Tuesday Tip of the Day..or not

I think I might be changing the Tuesday feature. Believe it or not, I can't come up with any really exciting tips to share with you today. How bad is that? I must have a brain block as far as tips go, I guess. The question is, what could I do instead of Tuesday's Tips? That is the question of the day....

Do you know what I want to be when I grow up? I want to be a designer paper name maker. You know, I want to be the person that comes up with all the fun names for each of the paper designs in a collection. For instance, in the Basic Grey Scarlett's Letter collection, they have designs called "Letters to the World" and "Fare Thee Well". In the American Craft Ala Carte collection, they have paper called "Lentil" and "Quiche". How in the world are they coming up with these names? I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure neither of these designs looks like a lentil or a quiche. At least not whenI looked at them. You decide for yourself.....does this paper design look like a lentil to you? How hard could the job of designer paper name maker be if all you have to do is look at something and make up a name that totally does not relate to the design at all? Here, let me try pretending that this paper is not already called "Lentil" and let me choose its name instead....how about "Peas", or "Brussle Sprouts"? That wasn't so hard. Now, if I needed instead to try and come up with a name that FITS the design, how about "Blowing In The Wind" or "Floating Foliage"? If you ask me, I'm a shoe-in for a job as a designer paper name maker! I can't wait to tell my hubby of my new vocation ambitions:)!!!

All silliness aside, I suppose you want to see what sort of card I'm going to share with you this morning, uh? Well, yesterday was my lucky day because the Big Brown Truck visited my house! It brought me Doodle This and Doodle That, and Bundle of Joy. Woo-hoo! I cut those babies out and had them mounted in no time! First I made some boy cards with Bundle of Joy, but I'll share those with you tomorrow. The next set of cards I made I used Doodle This! I was inspired by a card that Julie (Stampin With Julie) made yesterday using her set. She used a different designer paper for each leaf and I loved the look. Instead of using different paper for each leaf, I used only one paper,and then cut them out and mounted each one with foam tape and applied to the front of the card. All I did was stamp the flower once on the designer paper, and once on the purple polka dot paper that was used for my background. Then I cut each leaf out and mounted it to the purple polka dots with foam tape. I used a purple flower jewel for the center of the flower. The swirls, which I used as the "leaves" of the flower was looking a little boring all by itself in the bottom corner of the purple paper. So I stamped the swirl image on the same designer paper I used for the leaves, and cut out just the small scallop that sits on top of one of the swirls. I mounted it to the purple paper with glue.

This card was SUPER EASY, and I love it. It's another one of those cards that just makes me happy by looking at it cuz I love the colors! I can't wait to make more of these today.

I have to start thinking about my Crafty Ladies retreat that I'm going on this weekend! It's at my church retreat center, and it's from 3pm Friday through 8pm Saturday night. You just bring your craft and work on it all weekend! I plan on getting lots of cards made! Deciding what to bring is going to be the hardest thing to decide between now and then......

Have a great day everyone!!

Amy