Crafty Creations Challenge #155: Home Sweet Home

Another Wednesday, another challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges! This week we're celebrating home sweet home. Design team member Deena, who is also the artist behind the Etsy shop A Creative Need, is sponsoring this week and offered some of her designs for the design team to use.

This cute little image just called out to me to be put on a card. What's that you say? How is this related to the theme? Okay, I'll agree, the link is tenuous, but these are obviously love birds, sitting in a heart tree, so they must live there, right? I'm sure their cozy little nest is just out of the picture, further along the branch. There, I feel completely justified.  My little birds started out pink, but they looked rather, um, naked! Adding a little mauve shading made them looked less plucked. I wanted the hearts to stand out, so gave them some glossy accents for shine. Once I had that centre panel done, I needed a little more inspiration, so I used CPS sketch #252 -- of course, I couldn't post the card till today, so missed the challenge deadline. 


I decided to create a second project for this week, a little more obviously tied to the challenge theme:

These new home gift tags are made with the Cottage Home set from Waltzingmouse. 
Put on your creative thinking cap and show us your home sweet home project at Crafty Creations Challenges!


Supplies: (valentine) white & blue cardstock, Stampin' Up patterned paper, A Creative Need Love Birds digital image, Tumbled Glass distress ink, watercolour pencils, Glossy Accents, white ribbon (stash), Valentine Doodle twine, dimensionals; (tags) manila tag, white cardstock, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Life of the Party patterned paper (green tag), DCWV Christmas Stack patterned paper (blue tag), Waltzingmouse Cottage Home stamps, Memories black ink, watercolour pencils, ribbon (stash), dimensionals