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Happy Valentine's Day!!!
I love each and every one of you for stopping by and enjoying my blog :) Having you here means so darn much to me! I love reading your comments and feeling your love through them! Thank you so much for continuing to stop by my small piece of the blog world :)

I wanted to stop in real quick today and share a card I finished up yesterday.

This hottie is Martini Pin-Up (2) from Sassy Studio. I LOVE this image! It's sassy and fun, and while a little challenging, awesome to color! The glass gave me a little trouble...what color is clear glass?? :)

Of course after showing it to the hubby, he came up with all kinds of ideas for Bond cards with this image....and I loved them, like always :) So maybe one of those will show up here in a little bit.

I colored her all in with my colored pencils and then fretted about the glass. I ended up adding just a little bit of blue to the sides/swirls and then covered the whole thing with glossy accents. There is a small line of stickles at the top of the glass for some sparkle.

I really wanted her dress to be all sparkly and sequined looking, but I didn't want to use stickles. So I ended up spraying her dress with some shimmer mists. I was able to isolate the dress by cutting it out from a previous print off I did that I totally messed up on :) Once I got done spraying her dress, a little had sprayed onto the background, which made it look super cool, so I covered my image again and sprayed the whole card! :)

You can see the shimmer of her dress and the sparkle on the outside of the card in this pic. I love how it looks!

I really love this paper combination. The green paper has been in my stash for awhile and it's been a hard one to coordinate with. So when the damask paper came out of my pile, I knew it would be a good match :)

This card was directly made to be entered into the guest design team call at Sassy Studio.

I'd also like to enter it into the following challenges:

Mojo Monday #280

Charisma Cardz #6-Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous Valentine's Day!! <3

Happy Monday to everyone! I hope you are all warm and safe!

It's a new challenge week at Digi Makeover and we have a photo to inspire you with!

I must admit...I am pretty horrible at photo inspirations...color challenges too...I'm not really sure why. You would think that photos and colors would create the most inspiration...but for me, I think I end up focusing too much on the photo and not allowing my creativity to run with what I see...

But I really tried for this week! I love the field of flowers in this pic! When we bought our house in Washington in 2007, the first thing I started doing was digging up the yard to put in flower beds and a garden! It became an addiction. I wanted more and more! Of course...I wasn't always successful...I think I grew more weeds in some of my flower beds than actual flowers. But I still loved it! And it's one of the biggest things I miss now that we live in an apartment. (and the mountains...man do I miss those!)

Here is what I came up with:

While I like the overall card...somehow I don't feel like it goes with the inspiration photo...
I tried to play off the flowers...of course :) I cut out a few layers with my Cameo and distressed around the edges with my copics. I think the flower turned out fabulous!

Then I printed out Chelsea Fairy from Paper Makeup and colored her in with my pencils. I cut her out and layered her onto a little scene. I cut out a cloud template and used some chalk to create a little sky. I was trying to get it to mimic the photo...but was afraid to go too dark on the blue. Then drew in some grass and stamped my sentiment.

I'm hoping that even though the card is a bit off from the inspiration photo, that it still helped spark an idea in your mind and you will come play along with us this week!

And remember to be happy! It can be a constant struggle when life keeps pushing down, but I keep trying to remind myself of all the joy I have and to focus on how happy that makes me :)

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Good day my crafty friends!
I'm back with a new challenge this week at Tuesday Throwdown! This week our challenge is Bling it On! Blind us with all that glam!

We have 2 fabulous sponsors this week-Sherrod Studio and Lily Patch Stamps! Both owned by our very own Kim Sherrod! She provided a few images for the design team to use on their projects this week, and when I saw this image, I knew I had to use it...I just wasn't sure what for :)

Until my hubby saw it, God bless him! Being the "nerd" that he is, his first thought was of course, video games :) But it helped, and his continued stream of nerdy suggestions brought me to a pretty darn good card!

Now, it's not typically my theme of card. He has been trying and trying to get me to do game and movie themed cards, but I just can't seem to channel my inner nerd enough to go that route. Maybe some day :)

The suggestion he had with this image was Smaug from The Hobbit and talking about treasure or wisdom or something....it all sounded great, but the picture wasn't forming in my head. I searched and searched for something that would grab on..and then I found some quotes from the movie.
More specifically this quote, "Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" Not sure why, but that stuck.

