Love Is In The Air Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Love is in the Air blog hop hosted by Paulette from Around the Block with scrapalette! You should have arrived here from Brenda.

If you didn't, you can go to Around the Block with scrapalette, start at the beginning of the hop and enter to win blog candy. Our projects are all about love and Valentine's Day.

My project is a Be My Valentine card.

I racked my brain trying to come up with a great idea that wasn't too involved and finally hit upon this.

"Don't be Koi" <- Get it? Koi = Coy?

Lovely play on words don't you think? hehe. I couldn't resist once I hit on this. My kids groaned, but it's Valentine's - it's supposed to be sappy! {Yes, I know, my wit is astounding!}
(inside: Be My Valentine)
I really liked how the fish, when put together just so, frame a heart shape themselves. I added the heart underneath to help guide the eye and dress it up a bit more.

Unfortunately, I didn't get a lot of pictures as I was cutting and assembling this card and I forgot to get a shot of the inside.

This is a standard A2 (4.25"x5.5") card in pale pink with the background cuts from Elegant Edges in red and white. The font "Don't be Koi" is from Paper Lace. {Did you know it had a font!?? Because I did not until a friend at a recent crop mentioned it - I love it!} The pink heart is from George, and the fish - Koi fish - are from Pagoda.

Here is a closeup of the Koi fish - I cut them out of some glitter paper I bought at Michael's. My poor Cricut - I should have used the deep cut blade, but the paper wasn't THAT thick - I thought. However, I made it work. I did a touch of Stickles on the red hearts and used a white Gel Pen on the wording to make it pop a bit more and added touches of the gel pen around the matting and the red hearts. The gel pen really does add a little more dimension to a project when you use it for highlights. The edges of the two mats and the card base are inked with the Cat's Eye Chalks in red and dark brown.

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Be Mine

I don't care for strawberries, so the traditional chocolate covered strawberry is not something I wish to receive for Valentine's Day. However, I heard mention of a delicious concoction called strawberry marshmallows, and vaguely remember someone mentioning that they had dipped them in chocolate. Sounds yummy!
Unfortunately I don't like most of the candy chocolate coating and I didn't have any of my good stuff in the pantry. So, quick thinker that I am, I grabbed a can of chocolate frosting and proceded to create my own version. They are delicious!




I used standard popsicle sticks and inserted them into the marshmallows (easy!), then stirred up the frosting so that it was more fluid and stuck the marshmallow into the frosting and twisted until I was happy with the amount of frosting on the marshmallow.




Then I arranged them in a cute glass jar with tissue paper to keep them secure.
The Label is created with the Cricut Machine and the Fabulous Finds and Songbird cartridges. Three ovals were cut from Fabulous Finds in chocolate and pink paper from Bazzil. The title was cut in white for both the shadow and the script. I colored the shadow with CTMH ink Hollyhock and layered. The flower is from Prima and the stone center is from a pack of cell phone bling that I had left over from another project.

Now, what shall I do with this project?