What's In YOUR Garden?

Since it's still kind of dreary looking outside my window, I can only imagine what my garden will be like this Spring. I am imagining beautiful butterflies and brightly colored flowers. Ahhhhhhh...I can almost smell those flowers.

Today I am participating The Robin's Nest Garden Blog Hop.


The challenge is to make a project featuring something in your garden. I hope you will join along in the hop... there is a fabulous $15 Butterfly Kit giveaway from TRN for visiting and commenting on the blogs in the hop.

And as a special treat and to thank you for visiting my blog, I will be giving away to one random winner an bag of assorted Dew Drops! I will pick the winner at 12PM (EST) on Sunday, April 7th. You must post a comment and be a follower of my blog to be eligible.

Are you anxious to see my project yet? Well, I'm anxious to share it with you. It is a 3D Butterfly Box. The butterflies were cut using the absolutely gorgeous glitter papers from The Robin's Nest. You would never guess that the body and outline of the butterfly is duck paper!


Here are a few more views:



I used a shadow box kit from Silhouette designed by Ashbee Design. You can find the links at the bottom of this post. If you would like to see the directions on assembly of this project, you can check out the link at Ashbee Designs.

One of the nice things about this shadow box is that it does not have a solid back, so your wall color shows through nicely. I have it hanging on my craft room wall and it sure is cheerful!

One more peek:


Now, if you haven't already been there, head on over to The Robin's Nest for the blog hop! Hope to see you there!

Til next time, keepin' it crafty!

Faith and Begorrah! It's A St. Patty's Card!

Things are flowing green over at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog.  This week's challenge is Luck O' The Irish, and I was feeling that luck when this card came together.  

FCCB 152

 It's called a Shadowbox Card.  I sort of followed the directions on the Split Coast Stampers (you can find the tutorial for it here).  And I was so excited to use my new Create A Critter 2 cartridge for the first time.  I love how it turned out.  Here are the elements I used:




I used clear acetate on the top of the card so I could layer the lettering over the opening, so I used some Dazzles from HOTP to cover the glue strip.  I added Glossy Accents and Stickles to some of the elements to give it that bling.  And all my papers were from my scrap pile (I love using up my scraps!).





Now, head on over to FCCB and check out all the other wonderful designs by the very talented Design Team!  And maybe you'll even be inspired to play along!  

Til next time, keepin' it crafty!