Believe in your dreams

I love this new Cosmo Cricket valentine paper!! It has every one of my favorite colors. This morning, I've been busy making a few Valentine's cards with it, so maybe tomorrow I'll be able to share those with you. But for today, I'll share this card I made last weekend, using the same Cosmo Cricket paper....

Now, this card has something extra special on it that I hardly ever use. Can you guess what it is? Prima flowers! For some reason, Prima flowers and me just dont' work together very well, and I have no logical reason why. I just don't like the look of flowers on my cards. I have two BIG jarfuls of flowers, but, surprise-surprise, I can never seem to find the right color flower to match my card. But this card was different. I was determined to dig, dig, dig, deep into my jar and find some flowers that would work. And I did!!! And I like how the flowers look on this card! Woo-hoo! Since I'm really working hard this year to use the supplies I have on hand instead of buying more, being able to use some of my Primas makes me giddy with joy!!!

Of course, because the paper is so beautiful, there's not alot of stamping on this card, but who cares? Do you think that's why I'm not asked very often to join many design teams? ,LOL. Sometimes I just let the paper do the talking instead of the stamps! I kind of feel like I don't fit in with the hard core serious stampers (cuz I used so much designer paper), nor do I fit in with the scrappy card makers (cuz I use to many stamps). Are there any design teams out there looking for middle-of-the-road stamping/scrapping cardmakers? If so, I'm the gal for you!!!!! LOL. I need to find a design team who's company designs both paper AND stamps:)!!!!!! Actually, I'm not looking to be on any more design teams. I LOVE working with Julee at Verve and with Webster's Pages and think anything more would put me over the edge. But it sure would be nice to be asked for a change. Thank God Julee asked me way back when she was putting together her team--I love working with her, she is amazing!!!!!

Actually, I'm not really sure why I got off on this little tangent today. Maybe because I keep reading about all these fabulous stampers being invited to be on tons of different design teams? I keep thinking....what am I? Chopped Liver? No, I'm just a middle-of-the-road stamper/scrapper who likes to make cards with both stamps and designer paper. I'm happy with what I am and that's all that matters, right? RIGHT!!!!!

Well, it's time for me to go get some stampin' done! Today is one of those lounge-around-in-my-sweats day, the kind of day when I refuse to take a shower. Gotta give my skin a break when it's so cold here (wind chill today is supposed to be 25 BELOW zero!!!), hot showers zap what little moisture is there on days like today. Saturday the high is supposed to be like -10!! Yikes!

Hugs,
Amy