Valentine's Day Monogram Plaque

Good morning.  Today I have a plaque to share with you created using a ceramic heart as the base to the project.

Directions:

1.  I first sized a heart from Cricut Design Space's included shapes.  Once I was satisfied that the heart matched closely, I selected the subway Valentine's Day art from Cricut cartridge Word Collage.  I spliced the heart into the subway art and cut the negative piece from vinyl.  

2.  I placed the vinyl on the ceramic heart to create my stencil.  I used a DecoColor paint marker in liquid gold to color in the spaces (words) and removed the vinyl (no drying time needed).

3.  Next, I cut my and my husband's initials out of black vinyl and a "&" sign and heart in red and placed them on the ceramic heart. 

4.  My last step was to add the hanger using red twine and a bead spacer to hold the knot in place.  I embellished the hanger with red, gold and pink ribbon and my ceramic heart was ready to go.

Jane Austen Nesting Paper Mache Books

I decided to pair up some of my favorite things, Jane Austen novels and paper crafting:

I started off with paper mache book boxes purchased from Hobby Lobby.  I then covered each book with coordinating designer paper and embellishments.  All the graphics were cut from various Cricut cartridges and then I modge podged the outside for durability.  I then added the misc. embellishments  and nested the books within each other.  For my final step, I wrapped the books in an antique ribbon with baubles.

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Jane Austen Bookmark

Weekly Challenge #52: Things We Love Challenge!The Challenge: Scrap what you love! Include a tag and use the negative space of a Cricut cut.

For this challenge I created a bookmark.

It has many things that I love:

• Jane Austen novels (Sense & Sensibility is my favorite with Pride & Prejudice a close second)
• Paisley (the background paper)
• Shabby chic
• The color olive
• The Victorian era
• Liquid pearls
• And of course, it's made with my Cricut! =)

Since it's a bookmark, I didn't use too many embellishments so it would remain flat.  The cuts include the tag from Art Philosophy, the silhouettes and heart from Victorian Romance and the sentiment background from Word Collage.