Hello Crafters! I hope you are having a good week! Here is a card for This week's Ways to Use It challenge WT672, - (use old tools) - Im happy to say that I finally dug out my IKEA Pot-Lid dish dry organizing rack (that prior to moving I had always used for making my bows). Does anyone else use a dish-rack for bows or is this just an America thing? LOL. I have posted info and photos on my blog on how I use this tool to make my bows! Stop by and check it out HERE: www.cardsbyamerica.blogspot.com/
Anyways, this tool had been boxed up since we last moved from North Carolina to Colorado Summer 2016. We didnt get our household goods until fall 2017 - over a year later - Still, Im thrilled. Had totally forgotten about it and how amazing this expandable dish tool really is! Can make mini to giant bows! Also used this Nellie Snellen heart die set that had not seen daylight in years!
My card fits This week's Color Challenge CC671, This week's Sketch challenge SC681, and This month's Dirty Dozen Central Theme CT0118 (use punches or dies). My background was multi-stamped and stamp layered to create the look.
For lots more great House-Mouse inspiration from the Design Team, come visit us today & play along this week at: HMFMC found here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/
Stamps: Stampabilities, House-Mouse Designs(R) "Tails of True Love", Featuring Amanda & Maxwell, #HMGR1009 from yr 2004. Love text & Hearts by Impression Obsession from old stamp set "Love All Around"
Paper: White CS, Neenh Creative Collection Metallic Silver CS, Bazzill Red CS
Paper Size: 5x6
Ink: Stampin' Up Ruby Red, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics
Accessories: Nellie Snellen Heart Craft Die #MFD022, Creative Expressions Shadow Box Lattice Frames Cutting Dies by Sue Wilson, (for the panel framing), (Satin Ribbon, Heart Rhinestones (from Dollar Store)
Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Creative Crew SU Design Team Alumni
Registered: May 18, 2004 Location: Southwest Michigan Posts: 37081
Thu, Jan 25, 2018 @ 6:56 AM
This is sweet as can be! I love that beautifully colored HM image, the framing around the heart and all the pretty hearts surrounding your focal point. And, wow, gorgeous bow! I have a bow making tool that probably works similarly to your dish dry rack - it is a life saver when I want a really pretty bow!
------------------------------ Claudia Splitcoast Fan Club Member
Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105214
Thu, Jan 25, 2018 @ 8:13 AM
I love this Valentine with all the RED hearts and repeated love.........the HM are adorable, as always, and your bow is fab!!
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
Registered: March 29, 2011 Location: Covington, WA Posts: 32470
Thu, Jan 25, 2018 @ 9:16 AM
Gorgeous bow and clever way to re-purpose a kitchen tool! Adorable House Mouse image, beautiful heart bg and the heart die is gorgeous. Thanks for giving an old tool some love and playing in my challenge.
------------------------------ Carla ~ Proud Fan Club Member and Dirty Dozen Alumni.
Registered: October 18, 2015 Location: Cary, NC Posts: 19903
Thu, Jan 25, 2018 @ 9:55 AM
This is a gorgeous card with a fabulous bow! One of these days you will to tell us how you use the rack to make a bow! Love the cute house mice and your amazing coloring! Very well done!
Registered: January 20, 2016 Location: Freetown, Massachusetts Posts: 31441
Fri, Jan 26, 2018 @ 3:13 AM
Bows with a dish rack? Fascinating! I must google it. Well, your bow is beautiful as is the rest of your card. I really like the repeated "LOVE" stamp underneath the mice.