The weather has been just lovely for most of the week, although it's supposed to cool down and rain or maybe even snow tomorrow. But that's March in Utah, I guess.
The last several days have been busy! Work, celebrating Melody's birthday, and trying to get caught up on sleep. That last part I haven't been too good at, so I've been taking a few early nights lately when I would rather have been playing in my attic. But it's part of finding the right balance, I guess. That's hard for me to do, but I hope I'm getting better.
Anyway, I did manage to do a few things, although I had to spread projects out over days rather than finishing in an evening. First up, a birthday card I made for Melody. Cards aren't my thing, so this was pretty directly lifted from Betsy Veldman.
Her birthday was Thursday so after work I walked over to meet with her and her family at the new Cheesecake Factory at City Creek Mall which had just opened that day. It's a sweet mall... I only work a few blocks away which could be awesome and dangerous all at once. lol. I took a few pictures on my phone - I just need to transfer them to my computer and see if any of them are any good - the lighting was pretty bad in there.
We had a good time and I attempted to balance the banana cream cheesecake with chicken lettuce tacos from the skinnilicious menu. I tell myself that works. lol.
And I also finished a layout that I started a few nights ago - this one of the kiddos on a swimming outing. I used a Starting Point from Shimelle's Hitchhiker's Guide to Scrapbooking class as well as a few assignments from the sentiment stamps chapter in Jen Gallacher's Scrapbook Stamping workshop.
I used my Studio Calico Story Hour kit and add-ons to start, then added some other stuff - old epoxy circles, new stamps from Heidi Swapp, and some slightly old embellishments from American Crafts layered with really old washer accents from Making Memories.
I got a little carried away with the liquid pearls on the Thickers - but they needed a little something to stand out. My hands were a bit shaky so it's not perfect, but I like it.
I tend to really avoid sentiment stamps - the only ones I have are your basic "Happy Birthday" and "Merry Christmas" ones and a few others that happened to come in sets with the images I really wanted. So it's been good for me to find new ways to use them and appreciate them a bit more.
I was going to get rid of those washers, but realized that I still really like them and they're fun in layered accents like these.k. I think I might need a nap now :)
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