MDS Blog Hop Friday!!!

Imagine my total and utter surprise when last weekend Erica Shaw emailed little ol' me and asked me to be a guest blog hopper on her and her fellow My Digital Studio afficianado's awesome weekly Blog Hop!  Of course I said YES! :)

The theme this week is Valentine's Day! 

We aren't a big celebrator of Valentine's Day around our house.  We do the customary Valentine's cards and candy for school, but that's about it.  Not for any particular reason, really.  But, given the theme this week, I was at a serious loss of pictures to scrap!  I had some super cute DSP to use, though.  Going thru my pictures I realized using pictures from Christmas would be perfect for "LOVE"!  Mara got an iPad 2 for Christmas and you could tell the "love" for her iPad on her face as soon as she opened the gift.  

I used this sketch from October 2011 PageMaps:

On this 12x12 layout I used the DSP Love Impressions.  I also used sewing, glimmer brads, various buttons, rhinestones, baker's twine, and Sending Love epoxy brads.  I used the photo corner punch, scalloped circle, oval, circle, perfect label punch and 3 different size and shape of heart punches.  I used Outlined Occasions brush stamp (from the SAB CD), and Frames with a Flourish brush stamp.  Voila!  ;)

Last year I created McKenna and Micah's Valentine cards for school using MDS.  This year I decided to do the same thing for Micah.  (McKenna is in middle school this year, so no card passing out for her!)  Well, thanks to the website, Pinterest, I found the perfect card to create for Micah to pass out!  

Here's what it looked like in MDS:

I snapped the photo and then embellished it with Love Impressions borders and embellishments.  I also used the medium heart punch, perfect label punch, and a rhinestone.  The font is a free font I found online called Heartland Regular.

Then I printed of the card as a 4x6 photo and used an x-acto knife and cut a slit above and below her hand in the picture and Micah inserted a Tootsie Roll pop!

And here's how Micah arranged all the cards for me to take a picture of:

OCD a little?  ;)

Thanks for visiting my blog for today's MDS Blog Hop!  Maybe I'll see ya again sometime! 

I know I'm the last stop on the hop, but if you somehow ended up here first, hop on over to the #1 blog on the list and make your way thru the rest and prepare to be amazed and inspired! 

1. Jeanna Bohanon
2. Mandy Grant

3. Julie Leblanc 

4. Amber Meadows

5. Terri Mongeon

6. Cindy Schuster

7. Erica Shaw

8. Heather Summers

9. Alesha Walls

10. Holly VanDyne

11. Kelly Birrell (this week's guest blog hopper!) That's ME!!

Happy Friday!