Because I Care

Happy Thursday everyone and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. Another beautiful fall day here in Pittsburgh with lots of sunshine.

We had snow last Saturday. It was just a dusting but nonetheless snow. We weren't here but my neighbor took pictures and emailed them to me.

I mention this because before we left for San Francisco our dahlias were still in bloom. It was the last of our summer bounty.

Do you believe that my husband just cut 5 flowers and brought them in today. they survived the snow. It's the last of them until next year.  I didnt take any photos maybe I will do that for tomorrow's post.

Ok so onto my card for today. This one I made for the "ways to use it" challenge on splitcoaststampers. Toni was our hostess and she wanted us to use newsprint on our cards. I have seen it done many times but I have never used it before.

I scoured the newspaper looking for an article to spark my creativity. I found this one on breast cancer and it was in color. I am still making cards for the "hope you can cling to" challenges. This challenge was to use different size shapes.


For my layout I used the sketch #213 from the MojoMonday blog.  we could make either a round or square card. I chose the square one this time around.

I pulled out my spellbinders circle dies, my stampin-up oval punches and I cut the rectangle myself. So I was good for the hycct challenge.

My patterned paper is from American Crafts. My sentiment is from Stampin-Up's "because I care" set.
The felt flower is from Pebbles and my butterflies are from a Martha Stewart punch. I added some brown pearls to the corners and the sentiment panel to complete my card.

And that my friends also completes this blog post. So unti lnext time..........God bless.

Some other challenges:
1.  4 Crafty Chicks blog has a diecuts challenge.
2.  Create me Pink blog has a flower challenge