Be Yourself

Welcome to my blog on this lovely Wednesday!
I was a bit worried it would be miserable here today...it rained yesterday which is wonderful...but then it brings the humidity...which is awful!  But so far it feels nice and cool!  The humidity can stay away for a few more months :)

Sharing a pretty simple card with you today.  With our recent visit to MI, I was able to rummage through the many boxes we have in storage and pull out a bunch of my bead materials, including wire.  I was excited to try adding it to my cards...haven't done that yet but I see it often and love how it looks.

I didn't go too crazy with the wire on my first try, but I think it looks awesome tucked into the black roses.
The sentiment is from Create with TLC.  I used the image at the Pinspirational challenge this week.  It's such a crazy photo, or bold dress style and it reminds me to be myself.  No matter what style that is.  So when I saw this sentiment in my stash, it fit perfectly.

I cut the frame and the spiral roses with my cricut.  I added some clear glitter to the roses, though up close it's a lot grainier than I was thinking it would be...maybe I should have left the glitter off...but I wanted sparkle :)
Then I used my coiling gizmo to spiral some orange wire and tucked it in between the roses.  That was a trip!  How do you get wire glued down??  I suppose I could have used my glue gun...but that was more work than I wanted to do right then...so I flattened one end of the coil, globed some glue on a piece of paper and stuck it down...that worked :)  The glue I have pretty much rocks for gluing anything down :)

I'll try the glue gun next time :)

This card is entered in the following challenges:
    Tuesday Morning Sketches #147
    {Pin}spirational Challenge #8-Inspirational Photo
    The Crazy Challenge #120-3D
    Lexi's Creations #65-Black, White +1 Other Color
    Bearly-Mine #36-Anything Goes
    Tuesday Throwdown #99-3D

Thanks for stopping by!!