Thoughts of a Grasshopper

As you know, I'm a procrastinator.  I've known for a bit that I needed to get 40 cards made to hand off so teachers and music leaders could be appreciated for what they do.  Due to it being fall (not that you can tell here in FL), I wanted to use one of my fall sets.  I just couldn't get into it.  I tried.  I'm pre-occupied with other projects and they are what I think of right now.  Some are fun and some . . . eh, not so much.  After looking for some inspiration for something easy, that wouldn't cost extra postage, that wasn't too labor intensive with cutting, I came across a card like this on Pinterest.  Ha!  Just what I needed.  I went to the blog but it didn't have colors other than a Kaleidacolor (?) and gray.  I don't have any of the Kaleidacolor stamp pads any more.  A friend kept them about 7 years ago and I really didn't care because I never really used them. I made a mask with a sheet of paper and brayered So S...

I went out to the ranch yesterday to teach the Communications merit badge to two different groups of scouts.  We had a lot of rain this weekend and it was raining hard when I went.  One of the leaders joked with the boys when I got there asking what troop slept in the lake.  Apparently their tent leaked and they had several inches of water in it.  That must have been miserable but they seemed to be in good spirits.  They decided to cancel the activity and reschedule due to the rain and three of the merit badges having to be canceled.  This meant I had 4 extra hours to my day and I used it to make a couple of cards. Today I'm sharing one that I copied from the current issue of Paper Crafts (p. 49).  The original creator of the card used a color or two from another company, so I picked what I thought went together.  On the splotches of color, I used Soft Suede but stamped off on paper before stamping the card. Sets:  French Foliage, Thank...