New directions- and a fiskars craft challenge :-)

So I'm going to move my craftiness to this accnt. I have my other blog, a journey unknown for life's updates, but felt i needed to attached the two. i was informed that my opera blog you have to have an account in order to see everything, and I've always used and loved blogger, so I might as well stick w/what I know, right??!!

well here's my first post. lol- I'm going to eventually move my current layout designs and blogs over here, but I'm going to dinner tonight and don't feel like it LOL :-P I need to shower and clean the house ha ha-

anyway- the purpose was to create a craft item, by alterting something into something else. I save all my cards, b/c often i cut the graphics out and recycle them into scrap book layouts. then I write in tiny letters where it came from and what occasion. Like kaylee's baby book has a few papers that were from cards from my baby shower-

this was a beautiful and sweet simple card from my husband's dad and step mom. It's a cute card, but it has no other purpose in my card drawer- until now! :) I transformed it into a home "tweet" home card for my husband's aunt- who I guess is moving home at the end of the month. I used my fiskars ( of course!) stencil- woodland tree, and made the bird and the tree branch, used the existing liner i took out and cut side borders- and cut off the top sentiment- and shortened the card. I like how it turned out! :-)

anyway- here's the before and after of what I submitted for the crop lift off challenge.

The other one that I was challenged w/ was using materials other than paper to create a layout design. I used eyelast yarn, plastic conffetti, and foam raised hearts... I really like this one :-)