Creative Grace: Grateful pattern

08 August 2010

Grateful pattern

Where has my summer gone? WOW! I've hardly had a chance to breathe, but I am grateful for the fabulous opportunities I've had this summer. I've been crazy busy working teacher institutes (where I get the pleasure of being involved in helping elementary teachers augment their knowledge of science) and now I'm in the midst of a fabulous program that gives pre-service teachers the opportunity to teach hands-on science. I'm a bit exhausted, but will start the school year (in only a few weeks! eek!) inspired :)

I was bound and determined to take a step back today and relax, since I truly haven't had a chance to this summer. It turns out that being crafty has always been a part of my therapy arsenal! So I challenged myself to combine two challenges in one today. It's no secret I'm an A Muse fan, and I really wanted to participate in their Lounge Challenge this month (Challenge #19: Stick to the pattern). The challenge was to either use an A Muse patterned paper in your card, or make your pattern with A Muse stamps - I went for the latter! My second challenge was the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: She Sells Seashells, based on the photo below. It's an interesting photo with A LOT going on! LOL

So I dug out some of my fabulous sea-themed A Muse stamps and produced the following:

With respect to the Moxie Fab challenge, I was most inspired by the shells and the anchor earrings (which seemed a bit traditional-nautical to me). So I went for the shell, but picked the more nautical color scheme and edge to put the card together. This will be a long-over-due thank you for a fabulous professor that loaned me a some materials for one of those teacher institutes. Can you guess what he loaned me? ;)

I hope you all try and play along with these fun challenges and can find a little time for relaxing and inspiration!

Card Recipe:

Stamps: shell and many thanks fl A Muse.

Paper: latte, navy, and white by A Muse

ink: Memento desert sand and versa magic night sky

Other: twine

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Aug 8, 2010 7:08:33 PM | challenges, friendship, Nature, Thanks