Saturday, March 27, 2010

Game Play

I confess to being challenge oriented.  I have always been quite competitive and have learned to use it as a motivator in my life.  Yes, I play mind games with myself.  If I finish the laundry, I can have 30 minutes of scrapping.  Survive grading midterms?  Off for a pedicure.  Finish my weekly to do list by Friday and I get Saturday off to scrap and play.

See how it works?  One of my favorite games occurs when new product arrives.  You know I am DYING to rip open the packaging and dive into the scrappy goodness.  But I stop myself.  Before I can play with new, I must head into the closet and earn the right by using the same company's previous pretties.  Once I create one layout or three cards, then I can open the new package and enjoy. 

I have new Pink Paislee.  Right here in beside me.  Teasing me.  I earned the right to open the first line and played happily with Bayberry.  But now Queen Bee is calling to me.  It wants to be opened and loved.  I grabbed my PP stash and got to work!

I headed over to 2S4U and admired Laura's sketch 48.  Lovely!  I mixed up a few different PP lines and made this card--first of the 3 I will owe myself.


Hello.  Supplies:  Paper, Journal Card, Stickers, Chipboard, Brads: Pink Paislee, Bling: Heidi Swapp, Punch: Fiskars.

Because I love to be challenged, I love trying different scrappy challenges.  Right now, I have joined a team (Go Lemondrops!) to play along with a challenge at The Greeting Farm.  I love their stamps!  It was their little girl that I had such fun making rain for last week.  The first challenge was to go retro and use a posted color scheme.  I was up first for our team and created this little girl:


Cat's Meow.  Supplies: Digital Stamp: Dressy Ebony by The Greeting Farm, Paper: Crate Paper, Cardstock: Couture Cardstock, Markers: Copic, Fonts: Franklin Gothic, Bauhaus 93, Thread: DMC, Other: feather, sequins.

There are 60 teams entered in the contest with lots of talented designers.  I cannot wait to see what everyone created!  I love the way a challenge pushes me to think a bit harder about what to create.  I hope my flapper has fun at the party!

8 comments:

  1. Stunning work!
    Thanks for playing at 2S4Y!
    Laura

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  2. Sweet cards! Love your brad flower! :)

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  3. love the new blog! and you have evolved into quite the cardmaker...when you set your mind to something...HAPPENS!

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  4. Gorgeous cards... Love the flower in the first one, and the beautifully lined up sequins in the second.

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  5. very sweet cards!! thanks for joining us at 2S4Y!

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  6. Awesome card!!! So outside the box!!! Great job Dora!!!

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