A Sweet Little Lady

Well, I had hoped to have a garage sale today, but it's supposed to storm all day. I think maybe I'll wait to have it tomorrow. And if it rains tomorrow, it will be Saturday. I don't have tons of stuff, so it's really not that big of a deal to me if I don't have it today. We so need the rain!

Yesterday, I didn't get to stamp one iota! Oh, how I don't like when that happens. I was busy from one end of the day to the next. After my bible study and fellowship lunch, I came home and worked a bit on my freelance project. Then it was time to get ready for the baseball game. Unfortunately, it started pouring rain a few hours before scheduled start time, so it was a scramble up until 615pm about whether or not we would play. Hubby is the coach so it was up to him to make the decision. Since two games have already been rescheduled, both coaches wanted to try and get the game in. There were tornadoes in our county, but in the far eastern portion of it. We ended up being ok where we were. And good news, the game went on as scheduled! We lost but the boys gave it a valient effort.

Here's the second card I made (that turned out anyhow) with my Little Lady stamps. It was the one that I thought was finished before the yellow flowers were on it. But at that stage, even though I thought I was finished with it, it still didn't look right to me. I had done a little blog browsing right about then and ran across a Little Lady card Julee at Poetic Artistry had made that looked similar to the one I made but had flowers surrounding the ladybug. It looked adorable, and I knew that was the final touch my card needed. Thanks Julee for the inspiration!

The background paper is by Doodlebug Design Inc., the pattern is called Black Bouquet. It was mounted on a piece of Whisper White cardstock, and then adhered to a Real Red base. For the main image, I first stamped the ladybug trail in Basic Black, and the sentiment next to that with Real Red. The ladybug was stamped with Read Red and Basic black. See how plain it would have been without the yellow flowers? They were stamped first in Colorbox Fluid Chalk in in Yellow Ocre and "kissed" with Real Red. For a little bit of sparkle, I outlined all the flowers and the ladybug with my Sakura Stardust pen. It looks so pretty IRL, but the sparkles don't show up on the photo, sadly! The ladybug was cut out and adhered slightly off the main white panel to give it some movement. It was such a simple card to make, I think I'm going to make some more today if time allows...(special note for Dee: Yes, Dee....I'm saving some of these ladybug cards for you:))!!!

Have a great day!