So I set to work putting together my card that would look a little rustic and manly (which is really hard with my mass collection of pink papers). I attempted to color up the dragon to resemble Smaug and I think I did alright. Not familiar with how to color dragons, so I may need more practice :)

I didn't have enough gold bling to add to my card, so instead I mimicked bling by using some 3D gold paint around the image frame and on his spots (since Smaug has gold pieces embedded in him).

Overall the card came together quickly. It was actually figuring out what I wanted to do that took forever :)

I hope you will join us this week! Be sure to check out the rest of the design teams cards!

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Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a fabulous holiday weekend! Mine was quiet and relaxing, filled with canning applesauce and driving around to new parts of the island :)

Today is the start of a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown! This week our challenge is Back to the Books! Everyone (mostly?) is back in school now and I'm sure everyone will need a bookmark! I struggled a little with getting any ideas in my head for this one...bookmarks aren't always something I think to make...mostly because we don't buy too many books anymore. We read everything on our phones/tablet as, I'm sure, most people do nowadays. But I finally set my mind to it and browsed through ideas to get the mojo flowing.

A bookmark is actually pretty easy...even the corner ones...easier than I expected. And since it's a bookmark, you don't want too much bulk on it.
So I made this:

See pretty simple :) Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish and they have supplied our Design Team with some wonderful book images! I have used Reading is Fun and colored him in with my colored pencils.
I cut out the scallop circle from the Lacy Labels cartridge and then embossed it with the Swiss Dots folder.
The swirl ribbon border is a Martha Stewart punch. I added a light blue ribbon and some star gems to complete it all!

I hope you will join in this fun challenge! Be sure to stop by Tuesday Throwdown and check out all the wonderful creations from the Design Team!

Also, swing on back over here later today for a new card I've made to help support a wonderful charity organization!!
See ya later!

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Happy Tuesday!!!
Today marks the start of a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown and it's a fun one! We are challenging you to add a moving element to your card! Now I must admit...this was not easy for me. I don't often add moving stuff to my cards...it's never something that crosses my mind when I am sketching out a card..so I struggled with this one. Until I found this card: Dianes Rambles

Using that card as my inspiration, I tried and tried and tried to get something to work for me. But none of the elements or cuts I wanted to use would work properly! I was getting so frustrated. So finally, I just decided to case Dianes card!

Don't laugh...this is my first rocker card! :) It was fun to try something new and I do like the motion a rocker card gives without being overwhelming. I just struggled so bad getting my brain to get creative on this one! But it turned out cute :) He's floatin down a river!

Our fabulous sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish. They have provided images for our DT to use on our cards. I have chosen S. S. Hoppity for my image. I paper pieced his shirt and the canoe, along with all the water waves.

The trees are cut from the Wild Cards cartridge and I added some small punched out flowers to the branches as well as on the fence in the front.
Then just added some blue stickles to the river so it sparkled and it was done!

Stop by and join in the motion fun at Tuesday Throwdown. We have just introduced a bunch of new members to our team and several of them are joining us for the first time this week with their fabulous creations!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Happy Tuesday!
I'm back again with our new Tuesday Throwdown challenge! This week our challenge is Gingham! Now...honestly...I wasn't real sure what gingham was...had to look that one up. Turns out it was so simple! Then the problem arose that I didn't really have a wide selection of gingham (or plaid/stripped style) paper...my only real option was red. So I had to work with that.
So here is what resulted:

Not too bad :) I think it turned out more Christmas themed that what I really wanted it to be...the green ribbon I think is the cause of that...but it still is sweet :)

Our fabulous sponsor this week is Sweet n Sassy stamps! I was fortunate enough to have just won a bunch of their wonderful stamps from Seems A Little Sketchy so I used one of my new images for this card. It's called One of a Kind and is so adorable! The birdie in the middle was suppose to be more pink than red so that he was a bit different than the other two...but it's hard to tell the difference.

I embossed the small panel under the image with one of my cuttlebug borders, and then trimmed around it so it has that scalloped edge.
The sentiment is also from that stamp set and I used my scallop scissors around the edge.

I do hope you will stop by and join in our challenge this week! The prize is definitely worth it!

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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

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Hello friends! Happy Thursday to you all! I hope everyone is well...even on this wet and gloomy day here in Montreal...

I've been busy getting some work done since we got back from our small (but much needed) vacation. It seems I have developed a bad habit of making a card, putting it aside to post later, and then forgetting about it...
So this post will contain 3 cards! I can't believe I've been doing that! I noticed my little pile of cards was getting kind of high today and then realized what was happening...I'll have to nip that one in the butt rather quickly!

