A whale of a time

Today is a tired day. The baby kept me up until almost 3:00 a.m. with squirming, prodding my bladder and other internal organs, and generally making life miserable for me and sleeping impossible. I got up around 12:30 and just wandered around the house, hoping that would settle things, but it didn't help as much I would have liked. Slept fitfully from 3:00 until about 6:00 and then the baby was at it again, so I just got up for the day and took a shower. Of course, today would be the day that my toddler sleeps in until almost 8:00, so I'm a little disgruntled about that. I have a sitter for 2 hours today, so I'm going to go nap after I finish this post. At least I only have 2 1/2 weeks left, give or take a bit.

I saw this idea on Elizabeth Price's blog a while back--to use one of the Jumbo Designer Hardware as a life preserver--and thought it was so cute! I put the idea in the back of my mind for future use, since I happened to have one of those pieces of hardware that I was saving for a rainy day. Well last night, it started raining! (No, not really)


My husband had a cerc petition he was working on for the Supreme Court and was completely tied up all evening, so I pulled out my stamps and set to work on a card that would incorporate the life preserver idea somehow. I based the card loosely on an old weekend sketch from Gretchen Barron, and decided I wanted to experiment with Bermuda Bay and Certainly Celery together and the rest was a lot of tinkering. Three hours, 2 wasted eyelets, tons of cardstock scraps and tiny pieces of linen thread later, I had this card! I had to let it sit overnight and look at it again this morning before realizing that I actually really like how it came out. There were so many iterations, mistakes, and so forth that the final card looks very different from where I started, but I do like it. The flourish from Wings of Friendship makes for a perfect suggestion of underwater plantlife.

Supplies:
Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Bermuda Bay cs, Bermuda Bay dsp
Fox and Friends, Itty Bitty Backgrounds, Wings of Friendship, Vintage Labels stamp sets
Bermuda Bay marker, Versamark
Bermuda Bay grosgrain ribbon
Jumbo Designer Hardware (white)
3/4" circle punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, circles #2 die cut (for green circle template)
dimensionals
silver eyelet, Crop-a-Dile
paper snips
linen thread