Secret Garden

The Friday Free For All Challenge at SCS was to make a garden card. The first thought that came to my mind was The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was one of my favorite books when I was young. My gate to my secret garden was made of cardboard. I wanted to use cardboard so the gate would be sturdy. I used prisma colored pencils to make the wood grain. I added hardware and a brad as a closer for the gate. I sewed the panels to the card base.

A peek inside my secret garden. The flowers are from GREET THE DAY WITH GERBER from Mark's Finest Papers. The butterfly is from a Martha Stewart Butterfly set. I colored the daisies and the butterfly with prisma colored pencils. I used an embossing pen and gold ep to add that little extra to the butterfly. The dp that is the background was a piece of blue marble that was in a bulk buy of paper. It made me think of clouds. I also stamped the wheat stalks from the Mark's Finest Papers set called THANKFUL FOR YOU. I stamped it with green ink and then put blue colored pencils to the stalk to make it look like flowers.

Close up of the Butterfly.

Ransom - Pun

This card combines 3 challenges... sketch, ways to use it and free for all. The ways to use it challenge this week was to make a ransom note like card. I used my computer to make the letters in all different fonts and sizes. The free for all challenge was to make a card that had a pun. I am planning on sending this card to my sister who has been very sick for awhile. I am going to write this in the inside " Let's leave on a vacation." It would be nice if the two of us could go on a vacation somewhere together, but she has 8 kids that she homeschools, and I have my 4 kids and job. Several months ago, we went on a virtual vacation to Hawaii. Who knows where we will go this time? I think it would be fun to go find a little bed and breakfast in the mountains where the two of us could sit and drink hot apple cider and enjoy the coming of Fall.

Free for all 26

Today's free for all was to mix and match images and sentiments from different sets, by different companies. I used mostly images from a soon to be released set by Mark's Finest Papers- Autumn Fun. I used a the squirrel, elf leaf, little oak leaf, and basket of leaves. I used a flourish from Autumn leaves, leaves from Martha Stewart, and a sentiment from SU summer by the sea. I guess that that sentiment is a little off season, but I really like what it says.

His eye is on the sparrow in my garden

I made this card for several challenges. It was for the Stampin' sisters in Christ challenge to have a bird on our card. It was also for the blooming teaparty of Mothermarks. It was for the sketch challenge, and finally for the Free for all challenge to make a garden card.

Evelyn's Birthday card

I made this card for my special friend Evelyn. She is an amazing mom. She is raising 5 kids by herself. She is so strong. For her birthday, I wanted to make an over the top, wow card. I know she loves butterflies. We are on the worship team together at Church, so I know she is going to love the music part of her card.

Love accordian Book

My mom sent me this little card this week. I loved it so much that I just had to repurpose it. I cut it apart to make the little accordian books that were the free for all challenge at SCS. I added some paper roses, some quilled tendrils, and some hot glue pearls. I think it is going to go back to my mom for Mother's day.

This card was made for the SCS free for all which was to make a fairytale, sparkle, glitter, glamour card. To me fairytales seem to have the central theme of falling in love and living happily ever after. So I added a heart to my card. I cut a heart out and masked it off to stamp the violets behind it. I then chalked the heart and added shading with my prisma colored pencils. I added a sparkly layers of color butterfly.

Tissue Boxes

These cards were made using this tutorial by Stefanie. I love how the little tissue boxes look.