He is risen!

Howdy peeps!  How are you?  I've been a stamping fool.  Now don't laugh.......I have been stamping, and I think I'm a fool to try and enter this Artisan Award contest. 

I stamped alot yesterday, (inbetween laundry, taxes, cooking, cleaning and trying to be a good mom) and since my stamping mojo was apparently off having margaritas somewhere,  I decided to just copy a card I had seen.  You know, just to get things lubed up again.  I needed some thank you cards and thought I'd get that checked off the "to-do list". 

They took me hours but they came out really cute.  And not at all like the card I was going to copy.  I am such a slow stamper.  I popped them in the mail today and I'll show them here in a day or so after they are received.

I had planned on staying up late last night because you know how you get on a roll and you have all these great ideas starting?  That was finally starting to happen for me and then I had to stop everything and get Grace in bed.  Well, that made me realize I was tired.  So I didn't get anything posted here and I went to bed.  Sleep deprivation makes for a grumpy mom.

Of course my mojo needed a jumpstart again today.  So why not check out the Stamping 411 sketch?  I haven't played over there in weeks.  I love their sketches. 

Here is what I ended up with.  Only took me about 2 hours.  Which is kinda fast for me. 

Refuge and Strength set.  Kraft, soft suede, whisper white and old olive cardstock.  So saffron and soft sueded inks.  Paper piercer, 3/4" circle punch, 2 step bird punch, hemp, polka dot embossing folder (wart maker), aquapainter and dimensionals. 


I've been thinking Easter cards lately.  Can you believe its only 5 days away?  Can you believe I have to leave my family that day to go to Iowa?  Geez.........

I almost considered saving this for the Artisan Award contest but its not really AA contest quality.

I used the computer to make the sentiment.  Looking at it here, I wish I had moved my palm fronds (yes, those are palm fronds) down and showed the cross a little more. 

You can't really see it here, but my button was a little too small for my banner.  So I punched out a 3/4" circle of Soft Suede, distressed the edges and glued it behind the button.  Made it just the right size. 

I also took my aquapainter and with a really wet brush picked up some Soft Suede from my ink lid and then flicked it onto the cross panel.  Who needs a spritzer?

Everything kinda sticks out from the card. I think I need to figure out how to do picture editing because it looks so much nicer in person.  Kinda washed out here.  But its cloudy today, we have a storm coming.  Not that it will actually rain but you never know. 

Alrighty then, I'm going back to the grindstone and see if I can whip up some creative genius for this contest. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Blesings, b.

p.s.  I just went over to the Stamping 411 site to get their link and I see Robin has made a card using the same set as me!  Great minds think alike.