Scrap Stash Saturday!

Do you know the song from the broadway musical "Annie" that sings "the sun will come out tomorrow?" Change the words and sing this instead...."the stars were aligned this morning!"

Yep, the stamping stars were aligned for me this morning when I whipped together today's Scrap Stash Saturday card! I love it when that happens! Everything, including layout, came together like clockwork. I didn't struggle one bit, which I have to be honest with you-I've been doing alot lately. Nothing seems to be easy in the stamping department lately. I'm not sure why. I need that problem to go away, and pronto. When I get creative block, I get cranky! Do you?

These are the three papers I dug into my scrap drawer this morning and pulled out (eyes closed again, BTW). Mmmmmm, quite the mix of patterns, uh? I chose to use a black card base because it was the most prominent (strongest) color of the mix. I liked the burgandy polka dot paper the best, so used it as the main background. I cut a wide strip of the black patterned paper and then attached 2 scalloped borders to it that were made out of the striped paper.

Since my poor Hero Arts doodle flower has not seen much love lately, I used it as the main image on the card. I first stamped it on a piece of Whisper White cardstock. Then I stamped it again on each of the three papers I chose this morning with eyes closed. Two leaves from each paper were attached to the flower stamped on the Whisper White cardstock. Since there are 8 leaves, I picked one more scrap pattern out of the scrap drawer for the last two leaves. The black and white center on the flower is a FABULOUS jumbo petal brad from Making Memories! Isn't it perfect????? Love it! The sentiment is new from Penny Black and was stamped on Whisper White cardstock. I decided not to mat the sentiment because it just didn't look right. I liked it unmatted and simple. My final step was to trim around the flower petals so the flower would really stand out on the card. It's adhered to the front with foam tape to give it some pop.

I could sit and stare at this card all day! I really love, love, love how it turned out. But, alas, no time for staring today, I've got lots of stamping that needs to get done this weekend. My family is leaving for "vacation" next Saturday, so I need to stock up on cards to bring with me to sell. Actually, I say vacation, but it's really a "working vacation"! This is where we are headed......up to our church camp, appropriately named Cathedral of the Pines (COP). COP is one of our most favorite places to spend our time. Each year, a few days after school lets out, we head up to camp for Family Work Week. A group of 20 families gather together to get the camp ready for the campers. This group picture is of the families we "hang" with year after year! We plant flowers, fix cabins, wash curtains, re-build decks....you name it, we do it! We stay until Thursday of the following week. The work is hard, but the fellowship experienced during the week with all of our close friends is priceless. We are all called to serve, and we are so thankful we have the priviledge to serve at COP each summer!



Have a wonderful day!