Scrappy Times

I've been playing in The Captain's Quarters for about 6 hours now, and what have I got to show for it? One card. Yes, one. You see, it all started last night when I thought I'd lost my Memory Box ARBOSCELLO TREE die. This die:

It was driving me crazy.So I did what I normally do to find something I'm sure I'll never see again: I ordered another one.

This morning I decided I needed to clean straighten up in the craft room, and I thought maybe I'd find the die under a pile of paper. I spent some good, quality time with The Heaplet, but I didn't find the die. I did find two embossing folders, maybe three, but no die. I also now have nice, neat orderly piles of pretty paper: big pieces, "about 6x6" pieces, and OMG I CANNOT THROW THIS AWAY pieces. That last one would be the biggest pile. But they're all organized!

I even cleared off my standing desk. It was bad, real bad. Funny how the I MUST SAVE THIS TINY SCRAP becomes "meh" when purging. It's very therapeutic. :)  While cleaning my desk, I found some stamps that needed to be put away, and while I was in the Holiday stamp drawer, I spied some Memory Box dies. *lightbulb* I went through them, and lo and behold, I found my tree die!! Whoot!

My goal now is to work only out of these organized piles of papers until the Heaplet dwindles. As such, I decided to finally play the current (and almost over) challenge at A Blog Named Hero, which is run by my stampy peeps Mary Dawn and Linda. This challenge is to use a sentiment stamp for something other than a sentiment.

So I had this idea ... I'd use a Happy Birthday sentiment with the Happy part as petals of a flower. Here's what came out:

Everything but the card base is from the Heaplet. The blue-ish background paper is from the Core'dinations White Wash pack. (It's real purty.) The yellow chevron is from a left-over piece I printed and used a while back. Source: MelStampz. Even the white banner was in my UFO pile.

I punched the chevron with my now-open SU punch. Next I cut apart (I DID) my Hero Arts Happy Birthday stamp, and stamped the Happy on each petal in Memento black. The center was a mess of over-stamping which I fixed with a black button. I stamped the Birthday part of the sentiment on the banner, and wham, bam, thank you, ma'am -- I was done. Okay, I rounded the corners before assembly, then I was done.

Ya know, if I can just focus, I bet I can make a healthy dent in that Heaplet. I'll be sure to give regular progress reports. :)

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