March Viva La Verve - Week 1

Hi folks,

As a reward for FINALLY tackling the accumulated ironing yesterday morning (4.5 hours spent ironing by the way as I decided to take a couple of days off from work this week), I let myself have a couple of hours in the craft room as a reward (new incentive for me to do the house-hold chores - I can only play if I first do something on my household chore list).

As I needed to make a sympathy card for a friend who just lost her Dad, I pulled out the March Week 1 Viva La Verve Sketch for some inspiration.

I actually liked the combo of the sketch and papers I chose (CTMH Veranda) so much that I made two cards - the sympathy card for our friend and an anniversary card for my Aunt and Uncle.

I thought of paper-piecing the flowers with a contrasting colour (maybe with the Juniper or Creme Brulee coloured papers from the paper-pack but I thought the softer coloured paper from the sentiment panel was actually a better fit on the cards. One thing I do like about using patterned paper with large patterns, you can use the same sheet of paper for multiple cards but they will actually look a little different. The panels on the two cards above were cut from the same 4x12 section of the paper but have a different part of the pattern.


card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches
• patterned paper: CTMH Veranda
• cardstock: Colorbök
• stamps: Verve Kind Words (thinking of you), Verve Love Story (anniversary wishes and doves), Verve Great Friend (paper pieced flower layers)
• Spellbinders: Labels Seven (thinking of you), Labels Seventeen (anniversary wishes)
• brads from my stash

Additional challenges for these cards:

• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes!

Anyways, I am itching to get back into the craft room today but first I need to tackle more items on my house-hold task list. I still haven't figured out how my little reward system will work - should the amount of time spent doing the house-hold task be directly translated to craft-room time? Or should one task = one card? I think it might have to be a mix of the two - since the time to do a task versus a card is often unequal. AND I can sometimes do a house-hold task while in the craft room (i.e. laundry!).

hmmmmm.....what can I say, I am trying to be a better house-keeper and if this system works for me, then that's a good thing.

have a great day! Off to drop these in the post.....