Scrap Stash Saturday

Here are the four papers I blindly pulled from my scrap drawer yesterday afternoon for today's card. Bright, uh? In my opinion, not such a bad mix, but for some of you, you might be suffering hives right now looking at these mis-matched beauties.

While the papers didn't bother me so much this time, coming up with an original layout did. Grrr, it's making me grumpy! What is my problem? Sounds like many of you who read this blog have been experiencing the same sort of thing lately; creative block. I wonder what's up? Should we blame it on the change in seasons? Pressure from all the blogs we're reading? Pressure to "perform", feeling like we constantly have to produce top-notch, original artwork so we can impress everyone who's path we cross? To be honest, I think this might be part of MY problem right now. I don't want to post anything "sub-standard" for fear of disappointing my readers, so I put a lot of pressure on myself to always come up with something original and amazing. It's not been working out so well (in my opinion) lately, so I get frustrated. A frustrated artist. Not a surprise. I think most artists get frustrated from time to time. I just need to put it all into perspective and get a grip! {{{{{{Get a grip, girl!!!!}}}}}}

Now that I've got that off my chest, here's the card I managed to come up with for today. Can you spot all the papers? Obviously, I used the polka dot paper as my main pattern. ALERT: SNEAK PEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you see the circles I used to make my flower petals (with the red floral paper, by the way) with????? And do you see the fabulous sentiment that reads "I made a wish and you came true"? These are stamps from one of two new Verve Visual stamp set releases coming out on November 10th! The name of the set is called Wonderful Wishes, which contains 17 (yes, 17) stamps....three shapes in which to stamp one of 14 different sentiments. How totally cool is that? And the sentiments are amazing...."Wishing you a speedy recovery", Wishing you a lifetime of happy tomorrows", and "May all your wishes come true". You have every sentiment you could possibly need to make a zillion cards! Don't miss out on this new release. Check out the Verve blog for continued sneak peeks the rest of the week, ok?

Back to where all the papers ended up on the card.....the green is obvious--it's the leaves and stem of the flower. The pink paper is a little more difficult to find. It's behind the green flower center, and it's also behind the red flower petals....I matted the flower with it and then cut around the flower using my tiny scallop scissors.

There you go. Another successful week of Scrap Stash Saturday. Hope you liked the card!

Hugs,
Amy