Hello Spring!

I finally have something creative to post!

I wanted to create a spring banner

and started on it last week-end

but it was one of those days

when NOTHING went right in the magic kingdom...

so I set it aside

after completing the "base" of it.

Yesterday afternoon & evening

I embellished it...

finished it...

and then discovered that

where I wanted to hang it---

(across the church pew we have in our kitchen

as seating...)

it didn't show up too well.

I didn't realize

quite how large it is...

I may have to put it there anyway.

I used Close to My Heart's new paper

Chantilly

along with CTMH Cricut cartridges

Artiste and Art Philosophy

Some retired CTMH stamp sets...

 

along with some contraband (aka not CTMH product...)

I really like how it came together...

I just should have used maybe three of the banner pieces

and condensed it a little.

Oh well.

I had fun

and it certainly looks spring-y.

You cannot see it in the pics

but I added a little holographic embossing

between the banner pieces so it has some sparkle.

The pom-pom trim is just too fun not to include it.

 

Now...

I need to go clean up my creative mess.

Oh-

and speaking of which---

this is one of those

I never thought of that before

ah-hah moments.

This past week

the copier in my office went down.

After a thorough exam with flashlight,

tweezers, etc. and seeing no tidbits of paper

jammed somewhere it shouldn't be

(as the machine kept telling me there was...)

I called my friendly Xerox repairman.

He came out.

He found no paper stuck, either.

What he did find, however,

was an intsy tinsy piece of

fuzzy dust

not much bigger than a pin head

on a sensor deep inside the machine.

One little speck

created lots of complications.

And I thought of this yesterday

while I was working with both

GLITTER and my CRICUT....

maybe not such a good idea!

I think I will avoid having those two things going

at the same time.

I don't (personally) know any Circuit repairmen

so I will play it safe!

 

Off to do some housework

and then to the hairdresser.

Until next time,

happy stamping and scrapping!

Blessings,