I made a card for one of my all-time favorite challenges, One Layer Wednesday. The Outstanding Originator is Susan Raihala and her site is here. The links to the four amazing hostesses of this challenge can always be found on the side bar of her site.
This week our magnificent hostess is Heather Telford who has come up with a very original idea! At least it is to me. We are to look around our kitchens for inspiration. I had so many inspirations, I was a little dizzy, a not uncommon feeling. I decided to go with the design on the holder of my kitchen shears (not to be used for anything other than food under penalty of death).
I first tried to whatdyacallit where you put a piece of paper over the image and then rub a pencil on it to bring up the design. Remember we did that in elementary school? But that would only work on copier paper which I would then have to glue to cardstock and that would make it more than one layer and that would be naughty. So I drew it, not very well. For the indentations, I used a small leaf stamp from SU, because I don't have a teeny-tiny raindroppy stamp.
I colored it too literally. Or rather I should say, I wish I had used some imagination and made it brightly colored. It's doing nothing for me colored as it is, but we've all been in this kafuffle where we spend a LOT of time on a card and come away feeling blech about it, but golly chips, we are going to go ahead and show it to the world anyhoo because we spent a LOT of time on it, pride be hanged.
Isn't that a great idea for a challenge though? You should look around your kitchen, kick it up, and join in!
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While I was at it, it occurred to me that you might like to see how I have used stamps to create decor in my home. After a search, I even found a challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers for this very thing! And, a quick edit, as now I also see that Simon Says Stamp has an "Anything BUT a Card" challenge going on!
Here is a picture of my living room. Sorry, I had to take it with the shades drawn because of the glare. (She's not a bad neighbor and I don't know what I did to tick her off, but seriously, doesn't she have anything better to do than stand there and glare at me?)
I got the frames at IKEA. The stamps are from the Stampin' Up! set, "Reverse Prints," which I stamped onto Old Olive cardstock. I love them so much.
I'm delighted to welcome Mrs. Harry as a new follower! Her brand-new blog is called De-Stressing My Life and she makes really cute cards!
Enjoy! As always, thank you for stopping by to visit. Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment!
Paper: PTI white
Ink: Marvy black marker; and
Memento desert sand
