Sweet Stems - Punched

I love when I need to relax alittle and head to my craft cave, and though I need this "me" time, my 12 yo needs "mom" time. Well not really "mom time" in which I thought it meant spending time with me, it was actually vent time.. "Mom, can you please listen to this.. "or "Why would they did do that?"..... or my favorite "I wish she would stop calling me..." For the first part of the conversation, I give her the full body attention she wants... then as the story goes on and on, I slowly start putting my thoughts to paper in which she will say "Oh you can do that while I talk"... which ultimately means she will critic my work, while she chats about what friends are doing, or teachers, or whatever is on her mind... this is her version of "me time with mom"... and her brother cannot comment since we are in the cave and he is elsewhere in the house battling with soldiers to win another war type game on the Xbox (or am I to say 360? I never say it right. ha ha) We have this pattern down, where she even knows when I am looking for scissors, adhesive, ribbon, and merely gets up and walks around to get them for me, and I remain seated... but if I mutter ONE WORD... ONE SIGH... ONE LOOK .... the conversation is over. Good thing some of the 'talks' are etched in my brain so if I am quizzed later, I remember, only the highlighted areas...so I have learned.

Just when you thought you couldn't....you can multi task with a babbling 12 yo girl, that is my last thought for you today!

So todays card... Sweet stems... I do not have this stamp set (which is now retired) but at some point, I stamped a bunch of the flowers off, and kept them for later. I didn't actually use the Stamp set, I made a set of the flowers from the SU! 5 petal punch. I am pleased with the turn out. Check it out!

I incorporated the Card Positioning System Challenge 155.



Ingredients:
CS: Celery, Pomegranate, White, Kraft
SU! Textured BS plates - dots on White, and swirls on Pomegranate
Half pearls, dimensionals, Stem from 2 step bird punch

Finally... A CARD!!!

Yes, I know I can hardly believe it myself... but with some of the creative juices left from a great Stamp Camp I attended on Saturday morning, I finished up the cards that I needed for a swap. Though these pictures do not show true colors, you will get the idea.

I used Tangerine Tango and Glorious green Cardstock. I have been eyeing these colors up on the fashion magazines for a while, and finally just put them to use. I added alittle pink, which orginally was going to be a layer behind the Whisper White, but I never managed to cut it down, and noticed it while I was cleaning up... "oh look.. the pink!"... oh well. Since I am such a ribbon hoarder, I used this Orange polka dot printed ribbon.

I borrowed the stamp set Sweet Stems from a stamping buddy, in which I have given serious thought to purchasing myself... with the possibilities that is has! Just my luck, I will get it and it will retire. Oh well! I just dapped alittle Frosted Ice Stickles on the white part of the flower, after I markered the others with pink, orange, and green.

For the inside I managed to repeated the same flower, and just simply use my white gel pen, on the flower, which is on the lower right hand corner.

Thanks for looking! Have a great day!