Paper craft project no. 499: Choose happy

It's not everyday that I find myself with a little bit of time to make cards just for the fun of it. Tonight, though, I resolved to give myself some me-time (aka do whatever I want except work!) after the Kat has gone to bed. The little one is deep in sleep and mommy is happily stamping away! (I have her on the Gynoii on my cell phone and Kindle Fire so I can watch her while I'm out in the living room.)

Here's one of the cards I made for a couple of challenges. Inspired by the current challenge at Less Is More (One Layer + Curves), I started by stamping the rose bloom (background + outline from Trendy Spring Blooms) then cut out a couple of curvy masks to cover the top and bottom part of my card base and leaving just a little bit of space in between for me to stamp the rest of my flowers in spring colors. Debated where to stamp the sentiment (Noteworthy 2) -- was going to stamp it on the bottom right but decided at the last minute to stamp it right beside the rose. Rounded off the left bottom corner and the card's done. (I resisted the urge to grunge up the top panel.)

I'm also linking my card to a couple more challenges: Craft Stamper's Take It Make It (Anything Stamping Goes) and Inkspirational #132 (Spring).

  

 

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to smile :o)

Paper craft project no. 319: Warm wishes one layer card

So I spent a couple of hours today making cards. Here's one of them, and it's inspired by the photo over at Inkspirational Challenges :o)

I just happened to have this cityscape silhouette stamp* and it was the perfect stamp to use for the challenge. So I stamped it in black ink and then stamped the snowflakes in chalk ink. I spattered purple ink across my card base and finished by stamping the sentiment. Gotta be one of the quickest cards I've made!

Quick one layer cards seem to be the only cards I'm able to do lately when I barely have time to do much crafting with all the work that keeps piling up. Even DH has noticed that I haven't done much crafting this past couple of weeks; he actually told me to make cards today!

Snippet of our convo this afternoon:

me: I'm hungry.

DH: Okay, I'm going to make us food, but you have to promise me that after we eat, you're going to do some art.

me: Why'd you want me to do that?

DH: Because you barely spent any time at your craft table this week. You haven't even played with the new pastels you got...

me: They're not pastels. They're acrylic paints in tubes, dear.

DH: Pastels, acrylics...all the same to me. Whatever they're called, you need to spend some time playing, okay?

I love my husband! :o)

I'm also going to link this up to the current CASology challenge, where the cue word is "snow."

Thanks for stopping by!

~Shery

Supplies: Stamps - Joyful, Vignette: Christmas Block, and Cityscapes from STAMPlorations; Inks - Jet Black Archival from Ranger, Elderberry Memento Dew Drop Ink and Aspen Mist VersaMagic Chalk Ink from Tsukineko; Paper - 100# Classic White Premium Heavy Weight Cardstock from Paper and More

*This stamp as well as a handful of others will be available in the STAMPlorations shop right after Christmas -- specifically in a new category/feature we're introducing. If you like getting great deals on stamps, you'll want to keep an eye in that category of the shop!