Who Made This Mess?

I’ve had a whirlwind of activity in the last month or so. First, I was in a frenzy making my swap cards for the #InspireCreateShare2014 Stampin’ Up! convention. After convention, I brought home loads and loads of supplies, stamp sets, and swap cards. I just dumped everything on the floor of my stamping room. Convention was wonderful, as usual, but it was exhausting (as usual) and I just couldn’t bring myself to organize. 

Then, at the last minute, I got invited to a “Christmas in July” direct sales open house, so I had to get together a quick make-and-take project and some of my already made items to sell. I just worked around the mess on my desk and on the floor.


Then, I had to pull together a project for the Creation Station blog hop–and ALL my blog entries for two weeks (the week leading up to vacation and the week of vacation). Yikes! After all that, it looks like a tornado hit my stamping room. See for yourselves. Here’s my desk.

And here’s the floor. (Wait. Is that a new box of Stampin’ Up! goodies on the floor, unopened?! Why yes, it is! It’s some of the supplies for my upcoming Christmas card stamp-a-stack classes.)

I feel like Molly on the old kids’ show “The Big Comfy Couch,” when she said, “Who made this mess? {giggle} Oh yeah, I did.” So, Just like Molly, I cleaned my room and now I feel so much better.

Today’s creation is another card that I made at the Unwind pre-convention event, hosted by Lydia Fielder. This is a clean and simple card using the Hearts and Stars Decorative Mask using daubers to apply the ink. I had to do some “doctoring” cuz I messed up the top of the Whisper White panel–but no fear–I just added a Real Red panel and then mounted it all on a Basic Gray card base. Still CAS, but with a little more oomph.

(Stamp Set: #hello; Inks: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Real Red; Card Stock: Basic Gray, Real Red, Whisper White; Accessories: Hearts and Stars Decorative Mask)