Polygons & home, sweet home!

I can definitely be a homebody at times, I've just always really enjoyed my home and can always find something to do just hangin' around the house. Home is definitely my sweet place to be!  I've seen alot of cute cards & altered chipboard houses & albums and I love "home" as a theme and have been wanting to make cards celebrating it.  The 365 Cards challenge for Day 185 is to create a card using a polygon (with a min. of 5 sides) as a dominant shape on your card.  I got out my scissors & scraps and started cutting shapes and quickly realized that a house is a 5 sided shape...perfect!  Home should always be comfortable so I wanted my card to have a kind of cozy, shabby look.  I started with my favorite (right now) kraft cs and embossed it & distressed the edges a little.  The patterned papers I used are from BoBunny & Basic Grey, for the house I used a piece of paper from a MM journaling pad, the chipboard alphas are from Momenta & Bazzill, the tiny type alpha strickers are from Cosmo Cricket, ribbon & twine are from Wal-Mart & the yummy green velvet rick rack is from Archiver's.  I finished my house off with a handmade flower growing in the yard  :>  This was such a fun card to create, I really enjoyed it and will definitely be doing more of these.  Thanks for another great challenge and have a wonderful evening from my happy home to yours,  delisa

do opposites really attract ???

Do opposites really attract...sometimes, maybe, I don't know!  But it did make for a fun challenge at 365 Cards. I have to give it to Pam, the blog hostess, she really does come up with some creative challenges!  So this is for Day 184 and it's called "opppsites attract". The challenge is to use 2 colors on your card: one that you like alot & one that you don't really like very much. You can use shades of these colors along with some white/black but your 2 colors must be dominant.  I love purple but cranberry, wine & deep shades of red are not colors that I use very often or like all that much.  So these were the colors I chose for my card and I was surprised that they worked together as well as they did :>  I used cs from Bazzill, patterned papers from MM & Paper Studio, glitter chipboard & metal tag from MM, fuzzy chenille rickrack from my stash and a bling-y purple brad from Jo-ann's.The flower is handmade and a simple little technique to do using punches circles folded into thirds.
   With it's bling & sparkle I thought this would be a great "congrats" card for someone special.  I've had these papers for awhile so it was great to use them as I'm still on my mission to reduce my stash of supplies (did I mention I'm going to Archiver's tomorrow with some scrappin' friends)  LOL  oh, well!  Thanks again to Pam for a great challenge, I enjoyed it     delisa