Hello, love you lots

 Hello, everyone!  It's time for the mid-month reminder for the challenge from the Creative Moments Challenge blog.  The theme is: Make it Cute.  I am using an image from our fabulous sponsor: All Dressed Up.

 Here is my card:

I had some fun using up some items that were in my bits and pieces stash or sitting out on my desk.  The patterned papers were ones I used on almost all of my Valentine's Day cards this year.  The plaid "hello" was cut from a scrap of that paper.  The gray "hello" mat was left over from a previous card; the color just didn't quite go, but it was perfect for this.  The black heart border and the little black hearts the came out of the border were also left overs and provided a nice pop of accent for all the sweet pinkness!  I had a few pink hearts in my bits and pieces stash and they finished everything off perfectly.  Even the image was a left over!  She is part of an image of three girls together and I had used the other two back in November and she was just hanging around waiting to be colored up and put on a card.  Basically, the only things that were not left over were the card base and the background paper piece.

I used my mini MISTI to get the sentiment stamped perfectly, I started by putting the "hello" mat in the MISTI and stamping the sentiment where I wanted it to go.  Then, I adhered the plaid piece in place, put it back in the MISTI and stamped the sentiment again (actually several times to get the best coverage).  Thanks to the MISTI it was lined up perfectly and looks like one continuous sentiment even though it covers both the main layer and the mat layer.

You have all month to play along.  So, get inky and link up your creation; I can't wait to see what you create!

Supplies:

Stamps: All Dressed Up "Best Frocks" digi (I used one of the three girls); My Favorite Things "Something for Everything" sentiment

Dies: My Favorite Things "Essential Hello"

Challenges: 

Crafter's Cafe #316--anything goes with the optional twist: spots AND/OR stripes

Crafty Gals Corner #264--fill in the blank: pink . . . (pink everything!!!  papers, card stock, markers)

Word Art Wednesday #688--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Penny's Challenge #590--anything goes

Di's Digis--circles everywhere

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #248--anything goes

The Paper Shelter #626--with love