some things are growing

Like, for instance, this pile of wedding presents from our registry. Yikes.

And my desire to be creative again. Yippee! Course, having some sources of inspiration helps. I made this card (and one for my mom) for my sister last night to send out with her Mother's Day gift. It's based on Kristina Werner's "Make a Card Monday" design from this week, although I just realized that I forgot to scribble something like "love you" on the front.

Another thing that's growing are trees that pollenate. Ick. Our allergies were going crazy tonight during the walk home.

color inspiration card

I was reading this month's ScrapSupply newsletter earlier tonight and came across the guest designer section featuring Kristina Werner. I was curious by the caption that said, "Kristina's Make a Card Monday video was just made a YouTube Featured video". What's 'Make a Card Monday'?, I thought to myself. Low and behold, they are some pretty cool videos that Kristina has posted on YouTube -- to the tune of funky music I might add -- where she shows how to make a card from start to finish. Brilliant!

Then I went perusing even more and found her blog. Ahhhhhh! [<--- this is where that godly sound from heaven kicks in] She's got some really cool project ideas and a weekly "Color Inspiration Challenge". This week's palette is based on this:

So then I thought, hmmmm ... I think I could put a card together in the next two hours for this challenge. And voila! (Note: it's 8 minutes until deadline, I better hustle!)

It's a 3" x 6" card. The base is made out of chocolate card weight paper from Paper Source. I punched out a gazillion little flowers from cream cardstock and glued them to the scalloped background piece. I made the scalloped background piece by punching out two scalloped squares (using the Marvy Uchida pink punch) and then taping them together on the backside as they overlapped a little bit. I covered the seam with the flowers so you can't tell it's two pieces. Then I added some of the chipboard alphabet stickers by Heidi Swapp to spell out 'mom', and put some rhinestones in the middle of some of the flowers. I used the new bird stamp and embossed onto some of the chocolate cardstock and cut it out closely around the edges.