Home Sweet Home

 I have made this card for a special lady who has had a tough time of it lately and continues to do so and on top of that is moving house.  I decided to make a card and decorated a box for it to go inside.

 The owl images were all from my recent Debbi Moore magazine.  This magazine is a wonderful buy at £4.99 every two months and you get ideas/inspiration in the magazine along with images/decoupage/backing papers and on top of this is a CD.

 For the backing papers I have used as I wanted them to be all the same on the card and on the box so I have used the Debbi Moore Shabby Chic Garden CD.  I have also used the flowers from the CD for decoration.

 To get some dimension I have used my new Crafter's Companion Hessian Textures embossing folder.  I love these new Textures folders as Crafter's Companion have coloured in the front of the embossing folder with the image that will be embossed eg the hessian.  This makes it so much easier if you are used a one-sided piece of card (eg it is a posh/patterned/decorate card with a white back) that you know which way to emboss properly.  It also makes it easier when you want to use just a specific area to emboss on your card or a specific area of the folder you want to use.  Fingers crossed they keep this idea up with other embossing folders.

I have finished the card and box off with flowers, sentiments/tags from the magazine, pearls, Joanna Sheen die-cut bunting, ribbon, buttons, stamped sentiments and I also stamped the sentiment on tissue paper to line the box with.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Not Just Cards - Anything goes

Natalie and Amy - Flowers

Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper March Challenge - Anything goes
Inspiration Destination - Anything goes
Crafting by Designs - Anything goes
Simon Says - Special lady/girly
Penny's Paper Challenge - One for the girls/female cards
Creative Moments - Anything goes/spring greens
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

Aud Sentiments - BINGO board - middle vertical column of some pink, flowers and glitter or bling
In the Pink - For a special lady
Cute Card Thursday - Die-cuts and punches
Creative Fingers - Anything goes
Crazy 4 Challenge - Put a bow on it
Glitter n Sparkle - Decorate the inside
UnstampaBelles - Harmony and/or peace and the twist of something in flight (entering card into this challenge - hope that this is deemed as in harmony/peace of wishing someone all the happiness and a good life in the their new with the twist of the owl)
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with optional twist of aquamarine
Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes
Papertake Weekly - Mum's the word or another female or make a girly card