With Mother's Day this weekend, I was inspired to make one more card. I wanted to make one for the expecting or new Mother's since this is a special day for them.

I used the adorable Ice Cream and Pickles image from Saturated Canary. Such a sweet image. I wanted soft neutral colors for the card so I went with a peach tone. She is colored in with colored pencils. The frame is cut from my Lacy Labels cartridge.

Then I cut out some spiral roses and added some peach glitter to the tips. I think I'm getting pretty good at those things. I've learned to let them loosen or "bloom" once I've quilled them up so they look more open and fuller...the first few I made were quilled so tight they just looked like a blob of paper...lol!
I typed up and printed out the sentiments on my computer. Then added some white paint dots in the corner and around the frame and covered those with the peach glitter. There is also some glitter in her hair...just enough so she has a little glow.

The inside is very simple with the Mother's Day sentiment.

This card is entered in the following challenges:
Sweet Sunday Sketch #158
Saturated Canary #17-May Flowers
    The Paper Variety-May Flowers
    Through the Craftroom Door #25-Happy Mother's Day
    Critter Sketch #114-Mom
    Daisy Doodles #59-May Flowers
    Kaboodle Doodles-#118-Honoring Mothers
    Love to Create #14-For Mom/Special Lady
    Paper Makeup #35-May Flowers
    The Pink Elephant #147-All About Mom
    Celebrate the Occasion #62-Mother's Day
    The Cuttlebug Spot-Flowers for Mom
    Tuesday Throwdown #97-Motherly Love
    Simon Says-Sweet Tooth

My next card is for Father's Day.

I was attempting to follow the sketch at Mojo Monday and it sort of worked out, but the subway art (found at A Proffittable Life and available in a few different colors) ended up being so much bigger than I expected it to be that it left little room for the other elements. But I had to use that image. It fit so perfectly...especially for my dad. How many times have you heard all of those quotes? They are forever embedded in my brain!
This card is entered in the following challenges:
Mojo Monday #240
Paper Pretties-Use Ribbon
Crafts for Eternity #70-Maypole Ribbons

This last card was so much fun creating! I got the inspiration from a couple of cards I saw using the Taylored Expressions Green Acres stamp set.

One of our cousins is graduating high school this year. Makes me feel old...he was our ring bearer in our wedding! And now he's graduating!! Ugh...but he loves farming and plans to make that his life...so when I saw the Green Acres stamp set, it sparked some ideas. I cut out the tractor from the My World cartridge and then cut some hay with the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge, inked the edges with a golden yellow ink pad and layered them around the tractor. It turned out so cute! And it makes me smile :)
This card is entered in the following challenges:
    Tuesday Morning Sketches #145
    Divas by Design #34-One for the Boys
My Craft Spot #55-Down on the Farm
    Pixie Dust Studio #126-One for the Boys

Did you make it this far? Congrats if you did! This was a big post! Now hopefully I will stay on top of my creations and postings...not be lazy :)
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I've seen this topic come up a lot in the challenges this month. It's one of those themes that I don't ever think of to apply to a card so I have just been skipping over them, until I saw this sentiment at Ginger's House. It seemed perfect for a card, so I had to use it!

It's not an elaborate card...very few details...but it was fun putting together. I'm apparently in to trying new techniques and such lately...this week at Friday Mashup the suggested technique is "Ghosting." All the guides say to use the Versamark stamp pad in order to get the ghosted affect. Well, since I don't have a Versamark stamp pad...I started using what I had to see if it would work. The only way that really gave me a decent result was when I used a clear embossing pad to stamp my rain drops. Once I had swiped my color ink pads over my photo paper, I used a paper towel and rubbed really hard to get the ink to wipe off the rain drop stamp. It worked pretty well...it's certainly not as beautiful as what the design team did at Friday mashup...but I'll take it :)
The sun and the tulips are cut from my Create-a-Critter cartridge and the clouds are from Everyday Paper Dolls. I added some stitching around the edges with a colored pencil and then put some glossy accents around the bottom of the clouds.

I used an absolutely adorable image from Saturated Canary-Let it Rain. She's colored with my pencils and I added some glossy accents around her as well since she's standing in the rain :)

I took the sentiment from Ginger's House and retyped it out into a shape that would fit on my card.
The hearts coming out of the cloud was an idea I got from a card Karen Giron recently made...I follow her blog religiously...every card she makes is absolutely beautiful!...I get jealous :)

This card is entered in the following challenges:
    Friday Mashup #55-I ain't afraid of no ghost!
    Cardz TV #106-April Showers
    Saturated Canary #15-April Showers
    Cardmadfairy's Digi Days-April Showers
    Raise the Bar #101-Cloudy Skies

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Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is well.
I am sad to say that this week is my last week as guest designer over at Tuesday Throwdown. I have had so much fun creating with them and I'm bummed that it is over. Thank you so much to Davi for giving me this opportunity! It definitely helped get me out of my comfort zone!

