Thinking of You

On Monday one of my girls proclaimed, "Mommy, I want to scrapbook all day long"! Be still my heart, child! You got it! We set to work, although "all day long" equates to about two hours in a four year old's life. And I loved those two hours although I didn't get an ounce of my own craftiness in. This is what she created based upon my holiday hugs card from a few days ago:

Is it not precious?

So, yesterday I made some time for my own craftiness and set to work on the CPS sketch for the week. I made it fit with the SPCC color combo, too.

Have you ever made a card and just could.not.stand.it? Well, I have no earthly idea where my creativity was/is, but here's what I originally came up with:

Oh my gosh! Dreadfully boring! Unless you're into straight lines, no visual interest, and very strict adherence to the sketch. I could not sleep last night just thinking about how dreadful it was!

So, this morning I tore it all up and added some stuff. Yes, I tore it all up, instead of starting fresh, because I'm cheap environmentally conscious like that. I scalloped the border of the lavender paper, added a layer of the patterned paper which has really cool velvet red circles (so texture) and green to match the chair, and added a scalloped piece of lavender paper on top of the red plain circle (which is opposite of what we generally do, but it looks cool, I think.) I like it better now. Now it's more worthy of entering these challenges.


The image is from Stamping Bella. She's cool and fun to color with copics.

Have a great day, everyone!