Love is in the Air!

Here is my card for the Gingerloft Guest Designer spot.  The theme-Love is in the Air!

All those tiny hearts should tell someone I love them...like Gingerloft and the opportunity to be a guest designer!  Thank you! The heart balloon and cloud images are from Gingerloft.  Check out their new digis.  You'll find lots of great ones to create with, variety and some freebies too!  (I believe the sun was a freebie from Paper Smooches and I labeled the tree digi "LDS" but I don't remember now what the initials stood for :-(  I was trying to be so organized too!  The butterfly came from an embroidery site).

I have to tell you a quick silly story in making this card...I cut apart each section of the balloon and resewed them together.  Now why did I do that?  I realized after I was done and had a few needle holes in my fingers, that I could have just kept the image whole, faux sewn the pieces and received the same effect.  You would have laughed to watch me so the small side pieces on and have them line up correctly.  Silly, silly me!  Heart Balloon is a great image to work with because there are so many ways you can use it:  patchwork and pieced as I did, as a background image, elegant, blinged, country, vintage, just to name a few. possibilities.  Try it out!

You know, I didn't realize how hard it is to work with RED until this card! My hat is off to those whose creations I have seen, like the ones at Chrissy's Cardland.  Just take a look at Molly and Sam and her Cute as a Bug in a Rug cards!  I have to give a huge thanks to Chrissy also for mentioning me at Make It Monday!!!  I was quite surprised and very pleased!  Thank you Chrissy!  You are the best!  And I am looking forward to the "bits and bobs' box she is making up to send me that will have different shapes cut from her own lil' ol' cuttlebug!  It is so wonderful to have blog friends that help each other.  I really, really like how we treat each other-we help one another to create, to be and do our best and also be a friend.  Wow!

I hope Love is in the Air for you today!

Manderly

xxxooo

I am joining in the following challenges:
Make it Monday- Anything Goes...always!
Sassy Studio Designs- Valentine Cards
Party Time Tuesdays- #53 Anything Goes!
The Stamping Boutique - #25 Valentine's
Truly Scrumptious - Love and Hearts
Digital Tuesday- Use Red and/or Pink
Ditzy-craftymess- Anything Goes (In "other" words; this is their first challenge and I think a site to keep one's eye on!)
Crafty Ribbons- For the Boys/Men (I think my card can be given to a man with a sentiment inside of "Fly me Away" or "Your full of Hot Air but I love you!" lol!)
Sassy Cheryl's- Be My Valentine
Dream Valley- Valentine
Lollipop Crafts- Valentine's Day Card
My Craft Spot- Valentines!

I keep seeing challenges for hearts (ummm, I think it's close to Valentine's Day...duh!  So I figure I will put cutting those tiny hearts to good use and enter some more challenges.  The following challenges I am entering are really cool sites!
Stamp With Fun- #146 Love (Liebe!)
Stamps & Fun- #85 Hearts
Stamps are Us- Valentine/Love
Oh- La- La Creations- Be my Valentine
Crafty Boots- Valentines
Creative Stamp Friends- #44 Valentine
iCopic- #68 Hearts