♥thanks♥

just in time for thanksgiving here in the us, this week's challenge at shopping our stash is, simply, "thanks" and you can use it to make thanksgiving-themed items, or ordinary thank you cards, or heck, you could get a jump-start on holiday thank you cards! though if you're that organized and ahead of the game, i'd kind of appreciate you keepin' it to yourself, kthx. ♥ i went with "ordinary thank you card" after stumbling upon a few nearly-forgotten pink paislee items and instantly being re-smitten.

journal card: (it's actually 2 pink paislee scraps, frankensteined together!); patterned paper: basic grey, pink paislee, echo park; washi tape: little b and october afternoon; yellow fabric thickers: american crafts via the lovely miss leslie, ta v much!; flowers: a very old white hydrangea stem from michaels that is now very nearly bald, lol; brads: oriental trading co; ink: colorbox; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, gluedots, sewing machine

see the cool journal card in the center? wouldja believe it was the offcuts of two different ones that i strategically patched together with washi tape? part of me is uber-proud of this manoeuver; the other part is dismayed to have my "save-every-stupid-scrap" mentality validated. but there ya go, life is like that. something about which i am utterly unconflicted is the use of a sketch saturday layout in the making of awesome cards; as week #387 proves quite conclusively:

another thing that's always a great idea, is checking out the glorious work of my SOS teammates, so why not avail yourself of that treat right now, darlings?! ♥