~NSD 2014 - XO Three In A Row

The tic-tac-toe challenge is one of my favorites.  Maria challenged us to create a project choosing any three items in a row from the following.

I needed to make a Mother's Day card anyway, so I chose the center row down for my card.  The Sun, leaves and basket are all embossed on this card (the sky and grass are pre-embossed paper), there is ribbon wrapped around the basket handle and the basket and flowers are all die cuts.  I also hit the first column down with this in that there is bling in the flower centers, purple on the card and the main feature is flowers!  And it case you were wondering how I wove the basket, check out the last pic.  After I wove it, I ran the whole thing though my cuttlebug and just wrapped it around the die-cut basket.   Just love this challenge.  :-)  Thanks for stopping by!

~NSD 2014 - Make Mine A Mini

This challenge was fun but I learned a valuable lesson when using a pattern paper with
different patterns.  MAKE A TEMPLATE FIRST!  I won't tell you how many times I
messed this up before I got the flower on the front where I wanted it!

This challenge comes to us from the ever lovely Amy at Make Mine A Mini Challenge.  She has some links on her post to YouTube videos showing these techniques.  This was a fun challenge making a mini using only ONE sheet of 12 x 12 (that is unless you screw up repeatedly like I did)!
We also had to use at least one Cricut cut.  I have two.  The secrets was cut from one of the fonts on CM - Divine Wedding and the flower is from Flower Shoppe.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you try this challenge.  These little minis have tons of uses!

Candle Wreath

After 6 months of debate, I have finally decided to launch a blog.  Of course now that I have, I will be accountable to actually post stuff on it.  I like to do a variety of paper crafting.  Mostly cards, but I am also way behind on my granddaughter's scrapbooks.  I do home decor from time to time and any other creative endeavor that uses pretty paper.

My first post is also my first challenge project.  I picked up a new spring candle for my mantle  and decided to decorate with a little flower wreath.  The flowers were cut from Flower Shoppe at 1.5 inches and the leaves at 2 inches.  This was a very simple project that did not take much time at all.  I hope you enjoy it.