Thriving Art

Welcome ladies an gentlemen, children, dogs and cats to the LAST day of January 2016! With February breathing down on us, everybody seems to feel the "love" in the air, as Valentine's Day is quickly approaching..........can it be already??  I got those Christmas cards down just in time to put up Valentines........LOL!!   Today I have a couple of box cards, that I finally finished, who knew this little buggers would take so long to make.  Well, construction was a breeze......it's all the decorating that take the most time, but my GKs are all worth it.....*grin*   around the bottom As you can see I did have some fun with sparklies, feathers and glittered foam hearts, along with a LOT of die cuts.  Minnie is an old Disney stamp I have had for YEARS!  She was stamped, colored and fussy cut before being mounted on a clear plastic strip ( so her feet would show) There are quite a few challenges going on right now that these would fit in...

As promised on Tuesdays post here are the box cards and the expanding card.  Cindy at Plant's List  is the one that inspired me for the box cards......but I had to go to You Tube to get it explained to me.....LOL!! If your interested, all you have to do in the search box is type in "box cards" and a number of videos will pop up.   The first three are for our GKs in San Diego.....not worried about them seeing this....they have 3 kids 5 and under....no time.....LOL!!    This first one is for my only Grandson, Taylor.....who is almost 3 years old and is so very, very into trucks and going to work with his Dad.  Our son has a ready mix plant and trucks, and Taylor is in love with ALL of it....*grin* So his box card Valentine has ready mix trucks and dump truck mixed in with hearts. Since his is nearly 3, I kept his BC in primary colors as much as possible.    The bottom photo shows how the card folds flat and will fit into the...