Follow Your Dreams

Hi there! March 6 holds a special place in my eldest sister's heart because it's her birthday today. To mark this occasion I made this card for her and can hardly wait to mail it out but it takes several days to reach her for sure so I "posted" this card to her office email just before I blog this; y2k technology is superb, voila :}

 Materials used:  digi image by My Heart Pieces Digital Stamp, patterned papers (One Imagination), Copic Sketch, Martha Stewart punch, sentiment from Ginger's House, Kaisercraft green blooms, Prima bling, Crop-a-Dile, handmade roses by me and others from my stash

...here's some up-close pictures...

Words of wisdom has always been my favorite sentiment.

The roses are made from ribbon. 

She's a lovely image eh...reminds me of my childhood!

Sometimes my sister has questions for me like "How do you that?" "How did you do it?" so I for once decided to share with you behind the scene story of how I often reuse, recycle and reduce...okay the latter seldom works because the more I try to reduce, the more scraps I collect every single moment I play with papers. Waste not want yes; I keep bits and teeny weeny patterned paper scraps in the box  below. I tell you it has explode many times...hihi.

Every time I plan for card making, I like to quickly "browse" the right scraps for color coordination and able to reduce some scraps for the day.

  Then I start to assemble them on the stepper card below. Easy peasy when I got the right stuff :)

Hope my little bit of "waste not want yes" gives you some inspirations.

Off I go now to take this card into these challenges:
1. Tammy Scrapin Corner : Challenge #52 "Red+Green+Ribbon"
2. Love To Create : Challenge #55 "Pick 2 items to use on card" {die cuts/ribbon/twine/pearls/distressing/sentiment ~ I chose ribbon & sentiment}
3. Crafter's Digital Art Center : Anything Goes
4. Digi Darla's Challenges ~ DD#52 "Green Cards"
5. Make It Monday ~ Anything Goes

Thank you and have a nice day.
Hugs and smiles,