'Home is Where the Heart is' Gatefold Card

Even the sparrow finds a HOME, 

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may lay her young, at your altars,

O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

Psalm 84 : 3

Welcome to Digi Desserts Fridaze in connection with My Paper Crafting !    We, on the Design Team, are to create a project using a Digital File from the vast selection at MyPaperCrafting.com every Friday, share them with You and encourage You to visit over there, get the FREE Digi File for today, make a project with it and link it for all to see.  The ‘winning’ designer is highlighted next week as a Guest Designer!   It’s an easy and fun thing to do on the weekend! 

For this week’s project I made a gatefold card for Some Dear Ones to me who have moved recently into a new apartment.  I thought that Melin’s ‘Home Where Heart DS’ was perfect to express my love and happiness for them.  Here is the card –

*  I put the file in my Perfect Effects Free program and used the Earth Action on it, which gives a mottled effect and more interest than plain flat color. 

*  I cut the card base from light green cardstock and embossed it with the Woodgrain folder, which I had inked with Rust ink. 

*  I had the ‘negative’ of a shape I’d cut for something in the rust color of the roof and base.  I trimmed it to fit the front of the card I cut some light green/white heart print paper for the backdrop, adhered under the rust ‘negative’ cut and adhered the birdhouse on it.   I trimmed the sentiment an adhered it in three places.  I added heart=shaped and round gems.  I adhered the panel to the left gatefold side.  I added corner punched pieces and gems to three corners.

*  I printed the inside sentiment, “Welcome to Your New Home!” on white cardstock, cut it into a heart shape with my Heart Colluzzle, and mounted it on pink wallpaper and rust cardstock hearts – all cut with my Colluzzle.

Here is the Digi File I used -

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FREE file  -  

We invite YOU to participate in our Digi Dessert Fridaze weekly posts.  Spring is a time of "new beginnings" and we love to see things "take root, blossom and grow”....so, we decided it was a good time to announce some changes to our Challenges and Link Ups.  Here is the link to Melin’s explanation of how things will work now.  Be sure to pop over there and be included in the creative fun!    http://www.mypapercrafting.com/2013/04/aprilprizes.html 

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B’ Bye!

(You can take the Gal out of the Sky, but You can’t take the Sky out of the Gal!)  ;-}