You drive me BANANAS....

Day 3....

I had to ask my teenage son if "you drive me bananas" was a good thing...lol.  When I was planning all the days, this immediately popped in my head (number 1...QT loves dried bananas and number 2...I love this monkey image from Life's a Jungle!!!).  The more I read it...the more I thought that maybe driving someone bananas means that they make you crazy....I've decided that this "bananas" is a good kinda crazy!!!

I used Jeanette's CMM from January 11th which includes Cocoa, Crystal Blue, Hollyhock & Garden Green.  I used B&T from Notebook, Cocoa Textured Cardstock (did you know that the backside of textured cardstock is a lighter shade of the frontside???  That's whay my monkey body is...the backside of the Cocoa textured cardstock!!!) and Cocoa Ink, Garden Green Cardstock and Garden Green ribbon (from a retired Creative Basics, I think) and a Hollyhock Button on the front and Hollyhock Ink on the "U" from the Dimensional Elements Mongrams - U...and tan hemp.

I'm a sucka for your love....

My PLAN is to make QT a little goodie for each day preceeding Valentine's Day (I'm usually the one that does these "little" things and then he pulls out all the stops on the "day"). 

Thanks to Jeanette, I found my color inspiration from her Color Me Monday challenge from a couple of weeks ago.

Here is my 1st little gift which I left for him on the bathroom vanity so he'd be sure to find it AND know it was meant for him (I often leave things for him to view and critique so I didn't want him to be confused....lol).

I used Textured Cardstock (Black & White)...BY THE WAY - CLICK <<<HERE>>> to see CTMH's Hearts for Haiti special going on this month, Animal Cookies pp (heart B&T), Perfect Day (backside of Juniper B&T....LOVE that CTMH's backside is the same pattern just in a solid color).  I added White Daisy Ricrac, Black Ribbon, and Dimensional Elements Hearts to the suckers and to the front of the box.  I also used a NEW A-size stamp set (same stamps, NEW price - $7.95), A Love.  I threw in some transparencies for the box wrap and added cardstock to the back for stability.  ETA: I forgot to mention the soft set eyelets and soft set eyelet tool I used for the sucker-stick holes....EASY PEASY and I did it QUIETLY while everyone was asleep!!!

---------------------------------------------------- 

Top view of the suckers (throught the transparency wrap)....You can see how well the Textured Cardstock sands....adds such dimension!!!

---------------------------------------------------------

Here's a closeup of my hearts...the black is stamped with A Love stamp set and the Tulip is a DE Heart covered with the Animal Cookies Heart B&T....I also used the White Daisy Ricrac to tie around the entire base of the box....I sure wish ricrac tied a bow easier!

P.S.  The suckers are Tootsie-Roll suckers and come in a bright pink wrapper which did not match my color combo so I decided to unwrap them and rewrap them in the bags that you buy in the candy-making section of most stores....mine happen to be CTMH but they're from a couple of years back and I'm not sure CTMH sells them anymore.

True Happiness is.....

.....finishing my SECOND Color Me Monday challenge from our founder and CEO Jeanette Lynton!!! She's been having these color challenges for some time now but I've been so busy that I've had to watch everyone else participate....this color combo spoke to me and I just had to do it!!!

This card design comes from Wishes....it's called Collage and I tweaked the measurements for a 5x7 card....I hand drew the 'heart strings' using a black My Legacy Writer.

I cut out each individual tree and adhered on top of the stamped image.
Inside of the card....I hand drew the heart and cut out...then masked the sentiment from the ss True Happiness and stamped "heart" in Tulip.

Products used are all CTMH:

Paper Packet: Animal Cookies (Tulip Heart B&T)

Cardstock: Tulip, Twilight, Sweet Leaf & Textured White Daisy

Stamp Set: True Happiness & Argyle Backgrounds

Inks: Tulip, Twilight & Sweet Leaf

White Grosgrain Ribbon

Adhesive & Glue Dots

My Legacy Writer (black)

Connection Club Rhinestone Frames

Color Me Monday

Color Me Monday

Twilight, Heavenly Blue, Grey Wool & Cranberry

CTMH's founder and CEO has a challenge on her blog every Monday titled "Color Me Monday" and this is the first Monday (okay....I know it's late but that's how I roll) I've been able to participate. The color combo is gorgeous but I had some trouble with it...I thought I'd share anyway!

Here's the inside of the card.....

Products used are all CTMH:

Cardstock: Twilight, Heavenly Blue, Grey Wool, Cranberry & White Daisy

Ink: Twilight, Grey Wool & Cranberry

Stamp Sets: Tree Tops & Childhood

Ribbon: Twilight & Cranberry

Pewter Brads

Stylus & Sandpaper

Adhesive