I'm Miss February! :)

Hi there!  Today is a most exciting day - the premiere posting day for the Calendar Girls, a sensational group of blogging friends joined together by the fabulous Jeanette!  Her idea of having her own blog group filled with lots of fun chat, challenges and paper goodness blossomed and here we are!  We are affectionally known as the Calendar Girls because each of us have an assigned month from Jan to October - this month our hostess is Jeanette :)  

Her challenge?  1.  Make a card showing off YOUR month - since I'm Miss February, lots of red, hearts and even red hot came to mind!  (okay, so not red hot ...... bwahaha!) 

2.  Use your favorite embellishments - mine are buttons!  I cannot get enough of buttons!

3.  To use our new/newest tool or item that we have gotten - my shopping is down to zero so I have to use the newest thing that I remember and that's the wonderful paper trimmer from dh from Christmas - it's so special to me becuase he went into Michaels all by himself, lost as all get up, to find one!  I'm also using the scallop edge that is new-ish but already debuted last week ;)

My card is a reflection of my personality, too :) I LOVE color.  I love to use colors that are bright and fun and whimsical.    So my "Valentine" card is actually pretty out there as per non-traditional, lol, but I'm not a pink girly girly kinda girl ;)  I used my My Mind's Eye "Love me Do" dsp from (last year!)  and used a sort of spin off of a TSG sketch from a few months back.   The stamp is a sweet little heart bear from Elzybells.  For the heart, I carried over the dsp by paper piecing, one of my fave techniques!

I'm entering this card into the following Challenges:

  A Spoon full of Sugar -- Valentines

  Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge - Love is in the air

  The Beary Scrap Design - #18 Love or Friendship

 Craft your Days away -  Love

Creative Craft World - Cute and Cuddly

Everybody Art - My favorite thing (teddy bear)

Creative Card Crew - country colors (red, white, blue + yellow for our soldiers)

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Beary Good!

Riley & Co - Hearts

Want to see what the other Calendar Girls have made?  Be sure to check out the CG's blogs - I know I can't wait to see what they've made!

Ms. January {Jeanette) *  Ms. February (you're here!)   * Ms. March (April) *  Ms. April (Terry)
*  Ms. May (Barb)  *  Ms. June (Carol)  * Ms. July (Michelle) *  Ms. August (Debbie) 
     * Ms. September (Paola) *  Ms. October (Tami)  *

Next month is my turn to hostess and you won't want to miss what's in store for these girls! :)
                                    Muah!
                                Blessings!
                   ~Kelly

Card Details:  Cardstock PTI = Pure Poppy, Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist, Stamper's Select White;
DSP = My Mind's Eye "Love Me Do" collection; Image + sentiment by Elzybells; Yellow Seam Binding, Fancy Pants button, Embroidery floss; Scallop die; Aileens, Cuttlebug, Nestie, trimmer, scissors, Fiskars border punch