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Hi! My name is Tana and I'm a neglectful crafter. Ok, maybe more like a neglectful blogger. I haven't stopped crafting, I just run out of energy when it's time to post. So please accept my sincere apologies for my absence. I'm going to try to be better at posting, but it won't be an every day occurrence like it was in the past. I haven't been sleeping well so by the time Carver goes to sleep, I'm a vegetable on the couch. Hopefully this sleep thing gets resolved because I'd like to have my life back.

With that said, here's what I made for Carver's teachers for Valentines' Day. I picked up the mugs and chocolates from Target and cut a 2" heart out of chalkboard vinyl.

 Here's the Valentines' we made for Carver's class. There are 7 girls and 5 boys (not including Carver) so I decided to make two sets of toppers. The front says "Tweet tweet, you're sweet".

Details:

Straight from the Nest 2.75"

Core'dinations Jet Stream & Lipstick

Recollections white & kraft

Pink by Design - Just Sayin'

Clear Bags - 4.75 x 6.75

Cuttlebug - Diamond Plate & Heart Blocks

The LONG awaited bacon card

Here's the card that I mentioned, gasp!, forever ago. This is the Valentine card that Chris and Carver gave me this year. Chris said that he loves bacon so this sentiment was perfect. :)

Pink by Design - You Are
Marvy Uchida heart punch

Blast From the Past #9

This is the last post in our Blast from the Past series. It's been a lot of fun! This card is a criss cross card that I made for Chris last Valentine's Day.

I'm not going to show you what I wrote ;) but here's the couple I cut with the cricut.

Details:
Black & white - Recollections
Red & Hearts - DCWV Prints for the Year
Michaels ribbon
Sweethearts cartridge

I hope you had fun going down memory lane with me and I hope it's inspired you to look back at your old cards. Have a great Monday!

Valentine's Day Cards

I couldn't post these before yesterday because my darling hubby has started checking out my blog every once in a while. :)

Here's the card I made for my lil monkey!

Details:
Monkey & vine - Create a Critter 4"
Heart - Sweethearts 3"
Core'dinations Guava
Bazzill MudPie
Tan - Value Pack Desert
Kraft - Recollections
Red - Scraps
CB Heart Blocks embossing folder

Chris's card. I'm not over the moon about this one. It looked A LOT better in my head.

Details:
Black & white - Wausau Paper (Target)
Tan - Value Pack Desert
Hearts - DCWV Prints for the Year
Michaels Ribbon

How did your Valentine's Day turn out???

Blast From the Past #4

Happy Valentine's Day! Hubbs and I met and started dating on 5/1/04 and got married on 5/3/08. Its been an interesting 7 years and I wouldn't change one thing! I love you babe and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you!

Now onto the card! I have another pocket card for you today and it's PINK!! It's a baby shower invite for my friend Ayami. Kim and Ayami's showers were a week apart so I did the same idea for both of the parties to make things a little simplier on myself. :) You can find the tutorial here.

The inside with all the information

Details:
Bazzill Chablis and MudPie
Dark Pink - ? (Hearts)
Heart punch - Marvy Uchida blue
Baby embossing folder

Changito from Stampendous is making another appearance next week! Don't miss it!

Have a wonderful day filled with love and happiness!

Love Bug Cards

I've had these done for a couple weeks now but I wanted to wait until Valentine's Day was a little closer to unveil them. :) I originally made these for my MOMs group Bunco night as one of the prizes. I loved them so much that I made more for Carver to mail to his friends. :) I love the way they turned out!!!

This also happened to work for Momo's Tuesday Challenge and So Saturday Challenge #2.
Yay me!


The inside

The packaging for Bunco.

Details:
Black - Recollections
Argyle - Heidi Grace "Baby Girl"
Lt Pink - Bazzill Berry Blush
Md Pink - Bazzill Chablis
Dk Pink - DCWV Jewel Colors Cardstock Stack
Stamp & Inkpad - ?
Simply Charmed:
Bug - 2.5"
Love Bug - 1.25"
Hearts for Package 2"