Wow I can hardly believe it's challenge 9 already! The sad thing is I haven't been able to enter the challenge since #5. I tried last week, but it was Sunday evening and it just wasn't working out. For this challenge I had to try twice before I got it right. My sweetie bought me two stamps for Sweetest Day. I got these two stamps: Happy Hoppers An Apple A Day and Splish, Splash...A Citrus Bath. We also found some fabric to make curtains for the bedroom, woohoo we don't have to wake up to the super sunshine in the am :D. I will probably be sewing again tomorrow or at least getting them cut out.
Back to the challenge, this card is a little larger than I usually make. Lately I've been doing 5.5"x5.5". This time since the stamp was a little larger I went with 6"x6". I hope sometime to make it to Hollo's papercrafts to get some of the envelopes for these size cards. They have some pretty good deals on envelopes and paper. So if you live in the Cleveland area or don't mind going on roadtrip Hollo's Papercrafts is the place to go. If you go you might as well hit all the scrapbook and stamp stores along the way, hehehe.
Okay okay so here is the card.
I had to trim some of the image off in order to make it fit the card. I love this BoBunny Back to Backs dbl sided paper I think it's perfect for this. Also, the green ric rac I found at Big Lots and I think it fit perfectly. The velvet brads set it off perfectly, not sure of the brand as they were a RAK. All of this on Bazzill cardstock.
Tonight I went shopping for my secret pal. I unfortunately did not have any luck finding her something from her list and I went to two places. Well the second place was JoAnn Fabrics. My friend mentioned she was going to the fabric section after we looked over the scrap section. Oh yeah I said I need to look at some fabric too. I want to make curtains for the dining room and for the window in the kitchen. After looking and looking and making comments about all sorts of tie dye/hippie fabric or cute insect fabric that of course would be better suited for a toddler or preschooler. I finally found my Chef fabric. There was only 2.75 yds on the bolt I asked them to call the store near me to see if they had anymore of this fabric and they did but only 2 yds and 20". I said save it for me. I still am not sure this will be enough for all four windows especially with the kitchen window being a bit wider than the others. I just want to do cafe style curtains and a valance. I may have to put a border on the fabric too since it's only 45" wide. I also found some skull fabric that I thought would be perfect for Noah's windows. He decided to take a room in the basement and I thought a yd and a 1/2 would be plenty for such narrow windows, actually I think a yd is enough, but of course I was talked into the additional 1/2 yd just in case. I'm looking forward to getting these measured out and sewn. I should see if I can find a picture of the fabric so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about. Well I can't find a good picture of the fabric on the net. It's three chef's riding bicycles or a motor scooter with a brown/tan background. The background looks sort of woodgrain. Well I hope it'll make up into nice cafe curtains. If not I see there are a ton of cute novelty fabrics out there by Lorilynn Simms. I'll be getting creative but with fabric instead of paper. I have several windows to make curtains for, but will want to papercraft in between. I love the light that comes in this house, but when you're trying to sleep in, all the light makes it a bit difficult ;).
Thanks for stopping by and hopefully soon I'll have something creative to post either curtains, a LO or a card. :D
I had to trim some of the image off in order to make it fit the card. I love this BoBunny Back to Backs dbl sided paper I think it's perfect for this. Also, the green ric rac I found at Big Lots and I think it fit perfectly. The velvet brads set it off perfectly, not sure of the brand as they were a RAK. All of this on Bazzill cardstock.
