Scrap Stash Saturday!

Warning: Very long post. But it's a funny one, so be sure to read it from start to finish!!!

Ok, first things first. This is what I saw on our indoor/outdoor temperature gauge this morning at 5am....


And this is what the gauge read at 8a....

Mmm-mmmm, you're seeing it right. At 5a, it was 15.2 degrees....BELOW ZERO. And by 8am, it was 16.8 degrees BELOW ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh. I can't remember the last time I've seen temps this low. It's been a very long time! On our way home from the hockey game last night, my husband told us that we would have to take some boiling water outside in the morning, throw it up in the air, and with temps this cold, it should almost freeze in the air on it's way down. Well, if you say something like that to my youngest son, you'd better be ready to deliver. So, this morning, he and I boiled some water, took it outside, and threw it up in the air!!!!! This is what happened...It happened so fast it was hard to get a good shot of it. It doesn't freeze entirely, but it certainly hardens up as it's falling! We could only attempt the experiment a few times before we had to take our sorry butts back into the house where it was cozy warm. It is UNBELIEVABLE how cold it is outside peeps. With the windchill today, temps will be up to 40 below zero! When it's this cold, you have to be VERY careful going outside for any extended periods of time. And yes, people still go outside and do winter stuff in this parts of the country when it's this cold. It doesn't shut the city down or anything. Kids would still have to go to school, activities don't get cancelled. If you don't live in this part of the country, be very, very, happy today! Can you imagine the Green Bay Packer/Giants game tomorrow in Green Bay? It's an OUTDOOR stadium people!!!!! Would you, for any amount of money, sit in an outdoor stadium watching the NFC Championship Game in weather like this? NO WAY IN HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You'd have to be seriously coo-coo to do that (which Packer fans are!!!!), in my honest opinion!

Ok, now on to the good stuff. It's back! That's right, your favorite day of the week here at Heartfelt Greetings has returned in all it's glory. For those of you who are new readers to my blog, I'll explain how Scrapstash Saturdays work.....every Saturday, I pull four pieces of scrap paper (designer) out of my scrap drawer to make a card with. The special little twist that takes this challenge from "standard blog fare" to "over-the-top-exciting" is that I pull out the four papers WITH MY EYES CLOSED! That's right--I can't pick and choose which papers I want to use (ie, papers that MATCH), much to my chagrin. Oh no, the worse the papers clash, the happier my readers are!! Isn't that right longtime readers?????? Even though this is quite the challenge, I have to be honest and tell you that it's MY favorite day of the week too. I haven't had a Scrapstash Saturday in such a long time, it was great to get my fingers dirty again yesterday trying to make the papers I picked come to life in a new and exciting way!

So, are you ready to see what got picked out of the scrap drawer? Actually, I don't think the papers were all that bad together this week. In fact, it was pretty easy putting this card together. I think my scrap drawer knew I hadn't played this game in a such a long time it went easy on me, LOL. Without further ado, here are the papers I had to play with...

See, not so bad. Do you want to see what I did with them????? Can I tell you a little secret? I LOVE how this card turned out. I used a really old stamp that I've had laying around for forever, and came up with this card using all four papers....{squeal}....I'm geeked with how it turned out!!!! It looks so much better IRL than it does in this picture, but I hope you can somewhat see the shiny coat of glaze I put over each heart. It looks so cool IRL!!! You guys all want to come over today to see it in person????

What???? Are you shaking your head NO?????? What are you talking about? You're willing to blow me off because you're afraid of a little cold? Jeepers. Fair weather friends. You'd blow me off because of temps 16 below zero???? Geez...what a bunch of wimps. I thought we were soul sisters? I thought we were "sisters-in stamping", there for each other through thick and thin????!!!!! Good times and bad????? For richer or poorer????? Wow. Reality check. I guess you'd put your welfare before my happiness. I'm crushed.

I think it's time for me to go drown my sorrows in a bowl of cereal. Hopefully I won't freeze my butt off on the way to the kitchen. By the way, you all know, I'm just kidding about all this? Well, I'm not kidding about the temperature here, but I'm kidding about calling you wimps.

But just so you know, if you lived in sunny CA or FL and wanted me to race right over to see a card that looked really cool IRL, I'd be on the first plane outta here, in a heartbeat, just for you. I take my responsibilites as a sister-in-stamping very seriously. More seriously than some, I guess.

Staying warm,

Amy