FCD Blog Hop - No Place like Home

Hi there! If you just arrived from Boni's blog, you are in the right place; if you are a regular reader of my blog, we are doing something a little different today - I'm blog hopping with the Design Team of FireCracker Designs by Pamela, with the theme of "There's No Place like Home".

This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!! You will know you are at the end of your blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from! (It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started.)

Now, to the art - these would have been an easy challenge, except I had already chosen my art before I knew the theme. I had a manatee and a zentangle fairy digital stamp to use in my creations.



I was creating the Acrylic Emboss background for this easel card (have you ever seen a long easel card like this before?) when I realized who I wanted to give the card to - I know a Navy family that will be moving (again!) in the near future. In case you can't read the sentiment in the picture, it says, "Home is where the Navy sends you". I really had fun gluing down all those little seashells, too!

Anyway, the card really shows off one of the coolest things about using digital stamps - you can flip and resize them to whatever dimensions you like. I used the Penciled Twinks technique to color the manatees.

Now where does a doodled fairy live? Most doodles are in notebooks, so this project was a no-brainer, and surprisingly quick and easy, too.



I happen to like the black and white patterns on composition notebooks, so simply adding this little nameplate was perfect for me. It looks like it took hours to doodle the image, the border, and the text, but every bit of it was done digitally - I used the fairy as a fill pattern!

Now, to continue the circle, you will need to hop on over to Ursula
and keep going until you’ve come back to where you’ve started! There is a prize...

The winner will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess (we don’t even know who it will be until the hop is over) …so that’s why you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog, so you don’t miss out!

**To find out if you’ve won… you will be contacted by Pamela via e-mail (so be sure to leave it with your comment.) and you can also find out on Pamela’s blog after the blog hop ends on Mon, at 8:00 PM (EST).**

Thanks so much for playing along with us and we hope you have a great time!