Home Sweet Home

Good evening friends.  How is everyone tonight?  I hope you had a wonderful Wednesday.  It's been quiet around here tonight.  My daughter has been at her grandma's since 2pm so I have been able to get quite alot accomplished.  Mostly cards, but a load or two of laundry and dishes were done too. :)

I have a card for y'all tonight that uses as image from Shelly's Images.  I used my Chromatix pens from American Crafts to color this one after printing it out on Neenah card stock.  I'm almost out...gotta order some.  Can't live without it.

I know it's kind of hard to see, but the swirly lines that you see are actually an acetate frame from K and Co.  It's been in my hoard stash for about a year.  One of the challenges I made this card for challenges us to use a specialty paper.  I don't really have alot of that, but I thought I would pull out one of theses frames to use.   It has beautiful purple glitter flowers in the left corner and glitter swirlies all around the frame.  I matted the frame on a piece of yellow card stock from Colorbok and a piece of DP from DCWV.  I then ran that through my Cuttlebug with a rectangle die.  I used pop dots and adhered the whole frame over the image.  I matted the whole thing on a piece of the DP from DCWV and a light blue card stock base from Colorbok.  For a final touch, I added a glittered chipboard bird from K and Co. to the bottom left corner.  I didn't think it needed any more embellishing.

Thanks for stopping by tonight to see what I have been up to.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Shopping Our Stash--#96 Not Your Normal Paper
Through the Craftroom Door--Anything Goes
Twisted Tuesday--#47  Animals and Flowers
All That Scraps--Winged Things
Divas by Design--Spring Colors
Sweet Stamps--Spring Pastels

My Lucky Charm

Welcome to my blog today.  Thanks so much for stopping in.  I am so sorry for the short posts yesterday.  I am feeling much better today.  I have six cards tonight and I am going to blog each one, not just give supplies.  Thanks for bearing with me through my illness and such short posts yesterday.  I truly appreciate it.

My first card features a paper piecing bear who is just way too cute!!

Didn't I tell ya.  He's so cute.  He is a Cloud 9 Design. I printed him out on Neenah Super Smooth White card stock and fussy cut out all the elements.  I added some Stickles to the shamrock before I added his hands and attached it to the card.  The only thing I changed about the way the image came was that I cut the sentiment.  It wouldn't fit on my card, so I improvised.  I also added some Glitter gel pen to the word Lucky.  The antennae and the hearts are also glittered.

I made the card base from Mint Green from Gina K Designs.  It measures 5" square.  I added a panel of Basic Black from SU and then my DP from American Crafts.    I added a couple of black flourishes for accent.

I hope you like this cute little guy.  Thanks again for stopping in tonight/today.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Fab n Funky--#161 Cute and Cuddly
All That Scraps--Paper Piecing
The Crafter's Cafe--#14 Green/St. Patrick's