A Mother/Daughter Color Challenge

It's amazing, but I actually had time to do Kristina Werner's color challenge...2 weeks in a row is a record for me! When I decided to go to the stamp room and play, Katie came with me. I explained the color challenge. She wanted to play too. She had really liked the "cute as a pumpkin" stamp and wanted to use it. I had the idea to do the masking...so we both created a card. Here's the challenge:

We were supposed to use Chocolate Chip, Bravo Burgundy, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, and Old Olive.

Here's my card.

Card stock--Pumpkin Pie, Bravo Burgundy, Very Vanilla

Ink--Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, So Saffron,

Supplies--Aqua Painters, Pumpkin Pie and Burgundy Ribbon,

Here's Katie's card:

I can't figure out why it's turned. It doesn't look like that in my camera or in the file where I've saved it in my computer. Another cybermystery!

I love this craft! It gives Katie and me the opportunity to "play" together but still work on our own projects.

Send a Card Sunday

After reading Wendy's blog, and talking about creativity, I thought I'd share one of my brief opportunities to do something creative. I make cards. I tend to go through phases of frenzy card making...and then a little lull with hardly any card making. Anyway, about a year ago, my hubby came to my stampin' table and asked me what I was doing. Actually, his exact words were, "What in the world IS all this?" I explained that this was all my card making paraphernalia... "No," he said. "What is all THIS?" he said, pointing to my huge stash of completed cards. So, I explained that when I make a card, I tend to put a little piece of my little heart and a smidge of my little ole' soul into it. And, sometimes, when I'm done making someone a card, I decide that person really isn't "card-worthy" and I end up buying a card and saving my little piece of my heart and my little ole' soul. "They won't really appreciate the effort and love," I think. Therefore, I end up with quite a stash of beautiful (at least, beautiful to me) cards. Well, my hubby doesn't really understand the "little heart and little ole' soul" story. So he puts forth a mandate! "Don't make any more cards until you send some!" says he. Then he spews forth this little piece of wisdom... "The people that are the least card-worthy are probably the people that need your cards the most." Ok, ok. When he's right, he's right. And, he's the one paying for my stuff. So, being the retentive person that I am, I make a plan. On Sundays, when I'm TRYING to do the resting thing, and I'm considering my upcoming week and planning menus, etc... I pick, write, and address a card that I will mail the next day. Now, I've only been doing this for a month or so, and I am finding that it's actually getting easier to release my cards. And, it's really kind of fun to try to think of someone that may just need a little piece of my heart :-)


Here's the recipe... Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Purely Pomegranate, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip. Ink: Whisper White, Basic Brown, Versamark. Stamps: French Script, Wonderful Words, Always. Other stuff: Heat and Stick Powder, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Ribbon (retired). I got this color combo off of Kristina Werner's lovely website www.kwernerdesign.com