Always on my Mind

Happy hot Thursday!  Just as toasty today as it was yesterday...not fun...
It's hard to put a card together when things slip out of your sweaty hands...or all the little paper frays stick to you...ugh...
But I muscled through it all...walked away a few times but came back to finish my card :)
This is my first time ever using Kraft cardstock!  I've never had any in my stock so I always just skipped over that option.  Well, I was rummaging through some of the garage sale goodies I got recently and what do you know!  Kraft!  I wasn't totally sure if I would like using it on my card...but it's so fabulous!  I love the brown and pink together!

I brought back my beloved Saturated Canary images for this card.  It's been so long since I used one!  Ok not really...maybe a week or so :)  But I was having withdrawals!
This is the sweet Canary Love image.  I've colored her in with my colored pencils and added lots and lots of glitter to everything!  I printed the birdie twice and cut one of them out so I could mount it with dimensional tape so it stuck out on the page.  Love it!

The roses are cut from the Flower Shoppe cartridge.  I love making these roses!  Rolling them up, watching them bloom, bending and softening the petals, adding glitter...a gem in the middle...so much fun!  Paper roses are about the only flowers I get to enjoy right now in my little apartment, so I get a little more joy out of making them than I probably should :)

See those sweet little hearts under the roses?  That's what I have been doing with a lot of my paper scraps!  I figure, I'm hanging onto these itty bitty pieces of paper...I should have a plan for them :)  So I have been using my little heart punch and punching out as many as I can from the scraps, then adding about 4 layers of plain white or black cardstock.  It makes them super durable and almost button-like.  So fun!

The cute sentiment is from Create with TLC.  Seriously love the sentiments they come up with.  There is always a perfect one to go with every card! 

This card is entered in the following challenges:
    Sweet Sunday Sketch #161
    Bitten by the Bug 2-Rose Challenge
    Little Red Wagon #138-Get Krafty
    Paper Crafting Journey-Feeling Krafty
    Stampin Sisters in Christ #144-Create Something that Reflects You (I think this whole card reflects me.  I love glitter, birds are always so sweet and remind me of my mom (massive bird lover there!), I explained my love for roses above, and I always have everyone I love on my mind.  Being so far away from my family and all the wonderful friends I made living in Seattle, and rarely hearing from them has been tough but I always have them on my mind and love them just the same.)

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