This weeks challenge is "Use Some Sparkle!" One thing I love to use is glitter so this challenge was perfect for me!!

Our sponsor this week is The Cutting Cafe. I used the butterflies from the Animal and Bug Love Stamp Set. I colored them in with my pencils and added lots of glitter to the hearts and their wings!
For the corner frame, I cut out a doily with my cricut, then a scallop circle from my Lacy Labels cartridge. The top layer is the butterfly wording background from the Animal and Bug Love set. I washed it out so that it looked more like a subtle background than a bold statement. It could have been a little darker, but I think it worked out fine.

The last touch was adding gems around the scallop circle and the frame of the card! It was a pretty simple card but I think it turned out so cute! Doing the edge of the card as the scallop cutout was new for me. I've seen it so many times on other cards and thought it was absolutely beautiful, so I wanted to try it. I need to work on sizing and such for it, but I think I will be doing that more often :)

I hope you will join us this week at Tuesday Throwdown! You never know, you might be the next guest designer!!

This card is entered in the following challenges:
    Sketches by Carly #54
    The Paper Shelter #60-Wings and Things
    Crafty Ribbons #17-Things with Wings
    Pixie Dust Studio #123-Texting
    2 Sisters Challenge #88-Use a Digital Image
    Our Creative Corner-Butteflies
    Stamptacular Sunday #160-Loaded with Layers

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When I was younger, the one game that I owned and played repeatedly was the original Super Mario Brothers. I had that game memorized! I knew every level by heart and where all the hidden treasures and tunnels where. It was my favorite to play and still is. I'm not sure I could remember exactly everything but I don't think it would take long for it to all come back to me.

So when my game developer husband mentioned making cards based around video games, obviously Super Mario Brothers is the first place my mind traveled to. I had a lot of fun making this card! It definitely took me back to my gaming roots.

I followed the sketch at Mojo Monday this week:

I struggled to figure out what I could do with this sketch. I'm not sure why it threw me for a loop...it just did :)
But when I finally got my brain working, I was so happy with the result!

Okay, okay...so I stretched the sketch a little :) But all the elements required are there! I'll explain :) You can see the layered papers match the sketch, and the strip of stars are what I used instead of a scallop border. Those are cut from my Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge, and I used my white and blue gel pens to stitch lines around each star.

The question mark treasure box represents the "flower" icon in the sketch. To make that box, I just cut out a couple of squares and layered them appropriately on top of each other. I cut out a question mark with my cricut, and then used my eyelet tool to punch out a few small circles for the corners. Then I covered it all in a nice layer of glossy accents.

The large circle in the middle of the sketch I represented with the star and it's associated swoosh :) The star is a cut file I made and then cut out several layers so it was really thick. Then covered that in glossy accents as well. The swoosh I drew out and cut myself. The bottom layer is a piece of white cardstock. Then there is a small yellow strip in the middle, and the top is a vellum layer that I covered with some adhesive and glitter glue. The adhesive helped to keep the vellum from crinkling all up when I applied the glue.

The last item was the sentiment, which I used to represent the banner on the sketch. I downloaded the Mario Brothers font and printed out the sentiment on my computer.

This card is entered in the following challenges:
    Mojo Monday Sketch #235
    Critter Sketch #109-Stars
    Divas by Design #29-Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant #142-Clean and Simple

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It's been a lazy weekend for me...the weather has turned cold and rainy here in Montreal, so any outdoor activities I wanted to do have been put on hold...so I escaped to my craft room :)
I just received my batch of Saturated Canary images in my email last night and could not wait to dive in and make something with them. I just loved this fairy image, she seemed so whimsical.

I've had this peachy orange paper in my stash for awhile. Every time I thumb past it I remind myself to use it but never remember it's there or I pass right over it for one of my more common color choices. Well, I pulled it out today. I just love it! I love that it is double sided and the 2 patterns go together so well. Sometimes when a paper is double sided, I don't feel like the 2 patterns really compliment each other, but that's not the case here!
I followed the sketch over at Sketch Saturday. It has a lot of elements on the sketch, which make the card really fun!

