It's a very sparkly spring morning and I've been rushing around taking care of animals and trying to make a dent to the never-ending "to-do" list, but look what I spied, with my little eyes when I rounded the corner to go feed horsies this morning:
Well, shoot. This picture isn't exactly worth a thousand words, but trust me: it was a beautiful sight. Thousands of tiny purple flowers, standing at full attention to honor the morning sun... In a spot where I have NEVER seen such a thing. We've lived on these lovely seven acres for nearly 10 years and for some reason, this spring I'm already seeing a host of new visitors, including mustard flowers! These changes amaze me. For a few years, the top of our hill would be smattered with poppies, now it's got mustard: weird. I gave up gardening about year 1 of living here. Couldn't win over gophers, chickens or dogs, so I let "Mother Nature" wield her brush and then I just enjoy...
So, to honor NATURE doing it's thing: here's another card made with leftovers. It's not my favorite contribution to this blog, but it was surprisingly quick to make and all but the flowers were leftovers, table scraps, tote salad or CARD CASSEROLE (as miss Paperdaydream calls it..)...
All card stock and stamps are by S/U! and the daisies were created with my glorious Sizzix machine, as was the label shape (background -"Top Note"). The two original elements were the striped pattern paper which was, literally, that little fragment you see here: I couldn't throw it away!!! And the "Thanks a bunch" that I had stamped and colored and punched, just to play. I didn't love the way that looked enough to use it for the original card I had intended.. Still, I COULDN'T THROW THAT AWAY, EITHER! Sheesh. So, once again, to honor the Gods, paper lovers, hoarders and scrapaholics everywhere: this one's for you!
Enjoy your day!
Well, shoot. This picture isn't exactly worth a thousand words, but trust me: it was a beautiful sight. Thousands of tiny purple flowers, standing at full attention to honor the morning sun... In a spot where I have NEVER seen such a thing. We've lived on these lovely seven acres for nearly 10 years and for some reason, this spring I'm already seeing a host of new visitors, including mustard flowers! These changes amaze me. For a few years, the top of our hill would be smattered with poppies, now it's got mustard: weird. I gave up gardening about year 1 of living here. Couldn't win over gophers, chickens or dogs, so I let "Mother Nature" wield her brush and then I just enjoy...
So, to honor NATURE doing it's thing: here's another card made with leftovers. It's not my favorite contribution to this blog, but it was surprisingly quick to make and all but the flowers were leftovers, table scraps, tote salad or CARD CASSEROLE (as miss Paperdaydream calls it..)...
All card stock and stamps are by S/U! and the daisies were created with my glorious Sizzix machine, as was the label shape (background -"Top Note"). The two original elements were the striped pattern paper which was, literally, that little fragment you see here: I couldn't throw it away!!! And the "Thanks a bunch" that I had stamped and colored and punched, just to play. I didn't love the way that looked enough to use it for the original card I had intended.. Still, I COULDN'T THROW THAT AWAY, EITHER! Sheesh. So, once again, to honor the Gods, paper lovers, hoarders and scrapaholics everywhere: this one's for you!
Enjoy your day!
3 comments:
Love that you also hold onto paper...all of it! :> When I enlarged the pic, I could see the purple pretties embellishing your field!! Glad you are having fun and putting your scraps to use! Love your alternating daisies! :>
I love your bloomin little card! I am very partial to that super cute label.
Very cute. Leftovers are so yummy!!!
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