Peace Dove

Happy Sunday! I raked for a couple hours yesterday and that was all I could manage - whew! At least I got the side of the house done (neighbor's large tree dropped leaves everywhere!). Thankful my arms don't hurt & I was right back to making cards this morning.

I've been trying to use Hero Arts products for my HeroFest Holiday Cheer Card Drive card but they said any brand will do. Great, because I received an order from My Favorite Things and was eager to play! Here's today's card for the drive:

Supplies: Paper - Spellbinder's A2 Card; TH Jewel Kraft Metallic;

BoBunny Woodland Winter 6x6; Hero Arts Glitter Paper Basics;

Paper Studio Holiday (greens) and vellum

Dies - My Favorite Things Peaceful Dove, Peace & Peaceful Greenery

A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop; 

Other - Paper Studio gem; Black Soot Distress Ink

I was enabled by my friend Lin (Sending Hugs) to purchase the MFT Peaceful Dove. You can see her gorgeous creations that inspired me HERE & HERE. I love how she added a second wing behind so I did the same but cut mine from vellum. The bird and other wing is Hero Arts glitter paper (love!). I also bought some accessories - the PEACE die and greenery. After die cutting the word PEACE from blue metallic, I found that the negative would be gorgeous as a sentiment. I thought to put vellum behind it but the BoBunny paper I used had ombre birch trees that faded towards the bottom - perfect for my concept. I didn't have any small black gems or beads for the dove's eye so I colored a clear one with a black Copic. Very quick and easy - done!

I finished my card around 1p but I'm slow to blog it because I had lunch with a storytelling classmate. Our "homework" from last Thursday was to pair up during the week and discuss the stories we're working on. Only Kate raised her hand that she wanted to pair up so I jumped in too - didn't want her to not have someone! We met for a late lunch about halfway between our suburbs - great food and conversation. We sat there for over 2 hrs!! All set for our final class this week. :)

I'm adding my card to the Stay Crafty with a Blog Named Hero's October Challenge Merry Everything and also to the 700th Allsorts Challenge Any Special Occasion. I played for the first time yesterday based on Hilary's (fiddling about) inspiration - fun challenge! And also to Darnell's October NBUS Challenge since my MFT dies are newly used today.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll pop by tomorrow for the last day of our Watercoloring Challenge at Die Cut Divas. I'll save tomorrow's HeroFest card to blog along with Tuesday's card.