Scrap Stash Saturday

Well, first let me say, this week's Scrap Stash Saturday was the worst I've ever had. Honestly, I beg your forgiveness--I personally think this card stinks!

My heart sank the minute I opened my eyes up and looked at what I had pulled--there was NO WAY these papers had a remote chance of looking good together.

But, since I'm a team player and a really honest person, I decided to forge ahead anyways and make a card that wasn't too offensive to you. I'm not sure I even achieved THAT goal, LOL! I thought about putting the papers back and starting over, but my heart knew that wasn't very honest. I figured I've got a pardon due me, I've pretty much been able to make the papers work every week since I started this feature! What's one week, right? You win some, you lose some. This week, IMO, is being chalked up as a loss.....

Ok, here goes. I'm sweating just thinking about posting my card. Can you just picture how this is paining me?

Let's just start with the paper first.....this is what I pulled yesterday when I got the ball rolling on today's card. Bleck, bleck, gag-a-mundo!!! Look at the paper on the left side of the picture....that paper is locally produced for the high schools in town! This company produces scrapbook paper for each of the high schools in the area. I buy it to make graduation cards in the spring! Can you BELIEVE I actually pulled this paper to make today's card? Yuck!!! How in the world was I going to incorporate "Lakeville Panthers" paper into my card? Jeepers.

The rest of the papers absolutely had no commonalities whatsoever, except for black in the word "Panthers" and the black in the green American Craft paper in the center.

I decided to use the blue Webster's Pages paper as my main background. I'm not sure why, but maybe it was because it had the most muted colors of all of the papers. I made two flowers out of the green American Crafts paper. I was desperate for a three dimensional flower, so I took my SU scallop punch and punched out two circles. Then I cut a slit to the center (or nearly) all the way around the scallop. I started each cut right in the center of a scallop, not BETWEEN the scallops. Then I used my 3/8 in circle punch and punched a circle out of the peach paper, and put that right in the middle of the flower. Then I used my 1/2 inch circle punch and punched a circle out of the Panther paper, and glued that right on top of the peach paper. I made sure I used as little of the Panther paper as possible! To make the flower three dimensional, I pulled up every other petal. Can you see that in this pictures?

To create the stem and leaves on the flower, I just used my sewing machine to sew a zig zag stitch right on the brown cardstock. Then sentiment is from Verve Visual.

Ready to see the finished product? Let me first say, I'm not responsible for any nightmares you might have tonight from looking at this card. Trust me, I'll have my own nightmares. How will I ever redeem myself from this travesty?


I'm so sorry today's card stinks! I tried, but this time, even I failed. Is there a lesson in all of this? Mmmm, yes. That it's time to get rid of Scrap Stash Saturdays? Na. Cheat and keep one eye open the whole time I'm picking out scraps? Mmmm, maybe. Just kidding, I wouldn't do that, that's half the fun. Maybe that it's not the outcome that's important, it's the journey??? That lesson is probably the one that makes the most sense, doesn't it? My guess is that the biggest lesson of all in this failure is that it doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

I played, fair and square with the papers I picked out. Whether the card turned out doesn't matter, I guess. I did what I could. I just hope you're not laughing too hard after seeing it. I cry when people laugh at me. You don't want to make me cry, do you?

That's it, I'm signing off. I can hear you laughing hysterically, even wiping away the tear or two that threatened to spill from your eyes because you were laughing so hard. I'm glad I could bring a smile to your face!

Have a wonderful day, peeps!

Hugging you through my tears,
Amy