June Viva la Verve Challenge entry

Made this card for a card challenge.  Viva la Verve has some of the nicest card examples and entries into the challenges.  This is from a sketch for the third week in June.  My plan is to link it to the challenge and enter BUT, I'm not sure if I will figure this all out.  Some of the blogging stuff is a bit of a challenge in and of it'self!  I made my own patterned paper background with Gina K stamps and then made the rose using the stampin up owl punch and a sissex 3d flower cut out.  added some glimmer from tattered angels and a perfect pearl centre.  (personally it looks like glue to me but what's done is done!)  the leaves are another stampin up punch that has petals and leaves.  I actually used a fiskars punch that I was starting to think I would never use.  It's this awkward oval thing.  First you have to cut out an oval using the template and line it up and punch out the design.  It doesn't work very well but in the end I got a good result for the curve.  I saw this really nice video on youtube on how to make the flower.  I modified mine a bit but it's still the basic idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcP_VJrvs0U this is the link if you want to see where I got my info on rose making from.  and here is the picture of the sketch.

I'm quite pleased with the outcome of this card and hope my card wins the draw!  Of course I wish everyone luck even if I love winning too!

Goal for the year!

How many of us have made goals for our new year?  Well I quit doing that years ago, but this year due to a card challenge I made a goal for this year.  Will I be able to keep it?  That's a good question.  My goal was to complete my almost completed quilts.  I need to free arm quilt two sandwiched quilts and sandwich and quilt at least three more tops that I have made previously.  So the card I made was a paper pieced quilt that I ran through an embossing folder.  I think the pattern is ohio star, but quite frankly I'm not exactly sure since my memory isn't that great for those types of things.  My other goals are to do more cards, more jewelry and more sewing for my family.  Otherwise it's just the usual, want to get into better shape, loose a couple inches and so on and so on. 
Well that's it for now, will try to add a picture of something to make it interesting.