Spreading the Happiness

Hi Everyone

I have something slightly different and please please don't anyone be offended this is purely a bit of fun and nothing dark and sinister!

It's time for a new challenge over at Creative Craft Cottage.  

The Theme for the next fortnight is Anything Goes.  Please come on over and join in with us, we love visiting your blogs and seeing what you all create.  We have two wonderful sponsors for this challenge and I got to work with an image from ppinkydollsart called How Beautiful

Thank you to both our sponsors for providing us with such great Images to work with.

I have a friend who has been feeling down lately.  She is a huge ppinkydollsart fan and I wanted to make her something a bit different from just a card to send her and cheer her up.  I was researching on the net ways to add a little happiness and I came across a spell site which had loads of spells for different things and this one jumped out at me.  I asked the site if it was ok to use it and others in my crafting and they gave me permission. I have seen the criss cross cards around blogland and I wanted to have a go at one so what better way to present a little happiness spell than inside a criss cross card. It's not anything I have ever thought about doing but I know that she will find it all a bit of fun and it will likely make her smile.  Mission accomplished!

I made the basic card using a tutorial I found and it turned out slightly smaller than I wanted so I adapted the measurements and made the card base to suit.  I used a Bazzill Basics for the base card and the patterned papers are from Lili of the Valley.  I coloured the Image using ProMarkers and a Clear Star Gelly Roll Pen.  I then used a X-Cut Circle Die to cut it our.  This was then layered onto a Scalloped Circle which I cut using a Spellbinders die.  I cut two of the Memory Box Loveland Corners out.  One in Green and One in Pink and then used the butterflies from the Pink One and added them onto the Green one (Think that made sense!!)  I typed the Spell Ingredients and Method and printed them from my PC.  I mounted this onto the Bazzill.  I used my favourite tool in my craft  box which is my X-Cut Corner Punch to round the edges and added Pink satin bows.  I decorated the top edges with string Pearls and then finished by adding pink and white pearls around the image.

That was a longer post than I usually do so I hope you are all still with me lol!

I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges.
Our Crafty Corner - Anything Goes 
Crafts Galore Encore - January Anything Goes 
Crafting With An Attitude - Anything Goes 
Create and Inspire - Anything Goes 
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes 
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes 
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Make It Girly
Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes 
Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything Goes 
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Buttons or Bows or Both 
Crafting for all Seasons Challenge - Ribbon & Pearls 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today and sharing my rather unique idea!  Please leave me a comment to let me know what you think.  Hope to see you again soon.