February never fails to disappoint, with an abundance of pink, red, flowers, and hearts. So in honor of the month of Love, I wanted to do a lo for each of my children and why I love them. The first is "Love U". Now that I am the proud owner of an Expression, making my own lace cardstock is a breeze and once I had the idea for cutting the word "Love" the rest of the lo just fell into place. I also took a chance of layering on this lo. That's not one of my strongpoints, because I like to lay everything out ahead of time to see how it looks and then go back and adhere everything. I really like the way the clusters turned out. The white flowers, are simply, varying size circles and I roughed the edges and put them together with pop dots and added the pink pearls to the center.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAYtJnsaHYGnKoHddxdXZ0N-vH5QcYxIAObjTX9Wqnu7pkRG4UaS_u0brO-mpSiIJBj7hqr8GGYFc5Fknhh7sDfbcKknko_ky8oz_TSGsjp2kJtGcnjAzw87syabIlYbgQyKbpk-BnwQ/s400/love+you.JPG)
Next, is "Lucky In Love". The idea for this lo started with the K&Company Bingo Card. I had been wanting to use it on a lo, but never had one that I felt like I could incorporate it into. But I thought it was perfect for the theme of this lo. I really loved the picture of my daughter, so I repeated it in Sepia, B&W, and color to emphasize the photo. For the title, I just wrote out the word "Love" and then hand-stitched it with embroidery floss. Took a while, but I definitely think it was worth the time. The torn heart was inspired by a picture I saw in the study book from the College Sunday School class my husband and I teach...inspiration is everywhere!! :)
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"You're the Bees Knees" isn't your typical Valentine's colors, but still a lo based on love. It was actually for a challenge, hosted by Melissa Johnson on Club CK, to use only Black & White with one accent color. I loved this challenge! Normally I use at least 5 variations of color, so it was great to see a lo with a simple color scheme. I used the Expression once again for the honeycomb background. I cut the shapes and adhered them to white paper and then just cut along the edges of the shape. I used acrylic paint behind the American Crafts letter stickers and painted white corrugated alphas from Jillibean Soup, to get they yellow letters for my title. For the bee accent, I just cut the shape of his body from black cardstock, added yellow strips, used a button for the head and cut wings from vellum and attached with a brad.
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My final lo "The Littles", is of my oldest daughter and two of her best friends on Valentine's Day. In our group of friends we have an age range of 8/9 year olds and 2/5 year olds. One of the moms, has dubbed the younger kids "The Littles" and it has stuck with the group. I did this lo for the 1 Hour Challenge on Club CK: using trim on your lo. I really like being able to stick with a color scheme that matched the girls' clothing and the trim adds to the girly-ness of the lo.