sharingmystuff.blogspot.com

Lanita: http://stepintonitasworld.blogspot.com

Vernetta: http://scrapinnovations.blogspot.com <-- You are here! 
Netta: http://craftcreationsbynetta.blogspot.com 

An Unexpected but absolutely Wonderful RAK I received from Brittney s.k.a Curly Loc Diva

Hey Beautiful People! 

I just wanted to share my second attempt at a video. This time I just uploaded the file to YouTube directly but I didn't have time or patience to edit it...so here goes...

I received on Monday this Wonderful RAK from one of my Cricut Sista's  from the Sistas Scrap Too Cricut Message board, Curly Loc Diva...I didn't even know she paid attention to me! LOL!

Anyway please bear with my rambling...this was supposed to be a 5 min vid turned 11 min! ACK!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! And my latest ATC creation for you!

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY BEAUTIFUL Bloggers!! I hope that you all have a blessed and prosperous New Year and that all your prayers are answered! Make it a scrappy New Year and USE YOUR STASH!! That is one of my Resolutions! I love learning new techniques...and unfortunately there is always something that I need to try that technique that I don't have or must get...well this year...I vow to SUBSTITUTE SUBSTITUTE SUBSTITUTE as much as possible and USE MY STASH! :o} Wish me luck on that! LOL Anyway...before I go to bed I thought I would post the ATCs I created for my December ATC swap at the Scrap Shack ...I think these are my best ones yet! I am super excited that they came out more or less how I envisioned them too...but WOW was it a lot of inking and work with all the little bits and pieces...I got my inspiration from one of Tim Holtz's 12 tags of Christmas from 2008. I basically scaled it down from an 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 tag (I think that is how big his are...it is the #8 tags) to a 2.5x3.5 ATC!!! Feast your eyes!!! TFL!

Vintage Fashionista ATCs

Hey Bloggers and Crafters!

Sharing another of my ATC creations! I am in a swap at Urban Scrappers and the theme was "Fashionista"...so I took my ATCs one step further and created "Vintage Fashionistas"! I wanted to do this swap using the image transfer technique but that proved to be trickier than I anticipated...so I scrapped that idea for this swap...but say tuned...I am determined to get it right for my other November ATC swap over at the Scrap Shack...that theme is Black and Vintage...so stay tuned for those ATCs! I think after this last ATC swap...I am going to take a break from ATCs and work on more of my layouts and mini albums that I need to create! (We shall see! You know I LOVE me some ATCs)

On to the pictures! Enjoy and thanks for looking!

September 2010 ATC Swap: Mixed Techiques

Evening! Here is what I came up with for the September ATC Swap at the Scrap Shack site. The challenge was to use a different techniques and one was spotlighting which I had never heard or nor done before...so I did that and some distressing. Take a look here for an example of spotlighting --> http://stamptv.ning.com/video/spotlighting-2
I really like how it came out. Thanks for Looking!

ATC of the Patriotic Kind...Who Says it can't be SEXY?!

Evening Friends! I participated in another ATC swap at Urban Scrappers and wanted to share it with yall! The theme was using the alphabet...so we each had to pick a letter of the alphabet and create an ATC about something that starts with that letter.

Well I picked the letter "F" and created an ATC I have been wanting to create for awhile now...I created a mini art honoring our First Lady Michelle Obama!!!! :o)

I am pleased with how it came out...but this experience showed me that I NEED to get some fancy letter stamps!! I wanted my stamped words to be fancier but alas I only had two different sets of alphabets both from Martha Stewart that are really basic... :o/

ANYWHOoooo...Onward with my reveal! 

For this ATC I printed the background image (the flag) from my computer as a faded water mark in color and cut them out. I printed Michelle out in color and cut her out. I LOVE this photo shoot of her! She looks for regal and elegant! I then inked the edges of my ATC with Tim Holtz vintage photo ink.

Then I glued the pic of the First Lady onto the ATC base with mod podge (the matte finish). I then stamped the "irst" and the "ady" with tiny letters from the Martha Stewart Laurel Stamp Set with black Archival ink from Ranger. I then stamped the "F" and "L" from the Martha Stewart Requiem Font Alphabet Stamp set with the VersaMark watermark stamp pad and sprinkled it with red and blue glitter finish Zing! embossing powder and set it with my embossing heat gun.

After everything set a bit, I coated the entire front of the ATC with Mod Podge again and let dry and Voila! This was the result! I LOVE IT! :o) Hope you do to! ;o) Thanks for looking!