Today is the last day to play the challenges in the Taylored Expressions Birthday Bash on the SASI Blog and be able to be entered for the awesome prizes.  There are 13 challenges to choose from, so I know you’ll find something that tickles your fancy.  You don’t have to use TE stamps and you can combine the challenges any way you like.  I had hoped to play in a bunch of them, but I ended up spending most of the 3 day weekend cleaning up and organizing my stamp room.  It’s still not 100% finished, but I stopped at 85% finished so I could stamp some.

This card is for 2 challenges - Sharon’s inspiration and Laurie’s paper distressing.

Sharon’s inpsiration photo really spoke to me and I wanted to work in one of my favorite styles - shabby chic.  I used some retired SU colors - Cool Caribbean and Pink Pirouette along with Close to Cocoa and Shimmer White for the 5.25″ square card.  The colors are actually a little softer in real life, but I had a hard time getting a really good photo. The bird from SU Friends 24-7 is embossed with Close to Cocoa craft ink and clear ep and then die cut with a rectangle Spellbinders Nestie and matted on scallop rectangle nesties.  Behind that is a curved rectangle nestie with some piercing in the corners.  The pink panel is stamped with the flourish from the same stamp set. The button is actually just Caribbean cardstock die cut with Spellbinders Timeless Heritage die and then rubbed with Brilliance Pearl Beige ink.  I used the Brilliance ink around a lot of the panel edges as well.  It has a beautiful shimmery pearl finish and I just noticed that eclectic Paperie has these on sale. I used the distressing tool from my SU Cutter Kit to rough up the pink and caribbean panel edges - I’ve always loved that little bit of texture you can get from doing that.

Isn’t that little key charm so cool?  I had to run to Michael’s this weekend to pick up something for my organizing project.  I hadn’t been in there in awhile and I was surprised to see two full aisles now dedicated to beading and jewelry making.  There was a large section of charms on cards that are fantastic for card making!  This key is from Blue Moon Charms - Lost & Found Collection.  I got 5 charms on a card for $3.99.  I thought that was pretty afordable.

Between my stamp room being a wreck and all this turmoil with the new SU IDA I’ve really been in a stamping funk.  It felt good to just get stuff out and PLAY with this card.  :)  I have a Stampin’ Up! class coming up Friday night and have lots of prep to do for that.  I’m happy to have a mostly clean space to work in. Thanks for stopping by.

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