Favor Me Designs: Sunshine Monday

Good morning! I hope you all had a good weekend and survived the Super Bowl. I watched up until half time and then had to get to work on todays card. I had an unexpected long weekend being off on Friday and still only made it into my scraproom last night.

Jordan was home sick on Friday which means I had to call in. Greg & I take turns and, thankfully, it doesn't happen often. Poor little guy inherited my sinus problems. I spent all day reading my latest book purchase and finished it Saturday morning. The book was The Help and if you haven't read it I strongly recommend it. That was the first time in a very long time that I spent the entire day curled up with a book and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it! Saturday afternoon I went to a Stampin Up card party and I will be back tomorrow with my make & takes- we made 10 cards- 2 of each design.

Ok on to todays card which is for Sunshine Monday. I have made another Valentine card, this one for Jordan to send to Nana & Papa and used the image Love Soars.

I must say I really love this little image and is perfect for Nana & Papa! My cardstock is Stampin Up and my dp is from Reminisce- it is double side- with the stripes and phrases. I used my nestie for the scalloped circle and my cricut for my heart charm and tag- it's from the Fabulous Finds cartridge. I used pink flocks on my heart and brown embossing power on the heart outline and accented with a half pearl. I found a wonderful tutorial somewhere on how to create clouds on your paper and it worked so easily!! I found it on someone's blog but can't remember whose but I know you can probably find it on You Tube.

Jordan has the card all ready for me to mail and included a print out of a picture of a toy he wants for his birthday- it's on the 18th. Children are so subtle, haha. If Greg knew he would be disgusted but my mother, I am sure, will be amused.

There is still time to get this image or any of the other Valentine images offered- that's one of the beauties of digital- just head on over to Sunshine & Giggles. We currently have blog candy being offered too! It's open to ALL bloggers and is in honor of the One World One Heart bloghop. If you are not familiar with OWOH you can find all the details there. It is so much fun- so far I have visited 200 of the over 1000 blogs that have entered and the talent out there is just incredible- talent from every genre imaginable.

Ok- this is getting quite lengthy- now I need to cover the challenges

Sketch Saturday - provided the awesome sketch for my card

Stamp Something- Love Somethings

Stampin for the Weekend- Valentine Themed

Be sure to check out the Sunshine & Giggles design team to see their wonderful creations.

Happy Monday morning to ya'll! Well another day of no school here in middle TN. I so want to call in this morning but I don't think it will go over real big with the powers to be. They really take their jobs much to seriously, haha. The roads are still a mess but I guess I will head in- pray for me. (I'm not kidding- these drivers scare me!) Friday I left work as soon as I saw the 1st snow flake. A few hours after I got home there was a 12 car pile up on the interstate not too far from my exit! It makes me so nervous!

Today for Sunshine Monday I have made a little valentine card for my funny little valentine, Jordan. I made it as masculine as I could, haha. Nothing to girlie cuz girlie stuff is yuck!

My inspiration today came from the sketch over at this weeks Stampin for the Weekend challenge.

I love a card with lots of layers and this sketch definitely provided that. Todays image from Sunshine & Giggles is called Puppy Love- a perfect image for a masculine (boy) card.

For my base I have used black cardstock. The red paper with the black distressing is basic grey. My x's and o's is by Little Yellow Bicycle and the word paper (which you can no longer read) is by BoBunny. My sentiment is computer generated and my letter J sticker (you know how kids love personalized stuff, haha) is by Creative Imaginations. I used a paw punch that I purchased a few years back and found today still in its package. I knew I would get around to using it one day.

Here is a close up view of my little puppies.

I am also entering the challenge at A Spoon Full of Sugar which this week is a free style theme and the Cupcake Crafts Challenge which is 4 legged friends.

Be sure to visit the design teams blog to see what giggles they have in store for you today.

Jeanette Tracy Janet Stef Tenia

Hope you all have lots of Sunshine & giggles in your day today.