Control Freaks Blog Tour - Love is in the Air

Hello everyone! Welcome to another Stampin' Up! blog tour brought to you by the Control Freaks swap group! You might have just come from my friend, Mary Brown's blog. I think she is just a genius!! Didn't you just love her projects? If you happened to land here or are a regular visitor, never fear! Just click on the button at the end of my blog post to advance through the tour. And eventually you will end right back where you started! Please remember that if you are visiting before the 20th, some of the links may not be working. You can come back on the 20th and go right through the tour without any hiccups!

So this month's tour is all about the LOVE! We will be featuring projects made with a lot of love but also showing a lot of love, too! I have three projects this month. Which surprises me as I woke up this morning feeling awful! Thank goodness I didn't have anything else to do and could take my time finishing up my projects. My first project is a simple card (do I do any other kind -lol).

I ran a piece of Very Vanilla card stock through the Big Shot with the new edgelits embossing folder. I hope you can see the cute little hearts that are embossed! Love them!! This is adhered to a piece of Poppy Parade and then popped up onto a Crumb Cake card base. Then I stamped the solid heart from I {Heart} Hearts onto a scrap of Very Vanilla with Poppy Parade ink and cut it out. It is popped up onto the card. I stamped the greeting onto a strip of Very Vanilla in Poppy Parade. I flagged one end and put in one of the new brads from the Everyday Enchantment ribbon and brad pack. This is adhered right over the heart. Very simple. I even thought it isn't too "mushy" for a guy!

My second project is another card. It is hard to tell from the photo, but I actually punched out an oval from Island Indigo with my extra large oval punch. Then I ran it through the Big Shot using the designer frames embossing folders. So when it came out, the frame had a hole in the center. Make sense? Then I cut around the frame. I stamped the greeting from Grateful Greetings on Whisper White in Island Indigo. Then I put dimensionals on back side of the frame and adhered it to the greeting. I cut any excess Whisper White card stock so it didn't show around the outside of the frame. Then I took a piece of designer paper from the Twitterpated pack and stamped the dotted heart from i {Heart} Hearts in Island Indigo. This was adhered to a piece of Whisper White and then popped up onto a card base of textured Island Indigo. Then I stamped the other heart in Riding Hood Red onto Whisper white and cut it out. I glued down my frame piece and popped up the heart. I also added a flower that was punched from Blushing Bride card stock with the itty bitty shapes punch pack. I added a rhinestone to the flower and a few under the greeting as well. Very simple and not much of a layout change from the other card. 


The next project is one that I am really proud of! It is my first faux chenille quilted project!! I actually started this project last week (thinking I would use it for the tour) but got stuck on the binding. And that is why you will not be getting close-ups of this!! The binding is really not good but I can't complain too much because it is all held together - lol!!

I am not going to go into details on how I made this because you can find many tutorials on this kind of project. I did use the Twitterpated designer fabric. And I think it is SO cute!! It's not a potholder because it doesn't have any insulation. It is more of a table decoration! Remember the tea light mason jar I made for last month's tour? Well, doesn't it look great set on top of it? You could also set a plant on it or a bigger candle. Anyway, I am thrilled!! 

The Benadryl that I took a few minutes ago seems to be kicking in. I do hope there aren't too many typos and that you can understand everything. I am so glad you stopped by to see my projects! Now I am going to send you on to Gretchen Barron's blog to see the delightful projects that she has come up with! Have a super day!!

Recipe: Stamps- I {Heart} Hearts, Grateful Greetings, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper- Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Poppy Parade, Crumb Cake, Island Indigo, Blushing Bride, Twitterpated designer paper; Ink- Poppy Parade, Island Indigo, Riding Hood Red; Accessories- Twitterpated designer fabric, rhinestones, designer frames embossing folders, edgelits embossing folder, itty bitty shapes punch pack, Everyday Enchantment ribbon and brad pack, dimensionals