Well, I’m sure you have all had one of those days. The kind that nothing seems to go right. Well, this is one of them for me. I was awake most of the ngiht with a terrible sinus headache and cold. I get up just after 6 to start the ball rolling. With 5 kids in the house and 4 of them to get out to school, a challenge to post, a card to make, there is so much to do. To make matters worse…we are out of French Vanilla…my morning drug of choice. There had been some freezing rain just after 5 so my oldest boy who is 16, checked the bus lines internet voice recording. Highschool cancelled, two hour bus delay for the closer Elementary School. OK…well, maybe can squeeze in a little time to stamp. I do need a card for today’s challenge. The next couple hours fly by and as I’m finally getting some time to finish my card, I see the bus stop at the end of the lane from my window. What on earth? I phone the school…no delays! There was an error on the web-site, school has started. Yikes! We have no lunches made, I have to get 5 kids ready to take the four oldest to school. Four of us are still in our pyjamas! I did finally manage to get them all off to school but needless to say, the challenge was late. I did manage to stop by Tim Horton’s for some of their French Vanilla though ….hopefully that will make me a little more functional and improve the rest of the day!
100% Wonderful
I made this card this morning for today’s SCS WT101 challenge. The Way’s to Use it Challenge is posted by myself every Thursday morning and is a challenge to find way’s to use a certain product or idea in your papercraft design work. Today’s challenge was to use sponges or sponge daubers and you can play along here. This card has all the edges of each layer sponged with close to cocoa ink. I love the way sponging seems to give depth and a little bit of aging or character to paper designs. I just had to use my new Making Memories paper again today. Using it up will clean off my desk a little, right? I love how it has a distressed vintage look to it right of the bat and makes it the perfect style to go with a little bit of sponging. The image was stamped with my favorite Petal Prints SU stamp set. It is so flexible with many styles, it is the floral set I always seem to reach for. The flowers are over-stamped with By Definition…a retired SU background stamp that I love. The edges of the So Saffron layer are distressed with a little Heidi Swapp edge distresser I have….it was so inexpensive and does the job perfectly. The bottom edge was scalloped by cutting a strip off the bottom of my dotted panel (seam is covered with the striped paper) and repeatly punching and sliding the slit punch along the edge to create scallops. Superb learning academic service www.eduessayhelper.org/ for international students.
Supply List;
Cardstock: Close to Cocoa, So Saffron, Whisper White – SU
Patterned Paper: Making Memories
Stamps: Petal Prints, Stamp of Authenticity, Warm Words, By Definition – SU
Other: ribbon – Michael’s, eyelets – Making Memories, Crop-a-dile – We R Memory Keepers, sewing mahine, slit punch & Hodgepodge Hardware – SU