The frame around the fairy is cut from my Cricut Lacy Labels cartridge. I added some green shimmer stitching around the image for added detail. The scallop border at the bottom is a cut file from Birds Cards. I think that has become my new favorite border cut. It's not too fancy but not boring either, which is usually perfect for any card!
Fantabulous Cricut's challenge this week is flowers, and Card Makin Mamas challenge is buttons...but since I don't have any buttons right now (I should really try to get some :) ) I decided to make my own! I cut out a flower shape from the Create-a-Critter cartridge, layered it 5 times and then added a peach patterned paper on top for a total of 6 paper layers. Then I used the smallest eyelet punch I have and made little button holes in all of the "buttons." Once that was done, I took my Glossy Accents and covered the whole thing with a thick layer. I think they turned out pretty good! I will have to keep trying that out with different button shapes.

Once the buttons were dry, I strung some green cord through the centers and taped them down. Originally I had bows tied on all the buttons, but all the loops and tails make it look very chaotic and messy...so I chose to just string them through the center and omitted the bows.
I added some paint dots across the bottom and on the scallop border and then sprinkled some clear glitter on top so they sparkled. There is also some glitter glue added to the fairy's wings.
Such a cute card :)
This card is entered in the following challenges:
    Sketch Saturday #200
    Fantabulous Cricut #103-Celebrate Spring
    Digital Tuesday #152-Life is Peachy
    Card Makin Mamas-Buttons
    2 Sisters Challenge #84-Spring is in the Air
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Finally back to making card! It was a busy couple of weeks for me as I had both a large order from Etsy and my first invitation order!! I was very excited to have so much to do, but missed just sitting down and making a card. Repeating the same design over and over again can get a little stale, but still loved it :)
For todays card, my stepmom had asked me to make some "Thank you" cards focusing on their work for the Lord. I wasn't totally sure what to do when she asked for these, but then as I was scanning through the stamps at Our Daily Bread, found the perfect sentiment!

It's a 4 x 4 card, which was a new size for me to make. I typed up the sentiment, printed it off and then cut out all the frames from the Cricut Lacy Labels cartridge. I thought the shape of this frame matched perfectly with the patterned paper that I had chosen!
There is a panel along the side that has been embossed with a dots folder and then layered on black cardstock. I cut out a scalloped border from the Holiday Cakes cartridge and put a small piece of ribbon across the top of it.
Pulled a couple of my quilled roses from my stash to place over top of the bow, then added the butterfly. I found these butterflies at the dollar store!    I thought they were so cute, I bought several packs of them! They came on long picks but I cut that off and then adjusted the wire frame so it was straighter and not so crunched.
I'm very happy with this card! The black and white color scheme looks so good together and everything just flows!
This card is entered in the following challenges:
    Pixie Dust Studio #118-Sketch
Celebrate the Occasion #54-Any Occasion, Use Metal (my butterfly)
    Deep Ocean #21-Butterflies
    Sentimental Sundays #94-Use Metal + Sentiment (my butterfly)
    Ladybug Crafts-Anything Goes
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Happy Thursday everyone!!
Today's card is one that I have been thinking about ever since I saw the challenge topic for this week at Crafts 4 Eternity. I have been mulling over the sentiment in my head but hadn't been able to figure out what details to add around it for the card...until today!
I saw a picture online while doing some browsing and the idea just stuck like glue and I knew exactly what I was going to make:

The topic at Crafts 4 Eternity is Social Media...and right now what is more social than Pinterest??? Of course, my inspiration came from this card I saw while doing my daily browse of the crafts on that very site:

While I didn't follow too many of the same details, what really caught my eye was the vellum window with the butterflies. I was kind of scared doing the string and everything because I've never tried to do anything like that before, but I think it turned out okay on my first try. There are a lot of things I learned while making this card, and I think I am going to try and remake it using some of my new found knowledge...like don't put double sided tape on an edge that will be exposed...
I'd like to add a frame around the window like the example as well...I just forgot when making my original.
The card shape and the window frame are cut from my Cricut Lacy Labels cartridge. The butterfly is cut from the Create-a-Critter cartridge and I added glitter to her wings.
The flowers are ones I had cut out quite awhile ago for a different project, and then never used them. The colors were a perfect match for this card and they were the right size to fit on the string, so I added them!
I printed off my sentiment and added it to a Lacy Label and then put some paint dots and glitter around the edge. Made up a couple of paint dot pins to go along with my "pin"terest theme and stuck them behind a flower/bow.