Happy Monday! Life has been a bit stressful lately so off to my craft room I went to de-stress and take my mind off things. The other day, I saw a fun little saying on Pinterest "Hogs and Kisses" and for some reason it has just been stuck in my mind. I then saw my lovely create a critter cartridge and a fun little Valentine's card began to develop. I used an awesome sketch provided by
Die Cuttin Divas and went from there. I am quite please with how it came out!
Challenge Entered:
Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #147
Isn't she darling? Pigs are too stinking cute! Figuratively and literally of course. Now onto what I did...
Ingredients:
Create a Critter 2 Cricut Cartridge
Cricut Craft Room
XO Embossing Folder
Valentine Hearts Embossing Folder
Pearls
Cricut Markers
Peachy Keen Animal Face Stamps
Red and Black Ink
Red and Black Sharpie
Various pieces of cardstock
Popdots
The first thing I always do is layout my card in the Cricut Craft Room. This program is free for anyone with a cricut.com account and makes my life so much easier when trying to get everything to fit on my cards. I made the card base 6x6 then built on it from there. I used CCR basics for the 1st and 2nd layers. That is the beauty of this program. You can build your entire design and lay it out just how you want it to look. No need for cutting and throwing away because it doesn't fit or work!
The fun part is then the cutting and assembly. I have decided I am way to manic in my assembly to do photos as I go. But you get the idea. I used light shimmery pink for the card base, hot pink for the 1st layer and embossed it with the Valentine's Hearts folder. I then inked it up a bit with some red ink. For layer two I used some printed cardstock that I got in clearance pack at Hobby Lobby. I think it works perfectly!
Then to the fun of assembling my little pig. Her base layer is black and her body layer is a sparkly pink. I tried to get a good picture so you can see her shimmer. I then stamped her face with the Peachy Keen Pig animal face. Since ink smears terribly on my glitter paper I went over the stamp with a fine point sharpie. I then took a fine paint brush and gave her some blush.For her little bow I cut two hearts by hand and glued them together with a pink pearl.
For her little Valentine I used my Cricut markers. I swapped out my blade for the marker and had it write out my fun little phrase. I then popped the blade back in and cut out the heart. I adhered it to her belly and then took her pig hooves and folded them up for a 3D effect. I used pop dots to stick her onto the card.
I then added some embellishment to each corner to give it some extra flair. I got these nice little half pearls on a Facebook group. I love to use them in corners to tie everything together.
All in all I love how my little hog came out! Thanks for checking my blog out and have wonderful week! Happy Crafting!
I quickly slapped another layer of Modge Podge on the and sprinkled the red and white sand all over it! It was perfect!! It made this great distressed look on the canvas. You can see the parts where I inked it showing throwing through and it has a great rustic feel.
Then while it was drying I headed over to CCR to start making my state and laying everything out. I decided to fill it with our Alma Mater. 
I used CCR and adhesive vinyl for all of my cuts.
I then used the same auto fill feature and cut out my hearts to write my activities on. I used pink and purple for stay at home activities, red for low cost activities that would get us out of the house, and the green for more costly trips. Once they were all cut I started writing down as many ideas as I could. I then simply folded the hearts in half and threw them in the vase. I tied it off with a ribbon and now Nick and I won't have to sit around for an hour trying to figure out what we are going to do on one of the few nights we have together.