Messy Missy Messy Me

One a personal note I'm not one to toss an hour or so of work because of a 'screw-up' ....I frequently 'make do'...coming up with a 'work-around'.

On a historical note...my daughter's life long friend (they "met" in nursery school, attended high school and college together) was in nursery school called "Messy Missy".

I don't do well with 'Clean and Simple' challenges. I usually end up with too many layers and a card far from simple. I was in the mood to try something 'free and easy' - just stamping here and there. The FAIL with this attempt to try to be 'free and easy' and 'clean and simple' had to do with the CLEAN part. What the heck? I evidently am a VERY messy stamper! I had dribs and drabs, dots and dashes of sludge and smudge EVERYWHERE! To give you an idea of how messy I was with this - I will admit to all my goofs! Each of the tiny punched posies are covering a dot of something that evidently adorned my mitts! Oh - also the sentiment is placed over a dot of who know what?!  I'm worse than a kid with finger paints on a white linen tablecloth!

This must be why most of my cards are done using LAYERS of design paper...

Free and Easy
~Base card white linen card stock
~Layer of black card stock
~Fiskars Petals from Scratch - stamped and colored with Copics
~Large corner flower stamped on design paper; small flowers (bottom right and upper left) printed on base card stamped twice and 'popped up'
~Punch dragonfly with Smooch dots
~Four punch flowers with tiny circle punch centers
Challenges | Inspiration
Just Us Girls - color inspiration
A Girl Who Crafts - anything goes
Color Me Scrappy - photo inspiration
Craft for the Craic - flower or summer
The Craft Garden - colors
The Craft Garden - CAS
LauralCraft - things with wings
Glitter and Sparkle - yellow

Here's to inky fingers, getting creative with cover-ups, and full disclosures!

Thanks for clicking by,
Nancy in Iowa