The Curse of the Persian Pickle

This will be a quick post. Cards only no yada-yada-yada. WARNING - the "no yada yada" usually ends up being a big fat lie - cuz' I can't seem to NOT blather on about some inane subject - give me a key board and the prattling begins....

A Quilter's Nine-Patch
~Base card - PaperTrey Ink
~Layer of Autumn Leaves Adhesive Mats Carefree Autumn
~Deckle squared punches used for the nine-patch. layered on dark brown cardstock on layer of green cardstock
~Strip of tri-color ribbon from Hobby Lobby
~Button - tied with olive green raffia (which was a transfer of crap item from Sister Gail)
Challenges
Scrapbook Sisters - autumn colors
Gingerloft  - include buttons
Digi Doodles - autumn theme
C4C - create a square card (not one to frequently follow rules - I created squares to create a square - (would that be like square to the second power?)
Stamp Insanity - use your punches

And now a confession about a design that kicks my creative 'be-hind' every chance it gets: PAISLEY!

I love paisley designs (AKA Persian Pickles or Welsh Pears). You might know I would like them - the name originates from a town in center Scotland. I love Scotland too! Paisleys, however, don't love me. And I'm pretty sure Scots don't like me either - or at least I was told my accent was too strange to understand my simplest of requests.

I love curvilinear designs so why not embrace paisley designs - should be right up my art major background...then just when I think I can work with these swirly single cell organisms...I give it a try...They fight me and I lose every time. I'm never happy with the results. What is it with these amoebic shaped flourish-y doodles? I can find a paisley paper that I just love - try to create a card with it and all I see are giant commas on steroids or a mitochondrial experiment gone awry. I just don't have what it takes to wrestle a paisley to the craft table and create it into a crafty submission. I have paisley design papers, stamps, and embellishments. Perhaps these protozoan squiggles are just better suited under a microscope. Or on a castle tapestry...or best just left in my craft drawer...

I used the sketch over at Just Us Girls Saturday Challenge. I thought "I had it all together"! I had the sketch...I had the color theme (from Play Date Cafe) I had the paper...I had a punch that mirrors the flowers in the paper paisley...I had TRANSFER of CRAP (which RARELY if EVER lets me down...a single earring from my sister-in-law Jayne). I blame THIS failure on my paisley curse - not on Jayne's tub-o-crap. I just realized the list of people I accept ToC from is getting lengthier...hmmmmm....may have to reassess that situation. I did, however, before accepting the GIANT Rubbermaid TUB of 'crap' from 'Jayner' tell her the rules and conditions of ToC.... Yes - there are Rules and Conditions of Passing on and Accepting of Other People's Crap (aka treasures). Indeed - there should be a legal document regarding same...maybe I'll draft it later this week....

Paisleys: Not for the Weak of Heart
~Base card - PaperTrey Ink - White
~Layer of solid color My Minds Eye - layer of paisley print from My Minds Eye
~Layer of striped ribbon
~Celery green Stampin' Up word window celery green cardstock with three metal stucco orange colored brads
~Curve of tiny daisy stamps in various shades of stucco orange and green - centers of the punched flowers are dotted with Sharpie Pen Poster Paints White 
~Embellishment is paisley earring a transfer of crap from sister in law Jayne -  I sanded the single black earring, painted it green, dotted it with white Sharpie poster paint. Makes me wonder what people think of me - that I would actually accept a single giant black plastic earring shaped like an apostrophe....
~Sentiment - Hero Arts Thank you
Challenge
Play Date Cafe - Color Inspiration: Stucco Orange, Celery, White
Let's Ink it Up - no digital image and recycle (the earring)
Our Creative Challenge - Attitude with Gratitude
Shirley's Two Girls - Thank You
Stamp Insanity - use your punches
JUGS - sketch

It's All About the Shoes
~Base Card - PaperTrey Ink black
~Layer of the Paper Studio Vintage Black Checkerboard
~Three large black metal brads
~Corner  - a wedge of paper doily topped with back partial circle
~Image is a digital freebie from Yours Truly, colored with Copics and highlighted with Stickles Diamonds
Challenges
Little Red Wagon - use color Red
Cinema Saturday Pride and Prejudice Theme - use a bit of lace (paper doily)
City Crafter - get your digi on

I warned you about the no yada yada yada. I do get carried away sometimes....
Thanks for clicking by.
Nancy