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I had seen the keys in Tim Holtz’s Idea-ology collection but didn’t realize they were about to be such a trendy embellishment! With Valentines day just around the corner the opportunity to use keys are endless. This month’s issue of Paper Crafts magazine has a ton of really cute ideas to get your juices flowing! I love the idea of combining the “travel” concept with a “love” theme.

I found this quotes/poems site and tweaked a couple of their verses just a little to get you thinking:

You’re a very special person
Always destined to go far
I hope your friends and family
Know how lucky they are

Or I was picturing a car with a heart peeking out of the trunk with this verse which could also work for a male birthday. Just hang your key embellishment from a bow.

My heart has travelled to be with you
May all that is good come your way
On this very special day

Cornish Heritage farms has some fabulous old car stamps and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this set of “Chevy Font” sentiments:

Cricut has a great old fashioned key on Happily Ever After and car keys on Going Places and Locker Talk. If you don’t have those cartridges the Paper Crafts article lists 6 to 8 products from various manufacturers including Bazzill, Prima, and 7 Gypsies.

Think about opening doors to someone’s future (graduation) or a house warming card. Or, for an encouraging inspirational card use a key with “FAITH” word art.

Who knew how versitile a key could be?!

Hobby Lobby is having a great sale this week with all of their paper at 50% off. The perfect time to take a chance on a new product and experiment. I bought the Core’dinations ”Spell Caster” pack. It is black on one side and has twenty shades of “vintage” color on the other side. The black side is indeed magic, and it LOVES the Cuttlebug! It was so fun that I just had to create a quick video. When people see what you can do with Cuttlebug folders and a piece of sandpaper this stuff is going to fly off the shelves!

As the image started to pop it just screamed for my new Prima Panda stamp. I love how the colors of the card are seasonal, on a non-Christmas card. The reds, greens and black make my little Chinese Panda feel right at home. And the shiny red ribbon is reminiscant of a classical Chinese silk dress.

The Panda’s body is shaded with Copic W1 and W3 markers with R02 in the nose and ears and YG63 on the flourishes. The background was done with W1 as the base all the way around and YR00/RV21 and YG63 applied to the tip of the colorless blender and worked into the top and bottom respectively. As I worked my way outward my strokes became more loose with white space showing through. Then I drew some branches with the same colors on the top bottom. But it was a little overpowering so I went back over the branches with a colorless blender which was exactly what it needed. After cutting the Panda out with Spellbinder Nestabilities I used a Copic Multiliner to draw loops around the scallops and filled them in with the pinks and green.

The caption box was cut/embossed with long rectangle Nestabilities then colored with the Copics and topped off with Diamond Stickles. “Thanks” is a Cuttlebug die. I colored it with R02, then applied red Liquid Pearls in a “sponge-like” pattern with my fingertip and finished it off with Glossy Accents.

The flowers are Prima’s Essentials 5 “Make Me Happy” and they coordinate perfectly with the Basic Grey’s Urban Prairie paper and brads.

I ran across this site yesterday and thought I’d share. I’m not one that needs t-shirts, I have two drawers full of them. But, most of my t-shirts are not that cute! In the last couple of years though they’ve started making ladies fitted shirts. I have just a few and they are actually fun to wear. These fall into that category and they are especially for scrapbookers.