I Hope You Dance

Hello!  Hope your week has started off well!  Mine, not so much, although everything is fine now, thankfully.  This morning, we were awakened by the screaming of the tornado sirens at 3:00 AM.  Apparently, a couple of tornadoes did touch ground a little northeast of here and caused quite a lot of damage to property and sadly, the loss of a couple of lives. Fortunately for us, we only got the heavy rain, high winds and severe thunderstorms - no damage in my immediate area.  Tens of thousands of people are still without power.  Now  it's warm and sunny and you wouldn't know anything had happened.  It certainly was a scary start to the day.

Anyway, I'm popping in to share a couple of cards I made for the Create With TLC Design Team.  Both have a dance theme.  I created them with a combination of freebies that Paulette has shared on the Create With TLC blog and sets that are available in Paulette's store here.

Here is my first card:

The patterned paper is from the Kaisercraft Sweet Nothings 6.5 x 6.5 pad.  The vintage dance collage and the sentiment are from Create With TLC.  I added a little bit of color to the images with Copics and then sponged the panels with a bit of Old Paper Distress Ink.  Some hand-dyed seam binding and a tiny Wild Orchid Crafts rose finished my card.

Here is the second one:

I started with a card base of SU Close to Cocoa and layered with Pale Plum and patterned papers from the GCD Studios Antiquities 8x8 pad.  My image and sentiment are from Create With TLC, of course.  I colored  parts of the image with my Copics and sponged around the borders with Old Paper Distress Ink.  The frame was cut with the Cheery Lynn Polynesian Sails Oval die. I added a few pale plum pearls to the frame and the sentiment.  A double-loop satin bow and a Prima cameo button finished my card.

Thanks for stopping by!   It's going to be a busy week for me, but I hope to be back soon with something new to share.