First, may I say that I do not condone violence generally. That said, when it comes to whoever made the decision to enact Daylight Savings Time, I will make a HUGE exception. Every year they disrupt my biorhythms to steal an hour from our lives. An hour doesn't seem like much... so why is it that it takes me more than a week to recover from the loss? Last year was better... I got up 15 minutes early every couple weeks between New Years until I was getting up an hour early and the time change didn't affect me so much... but this year? OMW. Lying in bed, cursing my brain for refusing to be tired and then watching as the clock ticked away until it was even after my normal bedtime from last week. Sigh. Let's just say my thought processes this week were challenged after only a few hours' sleep Monday and Tuesday nights.
To make things worse, Wednesday ... ah, Wednesday. It was my mom's birthday (Hi, Mom! XO) and I headed over to her house after work and planned to come home and do my post for PCJ. Leaving her house though, I fell as the stones on the steeper part of their driveway rolled out from under my feet. Thank goodness Dad wasn't watching me leave or I'd never hear the end of it. LOL So I came home, took some Advil and decided to lie down for few minutes to let it start working before sitting at the desk to do my post. Next thing I know, the emergency always-set alarm was going off and it was time for work! Lights on all over the house, the TV blaring in the other room... and the dogs. Loose in the house. All night. Bored. The kitchen trash was now kitchen, hallway, living room and dining room trash. Fun times.
I was late getting out of work Thursday, and when I got home I needed to clean up the doggie "party decorations" from the night before, get dinner and give the dogs some outdoor time before getting to my post. By the time I was done, I was so exhausted I could hardly keep my eyes open. So I figured I'd be ok to set my alarm early and get up Friday morning to do my posts. And yes, you know what happened. I slept through all FOUR alarms. I have yet to understand why I can wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning when I want to be sleeping, but can't manage to wake up enough to realize I'm turning off alarm clocks.
Anyway... here I finally am, and I'm not sure the wait (or reading through all that rambling) was worth it, but...
WELCOME TO THIS FORTNIGHT'S CHALLENGE - PRETTY PASTELS! - AT PAPER-CRAFTING JOURNEY! Woohoo! =)
Our sponsor for this challenge is Kenny K who has a very recognizable style. As my coloring skills improve and I finally learn to color hair properly, I hope to be using more of his stamps! I got to try out a blonde combination on this beauty, Uptown Angel
I'm not altogether happy with my final card; it's more simple than I originally intended, but I do like how my Kenny K girl came out. I paper pieced and then used just a touch of Copics on her shirt and pants, using background digital papers from Bearly Mine, adding a little gold metallic gel pen on her cuffs and earring. I fussy cut her out and popped her up on foam dots. The papers are DCWV - Nana's Nursery Baby Girl, and I used the Spellbinder diamond dies. The flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and the gems are Hero Arts. The flower is not quite as orange in person as in the photos, but a pinky orange that is somewhere between the orange flowers and pink diamonds on the bg paper. The hello stamp was a $1 Michaels find, using green chalk ink.You can see the fantabulous pastel creations of my fellow teamies over at the Paper-Crafting Journey challenge blog. I hope you head on over and are inspired to create a pretty pastel pick of your own!
Happy Crafting! =)
Christy
Christy
