Awww....nuts.....

.....I don't have a new card to show. I'm hard at work on one, I swear, but it's a work in progress. It's a LOT of coloring & I haven't been home much this weekend. Yesterday the kids & I spent the day at my mom's, & today I met my friend Cris for coffee & a wee bit o' shopping. I was good, I spent less than $15 ~~~well, not counting the Vanilla Coffee Cooler I had at Caribou Coffee! But it was soooo yummy & I'm pretty sure I used up all of my calories with that one cup of icy goodness!

So......I will hopefully get that card done tonight. But since my last few posts have been ramblings & expressions of frustration over the idiosyncracies of blogging, I did want to share a card with you. This is the card I did for the May Project of the Month at High Hopes. It was a fun card to make, & it's always a thrill to see MY card posted on the web site!!


It didn't turn out like it was supposed to. I had an idea in my head & this wasn't quite it, but it's still okay. Heck, Jeanne Streiff made the other card for that month, that's a LOT of pressure!! I had to make sure it didn't look TOO bad next to hers!! LOL!! Anyway, I used SU's Basic Gray & Pink Passion papers, plus Papertrey Ink's Stamper's Select white card stock. I used a Splatter background ~~ the very first "background" stamp I bought (although it's smaller than SU's background stamps) ~~ which I *think* is from All Night Media on the white layer, then stamped the bag of peanuts & the single peanut all over the vertical strip. I used the corner rounder for the scallops (this was before I found Fiskar's wonderful Threading Water border punch!!), SU's ticket corner punch on all the corners & a bit of silver cord in the corner. I went a little overboard sponging behind the elephant, but all in all it turned out okay!!!!

Now off to work on that card with the NEW releases from High Hopes!!!